Describe a Stick Person

Observe out how charming a stick person drawing can be, specially when surrounded by lots of brilliant colors.

stick person drawing

Hither'southward an idea of what to practice if your children are perchance getting stuck trying to make the PERFECT drawing, especially a self portrait. Are they erasing more than than drawing lately? And then endeavor this stick figure out.

Ask them to throw out (for a moment) all that they have learned about drawing bodies, and tell them they MUST draw themselves with simply stick arms and legs. It helps then to have a actually thick blackness permanent marker to make these lines really bold, and then just concentrate on painting any kind of rainbow ring effectually them.

Continue the inside white though, every bit it will add lots of fun CONTRAST to your piece of work (1 of the Principles of Blueprint). See? You snuck some learning in to a very simple un-fancy art project. Skilful for you!

Student samples

MATERIALS

• Watercolor newspaper*
• Blackness Marker, chisel tip*
• Liquid watercolor paint*

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DIRECTIONS

  1. Students draw themselves in stick figure form.
  2. The drawing is traced with a chisel tip blackness Sharpie marker for a assuming line. If you only accept a medium size marking, trace 2 or three times to make information technology thick.
  3. Using a small-scale or medium castor, the trunk is traced with liquid watercolor pigment. The beginning outline is around the body, and so progresses outward. Colors that bleed together are fine, but white spaces between the lines are non allowed. Student'due south proper name may be added at the top when complete.

CRAYON OPTION

Crayon Stick Person
Makes rings and repeat