Drawing is a great handicraft to add to your homeschool curriculum. Not only is it very inexpensive, but your kids can use it the rest of their lives, across disciplines. Whether they are drawing scientific models, designing a house, or drawing mathematical demonstrations, drawing is used almost everywhere.
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Supplies Needed
Drawing is one of the least expensive hobbies to start. You really only need a pencil with an eraser, paper and a pencil sharpener. Once you become an experienced artist there are other supplies you can get, such as a wider range of pencils, and different pencil sharpeners to help you sharpen your pencils in different ways. When you or your child get to that stage, I strongly suggest finding an experienced artist and talking to them about the supplies you will need and how to use them.
However if you prefer to start with all of the supplies here are some complete drawing kits.
Pencils
Even though you can definitely teach your younger kids to draw using just a number 2 pencil, as they get older or more interested in drawing it is a good idea to buy them a set of artist pencils. Each pencil that comes in a kit is different. They are rated by how hard the graphite is, and how hard they are determines the kind of line that you can draw with each pencil.
Eraser
There are so many options for erasers. Here are some cool ones.
Paper
It's better to have spiral binding on your drawing pad so you can easily flip pages around.
Pencil Sharpener
Books
Contests
If your kids are interested in entering their art in a contest, here is a link for a long list of art contests for a wide variety of ages. Art Contests
Websites
The Virtual Instructor-This website has many tutorials for free, as well as a low-cost monthly membership where you have access to all of the lessons. This website would probably be best for a teenager that has been drawing for a while, since the tutorials seem to be very realistic.
Youtube
Mark Kistler-These are cartoon draw-a-longs, but in each drawing Mark talks about things like shading and perspective so the kids are learning art concepts. The drawings he does are similar to something you would find in a children's book. In one of the videos I watched he was saying that he has had some students end up working on various animated films, including Frozen.
Art For Kids Hub- a family art channel where the dad draws with the kids. Tons of videos and a slower pace than the Mark Kistler channel.