Make Your Mark: The Drawing Book for Children

by Sarah Richardson

Written and hand drawn by award-winning author Sarah Richardson, Make Your Mark functions as a drawing aid, taking its readers on a creative journey. Beginning with the joys of scribbling, children learn how to create tone, line, shape, texture, and pattern, eventually arriving at the more sophisticated principles involved in drawing animals and people and mastering perspective.
Sarah Richardson, a well-regarded art educator, brings a vitality and freshness to the book’s pages with her own drawings and photographs, which are as inspiring as her concise and pithy texts. Through its wide range of activities and creative challenges, this book will help young artists discover their own potential, giving them the confidence to go ahead and make their mark.

Genres: Art

80 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2012

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

For those of us with more creativity than artistic ability, this title provides ways to indulge the artistic talent that lies within. The book begins with showing some of the materials an artist might use, and then moves into tone and lines. Interesting effects can be created by taking rubbings of different types of surfaces or relying on lines that curve or even different types of arrows. The book even provides examples and directions for creating drawings with perspective, and it ends with encouraging words about mistakes. This is a pretty cool book! Teachers might want to consider adding it to their collection, and trying some of the exercises for themselves.

[Dolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Our girls love to draw and our oldest has been borrowing a lot of how-to-draw books from her elementary school library. Now our youngest is starting to borrow them, too. She picked this book out at their school book fair and I agreed to purchase it for them.

I like how the book encourages children to doodle, scribble and just let their imagination run free. The book shows how even a random squiggle can become a picture. We really enjoyed perusing this book together and our girls really loved the different topics.

new word: tessellation