Draw on This—Day Two: Ducks and Dogs

Day two and today I had my first full class of THIRTEEN students! I also am ever so grateful to now have a young volunteer assistant join our class. This is wonderful as this large class requires much setup and clean up.

Today we started with some fun duplication exercise warm-ups. Each student received two pieces of paper with some simple illustrations of lines all curved and straight, circles and dots. Using markers, each student tried to draw a copy of each of the little drawings below each picture. Muscles and brains warmed up quickly and we were ready to dive in.

Today we used techniques similar to those used for our koala of last week to draw a duck. My actual original reference was a duck candle so this duck included a wick coming out of his head. :-) Here was my drawing example that I first showed to the students—

Together we blocked in the basic shapes with our light coloured markers. After the light colours, we went over our drawing with darker colours to show the lines we wanted to keep and to add some detail. I love the creative detail that these kids tend to add to their drawings. Check it out!—

Once our ducks were complete, we move on to a second challenge—the head of a dog. The process again here was to break down a drawing into basic shapes then to outline and add details with darker markers later. Here was my initial example to show the students—

Below is the fabulous work by our students. I see lots of great shapes and good proportions!—