Shapes, Lines and Dots

Cartooning, Creativity and Wellbeing for Kids!

If you can draw a basic shape, a line and a dot, then you have all the skills you need to draw the cartoons in this book!

In Shapes, Lines and Dots: Wheels, Wings and Moving Things you will find over 70 different cartoons to draw. Each cartoon has simple, step by step instructions, using nothing more than what the title suggests—shapes, lines and dots! There’s some radical robots, crazy cars, tremendous trucks, magnificent machines, and even a collection of spectacular spaceships!

At the end of each chapter there are additional exercises, designed to stretch your imagination and creative thinking even further. Can you draw the side view of the Dragon Wheels? What would the Space Bus look like when it is full of alien students? Can you design a robot that would clean your room for you?

Some of the drawings in Wheels, Wings and Moving Things are a bit harder, but like all the Shapes, Lines and Dots creations, you cannot make a mistake. Every cartoon is uniquely wonderful—even when it doesn’t quite turn out how you thought it would.

So grab a pencil and some paper, and let’s draw!

Matt Glover is a cartoonist and counsellor who travels Australia running workshops and seminars on cartoon drawing, creativity and wellbeing.