Drawing

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Understand that they can use lines to enclose space and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to: 

• Use a variety of tools including pencils, crayons, rubbers, pastels, felt tips, charcoal, ball points, chalk and other dry media.
• Use line, shape and colour.
• Use line drawing to draw objects seen, remembered or imagined.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to: 

• Layer different media e.g. crayons, felt tips, charcoal and ballpoint pen.
• Draw for a sustained period of time from a figure and real objects, including single and grouped objects.
• Experiment with the visual elements; line, shape, pattern and colour.
• Investigate tone.
• Draw shapes between objects – space.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to: 

• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements.
• Use different media to achieve variations in line, texture, tone, colour, shape and pattern.
• Plan, refine and alter their drawings as necessary.
• Draw for a sustained period of time at their own level.
• Shade and begin to infill shapes to create forms producing a range of tones

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 pupils will be able to: 

• Select different techniques for different purposes e.g. shading or hatching, ways in which a rubber may be used to develop tone.
• Use research to inspire drawings; express feelings through drawings.
• Alter and refine drawings and describe changes using art vocabulary.
• Draw confidently from observation; develop knowledge of the proportions and layout of the human face and draw more complicated still life.
• Use simple perspective.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to: 

• Show experience in creating tonal contrast and select different techniques for different purposes e.g. shading and hatching.
• Use a variety of source material.
• Work in a sustained and independent way.
• Show knowledge of the correct proportions and layout of the human face and figure.
• Draw familiar things from different viewpoints.
• Use simple perspective.
• Work show influences of a range of artists’ styles.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to: 

• Manipulate and experiment with the elements of art: line, tone, pattern, texture, form, space, colour and shape.
• Show increasing attention to detail and skill in colour mixing, matching and blending techniques with colouring.
• Work in a sustained and independent way to create a detailed drawing.
• Begin to develop an awareness of composition, scale and proportion e.g. fore, middle and background.
• Identify artists who have worked in a similar way to their own work.