Skills, not just subjects
Drawing ideas for 10 year olds
Drawing ideas for ten-year-olds step by step: faces and expressions, hands, animals in motion, architecture and the advanced lessons, with a technique to practise in each.
By ten, drawing ideas are really skill ideas: how to draw an eye that looks like an eye, a hand that does not look like a glove, a building in something like perspective. The shelves below are organised that way. Each one is a skill, faces, hands and poses, animals in motion, buildings, and the advanced set, and every lesson in it is still step by step with the new lines in red, so the skill comes from repetition rather than theory.
Faces and expressions
How to Draw an Eye
10 steps
How to Draw Eyes
10 steps
How to Draw Anime Eyes
10 steps
How to Draw Lips
10 steps
How to Draw a Face Profile
10 steps
How to Draw a Cartoon Face
12 steps
How to Draw an Angry Face
11 steps
How to Draw a Surprised Face
11 steps
How to Draw a Winking Face
11 steps
How to Draw a Sleeping Face
12 steps
How to Draw Braids
13 steps
How to Draw Curly Hair
10 steps
Hands and poses
How to Draw a Hand
10 steps
How to Draw a Hand Waving
10 steps
How to Draw a Fist
9 steps
How to Draw an OK Hand
10 steps
How to Draw a Peace Sign
10 steps
How to Draw a Thumbs Up
9 steps
How to Draw a Dancing Pose
12 steps
How to Draw a Superhero Pose
12 steps
How to Draw a Yoga Tree Pose
12 steps
How to Draw a Jumping Person
13 steps
How to Draw a Sitting Person
14 steps
How to Draw a Gymnast
13 steps
Animals in motion
How to Draw a Lion Roaring
11 steps
How to Draw a Fish Jumping
13 steps
How to Draw a Bear Cub Climbing
11 steps
How to Draw a Bird Flying
10 steps
How to Draw a Duck Swimming
11 steps
How to Draw a Cheetah
13 steps
How to Draw a Dolphin
13 steps
How to Draw a Hummingbird
13 steps
Buildings and the advanced set
How to Draw a City Skyline
12 steps
How to Draw a Cathedral
13 steps
How to Draw a Victorian House
13 steps
How to Draw the Colosseum
12 steps
How to Draw the Sydney Opera House
12 steps
How to Draw a Dragon
15 steps
How to Draw a Tiger Cub
15 steps
How to Draw a Steam Train
13 steps
How to Draw Best Friends
14 steps
How to Draw a School of Fish
13 steps
Tips for drawing with 10 year olds
- Pick one skill shelf a week and draw three from it; the third is always noticeably better.
- Hold the pencil further back for guide lines and closer for detail. Two grips, two kinds of line.
- Photograph finished drawings with the phone, the camera is a fair critic and it builds a portfolio.
Questions parents and teachers ask
What are good drawing ideas for 10 year olds step by step?
Faces and eyes, hands, animals in motion, buildings and the advanced lessons (dragons, big cats, riders on horses). All of those are step-by-step lessons here.
Is this too easy for a 10 year old?
The faces-and-eyes and advanced shelves are not. Everything else is quick practice, useful, but pick by shelf rather than by ‘easy’.