I’ve been thinking about some games that can be done in order to get people drawing, mostly as a means to give some variation to kids I’ve been teaching.

So far, I’ve found/thought about the following:

  1. I go through body parts, one at a time, like “torso”. Everyone draws it. Once done, they pass the paper to another person, then I state another body part, rinse and repeat until it’s fully done
  2. One person has to describe a thing or creature without naming it, everyone else has to draw according to what’s being described
  3. Give them 3 lists, one of “who”, one of “where” and one of “doing”, where they pick one option from each and have to draw it, so others have to figure what it is. For instance, “(Who) Medic / (Where) Space / (Doing) Playing games with friends”

What else would you suggest?

  • YerLam@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    A few that have worked pretty well for me on camps I’ve run in the past:

    Splat Characters - Flick or drop some paint onto paper then make it into a face/person/animal/monster with some sharpie details like eyes or tails.

    Big/Small - Similar to the body parts game but alternating sizes/proportions to make some weird looking things.

    Chaos Creatures - Each kid pokes a load of dots onto paper, swap them around then make a dot to dot and try and do a theme, animals or monsters are good.

    Hope this helps as starting points at least.

  • cebolla@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    I have a friend who teaches children art. If it wasn’t so late, I would ask him for some pointers. I think though, he just plays with them pretty much. As in, he’s okay doing goofy things with kids like making a noise and having them match it or things like that. When you get people (kids, etc.) open to playing with you, I think it allows people to open up more which can be good for creativity. I would suggest looking into Lynda Barry books, especially Syllabus. There’s also a comic book artist she recommends in the book but I can’t find his name. He has a very creative exercise in which you take a series of note cards and draw a comic a panel a card and shift them around until they assemble the story you’d like. I suppose just looking into drawing games as a whole will probably assist. I myself like to put a series of shapes on whatever I am working on and turn them into whatever I see from them. Either way, sounds like you’re doing some good. So good on you =)