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This article will focus on pencil drawing. If you want to learn how to draw but can't get started, now is the time to start learning. Take a piece of paper, a pencil and try it 🙂 Let's start with the drawing technique.

Pencil drawing technique

There are two main drawing techniques - feathering and pencil shading.

Hatching

With the help of strokes ( short lines) you can very well convey the tone of the subject. Depending on the number of strokes you draw, you can get different levels of saturation (the fewer strokes - the lighter the shade, the more strokes, the darker). By the direction of the strokes, you can convey the texture of the surface of the shape. For example, horizontal strokes will represent the water surface well, and vertical strokes will represent grass.

Basically, shading is done with short straight strokes with approximately the same distance between them. The strokes are applied to the paper with a pencil torn off. First, one thin line is made, then the pencil returns to the starting line, and thus all other strokes are applied.

Cross-hatching can be applied to enhance the depth of the tone. For example, a horizontal shading is applied to the oblique shading, darkening the tone, then on what happened, you can superimpose the oblique shading in the opposite direction to the first one - this will darken even more. The darkest in this case will be the tone where the shadings of all directions are combined.

Feathering

Feathering is one of the basic techniques that can be applied when drawing to novice artists. With the help of gradation of tone, you can add volume to the figure. In general, shading is special case shading. After applying the 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.

1. Feathering strokes should be done along the strokes, but not across. By feathering along the strokes, you will achieve a more natural toning.
2. For shading, they use not only simple shading but also zigzag strokes.

With these techniques, you can draw anything you want on paper.

10 common mistakes beginners make

Most people who enjoy drawing take their 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 will surely encounter.

1. Incorrectly selected pencil

If your shadows are not good at coming out, check the markings on your pencil. Most likely, it is too tough. It is recommended to draw shadows with pencils marked B, 2B and 4B, but not HB.

2. Drawing from photographs

Every artist starts sketching from photographs. But very often photos do not convey enough facial features for good drawing... When a person's face is in frontal view, it will be difficult to correctly model their face on paper, since the perspective from the back of 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 transmission shadows.

3. Erroneous basic proportions

Very often people start to pay attention to details right away, drawing them completely without sketching the whole drawing. This is wrong since you are not planning correct proportions in advance. First, it is advisable to sketch the entire drawing, and only then draw in depth the details.

4. Curved features

We are used to looking at a person directly and aligning when drawing. As a result, the portrait comes out rather distorted. When drawing complex objects, try to first outline the guides along which it will be easier to build the drawing further.

5. Drawing of animals

We usually look down at our animal. 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 muzzle to the side, then the drawing will come out more truthful.

6. Strokes

If you paint each hair or blade of grass separately, the drawing will come out disgusting. Try to make sharp sketches from dark to light.

7. Trees

Do not try to draw trees, flowers, leaves in the correct shapes. Use contours and penumbra for realism.

8. Wrong paper

Before buying paper, test it on a piece of sample, depicting something light. The paper may be too smooth and the drawing will appear faint. Also, the paper may be too stiff and the pattern will be quite flat.

9. Volume

Try not to use clear lines for the edges when transferring volume. They can be outlined with light lines of different tonality.

10. Shadows

Very often it does not work out to impose shadows evenly. Try to use the full color range of the pencil, going from lightest to darkest. If you are afraid to overdo it with dark, place a piece of paper under the edge and all the mob will be on it.

At first it may seem that the pencil drawings are too ordinary, dull. But with a pencil you can convey great amount emotions.

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From the author: If you are interested in painting, drawing, composition, and art in general, then this is the place for you! By profession I am a Painter-Monumentalist. Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute. Surikov. On the Art Shima channel you will find videos in which I paint and write in oils, and videos with tips. Since I own many techniques, feel free to ask questions, and I will be happy to answer them. By subscribing to my channel, you can see all my new videos.

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In this article, you will find 11 interesting ways to draw with kids.

Monotype
Draw something with your child on cellophane or glass, and then reprint it on a piece of paper.

Blotography
Put some greasy blots or draw lines on one half of the sheet. Then fold it in half. Expand again. Now peer into this drawing with your child in order to see images, objects or come up with a whole plot.

Drawing on wet paper
Moisten the paper clean water... Next, paint with paints.

Drawing with dots
You will need a cotton swab and paint. Poke around to draw flowers, berries, or whatever you like.

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. Then pull the end and move the thread inside the cardboard. You will get an interesting image in which you can see many interesting images.

Prints
Make different shapes out of foam rubber. Then, dip in paint and print. First, chaotically, then draw an ornament. Prints can also be made with vegetables or fruits. Cut an apple in half, or use a head of Chinese cabbage. Dip in paint and place stamps on paper.

Foam painting
Mix water, shampoo and some paint in a glass. Take a cocktail tube, dip 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 on white paper with a wax candle or wax pencil image. Then paint over this image. The paint will not stick to the bold candle image. The drawing you made appears to manifest itself.

Finger drawing
You can draw with your fingers, fists, palms, feet, and even your nose!

Drawing with salt
First, paint with glue. And then sprinkle the drawing with salt.

Relief drawings
Add flour to the paint. Paint with this paint, and when it dries, you will see the result.

I. Using various materials while drawing, you can achieve interesting effects:
1.to get blurred outlines, drip water (or vodka) on a sheet covered with watercolor. In this way, it is good to depict the sky covered with clouds;
2.effect "flakes", snowflakes, "ice crust" can be obtained by sprinkling salt on the applied watercolor image;

3. chaotic uneven retouching is obtained thanks to crumpled paper;
4. stencil drawing has many options. Try attaching the cutout to a piece of paper and covering it with watercolors. Now remove the stencil, allowing the paint to spread out... The contours of the stencil image will be blurry, and the color will intensify from the center of the shape to the periphery;
5. interesting texture can be achieved with sandpaper;
6.emerging "second" layer possible with multilayer image. Draw crayons or a candle anything on a piece of paper and cover watercolors... On those places where something is painted with a chalk or a candle, the paint will not lie flat, and the image will peep out from under it;

7. "scratching out" paintings on paint. Draw something crayons or a candle on paper (or just paint over the sheet with crayons). Now cover the sheet of paper with the image with a thick layer of paint (gouache) and let dry. After the paint has dried, you can start scratching out the image. In places where there is chalk, the paint will come off well, in other places it will remain an even background;

8.Another fun way to draw crayons and gouache can be called " mThis image". With wax crayons an object is drawn on paper, the entire space around it is also painted over with crayons. Now we gently wrinkle this sheet, straighten it and cover it with gouache. Now quickly wash off the gouache with a sponge and water. The paint should remain only in places where the paper is folded;

9.An interesting effect is obtained from drawing sponge... Invite your child to "paint" the crown of trees or the sea with a sponge;

10.include "fluffiness" image using gauze or cellophane... It's good to use this effect with stencil... Cut an animal figure out of cardboard and attach it to a piece of paper. Now we dip the gauze or cellophane in the paint diluted with water, and light movements we pass along the contour of the stencil. When you remove the stencil, you will see a clear figure of the animal, and its outline will look soft and fluffy (for example, like a bear drawn with gauze by Valeria Koryavikova).
Nearby is a drawing made according to the same principle, only without a stencil, and instead of gauze, plastic bag;

11.try using as additional funds drawing threads... Good at drawing winding lines with the help of woolen threads from a loose product;

12.amazing colorful circles obtained if you paint not with a brush, but electric tooth or massage brush.

II. "Punching": the child may like " stamp"objects or in this way" draw "something. Any objects can be" stamped ", it can be cubes (a set of geometric shapes) or an elastic band on the back of a pencil:

You can make prints and natural materials, for example, a spruce branch or large sheet from the plant:

III. The kid may like to draw on a sheet if it lies on some convex surface. You can make yourself curly stencil for "imprints" for example like this:

IV. If you draw on a wet drawing with watercolors reverse side tassels, you get " grooves"as in the picture with trees. So you can "draw" on a wet one with scissors, in which case the "grooves" will be the same and two at a time.
V. Splashes: interesting effects and images can be obtained by sprinkling paint from a brush or toothbrush onto a sheet of paper. The same can be done by placing an object on the sheet. Then there will be a "dotted background" around the object, and the image of the object will be colorless.

With help splashing you can paint the whole picture:

Vi. Blots: drip and let the paint run on the sheet. You can blow into the center of the blot through a tube. Blob images can be made mirrored, if you first fold the sheet in half (or twist it), then spread it and drip paint on it. Now fold the sheet again and press lightly. Further - a matter of your imagination. See what the blots look like and add the necessary details. Below is a mirror image from Julia Mitko's blot.

Vii.Monotype. This technique works well for postcards.Apply colorful stripes or patterns to glass (or any other material that does not absorb paint). Now place a sheet of paper on top and press down lightly. Remove the sheet from the glass and examine the printed design.

VIII.Foam drawing.

1. Whisk foam and collect it with a sponge. Now squeeze the sponge so that the foam is in the paint container. Stir and brush the foam and paint onto the paper. When the drawing is dry, excess foam can be blown away.

2. For creating effect use different shades take the colors shaving foam and gouache of the color you need. Mix the shaving foam and paint in a bowl and apply with a brush to the drawing.

IX. Drawings with glue

1.Glue stroke.Draw an object on the sheet with a pencil. Squeeze the glue along the outline of the image through the small hole in the glue tube and let it dry. Then paint over the space inside the outline.

Ecology of consumption. Children: If your child gets upset from time to time, saying "I can't draw this" or "it didn't work out nicely," stop trying ...

If your child gets upset from time to time saying "I can't draw this" or "it didn't work out nicely," stop trying to draw from a model, as they do in various drawing circles, and try spontaneous drawing techniques that are not standard.

We offer you 20 VARIANTS of similar techniques, revealing.

Passepartout.

This is when the baby's scabbards are inserted into a sheet with some shape cut out. Those. cut out a template, for example, butterflies and put it on top of the baby's "scribble". As a result, the child's work forms a unique pattern of butterfly wings.

Drawing with feet.

Secure a piece of paper to the floor with duct tape. Place a pencil between your toes and ask your child to draw something. You can create simultaneously with two feet on one sheet of paper. Attach to the wall big leaf paper and ask the child to draw something on it, lying on his back.

Frottage.

A sheet of paper is placed on a flat embossed object and then, moving with a non-sharpened colored pencil over the surface, you get a print that imitates the main texture. You can rub pencil crumbs in the same way on a relief surface. Anyone who has tried to draw on a table with a relief coating knows how this drawing technique can be included in a drawing completely uninvited. And you can create drawings by combining the relief of several objects.

Air paints.

To prepare the paint, stir in a small cup:

• one tablespoon of "self-rising" (pancake) flour is flour with baking powder already added. You can simply add 1 tsp to the flour (for 500 g). soda and 1 tsp. citric acid
• a few drops of food coloring
• one tablespoon of salt.

Then you need to add a little water to give the "airy" paint the desired consistency.

You need to apply paint on a thick sheet of cardboard (if you do not have the right brush, you can use cotton swabs).

Attention! Cardboard should not contain synthetic materials and films, use ordinary cardboard or very thick paper.

Place the painting in the microwave, turning on the maximum setting for 10 to 30 seconds, until the paint is dry. Drying time depends on the thickness of the paint layer and its consistency.

Marble paper.

Looking for: shaving cream (foam), watercolors or food colors, flat plate for mixing shaving foam and paints, paper, scraper.

Work plan:

1. Apply the shaving foam to a plate in an even thick layer.
2. Mix paints or food colors different colors with a small amount water to make a saturated solution.
3. Using a paintbrush or eyedropper, drip different colors of paint on the foam surface in random order.
4. Now, with the same brush or stick, smoothly spread the paint over the surface so that it forms fancy zigzags, wavy lines, etc. This is the most creative stage all the work that will please the children.
5. Now take a piece of paper and gently apply it to the surface of the resulting patterned foam.
6. Place the sheet on the table. You just have to scrape off all the foam from the sheet of paper. For these purposes, you can use a piece of cardboard or a lid cut in half.
7. Under a layer of shaving foam, you'll find stunning marble patterns. The paint was quickly absorbed into the paper, you just need to let it dry for several hours.

Drawing with cling film.

We apply spots of several colors of watercolor or gouache paint on the entire surface of the sheet. We put the film on top and draw, slightly pressing on the film, various lines. Let the paint dry and remove the film. We bring the drawing to the end, with felt-tip pens or pencils.

Soap painting.

You can mix paints with soapy water and then apply patterns and shapes with a brush. When drawing, bubble ki that create the texture of colorful strokes.

Blotography.

Let the baby drop paint on the sheet, tilt it in different directions, and then paint the blot so that you get some kind of image. Or a child dips a brush in paint, then places a blot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the "blot" is imprinted on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what he looks like.

Painting on a wet surface.

The technique is very simple: moisten a paper sheet with water, let it dry for 30 seconds and start painting with watercolors. The paints flow into different directions and it turns out very interesting divorces(dawn, clouds, trees, rainbow).

Salt.

Sketch on paper first. Moisten it with water with a brush, sprinkle with salt, wait until it absorbs water, pour excess salt. When everything is dry, draw the missing elements and color. Salt is good for drawing dragonflies, birds, jellyfish, butterflies, snow, smoke.

Wax.

Prepare a sheet with animal silhouettes that you will "draw" in advance with a candle. Painting over a drawing with paint, a child will unexpectedly "create" images of animals.

Foam rubber or sponge.

Having dipped a sponge in thick gouache, the child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches, apple trees.

A bunch of pencils.

Tape a large piece of paper securely with duct tape. Gather the colored pencils together so that the sharpened ends are flush. Invite your child to draw.

Crayons and starch.

Pour some starch onto a piece of paper and spread it evenly over the surface with your hands. Invite your toddler to draw with crayons on a slippery surface. Better to use the primary colors of the crayons to give you new colors.

Colored glue.

Pour the glue into empty bottles, add a few drops of a different color to each, and you are ready to create works of art... Draw with colored glue on dark paper using the "drip" technique.

Gauze swab.

Invite your child to dip a gauze pad in paint and draw clouds, soap bubbles, snowdrifts, ducklings, butterflies. The missing details must be completed with a brush or felt-tip pen.

Corn on the cob.

Come up with some kind of image. Dip the ear in the paint and roll it over a piece of clean paper. Make a print with the tail of a corncob.

Prints.

We make drawings with stamp prints.

Drawing with dots.

The kid, with a light pressure of a pencil, outlines the preliminary contour of the object, then fills the space inside it with a point technique, using felt-tip pens or pencils of different colors.

Splash painting.

The most important thing here is to master the "spraying" technique. On a dry toothbrush with a fairly stiff bristle, apply gouache, slightly less than you would normally use toothpaste. The consistency of the paint is slightly thicker than the paste, so water is usually not needed here. Hold the brush in your left hand with the bristles down at a distance of 3-4 cm from the paper and use a stick to scrub the bristles towards you.

The multi-colored "splash" (fireworks) and yellow-red ( Golden autumn) on a white sheet; white "splash" on a dark blue background (winter landscape).

Magic balls.

Material: box lid, balls, paint, paper, brushes, water.

Working process. Place a sheet of paper in a box, apply several multi-colored or monochromatic drops of paint on it. Put 2-3 balls in the box and shake the box so that the balls roll, mixing colors, creating a pattern. published

Drawing with a secret in three pairs of hands

When your child is 4 years old, we strongly recommend using this method. It consists in the following. Take a rectangular sheet of paper, 3 pencils. Adults and a child are distributed: who will draw the first, who will be the second, who will be the third. The first one begins to draw, and then closes his drawing, bending the leaf on top and leaving a little, some part, to continue (neck, for example). The second, seeing nothing but the neck, continues, naturally, the torso, leaving only part of the legs visible. The third finishes. Then the whole sheet is opened - and it almost always turns out funny: from the inconsistency of proportions, colors.

Blotography

It consists in teaching children how to make blots (black and multi-colored). Then a 3-year-old child can look at them and see images, objects or individual details. "What does your blot or mine look like?" "Whom or what does it remind you of?" - these questions are very useful because develop thinking and imagination. After that, without forcing the child, but showing, we recommend moving on to the next stage - tracing or finishing the blots. The result can be a whole plot.

Drawing together on long strip paper

By the way, it is useful to change the paper format (i.e. give not only the standard). In this case, a long strip will help two people draw without interfering with each other. You can draw isolated objects or plots, i.e. work nearby. And even in this case, the child is warmer from the elbow of mom or dad. And then it is advisable to move on to collective drawing. Adults and a child agree on who will draw what to get one plot.

Drawing yourself or drawing from life favorite toys

Drawing from life develops observation, the ability to depict according to the rules, not to create. draw so that it looks like the original in proportions, shapes, and colors. Suggest drawing yourself first by looking in the mirror. And by all means glancing in the mirror many times. Better yet, show how you adults will draw yourself, by all means looking in the mirror many times. Then let the child choose an object for himself, It can be a favorite doll, bear or car. It is important to learn to observe for a long time, comparing parts of the subject. And further. If a child moves away from nature, brings in something of his own, as a result of which a completely different object or toy appears, do not be upset. Praise your little one: “You painted today new car! Probably, you want this? " But at the end of such a drawing it is important to ask: "How is the drawn car different from this one?"

"I paint my mom"

It would be nice to continue drawing from life or drawing from memory (family members, relatives and friends can become objects for such an image). Photos or conversations about characteristic features appearance absent relatives ... Photos are taken and examined. The conversation is held: “What grandmother is Valya? What is her hair? Hairstyle? Favorite dress? Smile?" And the process of co-creation begins. After a while, you can offer to draw girlfriends from memory. When you have collected enough drawings depicting relatives and friends, we advise you to organize a mini-exhibition "My family and friends", where the first portraits of a preschooler are appreciated.

Bitmap

Children like everything unconventional. Drawing with dots refers to unusual, in this case, techniques. For implementation, you can take a felt-tip pen, a pencil, put it perpendicular to a white sheet of paper and start drawing. But here's the best way to get bitmaps with paints. Here's how to do it. A match, stripped of sulfur, is tightly wrapped with a small piece of cotton wool and dipped in thick paint. And then the principle of drawing dots is the same. The main thing is to immediately interest the child.

Foam drawings

For some reason, we are all inclined to think that if we paint with paints, then we must also use a brush. Not always, the TRIZ members say. Foam rubber can come to the rescue. We advise you to make from it a wide variety of small geometric figures, and then attach them with a thin wire to a stick or pencil (not sharpened). The tool is ready. Now you can dip it in paint and use the stamp method to draw red triangles, yellow circles, green squares (all foam rubber, unlike cotton wool, is well washed). At first, children will draw chaotically. geometric figures... And then offer to make the simplest ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.

Mysterious drawings

Mysterious drawings can be obtained as follows. A cardboard of about 20x20 cm is taken and folded in half. Then a half-woolen or woolen thread about 30 cm long is selected, its end is dipped 8-10 cm in thick paint and clamped inside the cardboard. You should then pass this thread inside the cardboard, and then remove it and open the cardboard. It turns out a chaotic image, which is examined, outlined and completed by adults with children. It is extremely useful to name the resulting images. This complex mental and speech work, combined with visual work, will contribute to intellectual development preschool children.

Drawing with crayons

Preschoolers love variety. These opportunities are provided to us by ordinary crayons, sanguine, coal. Smooth asphalt, porcelain, ceramic tiles, stones - this is the basis on which chalk and coal fit well. So, the asphalt is conducive to a capacious image of plots. They (if there is no rain) can be developed the next day. And then make up stories based on the plots. And on ceramic tiles (which are sometimes stored in the remains somewhere in the pantry), we recommend depicting patterns and small objects with crayons or charcoal. Large stones (such as boulders) are asked to decorate them under the image of an animal's head or under a tree stump. It depends on what or whom the stone resembles in shape.

Magic drawing method

This method is implemented as follows. With the corner of a wax candle, an image is drawn on white paper (a Christmas tree, a house, or maybe a whole plot). Then, with a brush, or better with cotton wool or foam rubber, paint is applied on top of the entire image. Due to the fact that the paint does not lie on the bold image with a candle, the drawing seems to appear suddenly in front of the children’s eyes, manifesting itself. You can get the same effect by painting first with office glue or a piece. laundry soap... In this case, the selection of the background to the subject plays an important role. For example, it is better to paint over a snowman drawn with a candle with blue paint, and a boat with green paint. Don't worry if candles or soap starts to crumble while painting. It depends on their quality.

Painting small pebbles

Of course, most often the child depicts large stones on a plane, on paper, less often on asphalt. Plane depiction of a house, trees, cars, animals on paper is not as enticing as creating your own voluminous creations. In this regard, sea pebbles are ideally used. They are smooth, small and vary in shape. The very shape of the pebble will sometimes tell the child what image to create in this case (and sometimes adults will help the kids). It is better to paint one pebble under a frog, another - under a bug, and a wonderful fungus will come out of the third. A bright thick paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. And it is better to finish it like this: after the pebble dries, cover it with colorless varnish. In this case, a voluminous beetle or frog made by children's hands glitters, brightly shimmers. This toy will take part in independent children's games more than once and bring considerable benefit to its owner.

Finger painting method

Here's another way to portray the world: fingers, palm, feet, and maybe chin, nose. Not everyone will take this statement seriously. Where is the line between prank and drawing? Why should we only paint with a brush or felt-tip pen? After all, a hand or individual fingers are such a help. And the index finger right hand listens to the child better than a pencil. Well, if the pencil is broken, the brush is wiped off, the markers run out - but I want to draw. There is one more reason: sometimes the theme simply asks for a child's palm or finger. For example, a child is better at drawing a tree with his hands than with other tools. With his finger he will draw out the trunk and branches, then (if) he will apply yellow, green, orange paints to the inside of his hand and draw a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It is good if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not one index finger, but all.

Nitcography method

This method exists mainly for girls. But this does not mean that it is not suitable for children of the opposite sex. And it consists in the following. First, a 25x25 cm screen is made of cardboard. Either velvet paper or plain flannel is glued onto the cardboard. It would be nice to prepare a cute bag with a set of woolen or semi-woolen threads for the screen. different colors... This method is based on next feature: Flannel or velvet paper attracts threads that have a certain percentage of wool. You only need to attach them with light movements. index finger... Interesting stories can be prepared from such threads. Imagination, a sense of taste develops. Especially girls learn to skillfully pick colors. Some thread colors are suitable for a light flannel, and completely different ones for a dark one. This is how the gradual path to women's craft begins, needlework, which is very necessary for them.

Monotype method

Two words about this unfortunately rarely used method. And in vain. Because it is fraught with a lot of things that are tempting for preschoolers. In short, this is an image on cellophane, which is then transferred to paper. On smooth cellophane I paint with paint with a brush, or a match with a cotton ball, or with my finger (no uniformity is needed). The paint should be thick and vibrant. And immediately, until the paint has dried, turn the cellophane image down onto thick white paper and, as it were, blot the drawing, and then lift it up. It turns out two pictures. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.

Drawing on wet paper

Until recently, it was believed that you can draw only on dry paper, because the paint is sufficiently diluted with water. But there is a number of objects, plots, images that are best drawn on wet paper. You need ambiguity, vagueness, for example, if a child wants to depict the following themes: "City in fog", "I had dreams", "It is raining", "Night city", "Flowers behind a curtain", etc. You need to teach the preschooler to make the paper a little damp. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work. Therefore, it is recommended to soak in clean water a lump of cotton wool, squeeze it out and hold it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if so required) only on a separate part. And the paper is ready for the production of obscure images.

Fabric images

In the bag we collect the remains of fabrics of all kinds of patterns and various qualities. Both chintz and brocade will come in handy, as they say. It is very important to show with specific examples how a drawing on a fabric, as well as its dressing, can help to depict something in a plot very brightly and at the same time easily. Here are some examples. So, flowers are depicted on one of the fabrics. They are cut out along the contour, glued (only with paste or other good glue), and then paint on a table or a vase. A capacious colorful image is obtained. There are fabrics that can serve well as a house or body of an animal, or a beautiful umbrella, or a hat for a doll, or a handbag.

Volumetric applique

Obviously, children love to do applique work: cut and paste something, getting a lot of pleasure from the process itself. And you need to create all the conditions for them. Along with the flat application, teach them how to make volumetric: volumetric is better perceived by a preschooler and reflects the world around them more realistically. In order to obtain such an image, it is necessary to wrinkle the applicative colored paper, then slightly straighten and cut to the desired shape. After that, just stick it on and, if necessary, finish drawing individual details with a pencil or felt-tip pen. Make, for example, a turtle loved by children. Remember the brown paper, straighten slightly, cut out an oval shape and paste, and then paint on the head and legs.

Draw with postcards

In fact, almost every home has a ton of old postcards. Go through old postcards with the children, teach how to cut the necessary images and stick to the place in the plot. A bright factory image of objects and phenomena will give even the most simple unpretentious drawing a completely artistic design. It is sometimes difficult for a three-, four- and even five-year-old child to draw a dog and a beetle. You can take them ready-made, and let him paint the sun for the dog and the bug, rain and be very happy. Or if, together with the children, cut out of a postcard and paste fairytale house with the grandmother in the window, then the preschooler, focusing on his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, undoubtedly, will draw something to him.

Learning to make a background

Usually children draw on white paper. So you can see it more clearly. It's faster this way. But some plots require a background. And, I must say, all children's works look better against a background made in advance. Many children make the background with a brush, moreover, an ordinary one, a small one. Although there is a simple and reliable way: to make the background with cotton wool or a piece of foam rubber dipped in water and paint.

Collage

The concept itself explains the meaning this method: several of the above are collected in it. In general, ideally, the following seems important to us: it is good when a preschooler is not only familiar with various image techniques, but also does not forget about them, and uses it to the right place, fulfilling a given goal. For example, one of the children 5-6 years old decided to draw, and for this he uses a bitmap (flowers), and the child will draw the sun with his finger, he will cut out fruits and vegetables from postcards, he will depict the sky and clouds with fabrics, etc. The limit to improvement and creativity in visual activity no. English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: draw with a rag, paper napkin (folded many times); paint dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, squeeze from berries. It is also useful to paint cans and bottles, spools and boxes, etc.