How to draw ...

Learn how to draw characters just like those featured in your favourite books, with these step by step guides by children's book illustrators.

What are your favourite pictures from children's books? If there's an artist you'd like to see included in this series email childrens.books@
guardian.co.uk. Let us know how you get on with the lessons by sending us pictures of the characters you draw yourselves.

  • Children's books How to draw… Dippy the dinosaur

    A step-by-step guide to drawing the massive diplodocus in the main hall of London's Natural History Museum from James Francis Wilkins. Don't forget to enter the Dippy The Dinosaur drawing comp if you like what you end up with!

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  • Children's books How to… put faces on nearly everything

    Wouldn't it be nice if everything you saw had a face so you could find out once and for all what your dinner was thinking while you ate it and if your chair was happy that you'd sat in it? Morag Hood, author and illustrator of Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea, shows you how!

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  • Children's books How to draw… a badger

    The illustrator of children's book classic Wolves, has a badger drawing lesson for you. So get out your art stuff and join us in celebrating her new book Tidy - a dramatic tale of overzealous neatness

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