Young Writers & Illustrators: Links
Writers' Web Links
The following links are for young writers of varying ages. Check them
out and you'll soon decide which is for you. I've had heaps of
fun trying each of them out.
Illustrators' Web Links
- How to do caricatures: ABC
- Learn to draw with Cartoon Dave: Texta
- What do comics have in common with Ancient Egypt: ABC
- Create a character for the Mix-and-Match Game: ABC
- Henna hands
- Jackson Pollack: click to change paint colours
- Neopets: how to draw them
- Draw and Colour with Uncle Fred
- Sascha Hutchinson: answers about book art
- Camels With Lunch Bags: interview, Ann James
- Blog interview with Mark David about illustrating: Writers-bitz
- Sketch a horse's head
- Draw a horse: ABC
- Jan Brett: (videos) where she gets her ideas, how to draw
- Coloring_kids: print out sheets
- Pictures to colour and things to make for 5-8 year olds: ABC
- Crayola: 1000s of ideas for craft, artwork, writing
- Asian landscape scrolls
- Crackled batik book cover: Crayola
- Islamic Zillij art, geometic designs: Crayola
- Play music, dance with your friends and produce unusual art
- Egyptian Tomb Treasures
- Aboriginal dot style painting: Bumpy Blotto Beast
- Draw animals, dinosaurs, planes: How Stuff Works
- Learn to Draw: ideas, mediums, perspective ...
- Drawing Projects: animals, landscapes, fish, flowers
- Mosaic art
- Wizard of Draws: (pdf) Jeff Bucchino's colouring book
Reading Challenges
Photos courtesy of BigStockPhoto:
Girl writing: Miodrag Gajic
Born artist: Jaimie Duplass
Happy Kids: Marzanna Syncerz