How do parents teach their children to draw?

How do parents teach their children to draw?

Children like to look at pictures and prefer to learn to draw on paper with a pen. Drawing can not only help children learn drawing skills, but also make them concentrate, remember and imagine, and share with you the methods that parents teach their children to draw.

First, every child can teach, and every parent can teach.

A few years ago, there was a "piano fever". Some parents scrimped and saved to buy a piano, invited a teacher, and forced their children to urge them day and night. No matter whether their children have musical talent or not, they all achieved nothing in the end. Indeed, learning music, dance and sports seems to require some natural conditions. If you don't have talent, you'd better not waste your energy. I only learn painting, and my personal experience probably doesn't need any "talent". Almost every child has had a spontaneous "graffiti" stage at the age of two or three, so as long as his eyesight is normal, his parents will master it and any child can learn to draw. Even if you can't become a professional painter, you can become an art lover.

Being interested in art is not only an extra skill, but also beneficial to developing the right brain potential, enhancing the ability of thinking in images and spatial imagination, and even engaging in any occupation. Therefore, "aesthetic education", along with moral education, intellectual education and physical education, has become an indispensable basic quality of "modern people".

In a word, I think every child can learn to draw and every parent can help him. Learning to draw is of great benefit to every child.

In art class, I have my own teacher to guide me. Here I mainly talk about how parents should give guidance at home.

Second, the process of children learning painting

1, the enlightenment period. From the time when children just started scribbling on paper with pens to drawing the first thing that can be called "painting", this period is not the beginning of painting, but it is a very important period for parents to grasp the early intellectual development, which will be mentioned later.

2. Early stage. Children take free "graffiti" as the main content, and improve themselves by copying and writing children's illustrated magazines. During this period, except for teachers, the family basically relied on parents.

3. medium term. On the basis of improvement, we can freely combine and create more meaningful pictures. During this period, it is still mainly guided by parents, and you can also ask the teacher to give you a little guidance.

4. Late stage. Under the guidance of the teacher, create some relatively complete proposition paintings, that is, enter the creative period of children's paintings. With proper methods, many children can enter this period before school age.

Of course, everyone's situation is different, which is just a general statement.

Third, children learn the characteristics of painting

Children learn painting with three characteristics:

1, fun, children learn painting mostly out of interest, out of fun, self-love, and regard painting as a game. He was very happy when he could describe the world in his heart with vivid artistic images. Therefore, parents should never use "tasks" and "homework" to force their children to learn painting, turning fun into boredom, but should arouse and maintain their children's interest.

2. Imitation, when children learn to draw, they mostly imitate from children's picture books or TV cartoons, instead of sketching from life like adults.

3. Creativity, imitation is just a means, and creation is the main content and characteristics of children's painting, which is very different from children's learning music. Children are the most imaginative, and only creation can give full play to their genius.

Fourth, don't teach painting like a violin.

Some parents don't understand the characteristics of children learning painting, and think that they should learn basic skills from the first step, just like learning violin or piano. In fact, the two are completely different. If learning the violin is not strict and formal at first, it will be difficult to correct the wrong fingering bow later. This formal practice method is very hard and boring for children, so sometimes it may be necessary to force training. And painting, from the first step, is an unrestrained creation, not a rigid "etude". This kind of creation that lets the imagination gallop freely is an interesting thing for children. At this time, it belongs to the stage of "children's painting", and the real basic training, such as still life or plaster sketch, is generally carried out after becoming a teenager. If you start formal training at an early age, it will ruin your child's painting nature.

What is "children's painting"? Why can children's paintings exist independently of other paintings? It is because it comes from uncut innocence, from unconstrained nature, and has the unique childlike innocence and cuteness of children's paintings, just like the "child body" in calligraphy, which is a taste that adults can't imitate. Therefore, the characteristics of children learning painting stipulate that the method of learning painting is different from that of learning piano. They should not be forced, but should conform to the nature of children. Not mainly rely on teachers, but mainly rely on parents, not tasks, but games, not teaching, but guiding, stimulating, using nature to cultivate interest and form hobbies. So I said that every parent will teach. To tell the truth, children are too young, even if a teacher is invited, it is impossible for the teacher to teach one class at a time. Maybe he will become a "little old man". It is better to get along with the children day and night. It is more natural and effective to be taught by parents.

Some parents will ask, we can't draw at all. How can we help? In fact, adults with a little cultural literacy have certain appreciation ability and can also be tutored. Let me talk about some specific experiences.

Fifth, start small.

According to my personal experience, it is best for children to start at the age of two. At this time, children are lively and ignorant, and everything around them is a novel world. Give him a pen and a piece of paper, and he will scribble on it excitedly. Don't be afraid to waste paper, and don't bother to let it scribble naturally. After a few months, when he is familiar with grasping the pen, he can give him some guidance. His parents taught him to draw a garden and make a doll's head with simple eyes and mouth. When my boss was just three years old, he drew his first "work" without guidance and shouted with joy. With a little guidance, my little girl drew her first picture when she was two and a half years old.

Why should we emphasize starting at the age of two or three? I think the vast majority of children have a natural demand for painting in this period, which is a rare period of artistic development. As long as they grasp it, any child can stimulate their interest in art, and primitive people can be said to be human childhood. Before there were words, the original painting art had been produced, which is precisely the natural painting demand of human beings. My relatives don't like art, maybe because of my influence, I gave them a little encouragement, and all the children fell in love with art.

Why is it not as good as this time to start catching when you are old? This is related to the balance between creativity and appreciation.

Six, creativity and appreciation should be synchronized and coordinated development.

We often hear people say that "the eyes are superior but the eyes are inferior". This "eye" is appreciation, and "hand" is creativity. Art appreciation can be continuously improved with the rich experience and the improvement of cultural literacy. However, if you don't start work, creativity will not grow with age. Over time, the two will be out of balance, and your own paintings will be dismissed, and you will not be able to improve for a while. Also known as "eyes are superior but eyes are inferior".

The child is over two years old and his taste is almost zero. At this time, as long as he can draw a picture, even if it is extremely ugly, he will find it beautiful, thus generating strong interest and enjoying it, and maintaining the synchronous and coordinated development of appreciation and creativity. If you miss this period and start teaching painting, children may lose interest because they don't like their debut.

Of course, it doesn't mean that children can't learn to draw when they are older, but parents should pay more attention to teaching some basic drawing methods by hand, or ask teachers for help, so that children can improve in a short time and achieve a balance between creativity and appreciation.

When children go to school, it is easy to keep their interest, because there is a formal art class in the school at this time. Because of their pre-school hobbies, their level is higher than that of their classmates, which makes them more interested in art. In addition, these children organize art groups and run wall newspapers in classes or schools, which is naturally indispensable. This is further exercise.

It can be seen that the key is to do a good job in the pre-school stage, especially when you are two or three years old. With the foundation, you will save a lot of energy in the future.

Seven, how to stimulate and maintain children's interest in painting?

As can be seen from the foregoing, the main motivation of children's painting is interest, and the main task of parents is to stimulate and maintain his interest. Interest comes from getting better every day. Specific practices are as follows:

1. Parents should be happy and encouraged when their children draw new pictures. If you encounter a proud work, especially a creative work, you should praise it. You can post it on the wall and introduce it to the guests. Of course, they should also point out their shortcomings, help them make corrections and prevent complacency.

When children want to draw on paper, don't tear a piece of paper casually. It's best to cut some white paper and set it as a book. Children have completely different attitudes towards books and scraps of paper. Drawing in books is much more serious and will improve quickly. However, it should be noted that books should not be too thick, so that books can be changed frequently, and the freshness of children can be revived every time. In addition, notebooks are conducive to preservation, and parents can review their learning process with their children and generate new interests from progress.

3. Buy more children's illustrated magazines, especially those with cartoon characters (such as Donald Duck). Children's early teachers are actually these pictorial magazines, not their parents. We should gradually provide these children with painting tools in the early, middle and late stages, from pencils and crayons to watercolor pens, to watercolor pigments and drawing paper.

If there are conditions and time, parents should draw some pictures with their children. Parents can draw well, which is naturally a demonstration. Parents who don't draw well can also encourage their children. Look, my parents and I have drawn almost. More importantly, parents' participation makes children happier, just like playing games together, full of family warmth and competitive stimulation. Of course, if parents really have difficulties, they don't have to be forced.

When children can create, they should be encouraged to contribute to children's illustrated magazine or create for children's art exhibition. At this time, you can also ask the teacher to guide you. Of course, art class is better. When a child begins to create formally, he will become very serious and even enter a "competitive state" by changing into formal drawing paper and painting tools. When my boss once wrote, he "fought day and night" for half a month and didn't even have time to eat. This is not because the desire to "be elected" is urging him. In fact, because he painted a picture he had never imagined for the first time, he was strongly attracted by the beauty in his works and determined to be "perfect". Even I didn't expect him to draw so well suddenly. At this time, the level of painting will have a leap, and the interest will definitely be stronger.

6. Children should not be overstepped by adults when creating, otherwise haste makes waste. He may be able to "paint" good works under the arrangement of adults. After the work is selected, he can no longer draw the original level of work, and he will feel "backward" and lose interest. Therefore, it doesn't matter whether the parents will draw or not. The key is whether they can teach or guide.

7, often take children to see exhibitions such as art exhibitions (especially children's art exhibitions), in order to stimulate his interest, which not only can learn a lot, but it is important that the company of adults is the most powerful support for children.

8. If parents have a certain level of artistic appreciation, they can often comment on their children's works, mainly pointing out which paintings are innovative, interesting and progressive, encouraging more and criticizing less, and being careful not to criticize the innocence and cuteness in children's paintings as shortcomings.

Eight, on the basis of guidance, appropriate counseling.

I said that the task of parents is to guide, not to teach. Can we think that parents do not need to guide their children and completely "govern by doing nothing"? No, the child touches the threshold and still has to lift it to get over it.

For example, when a child draws a baby face, he often draws his eyes on the top of his head and scatters his five senses all over his face. This is because the five senses are the most vivid activity targets, which can attract children's attention far more than the large and inactive forehead. At this time, parents should refer to children's picture books and teach him to draw his eyes below the horizontal midline of the whole head and concentrate his five senses so that he can draw hair on his forehead.

For example, drawing a garden circle is the basis of drawing a doll head and the sun. It is difficult for a child to draw a circle at first. Parents can draw him one, ask him to add something else, and then slowly teach him to draw a garden when he is interested.

A common threshold for children is to draw a side face, which is much more difficult than drawing a front face. Parents must pay attention to helping him cross. Even if parents can't draw it, at least they can see if it looks like it. You can consult the picture book to help him master it.

Also, at the beginning, let the children draw what they are most interested in, living things, such as dolls, birds, white rabbits, Donald ducks, robot cats and so on. Instead of still life, such as cups, fruits and other things that he is not interested in, he will draw after he has a foundation.

Sometimes it is difficult for children to copy a slightly complicated image. Parents can simplify it first and draw a picture to make it easier for their children to copy. This requires parents to pay attention to improving their artistic accomplishment and hobbies. It doesn't matter if they have no foundation, as long as they are interested. If parents are not interested in art, it is difficult to raise their children if they don't study and make progress at all.

Textbooks do not need to buy formal art skills books, such as sketches, still life sketches, human body sketches, etc. Just buy some children's art textbooks. We should fully realize that children have not officially started to learn painting at this time, but are just making some necessary preparations to cultivate interest, observation and creativity. He should be free to use his creative imagination, and should not be bound by textbooks.

What we should pay attention to in counseling is that we must correctly distinguish the lack of skills and the most precious innocence in children's paintings, and don't coach children's paintings into serious "old people's paintings." Children often draw big and small people, and there is no need to correct them, as long as they are attractive. The same is true of composition. For example, my boss once painted a fully automatic machine, which is both an electric switch and a conveyor belt, but the function of the machine is to grind all the good bricks into pieces! Another example is that my little girl once painted a group of birds flying in the sky. Every bird lays eggs in flight, one after another, just like a plane dropping a bomb. This irrationality beyond common sense is the real interest of children's painting, which adults never dreamed of. If this is "tutored", the painting will be ruined. If you point out his "common sense mistakes" to your child at this time, you will suppress his romantic imagination and never draw such a lovely "mistake" again. Can you call it children's painting without these interests? No matter what the machine is for, if you can imagine such a complicated machine, you should encourage it first. Later, I learned that the purpose of "producing" broken bricks is to draw on the ground with broken bricks as brushes. You see, the child has another world in his heart.

If parents want to see what "childlike interest" is in children's paintings, they should not only improve their artistic level, but also have a "childlike innocence" full of understanding and humor, and be their children's friends instead of teachers, which is exactly what China ancient culture with Confucius as the core lacked.

Nine, copy less, create more, and sketch more

In the early days, children can master some basic things by copying, but don't stick to copying. Girls prefer copying to creativity, and pay more attention to guidance. When a child can copy at first, he should be guided to freely combine the graphics he has learned from copying, give full play to his imagination, encourage him to enrich the content of the picture, and remind him to add birds, flowers, dogs and the like.

Children should be encouraged to sketch when they enter the creative stage. At first, it may be difficult. You can draw some simple still lives, and then you can guide him to draw characters from sketches. At first, you can ask him to draw pictures for your parents. If you draw for others, children will be embarrassed and afraid of drawing bad jokes. It may be ugly for a child to draw the image of his parents for the first time, but "ugliness" often includes the child's innocence and original and accurate observation, and may even have a vivid portrayal. My child painted me eating prickly heat (a kind of fried pasta in the northwest) in the early days. Although the proportion of characters is very different, the curved prickly heat with hook and my gluttony are really awesome. I'm really awesome. Later, he often took the initiative to paint my portrait.

X. What else should I pay attention to?

1. Don't overdo it, lest you get bored. Only a rich life and a wide range of hobbies can keep painting fresh. When children don't want to draw, parents don't have to worry, don't force them, and don't have to draw a few pictures a day. The growth of interest is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and sometimes it may be cold for a while because of excessive excitement for a long time. Parents should give their children a cooling-off period to catch their breath. As long as parents always use the method of guidance, not pressure, but attraction, then after a while, he will naturally regain his interest. In this way, he will feel that painting is happy, free and relaxed, and it is a game. Which child can not like games? Even if children play the same game every day, they should have a rest, let alone draw.

If the child's interest can't be restored for a while, parents should check whether their methods are too blunt, too impatient and compulsive. On the one hand, we should improve our methods, on the other hand, we should use some tricks stimulated and induced by the outside world, such as watching art exhibitions, watching other children draw pictures, or parents drawing some pictures seriously themselves, and so on.

2. Educate children not to scribble on walls, books and exercise books. In fact, as long as they supply enough picture books to satisfy their desires, they will not doodle.

3. Encourage or take children to participate in various activities, parties, tours, performances, etc. To enrich his life and material things. My boss once observed in Bazaar, southern Xinjiang. When Uighur villagers called cantaloupes, they directly hooked cantaloupes with scales, used stones as weights, painted them in his creations and published them in children's magazines. Even I, a professional artist who collects materials from sketches every day, didn't notice this detail, which shows that children's observation is sometimes very keen.

4. After the child goes to school, he should be taught to draw properly, and then draw after finishing his homework, and he should be specially reminded to finish his art homework seriously and with high quality.

The above are just some personal experiences, which may not be suitable for all parents, nor are they rigid textbooks. As long as it inspires parents, even if it has certain reference value, it is not a waste.

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