How to Draw Children

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Children can be a bit more complicated to draw than other subjects. The trick is to simplify the face features and body lines as much as you can; by doing so you'll avoid making your kids' faces look old rather than young. This tutorial will help you draw two little girls of different ages.

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    Draw an oval with guidelines on the right side of the paper. Draw another, slightly rounder oval with guidelines to the left of this, leaving plenty of space between them.
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    Draw a vertical rectangle for the torso and a horizontal rectangle for the lower body, connected to each other and the head by a curved line (like a spine). Draw straight lines for the hands and legs, with circles for joints, and rectangles for the hands and feet.
    • Make a taller body for the right head than for the left head, since this is the older sister/friend of the pair.
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    Draw the face and ears, but don't include features like the eyes and mouth just yet. Add the rest of the body to the “skeleton”.
    • Don't detail the hands or feet too much at this step (same as the faces).
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    Start with the girl on the right.
    • Make big eyes (following the horizontal guideline) and eyebrows above them, with a small triangular shape for the nose and a horizontal curved line for the mouth.
    • Give her a bob hairstyle with bangs.
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    However, make her eyes bigger and for the nose draw a flat oval. Change the hairstyle as well. Draw bangs and shoulder length hair.
    • If you want your girls to be sisters or very close friends, you can actually give them more similar hair/facial expressions--it's all about the choices you make for your drawing.
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    Carefully erase the “skeleton” lines.
    • Draw a sleeveless dress for the bigger girl and a dress with short sleeves for the smaller girl. Add collars for both of them, but draw them in different styles.
    • Make crinkles on both dresses.
    • Finish up with the shoes.
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    Use the illustration as reference, or color them as you wish.
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    I would like to learn how to draw Native American children from the period of the 19th century. Can you help?
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    Do your research and look for multiple reference photos of Native American children so you can get a feel for the style of dress and similarities between facial features. Use your reference photos to draw your own artwork based on the photos.
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