Originally Posted by Mahagogo5
We have the "draw really cool stuff" book which is great but she is just a step or 2 before that and I need to find some books to help bridge that gap and build her confidence.

I recently saw a paper DS brought home that had some really nicely drawn farm animals. I asked him how he drew them and he said that book you mentioned helped him. He's usually drawing abstract depictions of black holes and anything with numbers/dials, so I was overjoyed to see cute ducks, fuzzy sheep and a bull of all things! He has resisted any instruction from me, but apparently he was sufficiently intrigued by the book at school to give it a try.

As an artist who drew the Peanuts characters at age five, I can say that nothing is better than having a personal helper show a child that all drawings start with shapes they know. (Square, Circle, etc.) Once a child can "see" these shapes, it becomes much easier.

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