• Exploring Words - Collage
• Tools and Techniques - Drawing
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Getting started
  • Pencils
  • Graphite Stick
  • Charcoal and Compressed charcoal
  • Indian Ink
  • Pens: Broad and fine markers, biros
  • What next?
  • Make a Quill: What will I need?
  • How to make a quill instructions
• Tools and Techniques Video Guide
• Make a Paper Crafted Daisy Video Guide

What next? 

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• Have you taken your Wellbeing Temperature recently?  You can use our Wellbeing Thermometer to log, measure and understand your own patterns of wellbeing. Our Wellbeing Thermometer will direct you around the Start2 resource helping you to choose the creative wellbeing activity to best suit you

• To see how versatile even a single drawing tool can be, try our  ‘Making Marks to Music’
• Keep a sketch-book and use that to experiment with different drawing tools.  You‘ll then have a useful record of different effects you can achieve with them
• This exercise serves as a simple introduction for the beginner, or a warm-up for the experienced.  To work more on your skills, it may be useful to visit the BBC learning zone, which has a good range of video demonstrations about drawing.  There are many excellent books available about drawing, too – try your local library, bookstore or online stores for more ideas
• If you’d like to develop drawing skills to a higher level, you may like to consider joining a group or class.  Either as a student or as part of a hobby group, this is a good way to progress, and share ideas and encouragement. See our Links page for opportunities