Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’



Star Wars Drawing Tutorial for Kids :: Easy Step by Step Instructions for Star Wars Good Guys

by Amber on February 3rd, 2016

Guys, this is a fun one. If you have a youngling Star Wars fan in your house, they’re going to love this episode because A) Brady gives Yoda and Chewbacca impressions a-plenty and B) they’ll learn to draw their favorite Star Wars characters!

You’re going to love it because, well, because it’s not you doing the impressions or teaching the art class. Don’t forget to arm the kids with paper, a pencil and an eraser before getting started.

If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up for not-too-frequent emails from us! We have a printable Star Wars drawing Starter coming soon that’s perfect for using with the Star Wars tutorials. Don’t miss it!

Looking for more creativity and imagination for your kids? Check out our original book, Serious Starters. Its full-spread world-starters get kids started on their own stories, and there are prompts in the back of the book for writing, creating, building, and more! Available at our shop and on Amazon.



Woodland Creatures Easy Step by Step Drawing Tutorial for Kids

by Amber on January 11th, 2016

In this episode, Brady shows how to draw Woodland Creatures, step by step. He reviews and models the drawing foundations he explained in the Help for Parents tutorial and builds on them to make fun and imaginative characters perfect for forest frolicking. Your kids will be ready to illustrate their winter story in no time!

So get the kiddos some paper, a pencil, and an eraser. And spend the next 22 minutes doing something for YOU while the kids learn to draw Woodland Creatures.

(Watch here or see it full-size on our Vimeo Channel.)


Looking for more creativity and imagination for your kids? Check out our original book, Serious Starters. Its full-spread world-starters get kids started on their own stories, and there are prompts in the back of the book for writing, creating, building, and more! Available at our shop and on Amazon.



Help Your Kids Draw :: a Video Tutorial

by Amber on September 26th, 2015

Help Kids Draw Tutorial

With the Kickstarter up and running (hooray!), we’ve been busy planning videos, giveaways, and other fun stuff to keep the party going throughout the project. If you’re enjoying the shenanigans, please participate and share! We’d love to keep it going if we know you find them helpful.

If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation like the following, this video is for you.

“MOMMMMMM!!! I need you to draw a bird! Right here, right here. Draw a bird.

(Never mind that you were rinsing yesterday’s lunch dishes with your first spare moment in 24 hours.)

You go over to help, but really? You can’t draw a bird. And you were kind of hoping that drawing could be an independent activity so you get a few things done before everyone comes home for the day! (Actually, that last bit is part of why we created Serious Starters in the first place, so you might want to check that out, too. But I digress.)

Here’s the deal. Kids like to draw. But they get discouraged when they can’t make what’s on the paper look like its supposed to. So they want YOU to make it look right. The problem is, if you’re like me (Amber here, by the way), you don’t know how either. So you’re stuck. You can’t help them, and eventually an activity that could have kept them busy and imagining and off in their own little world needs your constant attention. Or worse, they quit all together because they feel like they can’t do it.

Today’s video tutorial will help with all these things.

In it, Brady first shows how to draw stuff. Anything, really. But he also explains how you can pass this along to your kids, so that after a while, they can do it by themselves and not require your constant attention.

Have questions? Please ask in the comments! You’re definitely not the only one wondering.