Art Tutorials - How To Draw a Ladybug

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  • Lets draw a picture of a ladybug!
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    Select pale blue and the soap tool, make your page blue like the sky.
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  • Select a bright green and draw a leaf shape.
    Don't worry if it's a bit different to mine, leaves come in all sorts of shapes.
    Make sure there are no gaps!
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  • Select the bucket tool and fill in your leaf.
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  • Click the moon twice to make the green darker and select the smallest circle and the felt-pen.
    Draw a line down the middle if the leaf.
    You have drawn a leaf vein!
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  • Then draw more lines out from the middle one to the edge of the leaf.
    Ah, now your leaf has nice viens. Well done.
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  • Choose a brown colour by selecting orange and clicking on the moon twice to make it brown.
    Select the circle shown below and the felt-pen.
    Now you can draw a twig for your leaf.
    If you want to add some detail to your twig, click the moon twice more for a darker brown and use the smallest circle and the felt-pen.
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  • Choose black and the circle shown with the felt-pen.
    Put a black dot on the leaf.
    This is your ladybug's head!
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  • Choose bright red, the circle shown and the felt-pen, give your ladybug a body that over-laps the head a bit.
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  • Select black, the smallest circle and the felt-pen, draw a line down the ladybug's body to separate the wing covers.
    Give your ladybug three legs on each side.
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  • Now with the same tool you are ready to put some black spots on your ladybug and some little antennae from it's head.
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  • Now you've caught another art bug! Achoooooo!


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