CREATIVE MAGIC
Drawing Ideas
If you are a little stuck on what to draw here are some ideas:
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Draw Something relating to the season you are in - For example, if the season is Summer or Winter draw something relating to Summer or Winter
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Draw Something you love
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Travel - Places
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Shapes - Geometric
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Sunset/ Sunrise
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Rainbow
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Nature - Trees or flowers
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Ocean wave colours
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Still Life - Drink Bottle
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Sky - Hot air balloon
Hard and easy things to draw
Here are some easy and hard things to draw. These ideas are perfect for beginners to advanced or experienced drawers.
Hard:
These are some hard things to draw that you can try to draw at any level. These ideas are more for exxprencied or advanced drawers rather than for beginners as they are really hard to draw.
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Eyes
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Facial expressions
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Hands
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Body parts
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Intricate and detailed animals eg. Realistic animals
Easy:
These ideas are for people just starting to draw or have a little bit of drawing practice or experience but not much. They can also be for people who want to try drawing and haven't tried it before. Anyone can do these ideas but you may find them too easy if you are a more advanced or experienced drawer in which case you will find my hard drawing ideas perfect for you.
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Rainbow
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Cute animal
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Hearts
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Emojis with different facial expressions
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Bubble lettering
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A Poster
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A mountain
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Beach
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A sunset
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A sunrise
Alphabet Drawing Ideas
Here are some more drawing ideas. These drawing ideas aren't ordinary or boring, these drawing ideas will last you a long time of not feeling bored because there is lots of variety. Each letter has a different drawing idea it might be a topic or not. For example, the letter C is countries so you could draw that country's flag, use the country colours in your drawing or draw something that is traditional for that country.
A - Architectural
B - Body Parts - Brain, Heart
C - Countries - France or Australia
D - Disney Characters
E - easy - flowers
F - Food - Oranges, Apple
G - Geometric Shapes - Triangle, Square
H - House
I - Interior
J - Jungle
K - Kitchen
L - Line Drawing
M - Music - instruments like Violin or Piano
N - Nails
O - Octopus
P - People
Q - Queen
R - Room - Draw a different room
S - Sea - Submarine
T - Topography
U - Unique
V - Volleyball
W - Waves
X - X-Ray
Y - Year - Bubble letter the year and then draw things that are related to the traditions you celebrate - For example, you might celebrate Christmas so you could draw a Santa or if you celebrate Easter you could draw Easter eggs.
Z - Zoo - Things found in the zoo like the animals or the nature
Drawing Supplies:
Drawing Pencils:
If you want to start drawing detailed pictures like animals, landscapes and much more you will need different types of pencils. From 5H to 9B but of course, you don’t need that many drawing pencils you may just want or need 5H to HB or maybe too 2B even. Here is the best claimed “drawing graphite pencil that I like” there are 2 sets that look identical - but are not in the description. They are by a famous brand called Faber Castell.
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Faber Castell 9000 Graphite Pencils Art Set
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Pencil range - 8B, 7B, 6B, 5B,4B,3B,2B, B, HB, F, H,2H
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Where to buy - Eckersley’s in Australia, not sure about other countries
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Price - $33.95 for 12 pencils, Approx - $2.83 for one
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2. Faber Castell 9000 Graphite Pencil Art Design set
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Pencil range - 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H,2H,3H,4H,5H
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Where to buy - Eckersley, in Australia, not sure about other countries
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Price - $33.95 for 12 pencils, Approx - $2.83 for one
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Drawing books
Here are some drawing books which can help you get drawing prompts or become better at drawing.
Below are a few options:
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Nature Book " 20 ways to draw a tree and 44 other nifty things from nature” By By Eloise Renouf.
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Drawing Techniques book "Artist's Drawing Techniques"
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Drawing prompt book "365 days of drawing" By Lorna Scobie
Colouring :
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Grab your coloured pencils, paint, markers, whatever you want to colour in your image.
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Google has lots of free colouring images/pages for you to colour so that you never run out of things to colour in and besides you can also find heaps on Pinterest.
Colouring supplies:
Colouring Pencils :
There is a huge range of colouring pencils brands. Some are more expensive than others because they are really good brands. Not everyone needs expensive pencils brands unless you are a professional artist that sells their drawings. Then you might consider buying more expensive colouring pencils because you don’t want your colouring pencil colour to fade over time.
Some of the more expensive colouring brands include Caran D’ Ache - They make a wide variety of colouring pencil types from more on the high end to more affordable. Their high-end ones are Luminance. They also have watercolour ones, Museum Aquarelle, Supercolor soft Aquarelle pencils and more. Faber Castell has a wide variety of different colour pencils for different types of budgets. From high-end ones that are Poloychromos the most expensive ones they sell. For more affordable, Grip pencils, Albrecht Dürer water colour, and Classic colour ones are best for school children and children who like to make art.
If you want a more detailed explanation of high-quality artist colour pencils please head to the 'pencil' section in the subheading 'supplies' and scroll down a bit (it's the third thing you will see). If you want a more detailed explanation of these 2 brands mentioned that is coming soon.
Some of the more affordable colouring pencil brands for primary, elementary and middle school children include:
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Faber Castell Classic Colour - you can get sets that include 12 pencils, 24 pencils, 36 pencils and 48 pencils
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Crayola - This brand is a little more affordable if you want to get many colouring pencils - you can get sets that include 12 pencils, 24 pencils and 100 pencils. They also have different types of pencils like triangular, erasable, scented, the different skin tone colours of the world and much more for you to discover. (You can find my post on Colours on the world in the colours section.)
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Study mate - This brand makes cheap colouring pencils for a good range of pencils - You can get 12 pencils, 24 pencils, 60 pencils and 36 pencils. They also make different pencils like jumbo, watercolour, tins, triangular and packs.
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Staedtler - They make 12 pencils, 24 pencils, 10 pencils, 72 pencils, and 36 pencils. They have lots of types of pencils for you to discover from Noris pencils to Triangular.
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Sharpeners:
There is a good sharper I recommend because it has two holes which is useful for thin and thick pencil types. Meaning you can have a wide range of pencils without having to worry about your pencils fitting into the sharpener. The sharpener that I like is by Staedtler. You can get it from Officeworks and it is $4.98 which is basically $5.
Ruler:
There are a lot of rulers out there for you to choose from and I recommend getting a cheap ruler like the Studymate ones for less than a dollar. Because you might not use your ruler a lot and you might find that getting one that is more than a dollar can be a bit of a waste of money.
Rubbers:
Faber Castell makes good rubbers. They have large green rubbers which are PVC free, 2 - pack of PVC red rubbers, dust-free rubbers, artist dust free and white PVC-free rubber. I haven’t tried all of them but I have tried a good range to know which is a good rubber. In my opinion, the red PVC-free rubber that comes in a 2-pack is great to use or the black artist dust-free rubber. The red rubber that comes in a 2-pack from Officeworks is $2 and the black rubber is $6.45 for the 2-pack.
Easy things to colour in
Here are some easy things to colour in. For days when you don't want to do much and need a relaxing activity like colouring in for 20 minutes.
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kids colouring in images found off Goggle, Pinterest or in colouring books
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A rainbow
Cheapest colouring books:
Here is a list of the cheapest colouring books for both adults and kids. When I mean cheapest I don't mean the cheapest but the cheapest colouring books that I could find.
Please note that the prices of the items are in Australian Dollars $.
Kids:
Here is a list of 4 kid’s colouring books all under $5. The kid’s colouring books have more simple patterns and have things kids will like but there are also some other ones for older kids too.
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Big W - $2
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Big W - $4
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Big W - $1.75
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Big W - $4
Adults:
Here is a list of 4 adult colouring books all under $10. The adult colouring books have more detailed patterns then the kids ones but are still easy to colour in. They are quite similar to some of the older kids colouring books.
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Kmart - $4
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Target - $6
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Big W - $9
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Kmart - $4
