Draw Drawing Letters

If students learn how to draw cartoon letters, they tin can accept fun adding it to their fine art, or reports or book covers, whatever appeals to them.

art journal for kids

Years of experimenting in the classroom helped me develop a very inexpensive way to make art journals with hundreds of students, for just pennies apiece. And rather than create more piece of work they actually streamlined the classroom procedure.

Whenever possible, I would provide students with corrugated cardboard for the comprehend. Later on watching too many of them just scribble their name on the front, I started making cover art 1 of the projects. This cartoon lettering was a favorite. You lot tin read more about my Recycled Art Journals HERE.

MATERIALS

  • Art Burst Cover Tutorial PDF (Download here)
  • Newspaper or paper-thin for a journal comprehend as shown
  • Markers, I used the Stabilo brand
  • Black Sharpie, fine tip

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:1 hour.

How to Draw Cartoon Letters

  1. Lightly depict big capital Fine art stick letters.

  2. Trace effectually the stick messages to turn them into block messages.

  3. Trace the block letters with a marker. Erase pencil lines.

  4. Draw a burst in pencil. Note: It MUST exist smaller than the letters.

  5. Erase all the burst lines within the cake messages.

  6. Trace small burst lines with a black marker. Describe a larger burst effectually the exterior.

  7. Trace the larger burst with the marker.

  8. Use the marker to draw a shadow on the bottom and correct of each alphabetic character.

  9. Color with markers, using contrasting colors.