How to draw ...
Learn how to draw characters just like those featured in your favourite books, with these step by step guides by children's book illustrators.
What are your favourite pictures from children's books? If there's an artist you'd like to see included in this series email childrens.books@
guardian.co.uk. Let us know how you get on with the lessons by sending us pictures of the characters you draw yourselves.
What are your favourite pictures from children's books? If there's an artist you'd like to see included in this series email childrens.books@
guardian.co.uk. Let us know how you get on with the lessons by sending us pictures of the characters you draw yourselves.
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Meet Supertato! He’s always there for you when the chips are down (groan...). Now you can draw your very own top ‘tater - but keep your eyes peeled for his arch nemesis, The Evil Pea!
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Try Jonny Lambert’s adorable lesson in making a 3D elephant out of just one single sheet of paper. The perfect half-term project!
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Ever seen something in your head that you struggle to get right on paper? Richard Collingridge has some great tips on how to do it
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Art is everywhere, even in the bits you throw away. Marta Altés teaches you how to make gorgeous creations with pencil shavings!
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Love wool but can’t knit? You can design your own woolly wonders with CRAYONS – Emily MacKenzie shows you how
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Brrr it’s chilly out there. So gather some pencils, pens or whatever and get drawing a delightful, if somewhat smug polar bear
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A step-by-step guide to the art of printing with just about anything by Liz Anelli
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From smudging techniques to dramatic use of white chalk, Irish illustrator PJ Lynch has some useful tips on how to make great drawings using charcoal
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Sophy Henn is here to rouse you out of the post-Christmas slump with her amazing guide to making your very own book and turning it into something cool - think sketchbook or scrapbook or ‘zine!
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Did you know that little lies can turn into big WHOPPERS? Here’s Rebecca Ashdown, author of The Whopper, to show you how to draw your own whopper - just be careful it doesn’t gobble you up!
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What’s a Christmas Eve tree? According to The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy and illustrated by Emily Sutton, it may be a little lopsided, even a bit ugly, but with love, it’s the best tree in the world. Emily Sutton shows you how to draw your own Christmas Eve tree
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There’s something about a little robin red breast that makes us feel so festive – and here’s Suzanne Barton with a sweet lesson on how to draw one
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Yo ho ho, it’s party season – so time to whip out your needle and thread and prepare the dolls you know to rock!
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Richard Wilkinson, Illustrator and co-curator of the mega book Historium, teaches you how to draw an amazing Easter Island head in pencil
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Claude Monet was not only an amazing painter - he was one of the founders of the Impressionist movement - but he also created one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, in Giverny. Now, with some help from his cat, you can combine both his passions and learn how to draw his garden!
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With their elegant trunks, white tusks and enormous stomping feet, elephants might be easy to recognise in your drawings but they’re tricky to get right. David Barrow has a beautiful step-by-step guide
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Tim Hopgood is here to show you how to draw the cutest spider since Charlotte! Meet Walter, star of Walter’s Wonderful Web
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As the spookiest day approaches, everyone needs a friendly witch by their side, and who better than Tiga Whicabim, from Witch Wars by Sibéal Pounder, illustrated by Laura Ellen Anderson? Wands at the ready!
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As the evenings draw in, let’s get cosy and creative with Britta Teckentrup’s beautiful step-by-step guide
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Most penguins might be cuddly and kind-hearted, but not Evil Emperor Penguin. He’s a penguin so evil that he has forced poor, innocent Laura Ellen Anderson to create this drawing lesson for you so he can take over the entire world!
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A drawing lesson on straight lines turns into something else entirely, in this creative and magical step-by-step guide from illustrator David Mackintosh
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Mick Manning and Brita Granström take you on a guided tour of drawing the world’s most famous writer – William Shakespeare himself
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Get up close and personal with one of nature’s most beautiful wildest creatures as artist Stephen Walton shares a fascinating timelapse video of himself drawing a lion in charcoal
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Rob Biddulph has a beary loud drawing lesson for you today, are you ready to shout while you get your pens out?
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Ed Vere, the author and illustrator of Max the Brave, shows you how to draw a kitten - with a little help from Max, of course
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Which dead person would you just love to interview? Cleopatra? Albert Einstein? Animated corpse expert Adam Murphy teaches how to dig someone up and create a comic all about them – and it’s not even Halloween yet!
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From their snuffly little noses to their twirling piggy tails, Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve have a step-by-step guide on drawing pugs!
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The author and illustrator of Toby and the Ice Giants teaches you how to create your very own Ice Age giant, with help from Toby the bison
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Ever get the urge to go somewhere amazing, totally secretly? Molly Maybe creator Kristina Stephenson has made this step-by-step guide to drawing a secret transformer for you… and she even has a secret word to describe it. So draw on and conquer!
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The original Bod books by Joanne and Michael Cole were first published 50 years ago in – and the Bod TV show was part and parcel of growing up in 1970s Britain. Now, Bod is back! To celebrate the authors’ son Lo Cole has this cute drawing lesson to share
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Pat Hutchins teaches you how to draw the star of her famous 1968 book Rosie’s Walk, with a bit of help from Rosie’s chick from its long awaited sequel Where, Oh Where, is Rosie’s Chick?
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With no words at all, Italian illustrator Oscar Sabini teaches you how to create a colourful and crazily cute collage of a toucan
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We have a crazily stripy drawing lesson for you today. Let illustrator Thomas Docherty take you on a magical journey to meet Abracazebra (and try to ignore the cross Goat)
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Adam Stower teaches you how to catch your troll (you’re going to need some cake as well as your art materials for this assignment) and then get sketching. Good luck everyone, make sure that cake is delicious now won’t you?
Topics
- Children and teenagers
- Children's books: 7 and under
- Picture books
- Illustration
- Design
- Children's books: 8-12 years
- Animals
- Art (Education)
- Teen books
- Comics and graphic novels
- Drawing
- Comics and graphic novels (children and teens)
- Non-fiction (children and teens)
- Art (Art and design)
- Wildlife
- Art and design
- Adventure (children and teens)
- Eoin Colfer
- Publishing
- Spiders