What is an Artist Trading Card?
Artist Trading Cards are 2.5×3.5 works of art on paper that artists can trade with each other. Sometimes there are organized swaps between art teachers.
Art Supplies
This quick and easy lesson takes advantage of Expressive Monkey’s Monster Adjectives: Fun Drawing & Texture Art Lesson. The picture below shows the Roll & Draw page.
Start with 2.5x 3.5 cardstock. (ATC or Artist Trading Card size.) This drawing set has utilized the bottom of the page as the monster’s body, so all that is needed is a line for the top of the head and monster features. The last column is the texture of the monster. I drew with a pencil, first, then went over my lines with a Sharpie marker.
The picture below shows 4 different sample monsters and the Roll & Draw page I used to make the artist trading cards.
Next Add the Texture Rubbing
Make the Borders with Marker
Everything is Better with Googly Eyes (well, almost)
Want to Learn More?
How To Make Texture Plates
- Texture Plates from Paper Punches
- Texture Plate for Monster Drawing
- Texture Rubbing Idea: File Folder Texture Plate
Monster Blog Posts
- Texture Plate for Monster Drawing
- Artist Trading Cards with Monsters & Textures
- Monster Drawing with Textures and Adjectives
- Color Theory for Kids & Monsters
- Watercolor Technique – Warm Colored Monsters
- Contrasting Colors Monster Texture Rubbing
- Textures in Watercolor: Monster & Contrasting Colors
The Benefits of Drawing
Use this infographic to display in your room or share with parents, administrators, or other teachers as a way to point out some of the academic benefits of learning to draw. While they are not the only reason for using drawing as part of a balanced curriculum, they are certainly worthy of celebrating and may help you advocate for including drawing as part of your art or classroom learning experiences.
You can read more about The Benefits of Drawing in this blog post.
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