Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Developing shading skills and drawing techniques to create botanical-inspired digital drawings.
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Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Introducing updates to our drawing units
Kapow Primary is thrilled to announce updates to the drawing curriculum for Years 1–6. The enhancements include a clearer and more structured progression of knowledge and skills, increased opportunities for skill reinforcement, broader exposure to diverse artists and new educational videos for teachers and pupils.
This updated unit introduces these exciting new elements while retaining selected aspects of the archived unit Drawing: Growing artists, which will remain in the archive area. It will remain permanently available but will not be updated in line with curriculum or website developments.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use their observation skills to describe specific shapes, textures or patterns in objects.
- Shade with a reasonable degree of accuracy and skill following the four shading rules.
- Use mark marking to show texture and details.
- Use simple shapes to sketch the basis of their drawing before using lines and marks to add detail and texture.
- Apply shading skills to show areas of light and dark (tone).
- Apply line, shape and tone with digital tools.
- Save and present digital artwork.
- Use materials to create a design inspired by The Sun.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: See like an artist
Lesson 2: Shading
Lesson 3: Take a closer look
Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom
Lesson 5: Paper to pixels
Optional: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Developing drawing skills'.
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Developing drawing skills’.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.
Science: Light, Plants.