Coloring templates for upcoming classes at Eden Florida

Since I was asked to volunteer a couple of hours this coming Thursday at the Eden Autism Services school, got planned some speed sketching demonstrations and prepared this set of simple coloring outlines for the students to practice their eye-hand coordination.
The ever popular cats and dogs theme.
Drawings of bunnies are also common requests during summer art classes and drawing demos, so it was a natural choice for this set.
Came up with a dragon coloring outline that is quite simpler compared to my usual approach. Figured it would be safer to eliminate all extraneous detail, so that the coloring template could be colored within the expected shorter attention span of the students. Really curious about the reception and effect that the speed sketching demonstrations will have upon the students.

Drawing Truck videos for my 2-year old nephew

Hello Tato, these are your 3 short videos on how to draw different vehicles based on these Transformers I managed to dig out from storage. Just have mom or dad click on the pictures to see the videos. The materials used in these demos are: California Republic Palomino 2B Pencil, Derwent pencil extender, and a Piccadilly sketchbook.Sketching a bulldozer based on this green transforming robot.
Sketching a truck based on this blue transforming robot.
Sketching a racing car based on this green transforming robot. Quick link to original fire truck test video drawn with a Sakura Pigma Sensei 0.4 mm pen.

So High School students like to have their cartoon portraits drawn too

After conducting a docent tour of the Princess Diana: Dresses of Inspiration for a particularly attentive and well-behaved group of students (now I know what to expect from High School JROTC students), we toured the second floor of The von Liebig Art Center and stopped at the library to draw a few souvenir cartoon portraits for the kids to take home.Since the library was not being used by any other patrons at the time, the group members had plenty of room to spread out and the freedom to chat and make helpful design suggestions for their peers' drawings while patiently waiting for their turn to get drawn. When my preferred 0.6 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei pen started going dry halfway, I switched to the 1.0 mm nib pen which provides greater coverage at a faster speed but does not allow for very small detailing on the fly. If Sakura does not start offering these two pen nib sizes in open stock soon, I am going to end up swamped with spare of 0.7 mm mechanical pencils and the other manga drawing kit components that do not get used up as fast. I really should look for an alternative cartooning event pen among my other pigmented pen sets, but the comfortable feel on most papers of the Pigma Sensei plastic nibs coupled with their smooth ink flow while speed sketching can be almost addictive (well it is to me).The students were quite imaginative with their ideas for their sketches, so we had a wide variety of fun interesting themes to draw in addition to the usual princess, mermaid, and ninja cartoon portrait requests. Quite a few wanted to be drawn as a favorite animal, for I recall sketching a couple of students as an octopus and panda bear respectively. Hope some of the students will be inspired to take up some pencils and start drawing themselves after seeing how easily and quickly their ideas could take form on paper with just some regular sketching practice. I really enjoyed the experience hosting this group, and their positive reaction to the cartooning process tells me that we are on the right tract to plan an after-school manga cartooning course for high school students for the next year.
I probably speed sketched about 35 cartoon portraits and special request drawings during 75 minutes. Thus each drawing took about 2-2.5 minutes to complete on average. By the time we were done everybody seemed pretty happy with their souvenir drawings of their visit to The von Liebig Art Center. Heartfelt thanks to Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Paul Garrah for sending me these picture files that I used to illustrate this post(for it can be a quite challenge draw and photograph myself at the same time).

How to use a Leadholder for Beginners and doodling videos

Leadholder 101 (2 min video): ok Daniela while you already probably figured out how to use your first leadholder, I often forget that many students have never tried one before since they are no longer a requirement for drafting classes in this Age of Computer Assisted Design. Thus these short videos show how to load a Staedtler 780 Mars Technico 2 mm leadholder with my favorite Uni graphite lead, how to use a rotary lead pointer, the existence of an emergency touch-up lead pointer built-in the push button, and a couple of doodling examples. Notice that for daily use, I prefer to cover the knurled metal grip with a plastic pencil grip for comfort and that I have removed the metal pocket clip to avoid scratching other tools in my sketching kit.
Speed sketching demo 1 is just a quick 2 minutes demo of a warm up doodle page. It is an exercise I often have my students perform at the beginning of a class in order to loosen up and get a feel for the sketching tool chosen for the day.
Speed sketching demo 2 consists of another 2 minutes of me doodling and mumbling at the same time. I promise I'll try to enunciate better on future videos once my braces come off. For now that is my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. Thank you very much Sunny for the helpful feedback.