Image from Art of Living youth
Teaching kids how to draw is tough. They view things differently, and they also don’t have enough motor and coordination skills.
The key is to simplify!
While we can draw (or hope to draw) stuff in near realism, teaching kids the basics of drawing means we got to chop a drawing down to its basic shapes. A few scribbles and lines can be a fruit or a fish. You just need to be creative.
Creativity in how to break the image to simple shapes, without minding the depth or accuracy, and also creativity in figuring out what the child drew.
A little patience and a lot of patience, and did I mention a bit of patience is needed…
I had a hard time in trying to draw like a kid. I found it hard to make simple images that a kid can copy. But seeing how it was copied can be amusing.
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