Drawing techniques activity sheets

These activity sheets can be used with anyone to encourage them to think about different materials and drawing techniques and the different effects that can be created. You do not need to ask children to do all of them and you can pick the activities you like the most.

For example, I completed this with my afterschool art club group for 5-10 year olds and they only filled in 12 boxes experimenting with just one softness of pencil and one type of oil pastel. There is an example page from this activity at the end of this pdf. I asked the children to split their page into 12 boxes and then got them to complete a challenge in each box.

At the end I asked them to colour in a picture of a shell using these different techniques and there is an example of this as well.

Stippling = dots, a little like pointillism Rolling = rolling the side of the pencil over the page to make a mark (see box 4 of the example sheet) Hatching = lines going in one direction (see box 5 of the example sheet) Cross hatching = lines going in two directions (see box 6) Uneven pressure = creating lines that are thick and then thin (see box 3) HB/2B/4B = different softness of pencils