The Complete Drawing Course for Kids

Learn the painting alphabet of basics by using dots and lines in varying sizes to show lightness, weight, and far-away placement.

Learn to recognize and apply different types of lines, including horizontal, vertical, Conaway's, curved, crewcut, and dash lines, to create fences, roads, waves, mountains, and more.

Explore how lines and dots become surfaces, from simple shapes like squares, triangles, and circles to non geometrical surfaces, using equal measurements and basic geometry to create recognizable forms.

Learn to draw circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles by combining simple geometrical shapes to create cute animals and scenes, then color and elaborate with proportions and connections.

Explore how to recognize and draw diamond, oval, and trapezium shapes by combining triangles, rectangles, and parallel lines, then transform them into a kite, egg-like oval, and a tiny boat.

Explore three-dimensional volume, distinguishing ordered geometrical volumes from disordered ones, and how interiors can be empty or filled, using simple shapes like circle, triangle, and square.

Turn basic shapes, circle, square, and triangle, into 3d volumes such as ball, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid, cylinder, and cone through shading, with at-home practice.

Explore textures in drawing by distinguishing image textures and created textures, and convey mood with ordered textures, disordered textures, dots, lines, and shading for depth.

Explore lines, shapes, textures, and three-dimensional forms through guided at home drawings. Practice using dots and lines to depict light and shadow, simple figures, and everyday volumes.

Discover how light defines color, distinguish main colors blue, red, and yellow, and see how mixing them with white or black yields tints, shades, and new hues.

Practice darkening and lightening colors by adding black and white, explore the cycle of colors, and identify primary, secondary, and complementary colors to enhance kids' drawing.

Explore chromatography results that reveal dark blue and dark red, not black, and how combining them creates new colors for paintings, while white lightens colors.

Explore the color cycle by placing the main colors yellow, blue, and red on the circle, mix them to form secondary colors green, orange, and purple, and learn complementary colors.

Explore essential tools for kids' drawing, including black pencils (HB, H, B), colored pencils, brushes, watercolors and palettes, and different cardboard textures and weights.

Explore three colored pencil techniques for kids: light, medium, and heavy pressure, mastering shading, layering for darker tones, and color blending (blue to green) while preserving white paper.

Color with pencils using three shading methods: one-direction shading for speed, two-direction shading to avoid traces and fill surfaces, and the circle method for small areas.

Explore color mixing with colored pencils by pairing primary colors to create secondary colors—green, purple, and orange—while practicing medium hand pressure and ample pigment on paper for rich blends.

Transfer the design onto paper and color the dinosaur. Darken the back with a black pencil, and color in two directions with circular movements.

Color the dinosaur with colored pencils, using circular shading to build darker areas and shadows by starting with lighter colors and gradually applying stronger hand pressure for color darkening.

Learn pastel techniques with oily and chalk pastels, focusing on three blending methods to fade colors without borders, using tissue, white pencil, and light colors.

Frame your artwork with paper tape to keep colors from spreading and create clean edges. Fill areas with colors using crayons, watercolors, or colored pencils to achieve vibrant result.

Engage in scratch board training by coloring the cardboard with crayons, then cover all colors with black under pressure. Rest when tired and place a sketch to guide your imagination.

Explore scratch board techniques to create a colorful dinosaur by scratching away a black layer with a wooden stick or toothpick, revealing colors and textures for a rainbow painting.

Add background elements like a sun and trees to your scratch board drawing, adjust textures with a black crayon, and carefully remove tapes to reveal a colorful, creative result.

Teach gouache painting of a dinosaur by practicing color mixing, brush control, and clean technique to create cohesive greens, a ground line, and precise lines.

The continuation of gouache training guides students to color shapes with cohesive edges, outline boundaries first, and layer colors to create soft shadows with practical edgework and layering techniques.

Continue gouache training with framing and outlining, then layer colors from light to dark using colored pencils or markers to shape grass, a tree, and a dinosaur scene.

Master watercolor basics with essential tools—cardboard, watercolors, brushes, tissue, glass of water, pencil, and palette—and learn two techniques: wet-in-wet and wet-and-dry for controlled color, darkness, and light.

Learn to paint a tree with watercolors using wet-in-wet techniques, build a textured trunk and branches, and blend blues and browns for a vivid sky.

Practice the tree with a tipping technique in darker brown to cast shadows near the trunk, tapping instead of dragging; then use wet and dry leaves to blend greens.

continue the tree exercise using tape and watercolors, carefully remove tape to preserve cardboard texture, reveal branches, then add color to branches, sky, and ground using wet and dry techniques.

Apply pale underpaintings and erase pencil lines to keep colors transparent, then use wet in dry method and wet in wet methods to paint a cactus with watercolor.

Paint a cactus with darker green tones by blending black into the green, leave some areas lighter, and add thorns with a black pen for a home-friendly finished drawing.

Color a fall tree with crayons, starting from the top branches, use pencils, vary hand pressure for a dark trunk, and blend leaves with red, orange, yellow, and green.

Learn to build a tree with gouache and oil painting techniques by layering light to dark colors, drying between layers, and blending borders with quick, directional brushwork.

Practice gouache painting to create a spring sky, blending blue tones with tissue spatter, fading borders, and using white crayon to smooth transitions.

Create a snowy tree scene with oil paint by layering color and using a dry white collar to add snow on branches, trunk, sky, and grass.

Explore watercolor techniques for kids, using wet-on-wet skies and wet-on-dry tree detailing with blue hues, controlled spreads, and dry brush to create a vivid tree scene.

Continue watercolor painting with light greens and wet-on-wet blending to avoid borders, then layer darker greens with black or brown and fade edges with water.

Develop sketching by drawing with simple shapes, then coloring, to strengthen the hand for smooth lines. See paintings as circle, triangle, and rectangle combinations that form simple designs.

guide kids through simple sketching from images using basic shapes to form animals like horses and giraffes, add details, and color with pencils and watercolors.

Add simple details like grass and a sun using crayons to enhance paintings. Apply the learned sketching method to improve color, depth, and overall appeal.

Create a lively forest scene by building a jungle with trees and playful animals—monkey, lion, giraffe, snake, rabbit, and elephant—using simple shapes first, then adding details and coloring.

Learn to blend watercolor and colored pencils to paint a forest scene with textured trees, layered greens, and a giraffe, using light-to-dark color building, shading, and mixed-media techniques.

Practice watercolor painting by blending blue, black, and white to create a grey-blue elephant, using light lines and both flat and round brushes to build a playful jungle scene.

Paint the sky using a wet cardboard technique, spreading blue smoothly with water, use a small brush for edges, remove excess with tissue, and correct mistakes before moving to grass.

Create clouds by tapping white oil paint on dry watercolor with a tissue for bluish-white clouds. Add green grass in short and long strokes, with yellow accents, finishing jungle scenes.

Learn to shade basic shapes and volumes by identifying the light source and shading from the opposite side, creating ground shadows beneath spheres, cubes, pyramids, and trees.

Create a basket of fruits by sketching lines lightly, then shading and coloring. Draw grapes, an orange, an apple, a pear with leaves, and a wicker basket handle.

Color the fruit basket by applying light from one side, shade from dark to light, and layer purple, yellow, orange, red, and brown to convey roundness and depth.

Practice shading by adding the basket's shadow on ground and along the handle. Emphasize depth with darkest areas near the basket fading to lighter tones away from the light source.

Learn to render three-dimensional drawings using perspective to add volume. Build skills with horizon lines, an escape point, and circle, square, triangle shapes for a house in perspective.

Master basic perspective by building a horizon line, setting a front face with receding doors and windows, and aligning vertical and horizontal lines, plus roof breaks to perspective rules.

Learn to create a three-dimensional house scene using perspective, drawing rooflines, windows, and a door with parallel lines, adding a textured floor and careful two-direction coloring for depth.