Drawing: Ideas, Templates and Tutorials

You are interested in the topic “man and technology” or you like to draw unicorns, witches, fairies and other fantastic creatures? Then our templates will get you there quickly. Grab paper, pencil and colors and make an attractive drawing!

Step by step to the perfect drawing

With the help of our step-by-step instructions, you’ll have an attractive drawing in front of you in no time. You follow our templates exactly. They show you how to create a beautiful picture, from sketching to coloring. Our large selection of motifs offers you the necessary inspiration. Look at the motifs at your leisure and then decide on the best idea. If you like a template particularly well, then you will certainly find similar contributions, because most people enjoy painting so much that they would like to draw more.

There are enough beautiful ideas. Some are easy and quick to implement, others are a bit more complicated and time-consuming. You’ll have to concentrate extra hard, but you’ll get a magical result. The genius of our templates is the step-by-step and easy-to-follow instructions. You simply start with a few skillfully placed geometric shapes. From these gradually arise different figures. You connect the shapes to bodies and work out the details finely.

You’ll also learn a few tricks when coloring. With the right technique, you can create an attractive light and shadow effect. Your pictures will then look particularly vivid. This is fun and encourages creativity. You train your eye and get a feeling for the subtleties of an artist. The step-by-step templates are therefore ideal for learning. You will notice what is important in the proportions and may later be able to bring similar motifs freehand on paper without a template.

The best ideas for drawing for beginners

Every artist starts very small and has to learn his craft. At the beginning of artistic training are simple shapes. Our motifs are composed of such geometric shapes. With the pencil you draw the guide lines. These are strokes, circles or ovals that show you the position for the individual proportions. Later, you trace the permanent contours with an eraser-proof drawing pencil and obtain a detailed drawing.

You color these with colored pencils and get a finished picture. Even preschoolers will enjoy our templates. Simple things, for example apples, trees and age-appropriate stylized animal figures in comic style, are well suited for small beginners. The template provides simple, yet professional results that make justifiably proud. This gives children in particular a great sense of achievement. You can see which templates are particularly suitable for boys and girls by the special marking.

If there are different versions, then after the motif name is the word “simple” in parentheses. For example, it is possible to draw a car, a unicorn, a tree, an airplane or a dog in a simple or professional way. Of course, you can also draw more challenging pictures together with the children. You intervene correcting or let the little ones only trace the contours. Coloring is also a lot of fun for the kids.

Good ideas for the perfect inspiration

We have deliberately designed our selection of motifs so that there is something to suit every taste and every target group. Only if you like what you paint will you really enjoy learning. Among the very simple things are the apple and the apple tree. Big and small technology freaks like to draw vehicles. These are available in a child-friendly format or in realistic representations. The same is true for many animals. A cartoon-style dog is easier to draw than a lifelike sheepdog.

Nevertheless, it is always fascinating to create drawings that look like a professional illustration with the help of the step-by-step instructions. The idea of learning to draw in such a way that the results are no different from a book illustration is an incentive for many people to practice with our templates. In fact, the drawings can be put to good use, for example, to create a bullet journal, place cards and invitation cards. For example, the bearded Santa Claus is perfect for creating individual Christmas cards.

The templates are also a great idea for the children’s birthday or in general for the creative occupation of children. Many templates appeal primarily to boys and girls. These include, for example, dragons, dinos, unicorns, fairies, witches, but also the many animals. In addition to the templates, you will find the necessary accessories for drawing. We offer various pencils and drawing pens as well as fiber-tip pens and colored pencils in a large selection of brands and colors. You can embellish poetry albums and calendars with your creative works and get an attractive unique gift.

Room for creativity

Using a template as a guide doesn’t mean you can’t be creative yourself. The step-by-step instructions will inspire you and offer you valuable support. However, you are welcome to modify the drawings to give them an individual touch. This applies in particular to the color scheme, which many artists, both big and small, like to adapt to their personal taste. For example, you can paint a purple cow or dye the mermaid’s hair blue, pink or black. Even beginners find it easy to change the color.

With a little skill, it is also possible to design other details according to your own ideas. More experienced draftsmen only roughly follow the templates. They use the given shapes and guide lines and thus create the basis for their own creations. In the case of strongly technically oriented motif templates, deviations tend to be counterproductive. For example, it is not worthwhile to make major changes to a bicycle or motorcycle. With fairy tale characters, on the other hand, this is very possible. It’s fun to swing the mermaid’s tail in a different direction and to design the hairstyle of the princess or the elf independently. But as already mentioned, this requires some practice.