If your child feels the need for daily drawing, consider the possibility of learning at an art school, where from 10-12 years old children are dedicated to the secrets of the artists' work and give the basics of literacy.
In order to acquire practical skills in the field of pencil drawing or painting, you need to be diligent, attentive and purposeful. Sometimes these qualities are valued much higher than innate abilities and give more tangible results. A huge amount of new information about various drawing techniques, about all kinds of materials used for this, received by the child, must be qualitatively acquired by him. Indeed, the difficult transition from a flat image to a volumetric many is difficult and requires additional physical and moral costs.
If your child knows how to draw an anime with a pencil, and does it after watching the corresponding cartoons, invite him to go further. Show him the technique of drawing from a photograph of animals.
Pencil drawings of cats can be started with a sketch in which the center of the animal's face is defined, and a line is drawn between the ears and eyes to the middle of the nose. On the same sketch, you need to draw a horizontal line between the eyes, along the line of the nose, mouth, chin. Carefully check the angles of inclination of these lines with the photograph of the cat, on which future details will be located: ears, eyes, nose, mouth. Before drawing hair with a pencil, or individual hairs of a cat, its mustache and eyebrows, designate with thin curved lines the area around the eyes and nose, areas with thicker hair, and the area of the mouth. Keep proportions when sketching individual parts: nose and ears. The figure should be visible more illuminated areas, and darkened. At this stage of creating the sketch, it is necessary to draw the attention of the child to the fact that in different parts of the animal's head there is wool of different lengths and densities, and it is the shading that can reflect these characteristic features. Focus the child’s attention on how light falls on the cat’s face, which areas of the hair should be darkened, and which ones should be lightened.
For those who want to learn how to draw anime with a pencil, and learn this art, it is recommended that daily training in posing hands. It will take you about 20 minutes a day. To consolidate your skills, start drawing circles and ellipses clockwise and counterclockwise. In this case, it is desirable that the junction of the line was invisible. Draw ellipses in different directions and at different angles: this will give you the opportunity to create anime sketches for figures in dynamics. Draw vertical and horizontal lines in different directions - from yourself and to yourself, try to make them as even as possible; experiment by creating “slow” and “fast” lines, “heavy” and “light”. All these skills will give you the opportunity to independently understand the science of anime and learn how to draw anime with a pencil. One of the most useful exercises is to draw parallel lines. They can be straight or curved, represent a square, circle, ellipse, etc. It is important that nearby (inside or outside) you can draw a figure with parallel lines. Experiment with slow and fast drawing of different geometric shapes, and also practice drawing mirrored (symmetrical) objects. Try to draw from life, from memory, from a photograph.
It is good if your child has a teacher nearby who will tell him how to draw an anime with a pencil in accordance with the classical laws of drawing (perspectives, proportions, etc.). But in this case, one cannot do without daily training exercises in posing hands and the desire to master this aspect of fine art. Indeed, in the end, only faith in one's own strengths and a desire to learn provide an opportunity to overcome the seemingly highest milestones and reach a goal.