Figure Drawing for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing People

An easy guide to drawing people for budding artists ages nine to twelve.

Grab a pencil and an eraser—it’s time to explore the world around you and illustrate the people in it! Featuring a step-by-step format for beginners, art teacher Angela Rizza’s Figure Drawing for Kids is a great way to start sketching friends and family, pop culture icons, and epic superheroes—one simple exercise at a time.

• Project-based activities—Learn how to draw people with thirteen different projects that will advance your skills from basic shapes and shading to full, detailed illustrations.
• Guided practice—Explore essential drawing concepts like proportion, negative space, point of view, composition, and crosshatch, and practice with a range of human sizes, shapes, skin tones, and abilities.
• Bonus drawing tips—Learn to draw from life or a photograph, how to set up a model station, and how to complete your drawings with additional objects and landscape elements.

Dive in and let the doodling fun begin with this beginner’s guide to drawing for kids.