Anyone have any recommendations for a 5y/o that loves to draw? Looking for learning resources and the like. Physical preferred but iPad would work too.
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#[2]β knows a lot about this sorta thing.
I'm not actually aware of any specific learning resources, though I bet there's something good out there. Remembering my own love of drawing as a kid, I slowly noticed things that improved my drawing on my own. I once made another kid angry in first or second grade because I colored my whole sky blue instead of simply drawing a blue line at the top of the picture like all the other kids did, but I'd recently noticed the sky's color actually went all the way to the ground and wanted to try it out; stuff like that.
My parents (or anyone at all) being interested in what I was drawing and asking questions also helped! You could give her prompts like "Why don't you draw your favorite character from a book / favorite pet / dream house and tell me about it?" and make it a conversation.
Or you could give her various random objects and ask her to sketch them if she's interested, or drawing something that's been turned upside down, as lessons in "draw what you see."
But mostly my advice for a five year old who loves to draw is 1. have plenty of paper and art supplies, 2. show genuine interest in what she draws, and 3. avoid encouraging her to copy stylized or cartoonish versions of ways things are "supposed" to be drawn, if you run into child drawing tutorials that are like that.