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Drawing Resources

Fine arts resources for drawing. Introduction to drawing, drawing cartoons, technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.
  1. Beginners Drawing Lessons

Drawing Materials for Children

A brief guide to selecting age-appropriate drawing materials for your child. Forget the box of five hundred wax crayons - check out these suggestions for quality and cost-effective products. From Helen South, the About Drawing/Sketching Guide.

First Drawing Lessons for Children

Before you can learn to draw, you must first learn to really see the world around you. These introductory lessons encourage children to look carefully at objects and consider what they know compared to what they see. By Helen South, About Drawing/Sketching Guide.

Teaching Children to Draw

This article looks at the development of children's drawing, whether they should be taught to draw, and how you can guide their creativity at each stage. By Helen South, the About Drawing/Sketching Guide.

Art Studio Chalkboard

These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.

Cartoon Connections

Use simple shapes to draw a cat-toon and a dog-toon, or read a handy list of drawing tips from Number Two.

Draw and Color with Uncle Fred

Easy lessons on drawing and coloring simple cartoon characters by the artist and author behind the comic strip Barney Google.

Draw Squad - Online Drawing Lessons

Get out your drawing books, pencils and get ready to draw with The Draw Squad Online Drawing Lessons.

Home School Arts

This site is dedicated to the teaching and instruction of the visual arts online to all that would be interested be they a, beginner, intermediate or advanced student.

Learn to Draw with Billy Bear

Grab your pencils and paper or your computer mouse and favorite graphic program and draw with Billy Bear! Learn to take basic shapes and turn them into something beautiful! Follow along with the step by step Drawing Lessons or print out the drawing sheets.

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station

Cool drawing in 3-D lessons with Mark Kistler's Imagination Station, Public Television's favorite Learn-to-Draw in 3D Series.

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