Young Artists, ages 8 to 12, worlds and stories
Adventure Sketchbook
Castles, lighthouses and hot-air balloons: drawing places with straight lines, perspective and a story.
- Level
- Easy to intermediate
- Lessons
- 12 in 4 units
- Time
- 4 hours of lessons
- Pace
- About four weeks
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The goal
What you’ll be able to draw
Draw places with straight lines, perspective, overlap and a story.
How you’ll see the progress
A place you would like to go, at the start and again at the end.
Skills
- Depth and perspective
- Planning a picture
- Stories and comics
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Hot-Air Balloon -
Fairy-Tale Castle -
Lighthouse by the Sea -
Treehouse -
Robot Buddy - Treasure Map
4 units, 12 lessons
The syllabus
Unit 1 is free for everyone, so you can see how it feels first.
- 5 watch and draw
- 3 checkpoint
- 2 then and now
- 1 project
- 1 draw from life
- Free
Unit 1
Up and away
Balloons and ships: round forms with curved panel lines, sails full of wind.
- 01 Then: A Place I’d Like to Go Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
- 02 Hot-Air Balloon Watch and draw, 25 min Watch and draw 25 min
- 03 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 2
Towers
Castles, lighthouses and temples: boxes, cylinders and steps.
- 01 Fairy-Tale Castle Watch and draw, 25 min Watch and draw 25 min
- 02 Lighthouse by the Sea Watch and draw, 30 min Watch and draw 30 min
- 03 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 3
Homes and machines
Treehouses, cabins, robots and stations, with the front drawn first.
- 01 Treehouse Watch and draw, 30 min Watch and draw 30 min
- 02 Robot Buddy Watch and draw, 25 min Watch and draw 25 min
- 03 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 4
Your world
A map of an island, and the place where you live.
- 01 Treasure Map Project, 40 min Project 40 min
- 02 Draw Where You Live Draw from life, 25 min Draw from life 25 min
- 03 Now: A Place I’d Like to Go Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
When you finish
A certificate for the fridge
Finish every lesson and Lapis makes a certificate to print or download, with the nickname, the course, the date and a drawing from it. Children get one too.
Lapis certificate
Adventure Sketchbook
finished by
your nickname
and the date you finish
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