Real samples from How to Draw: Christmas
These published interiors demonstrate build the demonstrated character through six illustrated stages. They are pages from How to Draw: Christmas, not pages from Shape Drawing Challenge.
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Try the reference task before deciding
Christmas cartoons develop through six drawing stages in this edition. The free Santa and snowman lessons are useful references to compare with a festive character invented on a separate practice sheet.
Printing the whole picture
Use portrait orientation and fit the original image to your printer’s usable area. Avoid a crop-to-fill setting. Keep a grid reference and blank worksheet at the same scale. Use spare paper when the sample is a construction reference.
Keep reference and invention separate
After the actual sample task, choose whether a new idea on your own outline sounds interesting. Compare these two purposes before treating a reference book as an invention prompt.
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Keep the next idea open
Shape Drawing Challenge gives artists 16 repeated beginnings, six illustrated examples per shape, and room for 480 independently chosen drawings.