3 Colour Drawing

Fun & easy drawings using only three colours! See what ideas you can come up with when you’re limited to just three colours… no more, no less…

Materials you’ll need

• Paper (use your sketchbook)

• 3 colours of pen or pencil

Instructions

Watch our video for a step-by-step guide

1. Test out your colour combinations in your sketchbook or on a spare piece of paper

2. How do they look together? What different styles and patterns can you make?

Cityscape

1. Try doing a cityscape, like in the video. At its most basic, you draw a square, and then make it a cube with three diagonal lines, and then join and connect them.

2. How do different cubes and boxes fit together?

3. Add windows to your buildings – maybe a door, or a chimney? Is there a garden? What’s in the garden?

Stack ’em up

1. Start with a small idea – like a star – at the bottom of your page

2. Draw different bubbles stacked on top of each other – each one must be connected to the bit below it

3. Now turn each of these into a character – what faces are they pulling? Are they wearing a hat? Do they have different clothes?