Free course: How to draw a character

How to draw anything

Step-by-step drawing guides for kids 6–13. Every guide has a short video, six steps, and a printable practice sheet — and when the drawing is done, a free Kubrio course takes it further.

75 seconds, with sound: why drawing is a way to think.
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Before kids write a single word, they draw.

A sun. A house. A family with very long arms.

Then, somewhere along the way, most of us stop. We decide we can't draw.

But drawing was never about pretty pictures. It's a way to think.

Draw a map, and you see where you're going.

Draw the steps, and you see where to start.

Draw the problem, and you see a way around it.

When an idea is on paper, a kid can look at it, change it, and show it to someone else.

And it starts with shapes they already know. A circle. A line. A curve.

Six steps later, it's a bear.

Then they make it their own. A bear with a jetpack? Why not!

Over a hundred free drawing guides, open to every kid. Grab a pencil.

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Watch, draw, print, keep going

Watch it first

A short video draws it stroke by stroke.

Draw on paper

Six steps with the new lines highlighted. No screen needed.

Print the sheet

A practice page with lines to trace and a box for your own.

Keep going

A free course: short films, a quiz, and a drawing of your own.

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Every Kubrio course is free, with no account: short films, a quiz, and something your kid made at the end.

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Ages 6–13.

How to draw a character

A free course: four short films and a quiz. Your kid ends with a character sheet they drew.

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