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Beautiful Things · Drawing skills · Pilot draft

Draw what you see

Artists don't draw what they think something looks like. They draw what they see. Look more than you draw, and wobbly lines are fine.

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1Look more than you draw

Pick a typewriter. Put your eyes on one edge and move them slowly. Let your pencil follow along. Look at the paper only now and then.

2Find the big shapes

Squint at an old TV until the details disappear. Draw the biggest shape first, then the screen, then the knobs. Small details go last.

3Draw a pet from a painting

Choose a cat or dog on the AWWW Wall. Build it from shapes, then make it look alive.

A circle for the head.
Triangles for the ears.
An oval for the body.
Short strokes for fur, the way it grows.
A tiny dot of light in each eye.
Sign it, like a painter.

The painting I chose:

4Light and dark

Press lightly, then a little harder each time. Fill the boxes from the lightest to the darkest. Then add one dark shadow and one bright shine to your pet.

One thing I really saw

Something you only noticed because you were drawing it.

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Beautiful Things · Drawing skills · Pilot draft

Draw what you see

Artists don't draw what they think something looks like. They draw what they see. Look more than you draw, and wobbly lines are fine.

Name

Date

1Look more than you draw

Pick a typewriter. Put your eyes on one edge and move them slowly. Let your pencil follow along. Look at the paper only now and then.

2Find the big shapes

Squint at an old TV until the details disappear. Draw the biggest shape first, then the screen, then the knobs. Small details go last.

3Draw a pet from a painting

Choose a cat or dog on the AWWW Wall. Build it from shapes, then make it look alive.

A circle for the head.
Triangles for the ears.
An oval for the body.
Short strokes for fur, the way it grows.
A tiny dot of light in each eye.
Sign it, like a painter.

The painting I chose:

4Light and dark

Press lightly, then a little harder each time. Fill the boxes from the lightest to the darkest. Then add one dark shadow and one bright shine to your pet.

One thing I really saw

Something you only noticed because you were drawing it.

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