>>5734894Doing that right now with my son. I introduce in a simple fun way fundamentals, 3d shapes, and the names for colors and what colors turn into when you mix them. The most important thing of all is to ask what they drew and never assume. "What a cute cat!" Can crush a kids pride in their drawing of a turtle.
Don't offer criticism ever. Offer lessons and gently advise. My mother did that to my sis at 12 and my sister never drew anything for her again. She always praised my work and it inspired me to keep drawing.
1. I keep away from simple artistic representations of things in favor of detailed things or photos/videos of real things when I want to teach him what something is. A lion is a detailed animal in their mental library from day one. Not the stupid art style meant for kids where it is painfully simple.
I feel like kids are hindered by being surrounded by a world of simple badly done representations of things on tv, clothing, books, wall art. Especially when they are just trying to learn what that thing is at all.
2. I sit and draw with them and paint with them when they do baby scribbles and later toddler level doodles. I show them how to turn a circle into a 3d ball with shading and describe what I am doing. I draw human faces and animals as detailed as a free hand doodle allows.
3. He's 3 now and I recently started "finishing" his doodles like a game where he doodles a scribble and I take inspiration from it to make it something detailed. For example he drew a oblong shape and I added a stem and leaf and shaded it to make a pear. A squiggly line was turned into puffy hair on a sheep.
