Children and creativity are inseparable concepts. Every child in the soul is an artist and sculptor, singer and musician. Creative impulses in children manifest themselves in the most unimaginable form, but very often they are associated with artistic activity. Many mothers sooner or later wonder why a child needs to learn to draw? And really, why, if you do not plan to raise another Surikov or Aivazovsky? If your task is to see your child as a successful, self-confident person, then encourage creative manifestations, because any visual work is an important condition for the normal development of the baby.
Non-traditional drawing techniques in kindergarten and at home help develop spatial thinking, eye measurement, and coordination. After all, the baby needs to connect the ratio of the sizes of the parts with a single composition and arrange them harmoniously on the sheet. When working on a complex decorative composition, the child learns to plan his actions, choose the right material. It is very important for him to understand that he can create something with his own hands.
Everyone knows that drawing is one of the most favorite activities of our children. With great pleasure they draw with colored pencils, felt-tip pens, paints, dipping the brush into a bright substance. And why not get your finger wet there or smear the whole palm with paint? Fine art cannot be framed, it is necessary to destroy all the boundaries of the familiar and traditional!
Non-traditional drawing techniques attract our fidgets much more, because they do not require perseverance, they allow them to more clearly reveal their potential during creativity, they introduce the child to the opportunity to unusually use the things around us as materials for creativity. If the most unusual paints and bright pencils in the baby no longer arouse their former interest, then you can dilute the creativity of your fidget with other drawing methods. Why is drawing in non-traditional ways useful in kindergarten and at home?
- The kid uses a variety of materials, learns the differences in textures, which allows him to improve fine motor skills.
- There is an acquaintance with volume, form and space, which develops the imagination.
- The ability to combine and mix shades develops aesthetic taste.
- The use of unusual materials develops thinking, teaches to make non-standard decisions.
- Drawings using such techniques are obtained much faster, which pleases the crumbs, who so lack perseverance.
- It adds self-confidence and self-confidence, because even without outstanding skills you can create a unique “masterpiece”!
All the most interesting techniques and methods were collected and systematized by G.N. Davydov in the book "Unconventional Drawing Techniques in Kindergarten". This book is a great helper for both a teacher and a mom who wants to diversify her leisure time with her baby.
Let's start creating: fingers or palms
Non-traditional drawing techniques involve depicting images using various materials, including “non-artistic” ones: crumpled paper, foam rubber, threads, paraffin candle or wax crayons, dried leaves; drawing without using a tool - with palms or fingers and much more. Such methods are successfully used both in kindergarten and at home.
For different ages, you can offer your own technique, for example, it will be interesting for the smallest to draw with fingers, because it is still difficult for a baby to hold a brush, but the baby already knows his own hands brilliantly. Dip the palm of the crumbs in the paint and offer to leave a mark on the paper, as cat and dog tracks leave. Consider the imprint with the baby, who does it look like? It looks like an elephant or a turtle, and if we finish the eye, there will be a fish! All the action is controlled only by the imagination of your baby, and if suddenly he is confused, then help him, hold a master class - paint your palm and leave an imprint. “Look, the mother of an elephant turned out, but where is the baby elephant?”, - the child will be happy to join in such a fun game.
You can dip in paint not the whole palm, but only fingers, and leave tiny prints. The more multi-colored prints, the more interesting the drawing - let the kid fantasize for his own pleasure. Adults should be prepared for the fact that the paint will be not only on the leaf, but also on the baby, or rather, the baby will be all in it and the surrounding objects too. Therefore, take care of cleanliness in advance: cover the table where you plan to arrange a creative workshop with oilcloth, and put an apron and armlets on the baby, otherwise what kind of flight of fancy can we talk about if you constantly pull the baby: “Be careful, you will get dirty!”.
We continue to fantasize. Stamps, prints
Kids of all ages like to use stamps while drawing. This unique technique of unconventional drawing in kindergarten is so easy to perform and versatile in manifestation that it is perfect for work both in kindergarten and at home. Ready-made stamps can be purchased at an art supply store. But it is much more interesting to make a stamp on your own, and even better with a baby.
As a stamp, almost anything that can be dipped in paint and then left an imprint on a sheet of paper is suitable. You can cut an apple or a potato - this is the easiest stamp. On a half of a potato, you can cut out some figure: a heart or a flower. Another stamp is made from ordinary threads, wound on any basis. Threads can not be wound, but simply immersed in paint. After thorough impregnation, they are laid out on one sheet, covered with another, lightly pressed, and admire the intricate pattern.
It is easy to make a stamp from ordinary plasticine. Come up with an interesting shape and decorate a small piece of plasticine. It is better to choose thick paint for classic stamps. An unusual texture to the background can be given by using a crumpled napkin or paper, and then according to the worked out scheme: we dip it in paint and stamp it. Very beautiful stamps are obtained from dried leaves: paint the leaf with paint on one side, put it on paper and press it. After the painted leaf was removed, the picture “Golden Autumn” turned out - the kid is completely delighted.
There is another non-traditional drawing technique, similar to a stamp, but with an interesting feature - drawing with foam rubber. Cut off a small piece from an ordinary sponge, dip it in paint and cover the sheet with gentle pressure. It's so easy and simple to get a wonderful background for further drawing, and if you use stencils or templates for children's drawing, you get an amazing floral or geometric pattern.
Dot drawing
As a method of fine art for kids, drawing with dots can be distinguished. This simple technique is clear even to the crumbs. You will need paints and cotton buds or regular felt-tip pens. We dip the wand into the paint, and with a slight pressure draw a dot on a sheet of paper, then another one - until the invented image appears on the landscape sheet. You can help the baby by drawing the outline of the future drawing, and he will fill it with a large number of bright prints. The subject of a bitmap can be any - a winter fairy tale, and a bright sun. Education at such a tender age should be carried out unobtrusively, in the form of a game.
Technique "monotype"
For older children, you can offer more interesting types of artistic creativity. For example, an interesting technique, which is also based on prints, is “Monotype”. Its purpose is to create a symmetrical pattern, such as a mushroom, an insect (butterfly or ladybug), for an older preschool group, you can depict a landscape reflected in a lake.
We take a landscape sheet of paper, fold it in half, then unfold it and draw on one half relative to the fold line. Since we agreed to depict a butterfly, we draw one wing, then we iron the folded sheet with our hand. We open it - the butterfly already has two wings and they are exactly the same! Missing elements can be finished with a brush.
The feeling of delight is provided, while the child understands that his “hooligan” actions, when blots and splashes fly onto the album sheet, are also a form of art. "Blotography" also has the name "Splatter". With such techniques, unusual artistic effects can be achieved.
Paint splatter, aka "Splatter". A toothbrush will come to the rescue. Gently dip it into the paint and lightly tap with a pen or pencil towards you. A huge number of small droplets remain on the sheet. With the help of such an unconventional drawing technique, a very realistic winter landscape or deep space with many stars is obtained. "Blotography" will help the young artist populate the uninhabited planets of space with funny aliens. One has only to pick up more paint on the brush and let it drain onto a sheet of paper - it turned out to be a blot. And now we blow on it, dispersing the rays in different directions. Let's draw a couple of eyes to the dried blot, or maybe two pairs, this is an unknown animal, and send it to populate its distant worlds!
An interesting texture can be achieved by using a dry brush. Lightly immerse a dry wide brush in gouache, wipe off excess paint on a jar. We draw with vertical poke movements. The image turns out to be “shaggy” and “prickly”, in this way Christmas trees and hedgehogs, a field with green grass are very realistic. In such an unconventional way in kindergarten, you can draw flowers, for example, asters.
Incredible possibilities of ordinary things.
- Bubble.
It turns out that soap bubbles can not only be blown and popped, but you can also draw with them. Dilute a little paint in a glass of soapy water, take a tube and blow bubbles into the glass. Your kids will do this trick with pleasure. Well, there is a lot of bright multi-colored foam, put a sheet of paper on it, and as soon as the bubbles begin to appear, the paper needs to be removed - the colorful pattern is ready!
- Salt.
Do not be surprised, but salt can be used not only in cooking. An interesting texture will turn out if the dry drawing is sprinkled with salt, and when the paint dries, just chill.
- Sand, beads and various grains are also used to create creative textures. There are several options for using such materials.
- Sprinkle the sheet pre-coated with glue with grits, sand or beads, and then draw on the textured surface.
- We cover with glue the areas where the drawing will be depicted.
- Color and dry the necessary materials in advance, and then decorate the drawing with them.
Classics in an unconventional way
Let's put away the stamps and salt, wipe off the paint-stained pens, get the watercolors and brushes. Boring? Not boring at all, but very interesting, because with the help of classic watercolors we will work wonders!
It is necessary to take thick paper (the best option is special watercolor), wet it so that it gets wet enough. Pick up a little paint on the brush and lightly touch the wet paper with the brush. The movements should be exactly light and smooth, the beauty of the result depends on this. Before your eyes, a drop of paint spreads in different directions, turning into something amazing! This is the right time to tell your baby about the rules for getting new colors and shades. Now this practice is the most obvious. The resulting unthinkable divorces will serve as an interesting background for future creative work.
The next non-traditional drawing technique that we will consider, also from the “miracles nearby” category, is called “Aquatype”.
This is a technique of drawing with paints and water, it is also known as water printing. Just as in the previous method, we need thick paper, we will choose no less traditional paints - gouache, we also need black or any dark ink. Think with the baby, what would he like to portray? This method produces unusually beautiful flowers. After the paints have dried, paint over the entire sheet with ink, then immerse your work in a bowl of water, and enjoy the wonderful transformations! All gouache will dissolve, only your drawing will remain on a dark background. Why not magic?
The series of incredible transformations has not ended! Let's take all the same thick paper, and with wax crayons (if they were not at hand, you can use an ordinary candle), we will apply a drawing or pattern. Next, apply watercolor paint to the entire sheet (places treated with wax will not be painted). A drawing will appear on a colored watercolor background, which will be a surprise for the baby, because when you draw with colorless chalk on a white sheet, it is rather difficult to imagine the final result. The process of magic in the end can also bring quite a practical result.
Making "marble paper" is an extremely exciting activity that kids really like: it's fun to play with things that are generally not allowed to be taken. For example, daddy's shaving foam. For work you will need:
- shaving foam;
- watercolor paints;
- flat plate;
- sheet of thick paper.
First you need to get a saturated solution: mix the paint with water. Then apply a thick layer of shaving cream on a plate, and drip a few bright drops of paint in a chaotic manner. With the help of a brush, we draw with drops of paint on the foam, getting intricate zigzags and patterns. Here it is - a magical sacrament that will completely absorb an enthusiastic baby. And here is the promised practical effect. We apply the sheet to the rainbow foam, and then turn it over so that the foam is on top of the sheet. We remove the foam remaining on the paper with a scraper. And - about a miracle! Unimaginable stains appear from under the foam, similar to a marble pattern. The paper has absorbed the ink. After drying, "marble paper" can be used in the manufacture of crafts or as an addition to the decor.
There is no limit to creativity
For children who have already become acquainted with many interesting techniques and have shown their outstanding creative abilities, we can offer a rather difficult drawing technique - “scratching”.
Thick paper is needed, it needs to be painted with wax crayons, preferably in bright colors, then, using a wide brush, cover with black gouache or ink. If you intend to use gouache, add a little PVA glue so that the dried paint does not crumble. When the ink (or gouache) dries, the blank for further work is ready. Now take a thin stack (any sharp, non-writing instrument) and start drawing. But this process can be called drawing only conditionally, since the top layer of paint is scraped off. So, stroke after stroke, a bright wax layer appears and is projected into the artist's idea.
For young artists, it will be a fascinating technique of drawing with plasticine on glass.
Choose the drawing you like, cover it with glass, draw the outlines of the drawing on the glass with a black felt-tip pen. Then we proceed to filling the contours with soft plasticine, trying not to protrude beyond the edge. The wrong side does not look so neat, but a bright and clear picture is visible from the front side. Insert the work into a frame, and you can use colored cardboard as a background.
There are a number of non-traditional drawing techniques in kindergarten that children of the middle and senior preschool groups can easily master. For everyday activities, a combination of appliqué with a classic pattern may be suitable. The pre-cut elements are glued onto the landscape sheet, after which they give the image a finished look with the help of pencils or paints.
One of the available and entertaining techniques is "Frontage".
We have known this type of fine art since childhood, do you remember hiding a coin under a sheet of paper and shading it with a simple pencil? In the same way, instead of a coin, you can use dry leaves, and shade not with a pencil, but with colored pastels. The picture will turn out bright and saturated.
We have seen a lot of drawing techniques and have already learned a lot, so why not put our knowledge into practice? With the help of both traditional and non-traditional drawing techniques, any interior items are decorated. Decorative drawing in kindergarten also has an applied character, a child can already decorate, for example, a pencil holder or a clay vase, or he can please his mother and create a unique pattern on a cutting board. It should only be remembered that paints for such work must be chosen waterproof: acrylic or oil. To make the result please longer, cover the finished craft with varnish.
For interior decoration, the technique of "stained glass" is used.
The essence of the technique is to apply the adhesive contour and fill it with paint. There are many variants of this technique, but one of the most interesting is drawing a pattern on an oilcloth, and after drying, the pattern can be removed from the oilcloth and glued to any surface, for example, glass, - there will be a translucent bright picture.
Let us dwell in more detail on the execution technique itself.
The ideal option would be to use specialized stained glass paints, but if there are none, you can be smart and make them yourself. Take ordinary gouache and add PVA glue, after drying, the paints have an elastic structure, which will allow you to remove the picture from the film without difficulty. Choose the picture you like and draw its outline on a transparent oilcloth (you can take a regular file or a plastic transparent folder). It is better to make the contour first with a pencil or felt-tip pen, and then circle it either with a finished stained glass contour, or with ordinary PVA glue from a tube with a dispenser. Wait for the contour to dry, then fill with bright colors. After complete drying, you can unstick the pattern from the film and decorate the intended surface.
You can decorate not only interior items, but also wardrobe items with special paints for fabric. This technique is called "Cold batik". Invite your child to make a designer painting of an ordinary white T-shirt, only your baby will have this, the one and only!
- First, the T-shirt must be fixed in an embroidery hoop or in a stretcher for drawing on canvas.
- Using a pencil and tracing paper, transfer the image of your favorite cartoon character to the fabric.
One of the most important stages of this method is the application of a reserve composition, in other words, a protective contour that will prevent the paint from spreading over the fabric. The contour must be closed to prevent spreading.
- After drying, according to the scheme known to us, we fill the contours with paint.
- Then the drawing must be fixed. Place one sheet of paper under the drawing, and the other on the drawing and iron it.
You can wash such a product, but it is better in manual mode in cool water. The unique product is ready.
Conclusion
All considered non-traditional drawing techniques are applicable only indoors. What about outdoor walks in summer? Are only outdoor games suitable for the street? No, you can do fine art. Drawing in the summer in kindergarten can also be done on the street using classic chalk. Drawing on asphalt in kindergarten is a great entertaining and educational activity. Children draw with crayons wherever there is a more or less hard surface: asphalt, tiles, fences, house walls. It's great to see a bright embodiment of fantasy instead of gray asphalt.
Children and creativity are inseparable concepts. The child learns the world around him, trying to reflect it in the game, modeling and drawing. After all, in the soul every kid is a singer and musician, artist and sculptor. Creative impulses in children are often associated with artistic activity, and the fine art of the child is an ideal opportunity for the manifestation of his imagination. This is an important condition for the normal development of the baby.
Non-traditional drawing techniques for children in kindergarten and school - this does not mean something complicated. Quite the opposite - such drawing turns the art lesson into fun fun. It is not at all necessary to have complex pencil and brush skills. With simple non-traditional drawing techniques, the child is able to create beautiful drawings and paintings, and this will give him an amazing creative experience with an excellent final result. He himself will be drawn to art when he feels that he can create beauty with his own hands.
Non-traditional ways of drawing
For children, non-traditional drawing techniques are a wonderful way to create small masterpieces. It turns out that the palm can turn into a pink elephant, and a simple blot can become a tree, and a carrot and potato can surprise with unusual patterns.
Eg, kids 3-4 years old can offer:
With kids 5-6 years You can also try:
- picture prints
- plasticine printing
- leaf prints
- hand drawings
- drawing with cotton swabs
- magic strings
- monotype.
And with children 7-8 years you can learn more complex techniques:
- crumpled paper drawing
- bubble painting
- salt painting
- blotography
- plasticineography
- scratching
- frottage.
For children, plasticine modeling is a whole world full of variety and experiments! Under your strict guidance, a child can mold all kinds of things and will be the best guide for creating various fairy-tale characters, animals and plants.
hand drawing
Drawing with pens is the first technique that little children are able to master very early. The drawing turns out quickly - this is extremely important, because kids cannot do one thing for a long time. Dip a child's hand in paint and let the baby make an imprint on the surface of the paper. See what it looks like. Ask the baby what you need to finish to get some kind of animal or bird. The missing details can be drawn with your fingers. 
Wet paper watercolor technique
To create small masterpieces, you will need a sheet of thick paper, watercolors and a brush. Help your child wet the sheet evenly, but without puddles. Let him pick up some paint on the brush and start creating. Each stroke with a new tone spreads across the paper, beautifully turning into a different shade. It's time to show the child the mixing of colors and explain what shades are.
Tell the child that all movements should be done easily and smoothly, no need to press the brush into the paper, as many children like to do. A light touch is enough. In this technique, it is good to draw backgrounds. And after drying, you can continue to draw the rest of the drawing.
Drawing in the technique of Adhesive Pictures
To draw in this style, you will need a glue gun. Help your child draw outlines on paper with hot glue, inside which the image is filled with paints. Thanks to the glue, the paint does not flow beyond these contours. It turns out something like a stained glass image. Using this technique, you and your child can create a real stained glass window on glass, but then instead of simple watercolors, you will need to buy water-based acrylic paints. 
Traditionally, on New Year's Eve, kindergartens host exhibitions of bright crafts and creative works of kids that decorate the kindergarten on the most magical days of the New Year holiday. We offer you a variety of
Drawings in watercolor technique with wax crayons
To draw a picture in this technique, you need: a landscape sheet, wax crayons, watercolor paints, a squirrel brush, leaf templates.
Let the kid with your help draw several different leaves on the sheet. The drawing must be arranged according to the size of the leaves - first large, then smaller. Let the leaves overlap each other - after all, that's how it is in nature.
Now take wax crayons and circle the contours of the leaves, for this you will need warm-colored crayons: yellow, red, orange, brown, burgundy. You can use several colors in one sheet. Do not forget to draw veins on each leaf, except for rowan
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And now it's time to use watercolors - start painting over not the leaves, but the landscape sheet from the upper left corner. Show your child how to add other colors so that one shade flows smoothly into another without clear boundaries. Thus, we gradually fill our sheet with autumn colors.
Drawing funny prints
1. Plasticine stamps
It is very easy and convenient to make stamps from plasticine - just give a piece of plasticine the desired shape, decorate with patterns (lines, dots) and paint it in the desired color. 
2. Stamps from threads
To create interesting “striped dies”, you can use threads that need to be firmly wound around an object. Then the threads are dyed with thick paint in the desired color. Now only fantasy will tell you how to apply a "striped pattern" to the surface of the paper. 
3. Rolled cardboard stamps
By rolling a piece of cardboard into a roll, you can get an original stamp for "roses". And if you cut off a “kruglyash” from a toilet paper sleeve and give it the shape of a leaf, then your child can create a beautiful composition on their own. 
4. Prints "leaves"
This technique is familiar to many. To print a sheet, you can take any beautiful sheet and apply paint to the veined side. Then, with the painted side, attach the sheet to the paper and iron it. After a few seconds, you can gently lift the leaf - its imprint will remain on the paper. 
5. Prints with potatoes, carrots, apples
For young children, this is a fairly popular technique. You will need any vegetable or fruit and gouache. Then everything is simple - dip the object into the paint and make an imprint on paper.
Stamps can be made from apples, potatoes, carrots, peppers and other vegetables or fruits. The easiest way to make a stamp is from potatoes. If you have a metal cookie cutter, simply press the cookie cutter into the potato and carefully trim any excess pieces around the edges with a knife.
Bubble painting
It will be very interesting for the child to draw a picture with soap bubbles. To do this, add any soap solution and paint to a glass of water and use a straw to make a strong foam. Gently place a sheet of paper on the bubbles and wait for the first patterns to appear. You can lift the paper - bubble patterns are ready. 
salt painting
To give the background of the picture a whimsical texture, salt can be used when depicting any landscape. While the paint is still wet, sprinkle the background with salt. It absorbs excess water, sticks and creates a very interesting effect. Excess salt should be gently shaken off after drying. Unusual light spots will remain in its place.
There is another unusually interesting version of salt painting. To do this, draw a drawing with a pencil, and then circle with PVA glue. It can be a simple flower, patterns or geometric shapes. We do not regret Clay. Generously sprinkle the pattern with salt, and then gently shake off the excess onto a tray. Now let's add colors - you can paint with a brush, or you can take a pipette and apply tinted water drop by drop to the drawing. You can see how the drops spread and bright patterns and shapes are obtained. 
Drawing with crumpled paper.
Using a crumpled napkin or paper, you can get an unusual texture. There are two methods for this technique:
Monotype
This unusual painting technique is based on a unique print, which can only be obtained in a single copy. Therefore, two absolutely identical drawings cannot be created.
In this article, you will find 11 interesting ways to draw with kids.
Monotype
Draw something with your child on cellophane or on glass, and then reprint it on a piece of paper.
Blotography
Put a few bold blots or draw lines on one half of the sheet. Then fold it in half. Expand again. Now look at this drawing with your child to see images, objects, or come up with a whole plot.
Drawing on wet paper
Moisten the paper with clean water. Next, paint with paint.
Dot drawing
You will need a cotton swab and paints. Use poke to draw flowers, berries, or whatever you want.
Drawing with threads
To do this, you need to dip a woolen thread in thick paint and then clamp it between two sheets of cardboard. Next, pull the end and move the thread inside the cardboard. You get an interesting image in which you can see many interesting images.
imprints
Make different figures out of foam rubber. Then, dip in paint and print. First randomly, then draw an ornament. Prints can also be made using vegetables or fruits. Cut an apple in half, or take a head of Chinese cabbage. Dip in paint and stamp on paper.
foam painting
Mix water, shampoo and some paint in a glass. Take a cocktail straw, lower it into the glass and blow into it until the bubbles rise above the glass. Then apply paper to this foam and see what happens.
magic drawing
Draw an image on white paper with a wax candle or wax pencil. Then paint over this image. The paint will not fall on the bold image from the candle. The drawing you made seems to appear.
finger painting
You can draw with your fingers, fists, palms, feet, and even your nose!
salt painting
First paint with glue. And then sprinkle the drawing with salt.
relief drawings
Add flour to paint. Paint with this paint, and when it dries, you will see the result.
This article will focus on pencil drawing. If you want to learn how to draw, but just can't get started, now is the time to start learning. Take a sheet of paper, a pencil and try 🙂 Let's start with the drawing technique.
Pencil Drawing Technique
There are two main drawing techniques - shading and shading with a pencil.
Hatching
With the help of strokes (short lines) you can very well convey the tone of the subject. Depending on the number of strokes drawn, you can get different levels of tone saturation (the fewer strokes, the lighter the tone, the more strokes, the darker). By the direction of the strokes, you can convey the texture of the surface of the figure. For example, horizontal strokes will convey the surface of the water well, and vertical strokes - the grass.
Basically, hatching is done with short straight strokes with approximately the same distance between them. Strokes are superimposed on paper with a pencil tear-off. First, one thin line is made, then the pencil returns to the start line, and in this way all other strokes are applied.
To enhance the depth of tone, you can apply crosshatching. For example, a horizontal hatch is applied to oblique hatching, darkening the tone, then on what came out, you can impose oblique hatching in the opposite direction to the first one - this will darken even more. In this case, the darkest tone will be the one where the hatching of all directions is combined.
shading
Feathering is one of the main techniques that can be applied when drawing to beginner artists. With the help of gradation of tone, you can give the figure volume. In general, feathering is a special case of hatching. After applying strokes, using the properties of pencil graphite and a special shading tool, they are shaded (smeared) until a uniform tone is obtained.
However, the implementation of the shading itself has a number of features.
- Feathering strokes must be done along the strokes, but not across. By feathering along the strokes, you will achieve a more natural toning.
- For shading, not only simple hatching is used, but also zigzag strokes.
With the help of such techniques, you can draw anything on paper.
10 common mistakes newbies make
Most people who enjoy drawing take the first steps on their own. And even if it's just a hobby, they still make various sketches. We want to write about 10 possible mistakes that all aspiring artists must face.
1. The wrong pencil
If your shadows don't come out well, check the markings on your pencil. He's probably too hard. Shadows are recommended to be drawn with pencils marked B, 2B and 4B, but not HB.
2. Drawing from photos
Each artist begins to draw from photographs. But very often photographs do not convey enough facial features for a good drawing. When a person's face is located in front, it will be difficult to correctly model his face on paper, since the perspective behind the head disappears. Try taking a photo where the person's head is tilted slightly to the side. Thus, the portrait will be more realistic and with better shadow reproduction.
3. Wrong basic proportions
Very often people start paying attention to details right away, drawing them completely without sketching the whole drawing. This is wrong as you are not planning the right proportions ahead of time. First, it is desirable to sketch the entire drawing, and only then draw in depth the details.
4. Twisted features
We are accustomed to look at a person directly and align when drawing. As a result, the portrait comes out quite distorted. When drawing complex objects, try to first outline the guides, along which it will be easier to build a drawing later.
5. Animal drawing
We usually look at our animal from top to bottom. From this, the head seems to us larger than the whole body, and normal proportionality is lost. Try to distract the animal so that it turns its face to the side, then the drawing will come out more truthful.
6. Strokes
If you draw each hair or blade of grass separately, then the drawing will come out disgusting. Try to make sharp sketches, going from dark to light.
7. Trees
Do not try to draw trees, flowers, leaves with the correct forms. Use contours and shadows for realism.
8. Wrong paper
Before buying paper, test it on a piece of paper, drawing something light. The paper may be too smooth and the pattern will be washed out. Also, the paper may be too stiff and the drawing will be quite flat.
9. Volumetric
When transferring volume, try not to use clear lines for the edges. They can be outlined by light lines of different tonality.
10. Shadows
Very often it does not work out to apply shadows evenly. Try to use the full color range of the pencil, going from light to darkest. If you are afraid to go too far with the dark, put a piece of paper under the edge, and all the black will be on it.
At first it may seem that pencil drawings are too ordinary, dull. But with the help of a pencil, you can convey a huge amount of emotions.
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Comprehending the world around them, children try to express their impressions about it by means of cognitive and creative activities: playing, drawing, telling. Drawing provides a huge opportunity here. To enable kids to express themselves in a variety of ways, you can engage in drawing with your child both in traditional techniques and in the most unusual ones. The more interesting the conditions in which the child’s visual activity will take place, the faster his creative abilities will develop. Let's see what children's drawing techniques can be used for the development of the child.
Traditional drawing techniques
The basis of the general comprehensive development of the child is laid at a younger preschool age. Drawing is one of the most important means of child development, during which the baby learns the world, forms an aesthetic attitude towards it.
When drawing, a child develops a wide variety of abilities, namely:
- the child learns to visually evaluate the shape of an object, navigate in space, distinguish and feel colors
- trains eyes and hands
- develops the hand.
“Did you know that drawing is one of the main ways for the versatile development of a child, his sensations, fine motor skills of hands, a sense of shape and color? With the help of this simple and exciting activity, children convey their attitude to reality.
The success of education and training depends on what forms and methods a teacher or parent uses in creative activities with a child.
So, the main technique for children of primary preschool age is a demonstration of how to use a pencil and paints. At the same age, passive drawing is effective: when an adult leads the baby's hand. When the baby grows up a little, visual activity is taught by the information-receptive method: children study the shape of an object, circling it with their hand, feeling the outlines. Such a study of the subject helps the baby to create a more complete picture of the subject. The next step is the choice of drawing technique.
Traditional children's drawing techniques:
- Drawing with a simple pencil.
- Drawing with colored pencils.
- Drawing with markers.
- Drawing with a brush - watercolor, gouache.
- Drawing with wax crayons.
When starting to choose a drawing technique for a crumb, you need to pay attention to his age and interest. To be useful and educational, drawing must first of all be fun.
Drawing with paints and pencils
Children enjoy drawing, especially if they are good at it. Even drawing with such traditional techniques as drawing with paints and pencils requires certain skills. If there are no skills, then the drawing may not turn out the way the little artist intended, as a result of which the child may be upset and no longer want to draw. Younger preschoolers are not yet skilled enough in drawing.
Let's see how you can teach your kid to draw with paints and pencils.
Learning to draw with paints
Today, the first use of paint by a child is finger painting. As soon as the baby has learned to hold the brush in his hand, invite him to draw with it. For the first lessons, it is better to use: it does not need to be diluted with water and it leaves a bright mark. Show your child such a drawing technique as “sticking”: you need to attach a brush with paint to the paper with all the pile. This will turn out to be an imprint - a leaflet, a light, a trace of an animal, a flower, etc. Children can use this simple technique when depicting natural phenomena familiar to them. It will be interesting to draw on dark paper (for example, blue) with white gouache. So you can depict, say, a snowfall. The next stage of drawing with paints is the image of straight and wavy lines.
Usually the baby masters the work with paints and brushes by 3.5 - 4 years. From this age, the crumbs can be given paints at his disposal: let him draw what he wants. And parents just need to suggest topics for drawing and show the right techniques.
Starting to draw with a pencil
At first, it is better for the baby to give not a pencil in his hand, but a felt-tip pen: they leave a bright mark even with a slight pressure of the child's pen. When the hand gets stronger, put a pencil in his hand. Draw different shapes together by moving the child's hand. So gradually he will understand how to move the pencil in order to get the desired drawing. Repeat the movements many times, fixing them.
"Advice. Support your child's interest in drawing by providing good conditions for creativity: high-quality supplies, a separate table and chair in a bright place, appropriate for the child's height.
Children's non-traditional drawing techniques
Non-traditional techniques of children's drawing stimulate the development of imagination and creative thinking, the manifestation of initiative and independence, the baby. In the process of such drawing, a preschooler will improve his powers of observation, form an individual perception of art and beauty, and try to create something beautiful. And non-traditional drawing brings children a lot of positive emotions.
Let's see what non-traditional drawing techniques you can do with your child at home.
For preschool children:
- Finger drawing. The kid dips his fingers in gouache and paints on paper.
- Drawing with palms. The baby applies gouache to the entire palm and makes prints on paper, which can later become funny pictures.
For children of middle preschool age:
- Foam print. The child dips a piece of foam rubber into the paint and makes an imprint on paper.
- Cork imprint.
- Combined drawing with wax crayons and watercolor. The kid draws an image with wax crayons on paper, and then paints over only a sheet of paper with watercolors, without affecting the drawing.
- Drawing with cotton swabs or drinking tubes. By dipping them in paint and applying them in different ways, you can make an interesting picture.
For older children:
- Painting with sand or salt.
- "Spray". By picking up paint on a brush and hitting it on cardboard over paper, the child will receive a whole firework of splashes of paint that will fall on paper.
- Drawing with crumpled paper. Pieces of crumpled paper are dyed and pressed against the paper where the painting plans to appear.
- Classography. Through a cocktail tube, you can blow multi-colored blots. And you can put them with an ordinary plastic spoon. Using fantasy, blots can be turned into funny characters or landscape elements.
- Monotype. Covering thick paper or ceramic tiles with a thick layer of paint, and then attaching a sheet of paper, we get a blurry print on paper that can become the basis for a landscape.
- Engraving (grattage). Having painted over a sheet of paper with a dense layer of gouache, try scratching it out with your child using toothpicks.
We use different materials
“Did you know that a variety of non-traditional children's drawing techniques are becoming more popular every day? Drawing, kids act as they like.
The beauty of non-traditional drawing techniques is that in the creative process a child can use a variety of materials and their combinations. That is why these drawing methods are very interesting for both children and adults: there is no limit to imagination and self-expression.
What combinations of materials when drawing can be used to make the creative process enjoyable, and the picture turned out to be unusual and expressive?
- Imprints of natural materials. If you cover leaves, cones, flowers with different colors, and then attach it to paper, you get an imprint. Having completed the missing details, the child will have an excellent one.
- Plasticine. From plasticine, you can not only sculpt figures, but draw them on paper. This method is called plasticineography.
- Everything at hand. With the help of a wooden spool for thread, the thread itself, buttons of various sizes and shapes, a cardboard tube, a fresh orange peel, a corn cob, knitting needles and everything that can be found in the house and adapted for creativity, you can draw. Each item leaves its own unique imprint. With a little imagination, you can create unusual paintings with the help of quite everyday items. The coil will leave a mark that looks like a wheel or two tracks, a button - a circle with dots. Unusual stamps can be cut from the peel of an orange, for example, in the form of a spiral. And the function of the paint roller will be performed by a corn cob or a cardboard tube.
Drawing is a great leisure activity for a preschooler, a job that should not be forced. However, it is important to support the child and positively evaluate the results of his work. Expand your child's creativity. Traditional drawing will teach your child how to properly handle brushes, paints, pencils and felt-tip pens, teach them to recognize and draw different shapes, and distinguish colors. And non-traditional drawing techniques will help him become more creative, emotionally stable, confident in his abilities, proactive.
