Everyone Can Draw!

Anna uses her experience as a primary school teacher to make her workshops as fun, engaging and inspiring as possible. The workshop ‘Everyone Can Draw’ takes students through a series of drawing activities designed to get creative juices flowing. The workshop analyses illustrator craft and equips students to understand how visual representations contribute to understanding of a text (VCELA215, VCELY233). Where necessary, activity sheets are provided.

A typical session would include a selection of the following:

• 30 second drawing warm-ups
• 2-5 min warm-ups: drawing along with Anna and discovering our ‘drawing handwriting’
• Using a spinning wheel to generate an adjective, a verb and a noun (i.e. a hungry witch eating a chair) and drawing that scene
• Using shape to design characters

Topics covered:

• Unpacking how Anna became an author/illustrator
• The idea that practice makes progress
• Purpose of illustrations: the author tells, the illustrator shows
• Nouns and verbs
• How to uncover your unique drawing style (our ‘drawing handwriting’)
• Why there is no such thing as being ‘naturally’ good at drawing
• Different methods of teaching yourself how to draw