- STEP 1: Hold your pencil in your hand and sketch a very light line. Create the lightest line you can make by pressing your pencil as softly and gently as you can on the paper.
- STEP 2: Now practice making a series of lines. Make a loopy line, as straight line, a dotted or dashed line, a slow line, a quick line, and a silly line.
- STEP 3: Turn your pencil on its side and use the edge of the pencil tip. This is the part of the pencil you would use to shade or color in a section of a drawing. Try making a light shading and a darker shading.
- STEP 4: Try drawing a shape. Fill in the shape using the side of your pencil.
- STEP 5: Make a series of very small lines all in one row, or make a line a little bit at a time until you have a line that stretches across your paper. This is how we sketch!
LESSON IDEA:
This basic strategy is an introduction to sketching. Consider using this warm-up before a lesson where students will be drawing.
EXTENSION:
Try using this as a way to introduce the writing process with the idea of a draft, leading to a story, followed by revision.
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