Saturday, February 20, 2021

How to draw a Fairytale

 Welcome!

A Victorian era book of 3 fairytales

There are so many wonderful How-To Draw practice sheets and tutorials, I want to share a few today.

I chose the theme “FAIRYTALES” because it’s a theme I love!



George MacDonald wrote some great fairytales. 
Check his books out!


Think about where you want your scene to be.

Outside? Inside?

Castle streets or forest woodlands?

Top of a mountain or even underground?


“Have I made myself clear?”

- Baloo, the Bear, Jungle Book


Get out some scratch paper to practice on, and a nice pencil and an eraser. You can even use old envelopes or the back of junk mail for scratch paper!


A nice castle how-to. Here’s another one:

Think about what ‘story’ you want to tell.

Will it be all in one picture?

Will you draw more than 1 scene to tell your story?

Next we have a nice dragon. You can draw him fierce, sweet, angry, happy...lots of emotions to play with.

Www.ActivityVillage.co.uk


Www.ArtProjectsForKids.com

When you are comfortable with drawing your dragon, start playing around with eyebrows.
This is a simple and clear way to express emotions!

I think I will start drawing the characters now.
Here are a few different variations of Kings, Princes, 
and even a knight!




All 3 are from www.ActivityVillage.co.uk 


Here are a couple more:

From Activity Village

How-to-draw-funny-cartoons, Pinterest 

Every King needs a Queen, so here are a couple of queens or princesses.


Both of these are from Lovetodrawthings.com

Let’s switch out the princess’s hair!


Fun style of memes, by Tatiana Pestereva.

By How-to-draw-funny-cartoons, Pinterest 

Another one from Activity Village

Shall we add a different crown?
These could also fit the King/Prince.

Designed by
freepik.com

Now I think we should add in more animals to the scene  for interest.

A frog...

A mouse...


And a couple of unicorns!
WooJr.com posted on Pinterest



You might need a wizard or two for your fairytale,
so here are a couple to learn how to draw.




The more you practice, the better you will get.

Does your King have a pet goose?


WeDrawAnimals.com

Does the Princess have a pet rooster that follows her everywhere?
Does the Queen carry a hedgehog to dinner?





Let’s give our scene some fillers like grass, flowers, mushrooms, trees...

By TATYANADENIZ.COM/HOW-TO-DRAW



By Crafts for Children, Pinterest 


Looks like we have lots of things to learn how to draw, and tell a story. To finish, we must have a fairy!

Courtesy Art for Kids


Another cute how-to by Lovetodrawthings.com

I think that’s it for today!
Look online for ‘how-to-draw’ and I think you will find lots more to inspire you. Be sure to check some books out too, I have seen several on Amazon.

And then share! Everyone would like to see your drawings! Just leave me a note/photo in the comments section.

Be sure to give someone an unexpected compliment today! These days, we all need a bit of encouragement.

‘Til next time,
inkspired

Kaleidoscope by inkspired and KaleidoCam


Saturday, February 13, 2021

A very vintage valentine

Hello!

So nice of you to visit!

Posted on Pinterest by Tommer G

I thought I would share some great vintage Valentines with you today.


Posted on Pinterest by Chelsea Saint-Dreher

I have chosen ones that will be easy for you to print, cut out, and give to someone as a surprise! 

Posted on Pinterest by vintageholidays 


Here is one to give to your dog groomer.


Unknown vintage

One for your UPS or FedEx driver-

Posted on Pinterest by Kate Miles


Or your bus driver-

Unknown vintage

If you want, you can mount the vintage Valentine to a single sheet of cardstock, or even construction paper.

For a bit more fancy presentation, get out your glitter glue (the best I have found is Ranger’s Stickles glitter glue).


Unknown vintage, marked 1907


Gather your metallic pens, bits of ribbon and random buttons - they can all really dress up your Valentine with no cost and very little time. 

For your mail-person:

Uploaded to Pinterest by Judy Turlay

This one could be for your mail person, or anyone really.


Pinterest, posted by Happiness-Angee at Postcrossing, flickr 

For a group of people, you can make several Valentines with a similar theme, like these-


Posted on Pinterest by valart2008

Posted on Pinterest by lovdolls 


Pinterest by Sienna42


Unknown vintage

Next I have some vintage Valentines that would be perfect for different service people that help you.
Why not give one and make someone’s day better!

Uploaded to Pinterest by Jana Hallford


Posted on Pinterest by the State Historical Society of North Dakota


Vintage Valentine from the 1940’s


Posted on Pinterest by Zazzle

Posted by Zazzle

Well, that should get you started!

I have some Valentines to go put together now...

‘Til next time,
inkspired