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What is a drawing?

Drawing is a type of painting. It's the way to make an image. Drawings are made by drawing lines on the surface. Long lines make up the outlines and short lines make up the textures. Drawings can be representations of real-life or abstract images depicting thoughts that cannot be seen in the real world.

Tools required for drawing?

Tools required for drawing: Paper, brush and colors

For several years artists are painting and drawing on paper. Paper is available in a range of colours and textures. For fine painting, artists often use smooth paper.

Chalk, paintbrush, crayons and colors

Many drawing resources are accessible to artists. The items used for mark up are pencils, chalk, charcoal, crayons, pastels, pen and ink. Artist's pencils are available in a variety of hardness. Softer pencils make darker markings. Artist’s pens can have various tips for drawing long or small lines. Some artists use paintbrushes that are dipped in watercolour before drawing. Some drawing methods include charcoal, pencils and chalk. Pastels are chalk-like sticks composed of coloured powder.

How to draw?

How to draw

Usually drawing consists of lines. An artist can draw lines to form figures or pictures. Artists can also use lines for boundaries between a figure and its surrounding space.

An artist can blend or cross lines to produce shadows. An artist sketches short, parallel lines to create light and dark areas in a technique called hatching. An artist uses two parallel lines that cross each other in a process called crosshatching.

Not every drawing is made with only lines. Often, artists fill parts of their drawings through the drawing surface by scratching their drawing instruments. This technology produces shadows or solid coloured areas. Certain artists use spots and dots to complete areas or create forms.

What we have been hearing from different sources about the importance of drawing?

What we hear from people

Teachers tell us that art promotes fine motive, neural growth, problem-solving ability and other important topics, like reading, writing, math and science.

Children tell us art is entertaining and fun to do, an activity they enjoy doing.

Parents tell us that art is important to their families because it makes them happier and engaged and helps them transition the day, which is often difficult.

The counsellor tells us that art is useful because it allows children to process their world safely and deal with frightening emotions sometimes.

Artists tell us that art is important to them as a source of beauty and expression and simply for the creative process.

Why do children excel when they do painting, or why is drawing important to the growth of your child?

1.      Drawing makes children increasingly expressive.

Drawing makes children expressive

Kids cannot always use words and actions to express themselves, therefore drawing is another essential communication medium. Via their sketches, you will get an insight into the thoughts and emotions of your child. The willingness to communicate their emotions often boosts an emotional awareness of the child.

2.      Art inspires innovation via developing creativity.

Art inspires innovation

Creativity is the capacity to think in a different direction beyond the springboard, to merge two separate thoughts. Solutions to big challenges and accomplishments of all sorts have to do with imagination.

Their imaginative talents are vital to our children's development and our world's well-being. Now we have to face unbelievable problems, including race discord, conflict, global warming, and mass extinctions, more than ever. Every day creative ideas are pursued by people, organisations and governments.

3.      Art facilitates neural relationships.

To create art, it uses all your senses

Art is an experience that will use all the senses, depending on the activity – visual, sound, touch, scent and taste. Children's brain synapses shoot away as they experiment and produce paint with fingertips, combine colours and textures or draw from the imagination or from what they see.

4.      Art builds fine motor skills.

Art is the fundamental phenomena in developing motor skills

From a little scribble to a masterpiece that has taken pride by placing it on the refrigerator door, the drawing activity will develop the motor skills of your child from a young age. Starting them as soon as possible gives them stronger control of the hand and eyes while they tune their finger muscles.  Gripping a paintbrush, drawing dots and lines, combining paints, slicing with scissors, controlling a stick of glue or pressing a bottle of glue, kneading and rolling playdough, tearing paper—all these things take an increasing amount of coordination and agility, yet they are so fun and satisfying that children continue to do it over and over. When children participate in art experiences over time, their fine motor skills develop. Scribbling is a precursor to writing.

Babies and toddlers start by scribbling spontaneously, back and forth. But the more they scribble, the more they can manage the crayons and their motions through the page.

When children learn to manage their scribbling, they make a larger range of shapes, ultimately having learnt all the shapes possible to write alphabetic letters.

5.      Art develops problem-solving abilities.

Key choices are made while creating art

A child faces several choices when drawing, whether it is ‘What colour should I use here?' or 'How do I draw an animal and link one part to another body?’ These are all problems they need to solve. Try to ask them why you drew those pieces as you did or why you were using certain colours and see what alternatives they come up with. Open-ended, process-oriented art is nothing more than an unlimited chance to make choices, come to conclusions, determine and test findings., second-guessing decisions, and evaluating results.

Children grow more familiar with ambiguity and remain agile thinkers, the secret to imagination and trust. And the more familiarity they have with a range of materials and methods, the more likely they are to test out new combinations and concepts.

6.      Art helps kids understand themselves and their world.

Art helps them understand

Children learn unbelievable quantities of new knowledge and have to proceed safely and carefully. Art helps us to explore emotions and cope with both critical events and everyday events.

Art materials offer a safe outlet medium for emotions. Feelings and concepts can be condensed to achievable sizes and manipulated if needed. Movement, illustration, paint, line and creativity all allow children to articulate themselves in a multidimensional way. This is a way that words will not be able to do or it may be more comfortable for them than words.

When we encourage our children to learn art, we encourage them to master themselves, their bodies and a wide range of techniques. We're offering them a lot of opportunities to articulate themselves.

As parents and teachers, we should provide an atmosphere where it's fun to innovate and develop. An atmosphere in which concerns are welcomed and children have free access to the materials they need and enjoy. We do this not to create career artists, but to raise children who are positive and happy with their imagination in whatever shape they take.

7.       Art helps kids connect.

Children connect by drawing together

Art is an equaliser, encouraging children who may not know each other and who may or may not be involved in the same things to build common ground. Art is capable of helping children of any age, race, skill and even language to participate in a shared activity.

The road to an art-filled life needs an open heart, a couple of basic tools and a bit of planning. It is a journey that anyone can pursue at a speed that is perfect for them.

8.      It lets their imagination run wild!

Let their imaginations run wild

Drawing encourages the creativity of your child to become more alive. They access their imagination every time to make tangible images of what is in their minds. People’s imaginations have allowed them to create all of the things that we use and are surrounded by every day.

9.      The drawing gets your little one's school ready

Getting school ready

Drawing is one of the foundations of abstract or logical thinking. Whether your child is still at home or school, drawing helps them to get to grips with difficult concepts. Learning these innovative ways of thought at an early age trains a child for potential future schooling. Give your children a range of materials, such as chalks, paints, crayons - and even digital media resources to help them get used to tablets and other computers that they will also use in future. They may also use digital media tools.

What we as parents should take care of?

An important thing to consider for parents is we as parents we all want our child to get the most out of making art. Let them create art in their self way at their own pace.

Let them do their thing

Little children are masters of the moment—they enjoy the way it feels as they paint on paper, the way they look as they sprinkle glitter, and even the soothing sound of a brush when it crosses the board. Unlike older children and teenagers, most toddlers and preschoolers are not self-conscious about what they're doing or about making a finished product. And this can be hard for parents to accept. But if we instead allow kids to enjoy the feeling of creation can earn huge rewards. Children would be happier and more successful in the long run if they're allowed just to be in the moment and express themselves.

Ways to inspire creativity

Get ready for a mess

Get ready for a mess. Create an art room where your kid can be free to play and get messy. Throw a drop fabric cloth or a newspaper at the top of your kitchen table or whatever area you see fit. If nature allows, let children paint outdoors.

Don't give guidance. Don't tell your kid what to do or how to do it. Instead of suggesting, "Paint a flower or a rainbow" inspire her to play with colour mixing using various forms of brushes and paper.

Speak specifically regarding the arts. Try to be precise about your remarks as you speak to your child about his artwork. For eg, instead of offering a generic compliment, try to say, "I can see that you used a lot of pinks. Why did you pick that colour?"

Examine the process of your kid. Often the easiest way to promote dialogue about your child's art is clearly to say, "Tell me about what you've done," or to inquire, "Did you have fun doing it?"

Don't draw it with your kids. When parents draw an image as a younger child draws, this could frustrate them, it's best to be next to them and let them know that you're involved, interested, supportive and proud of their art-making.

Let it be!

Let it be. Don't recommend any addition or alteration if a child finishes a piece. A child needs to believe that what they made is enough, even if it's just a dot on the paper.

 

 Thought of the day: 

"Your best teacher, is your last mistake"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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