• Ready-made lessons for school or at home
  • Hop on wherever you want, there's no strict order
  • Each chapter or loose image can be downloaded and printed
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youThe idea behind these lessons:
I strive for communicative lessons that introduce you to (drawing) art, lessons in which concrete drawing skills help you to visualize your own imagination. By choosing pencil as an accessible basic material, the emphasis is on subjects rather than materials and techniques. Of course some of us, young and old, have more talent than others (just like with sports, math, music, DIY, etc.), but with good examples and thorough exercises, everyone who wants to can learn something concrete and get satisfaction from it at any level. The lessons are suitable for individual use but also ready-made for use in school, from upper primary school onwards. The lessons offer a wealth of topics for teachers. Many thanks to the designers of Hollands lof Haarlem who have beautifully designed this website.

 The three levels
Basispotlood.nl is not a strict drawing method with a prescribed order. You decide where you start, which topic you find interesting. The three levels do have a slightly increasing difficulty scale: Level 1 focuses on flat shapes. Level 2 focuses on composition and the suggestion of 3D/plasticity. In level 3, perspective plays a more important role. Lessons consisting of two or three parts are divided over two or three levels, but even then you can start with part 2 or 3 if you like.

Materials
Standard size drawing paper (eg A4/A3), a nice drawing pencil (2B), a good eraser and a sharpener. Other materials are fine but not necessary. Digital drawing (e.g. on an iPad) is also a possibility

About the author
Rogier van der Erve (1953) graduated from the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam in 1991, specializing in drawing and free graphics. In 1993 he obtained his first degree in drawing/art history at the HKU. Since that time he has worked as an art teacher for 20 years with children in the upper years of an elementary school and up to 2025 as an art teacher in secondary education exam classes havo/vwo in Rotterdam.