Perspective Drawing: Showing Perspective with Castles, Dragons + a Princess & Frog

Teaching perspective to young artists can be tricky.  Using castles, dragons, a princess, and frog, this drawing lesson helps makes this topic compressible and fun.

I’ve divided the activities into 3 suggested age groups.  This allows you as a teacher to tailor the lesson to fit the experience and skill level of your students. Teachers can also differentiate this lesson for students that need more of a review or more of a challenge.

This drawing lesson is NOT perspective drawing using vanishing points and a ruler.  I’ll save that for another lesson.  This lesson will help students understand the basic concepts of creating 3D space on a flat piece of paper using size and placement.

Your kindergarten students will:

• Identify which  objects look close or far away on a piece of paper.
• Draw a dragon that looks farther away than the other dragons on the page.
• Draw a princess and frogs on a page using size and placement.

Your grade 1-3 students will:

• Learn 4 Laws of Perspective dealing with size, overlap, the horizon, and placement.
• Draw a castle using basic shapes, using their choice of details.
• Decide if the castle will be in the foreground, middle ground, and background.
• Use the correct size and placement for their castle.
• Add a princess and frog using the correct size and placement.

Your grade 4+ students will:

• Learn 7 Laws of Perspective dealing with size, overlap, the horizon, and placement, ellipse, foreshortening and vanishing point
• Practice drawing and shading a sphere, cube, cone, and cylinder.
• Draw a castle using basic forms, using their choice of details.
• Decide if the castle will be in the foreground, middle ground, and background.
• Use the correct size and placement for their castle.
• Add shading shadows in their picture.
• Add a princess and frog using the correct size and placement.

INTEGRATE

• Medieval study
• Fairytales
• The Princess and the Frog fable

What You Get

• Table of Contents – 2 pages
• Teacher Instruction – 6 pages
• Kindergarten level drawing pages – 3 pages (Dragons in Perspective, Fairytale in Perspective, Frog, and Princess drawing)
• Kindergarten how to draw pages – 3 pages (Squishy the Dragon, frogs, and princess)
• 1-3 grade student instruction – 2 pages (4 Laws of Perspective, castle drawing)
• 1-3 grade how to draw pages – 2 page (castles and princess – frog is same sheet as k)
• Grade 4+ student instructions – 3 pages (7 Laws of Perspective, forms, and castle drawing)
• Grade 4+ how to draw pages – 3 pages (castles, frogs, and princess)

A total of 24 pages

This drawing set is part of a series of drawing lessons designed to teach beginning drawing skills using a Medieval or fairytale theme.  You can get all the lessons in a Medieval Drawing Bundle to save money or see them separately using the links below.

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Easily download this PDF with a link that is automatically emailed to you immediately after your purchase and you can begin drawing right away!

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