Learn how to draw a person for kids step by step with this elementary drawing tutorial for beginners, schoolers, and kindergarteners.

In this drawing lesson, you will learn how to draw a person for kids in a cartoon style. This tutorial will help you sketch out the full body of a person in an elementary style that will be easy to draw for schoolchildren and kindergarteners. Below is a step-by-step instruction to follow in the process of drawing a person. We hope this tutorial will help you develop your drawing skills. Enjoy drawing!

Time needed: 25 minutes.

How to Draw a Person for Kids

Head shape.
Start by drawing the shape of the head.
Draw the hair.
Now on the top of the head draw the cartoon man’s pointed hair.
Parts of the face.
Now you need to add parts of the face that are very basic in drawing. Start by sketching the eyes, then draw the person’s nose and mouth with a curved line. Finish drawing parts of the face by adding eyebrows above the eyes.
Add ears.
Draw semicircles shapes for the ears on each side of the head.
Add a torso shape
Step back a little from the person’s head, draw an oblong rectangle in a vertical view with rounded corners.
Add the neck and sleeves.
Draw two connecting parallel lines for the neck between the torso and the head. Draw the sleeves on the sides of the torso as shown.
Add the hands.
Draw the hands in a simple style as in the example.
The lower part of the body.
Sketch the shape of the legs as in the example.
Draw the pants.
Detail the person’s legs by adding a line that divides the pants in two.
Draw the shoes.
Now add the shoe shapes as in the example.
Color the drawing.
Now it remains to color the artwork using your favorite coloring supplies. Before the coloring process, you can trace the contours of the sketch with an ink pen or marker.