This printable worksheet will help give the young artist confidence and direction in drawing a human form and popular historical character. Parents, homeschool families, and teachers will be able to use this in class and at home. It can be given as an extra assignment, a take home project or as a stand alone lesson.
To print the worksheet below just highlight it and send it to your printer or save to your device to print later. Some printers work better with this type of format if you first drag the image to the desktop and print from there. If you have problems see the how to print tab or try one of the alternate files below.
FIRST A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Learning to draw takes practice so if if your drawing does not turn out the way you wanted on the first try do not give up- call it a practice or rough draft and try again. Draw everyday and soon you will be making beautiful pictures. Come back often and try some of my other projects.
CLICK HERE for a file that may work with some printers.
Some printers work better with a PDF format. To print in PDF CLICK HERE.
BEGINNINGS
Start with an articulated stick figure, that is a stick figure with the major joints- it looks like a skeleton. Draw the head as an oval. Since Poincianas was a youth we draw her head a little bigger than an adult's might have been. One shoulder is higher than the other. One leg is straight down and the other is crossing behind it as if she is walking. The forward leg is more centered as she is putting her weight on it. The foot is a large circle at the heel and a smaller on at the ball connected by a line.
FILLING HER IN
Over the stick figure draw ovals to build up the thickness of the arms and legs. The shoulders taper down slightly and are slightly rounded where at the shoulder joint. The bicep (upper arm muscle) is short and rounded, the triceps (at the back of the arm) is long. The arms are narrower at the wrist. Draw an oval for the calf muscle but the front of the leg is straight. Go around the shapes to give the lines a graceful flow.
FACE
Keep the face simple. Use guidelines to keep things even. One guideline goes down the center but slightly to the side since she is turned a little. Use a guideline halfway across for the eyes, then halfway between the eyes to the chin for the nose, and halfway from the nose to the chin for the mouth.
FAR EDGES.
She is turned slightly so the far cheek is showing. Start with straight lines; Down and out slightly for the edge of the forehead, curved in slightly for the eye socket, out sharply for the cheek, down and inward for the far jaw and sharply up and back to the ear for the near jaw.
EYES.
Use a curving line for the top of the upper eyelid and draw a circle below it for the eye, the top of the circle will be cut off by the upper eyelid. The eyebrow is an arch that is thicker near the nose and thinner as it goes toward the edge of the face.
NOSE
The nose is turned up slightly since she is still young. Start with a long line from the eyebrow and go down and out, then a short line back in. Keep a space between the nose and the lip.
MOUTH
The upper lip is all shadow. it is like the letter "M" spread out. The lower lip is indicated only with a short curved shadow underneath.
HANDS
Keep the hand simple. If your drawing is small just draw them like mittens. If you have space to give the hands detail use the method described above of drawing a hand skeleton first and then going around the lines to fill them out.
FEET
Go around the circles and lines of the stick figure to get the basic shape of the foot, and add a few lines as if the stitches of moccasins.
CLOTHING AND STUFF
Historical resources show the Indians of that time wearing simple leather skirts or toga style dress, so keep it simple to be historical accurate. There were simple patterns painted on their clothes. The is evidence that they wore a band around the head with feathers on the front. The bodies were painted or tattooed with circles, dots, and lines. The skirt would have a split on the sides so she could run and hunt.
DO THE HAIR LAST
Give her long black hair that has some shinny areas in it.
(c) Adron
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope this project is fun and helpful for you. To find more like it see the labels at the right or choose one of the favorites in the left sidebar. I am sure you will find one you like.
To see over 250 of my worksheets click here.
Adron
To print the worksheet below just highlight it and send it to your printer or save to your device to print later. Some printers work better with this type of format if you first drag the image to the desktop and print from there. If you have problems see the how to print tab or try one of the alternate files below.
FIRST A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Learning to draw takes practice so if if your drawing does not turn out the way you wanted on the first try do not give up- call it a practice or rough draft and try again. Draw everyday and soon you will be making beautiful pictures. Come back often and try some of my other projects.
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CLICK HERE for a file that may work with some printers.
Some printers work better with a PDF format. To print in PDF CLICK HERE.
PRINTABLE PROJECT NOTES
BEGINNINGS
Start with an articulated stick figure, that is a stick figure with the major joints- it looks like a skeleton. Draw the head as an oval. Since Poincianas was a youth we draw her head a little bigger than an adult's might have been. One shoulder is higher than the other. One leg is straight down and the other is crossing behind it as if she is walking. The forward leg is more centered as she is putting her weight on it. The foot is a large circle at the heel and a smaller on at the ball connected by a line.
FILLING HER IN
Over the stick figure draw ovals to build up the thickness of the arms and legs. The shoulders taper down slightly and are slightly rounded where at the shoulder joint. The bicep (upper arm muscle) is short and rounded, the triceps (at the back of the arm) is long. The arms are narrower at the wrist. Draw an oval for the calf muscle but the front of the leg is straight. Go around the shapes to give the lines a graceful flow.
FACE
Keep the face simple. Use guidelines to keep things even. One guideline goes down the center but slightly to the side since she is turned a little. Use a guideline halfway across for the eyes, then halfway between the eyes to the chin for the nose, and halfway from the nose to the chin for the mouth.
FAR EDGES.
She is turned slightly so the far cheek is showing. Start with straight lines; Down and out slightly for the edge of the forehead, curved in slightly for the eye socket, out sharply for the cheek, down and inward for the far jaw and sharply up and back to the ear for the near jaw.
EYES.
Use a curving line for the top of the upper eyelid and draw a circle below it for the eye, the top of the circle will be cut off by the upper eyelid. The eyebrow is an arch that is thicker near the nose and thinner as it goes toward the edge of the face.
NOSE
The nose is turned up slightly since she is still young. Start with a long line from the eyebrow and go down and out, then a short line back in. Keep a space between the nose and the lip.
MOUTH
The upper lip is all shadow. it is like the letter "M" spread out. The lower lip is indicated only with a short curved shadow underneath.
HANDS
Keep the hand simple. If your drawing is small just draw them like mittens. If you have space to give the hands detail use the method described above of drawing a hand skeleton first and then going around the lines to fill them out.
FEET
Go around the circles and lines of the stick figure to get the basic shape of the foot, and add a few lines as if the stitches of moccasins.
CLOTHING AND STUFF
Historical resources show the Indians of that time wearing simple leather skirts or toga style dress, so keep it simple to be historical accurate. There were simple patterns painted on their clothes. The is evidence that they wore a band around the head with feathers on the front. The bodies were painted or tattooed with circles, dots, and lines. The skirt would have a split on the sides so she could run and hunt.
DO THE HAIR LAST
Give her long black hair that has some shinny areas in it.
(c) Adron
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope this project is fun and helpful for you. To find more like it see the labels at the right or choose one of the favorites in the left sidebar. I am sure you will find one you like.
To see over 250 of my worksheets click here.
Adron
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