Animal basic form and dot to dot drawing

By: Yulleg Rahardja

 Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

Tool and ingredient

Chapter Two

The geometric form and the usefulness

Chapter Three

The basic for of animals

Chapter four

The dot to dot form

 Introduction

This is my first book ever. I had been nervous about this first book of mine but
you cannot know either it’s going to work or not unless you done it. My special thanks
above of all are to God and my family. Now here’s the starting point on teaching the
children on how to draw picture especially animals and so many thing to be learn by the
children especially on their first step to draw a picture. Frankly it’s takes a tons of beer,
coffee, donuts to write this thing down still I don’t gain any weight.

Why do we teach how to draw? This is one of the biggest questions of the entire
teacher and the parents who wanted to teach their young ones on how to draw pictures.
And there’s no simple answer for that kind of question. For I think that the true answer
of that question shall be unsurprisingly the love of the game it self (a novel the same title
For love of the game truly inspired me when writing this book). If the teacher or anyone
that wanted to teach doesn’t enjoy him/her self on drawing then the children will see
through it.

When teaching our children on how to draw, please remember that drawing and
coloring is for fun. You can expected that your children prefer a coloring book rather a
book that teaches them to draw from the basic form but this book can change all of that.
Starting to learn from a basic form to the exact picture shall increase the children ability
to draw and discipline to learn things from the basic not just jumping around to the new
stuff and without thinking of any of it, though it’s fun lol. This book is dedicated for all
the children between 4 to 6 years old. The guideline on how to use this book is:

1. Teach the basic form first from scratch before make any advance. Teaching
the basic form the beginning must be fun and relax, don’t push the children
too hard or they shall failed you. If we started directly to the hard path it’s
like a basic training goes to 3 rings circus you know, children shall make a
huge mistakes I meant a lot of them. Can you imagine this a shapeless head
with smile and huge ears and teeth smiling while we ask a simple face
drawing? Or a long curly lines when we ask a straight line drawing; I mean
arrrgh that frustrating thought hehehe.
2. Teach more complex form step by step like the block or rectangular, triangle,
oval, curve and circle; while we do that please as I had mentioned before
don’t push the children too hard on that matter.
3. And now after we teach them here’s the training point. Drawing by
connected the dots into the lines starting from the basic form.
4. If the child or children show some of the boredom then showed them the real
picture at the end of each section.
5. Use pencils 2B grade and remember if you sharpened it make sure that
you’re close with the little ones in order to keep them away from trouble or
accident.
6. Let them colored the picture on their own chosen color. Children love to
color things as their imagines most likely not like the way the natural color.
Let them had it their way so this can get their interest more and more.
7. The rules of coloring are don’t let the coloring process across the lines. And
don’t get angry to the children, for we must remember that we were little
children and we used to be amongst of them (hi, this kind of reminds me of
the old song he he).
8. Have fun with your little ones and good luck.
 Chapter 1

Tools and the ingredient

What do we going to needed the most when we decided to teach our young ones
on how to draw an animal forms?
Well, we must make a sort of the list of the things that we going to needed the most;
and here the list of that:

1. Pencils
Pencils are the much needed tools to create basic sketch before we either using more
expressive pens or simply thickening our lines. Pick the pencils that are smooth, a
little bit slick and not too rough on the paper that we used when we draw our picture.
I personally recommended 2 B for drawing but whenever we wanted to give shading
to our picture we simply can use pencils ranging from 3B up to 8B. but if we use
crayons or color pencil then we can skip that step.
2. Drawing pen
I recommended the type of paper that is not easily to worn out, tear apart, a little bit
thicker and not spreading ink if we use ballpoint. The perfect example is the one on
the drawing book.
3. Eraser
The eraser is the one that we needed as the pencil companion to erase unnecessary
lines or the wrong lines, pencil stain, etc. Pick the eraser that is smooth and not dirty
or crate more stain on the paper when we use it.
4. Color pencils
The color pencils that I recommended are the one that easily blend in when we mixed
the color, easy to erase with the eraser and smooth to use. For the safety use the color
pencils that made of food coloring substances. That way we can reduce danger to our
children or pupil if they either inhaled the color pencil dust or worse accidentally eat
it. There are two type of coloring pencil; the first one is the classical one and the other
is the water based. For the beginner I recommended the classical one, for the advance
user I prefer water base one because we can made the color blending easier than the
classical one. We can blend the colors simply by brushing our picture after we give it
color using water based color pencil with the moist or wet paint brush. We simply dip
our paint brush and half dried it before we brush it on the colored picture.
5. Crayon
Crayons are the children favorite for it not taking too many lines to fill the picture, for
sharper color complicates shape, use crayons that are have sharp point but for filing
the color inside large picture the blunt one is OK. The crayons also must be smooth
and totally harmless. Like the color pencil the crayons also have 2 types; one is the
water based the other is the classical one. I prefer classical for the beginner and the
water base for the advance user.
6. Paint brush
We can use pain brushes for filling the color or made it smoother especially when we
use the water based colors pencils or crayons or when we shading our drawing with
 pencils. Personally if I had to shading my picture with pencil I prefer cotton bud,
cotton or simply my pinkie finger.
7. Ruler
We can use ruler especially the transparent one so we can see our own drawing. This
surely can give an advantage if the length of our ruler is much longer than the length
of the paper.
 Chapter 2
The geometric form and the usefulness

For most of us that usually already able to draw animals perhaps we no longer needed
it. But for the beginner (our pupil), they going to needed to learn basic for of the
geometry that being use in shaping the basic pattern or sketch to begin working on
drawing animals that we were desired too.
The geometric sketches are simplification of a few objects form or starting lines that
being used to help our pupil before creating more and more complicating form or even
better yet the realistic one. But here’s one draw back that is the children do not interested
to draw realistic one but they definitely going after the fun form ones. That’s why on the
beginning I had told on this book is fun, fun and fun for without fun we shall feel so dull.
But before I started on this matter let’s see what kind of pencil that we shall get used
for drawing shall we: this I took from wikimedia.org about pencils

Grading and classification

A grading chart ranging from 9B to 9H

Many pencils across the world, and mostly all in Europe, are graded on the European
system using a continuum from “H” (for hardness) to “B” (for blackness), as well as “F”
(for fine point). The standard writing pencil is graded HB. According to Petroski, this
system might have been developed in the early 1900s by Brookman, an English pencil
maker. It used “B” for black and “H” for hard; a pencil's grade was described by a
sequence or successive Hs or Bs such as BB and BBB for successively softer leads, and
HH and HHH for successively harder ones.

A set of pencils ranging from a very hard, light-marking pencil to a very soft, black-
marking pencil usually ranges from hardest to softest as follows:

9H 8H 7H 6H 5H 4H 3H 2H H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 5B 6B 7B 8B 9B
Hardest → Medium → Softest

The main markets for such wide range of grades are artists who are interested in creating
a full range of tones from light grey to black. Engineers prefer harder pencils which allow
for a greater control in the shape of the lead. This is reflected in the way pencils are
packaged and marketed. For example, for its Graphic pencils Derwent offers three
packages of 12 pencils each: Technical (with hard grades from 9H to B), Sketching (with
soft grades H to 9B), and Designer (with medium grades 4H to 6B). Pencils graded using
these systems are used to measure the hardness and resistance of varnishes and paints.
The resistance of a coating (also known as its pencil hardness) is determined as the grade
of the hardest pencil that does not mark the coating when pressed firmly against it at a 45
degree angle.

Another common method uses numbers to designate the grade of a pencil. It was
originally created by Conté and adopted in the United States by John Thoreau, father of
Henry Thoreau, in the 19th century. The following table shows approximate equivalences
between the different systems:

Tone U.S. World

#1 B
#2 HB
#2½ * F
#3 H
#4 2H

Me my self (not with Irene) personally recommended the 2B grade pencil for the
hardness is soft so it’s safe for the children and the shading and blackness is medium.
Basically it’s all purpose grade pencil.
 Now after we had learned from the pencils grades then we can learn about the basic
form first. The pupil truly going to needed to know how to draw the basic form first
before they started to connecting dot to dot picture. And here it is:

1 2 3 4 5

1. Attract the curved lines from left to right and from right to left alternately, this
curves lines will make the children or pupil learn to draw wave, streams or chilled
wind for example. Just like in Boxing (hey this is not Pac Man drilling).
2. Attract the curved lines from top to bottom and from bottom to the top
alternatively, this exercise shall enhance the pupil to learn to water fall, fountains
and other things. Man I love a curly hair woman and with sparkling eyes (hey
wait a minutes this is not a diary lol).
3. The pupil also needed to learn to draw vertical lines from top to bottom and vice
versa.
4. Horizontal lines from left to the right and vice versa. The pupil also needed to
learn to draw vertical lines from top to bottom and vice versa.
5. And finally shading in area from diagonal straight lines from left to right and right
to the left diagonally. a shadow of a man, a face through a window, crying in the
night; the night goes in to; (hey this is another song that I used to sang when I was
broken hearted).

After that first exercise and the pupil already can do that basic learning, then we
must made them learn how to draw with the basic form that we going to needed when we
wanted to draw ranging from wheel, animal, flower, etc. And here’s some of it below:

1 2 3 4
1. Drawing circle rotate clock wise and anti clock wise .
2. Drawing bigger circle and oval the same way.
3. Drawing the triangle form, first draw the horizontal line, then added either one
vertical and diagonal one or both diagonally attached to the horizontal lines.
4. Draw rectangular shape.
5. Finally draw the cube forms. The cube form is the combination between the circle
and the rectangular.
6. The Cone form is made of the combination between triangle and the ellipse or circle
form. Very useful especially when drawing the ice cream form.
7. To make the pupil love to draw a basic form; we can draw for example the circle with
eyes and grinned smiled.
8. Or wicked smile of the triangle.
9. Or perhaps the one eyed smiled of rectangle.
10. And finally perhaps a sleeping log or cube.
11. The basic form of rectangle can also make a simple brick wall.

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The picture before is to increase the interest of our pupils before they decided to draw and
interest their fun. Basically make them have fun instead being fully under pressure; after
all this is the art lesson and not the math for God sake. Before I said I do (OMG this is
not my wedding day; in fact I’m still single) anyway I think some of much simpler
example, but I shall put that on the other section of this book shall we.
And below we can see the real picture made from the training, before the stories
continues grasshopper (wait I see this on Kung Fu film) continue to the next picture shall
we:

Now the lesson shall begin with the basic form on the next chapter; shall we:
 Chapter 3
The basic form of animal

The basic forms of drawing animal actually consist from the basic form that I had
written before. One of the most useful amongst them is the circle with it’s various shape
such as ovals for example, the triangle but not the Bermudan Triangle thought and most
of all is the curve, yes curve not curses or ncurses that’s different lol. Now mostly
when we draw animal form please remember that the children cannot draw rigid shape
like triangle and rectangular for their hand and eyes coordination is not yet fully
established. Me, my self remember at the first time I learned how to draw; my left hand is
shaking and instead drawing a straight line I draw a lot of rippled lines and the last time I
can remember is that my teacher is staring at me, it’s stressful you know. That’s why like
I written the second chapter before that when we wanted to teach the kids how to draw is
all about fun, freedom to express them selves and let them to have their own feeling of
fun. If we put them under the stress then we shall bring a catastrophic event for them, the
kids will start to demonstrate on the street, throwing rocks toward us and worst of all riots
against us like our worker in my country (hehehe, I’m just kidding guys, no heart feeling
OK). But now seriously if we let the children make their own mistake and at the same
time give them guidance with patient then slowly they shall do the right things, for the
children especially the one who is first time drawing the drawing lesson having a lot of
booby trap that’s why we must show to the children there is no booby trap at all. Please
do remember that drawing after all is all about relax, fun and recreating process, and
that’s what the Tigger do best (hey wait; how can I enjoy that character again, it seems
like he always bouncing on my head; some one please call the fluffy stuff control).

Below we shall learn basic training of drawing an animal by basic drawing skills
and forms. Of course there’s a few guidance on the next page to assist and guide you to
make the children can easily follow your foot step of the Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan,
Joan of Arc (hey wrong sentence, I read Age of Kings the Conquerors manual way too
much), OK now the stories continue again. Now lets begin with the simple training shall
we:
Drawing a lioness sketch from behind
a. Draw a circle.

b. Draw another circle behind the first

circle.
c. Draw 2 small curves on the little circle that meant
as the head of the picture at the top left and right of
that smaller circle.

d. Now we added some curves as the tail of the

lioness and added three little tubes at the bottom
of this picture as you can see for the feet of that
lioness.
 Now wesmiling
Drawing draw a cat
smiling
face. cat head.
1. Draw a circle again
1. First draw a circle as the cat head.

2. This time added with two saw form at the top left and
right of the circle

3. And now added 2 dots as eyes as you can see in the

picture then add 2 curve above it as the eye brow.
4. Add now a reverse point of triangle as nose attached
with short vertical lines and finally added some of
curve below it to form that cat smile

5. Last but not the least if necessary added some other

curves as cats whiskers for that smiling face cat.
The dolphin
1. Draw a curve line like wave.

2. Then added with another curve at the

opposite direction and attached to the
first liner then connected that with a
smooth triangle.

3. Add a point as the eye of the dolphin then

added 2 curve made like 2 leaves as the
dolphin tail.

4. Finally add a few curved line of the

triangle in the abdomen, near the tail and
the dorsal part.
Baby elephant at the front
1. Draw a straight curve

2. Then draw two other’s curve but this for

this time make 2 vertical curve and this
curve is attached to the first curve right
on the left and the right of the first
curve.

3. We can added some of the eyes made of two

dots, a few vertical lines between the eyes
as an addition for shy and cute elephant and
of course we draw the trunk of that elephant
with lengthening the curve line and added a
little smile on it
And after we added a huge circle as its body and a tiny 4 feet made of vertical log or cube
then we have all smiling baby elephant in front of you.
And now after this we can started to the dot and dot part shall we.
 Chapter Four
The dot to dot form

On this chapter let the children having their own fun and started to train them
selves and be ready for the challenge. The key element here is water, air, soil and fire (I
watched too much Avatar the TV series and the movie, lol), seriously it’s all about the
following dot to dot. Please be their guidance for this experience for they shall soon learn
the basic form start from the scratch. Be gently and patient when guide the child their
first line; remember when we first learn how to ride a bike; surely there’s a lot of fall and
rise from the process but remember eventually we get there.
Without further more introduction; ladies and gentlemen let’s get ready to
rumbleeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi I forget this is not a pro wrestling or boxing match; so I just
kidding guys. Ok, here we go lets the training began shall we.