Fairy tale pictures by the Brothers Grimm

What you need:

• colored pencils
• Pencils of various hardnesses
• tracing paper
• templates

Fairy tale pictures are still popular drawing motifs

• The fairy tale pictures by the Brothers Grimm still have a high priority today, even among young people and children. That is why they like to be copied by drawing them yourself.

• If you're new to drawing, pick a simpler subject to begin with. As few as possible Colours and no complicated shapes should be at the beginning.

• Take a look at the books by the Brothers Grimm with the children and choose suitable fairy tale pictures that you want to trace together.

How to draw the characters of the Brothers Grimm

• Black and white drawings are very suitable at the beginning, because you can easily trace them with tracing paper. To do this, take a well-sharpened pencil and trace the contours of the fairy tale pictures as precisely as possible. Also draw in the eyes and facial features.
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• Then you can take a piece of carbon paper and trace these outlines on your sheet of paper could do that directly from the original, but you would then have to refer to your Brothers Grimm book to paint.


Interpret and understand children's pictures

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• If you are already better at drawing, you can also draw directly by using the template and trying to copy the fairy tale pictures as precisely as possible. Let the children draw, depending on their talent, the characters will look different, but the fun is there.

• Look at the figures and draw them in color or black and white, depending on your requirements. Take into account a possible hatching technique.

• You can also try your hand at watercolors if you like, this will make the images softer and more delicate. However, this requires some experience in handling the brush and drawing technique.

• Choose templates that are suitable for children, because the children often want their drawings in the room hang up and with the smaller ones it can cause fear if there are dangerous figures are shown.

• There are also templates for coloring in or "painting by numbers", so you can paint beautiful pictures even as a beginner. You can also do this with watercolor or acrylic paints if you want it to be brighter.