Sandy Silverthorne - You Can Draw Bible Stories for Kids

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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YOU CAN DRAW BIBLE STORIES FOR KIDS

Copyright 2014 by Sandy Silverthorne

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

ISBN 978-0-7369-5500-3 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5501-0 (eBook)

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To Vicki and Christythanks for all your love, laughter, and support. We do have a good time.

To Mom and Dadyou always knew I could do this. Who would have thought?

And to Mrs. Eidam, my high school art teacheryou liked my cartoons even when I was just a skinny sophomore. Thanks.

Contents

Y ou Can Draw Bible Stories is more than just part of the title of this bookits a fact! Whether youre an experienced artist or you dont know which end of the pencil to use, this book helps you learn how to sketch, design, create, and illustrate some really cool pictures. And all the while youll be learning some awesome stuff from the Old and New Testaments.

On each page youll discover a story, such as David and Goliath, Noah and his ark, or Zacchaeus up in the tree. Then youll get a chance to illustrate the whole thing. Youll draw the people, the animals, and even the places where these stories took place. And dont worryyoull get step-by-step examples and even some fill in the blanks to help you along the way.

To get you ready to illustrate your own book, youll need to gather your supplies. Do you like to draw with a pencil, a pen, or a crayon? Whichever you prefer, keep one or two on hand. You might get some paper as well so you can practice a few times on each drawing.

Now lets try some simple drawings to get your creative muscles warmed up. Lets start with a person. Almost everyone I know can draw a simple stick figure. So go ahead and draw one. You know, big head, stick body, arms, and legs. Well draw a stick girl in a second.

You know, Ive got to say Ive never seen anyone walking around with their arms and legs sticking out like that. So for our first move, lets get the arms down to the side, the way most of us stand. And lets have the legs go down so they touch the ground.

Isnt that better? Now heres a little trick using parallel lines. Parallel lines are just lines that go along with one another like this:

Now use your newfound friends your parallel linesand fill out the guy. Draw a line next to the stick figure lines on his body, arms, and legs. See, hes not a stick anymore. Hes beginning to fill out. Like a real guy!

Look at that! Youve already drawn a person and were not even finished with the introduction yet!

Youre on a roll. Id say we should try a girl now. Same thingstart with a stick girl. Thats right, add her little triangular dress there and two sticks for legs. Now lets do the same thing with our parallel lines. Use them to make arms, legs, and her body. Add some long hair and a pretty face, and voil! A little girl!

Faces

When youre drawing simple cartoons, facial expressions are important. How is the person feeling? Happy? Sad? Mad? Heres a secret: Theyre also really easy to draw. Check this outhere are some happy, sad, confused, scared, and angry faces.

Now draw some faces. Try drawing someone whos happy. Now draw a sad face. How about a sleepy person? Or someone whos seasick? Add some hair and maybe glasses or a beard. Well do some more expressions later on in the book.

Hands

l know , nobody likes to draw hands. But you can do it. It just requires a little practice. So here are a few tips that will help you out. Start by drawing a little sun. Thats right. Now add five little sun rays coming out. Now add parallel lines, close them off at the ends, and there youve drawn a hand!

More

And heres an added bonus. You Can Draw Bible Stories has a website! Its full of information, illustrations, trivia questions, drawing tips, and even video tutorials to help you become the best draweruh, artist, you can imagine! Just check with your parents to make sure its okay and then go to YouCanDrawBibleStories.com and check it out.

But for now, just turn the page, and lets get started!

Genesis 13

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

G ENESIS 1:1

I n the beginning

God created everythingthe sun, the moon, all the stars, and the whole earth! He made the mountains, the oceans, and all the plants and animals. If youre God, you can pretty much do anything, so creating everything was easy for Him.

Then God created the first two people on earth. Their names were Adam and Eve.

God placed His two new kids inside a beautiful garden called Eden. (It was probably about where Iraq is now.) There were tall trees, rivers, all kinds of fruit trees from which to eatand one fruit tree they were definitely not to eat from. But more on that later.

What do you think the Garden of Eden looked like? Heres my idea, but why dont you add some more trees, bushes, and maybe some animals. Make it beautiful!