How to draw ...
Learn how to draw characters just like those featured in your favourite books, with these step by step guides by children's book illustrators.
What are your favourite pictures from children's books? If there's an artist you'd like to see included in this series email childrens.books@
guardian.co.uk. Let us know how you get on with the lessons by sending us pictures of the characters you draw yourselves.
How to make a model shrew – in pictures
How to draw… Dippy the dinosaur
A step-by-step guide to drawing the massive diplodocus in the main hall of London’s Natural History Museum from James Francis Wilkins. Don’t forget to enter the Dippy The Dinosaur drawing comp if you like what you end up with!
How to… put faces on nearly everything
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything you saw had a face so you could find out once and for all what your dinner was thinking while you ate it and if your chair was happy that you’d sat in it? Morag Hood, author and illustrator of Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea, shows you how!
How to draw … a puppy with hiccups!
Ever wanted to draw a hiccuping puppy? Illustrator Holly Sterling shows you how
How to draw … a bear dressed up as a bee
It might sound weird but when you think about bears liking honey so much… Nadia Shireen shows you how to do it!
How to draw… an alien – in pictures
Do you love drawing extraterrestrials? Eddie Pittman, author of graphic novel Red’s Planet, shows you how create a weird looking one!
How to draw… a summer evening – in pictures
Carolina Rabei has illustrated Walter de la Mare’s glorious celebration of a balmy Summer Evening – here’s her step-by-step guide on how you can do it too
Andrew and Chris Judge show you how to create your spy...on a mission!
How to draw… a food obsessed urban dog
Kevin Waldron shows you how to draw a dog - just not necessarily an obedient one...
It’s summer and the bugs are out so let’s draw them with illustrator Yuval Zommer
How to draw… manga characters
Manga artist Inko Ai Takita with a beginner’s guide to drawing manga style
How to draw… a mystery animal
Jo Empson has a cheeky drawing lesson for you, but she’s not going to tell you what it is. So get your pencils and paper out and get involved!
How to draw… an astronaut
Nick East has a step-by-step guide inspired by the ultimate spaceman: Tim Peake!
How to make… a quill pen on Shakespeare Day
It’s the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death today, so let’s celebrate his life with this craft lesson in XI Acts
The illustrator of children’s book classic Wolves, has a badger drawing lesson for you. So get out your art stuff and join us in celebrating her new book Tidy - a dramatic tale of overzealous neatness
How to make… a book nibbling book mark
Emma Yartlett has a very nibbly craft project for you! All you need is a felt tip pen, a sharp pencil, paper, scissors, white card and a glue stick
How to draw… a (badly) disguised wolf
The author and illustrator of the Little Red, the darkly comic retelling of the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, has a drawing lesson to share with a cliffhanger ending
How to draw… an Easter chick
Take a rest from eating chocolate by taking part in Tom McLaughlin’s Easter drawing lesson
How to make… a flower collage
Illustrator Kristyna Litten has some beautiful ideas on creating stunning flower cut out artwork this Easter holidays
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