Make your own drawing lesson
Draw a step, write one line saying what you did, press mark step, and keep going. You end up with a lesson page anyone can draw along with - private to you until you share the link.
Step 1
How making a lesson works
Draw whatever belongs in the first step - the big shape, usually - then write one plain line about it and press mark step. Everything you draw after that belongs to step two, and so on. Ten to twenty small steps teach far better than five big ones: the whole craft of a good lesson is doing one thing at a time.
When you finish you get a private lesson page at a link only you have. It has the same draw-along canvas as every lesson on this site, so a friend, a pupil or a younger sibling can follow your steps exactly the way they would follow ours. Share the link with whoever you like - nothing you make here is ever published or listed anywhere by itself.
Good lessons to make: the thing YOU can draw that we have not covered, a simpler version of something for a younger kid, or a lesson in your own language for someone who reads it better than English.
Getting your lesson into the public library
On your lesson page there is a submit button. Submitting queues your lesson for a human editor - if it teaches something well, the editor builds it out with the full apparatus every lesson here carries (the per-step warnings, the checkpoints, the printable sheets) and credits the construction to you. It then has to pass the same eleven quality checks as everything we write ourselves.
Two hard rules, so you do not waste your time: no trademarked characters - nothing with a franchise name gets in, however good - and nothing that would not be fine in front of a classroom, since that is who is watching.
Questions about making lessons
- Who can see my lesson?
- Only people you give the link to. It has an unguessable address, it is never listed anywhere on the site, and search engines are told to ignore it.
- Do I need an account?
- No. The lesson is tied to your browser; an account only matters if you want to find it again from another device.
- How many steps should a lesson have?
- Ten to twenty small ones. If a step needs more than one sentence to describe, it is probably two steps.
- Will my lesson be published automatically if it is good?
- Never. Publishing only happens through submission, a human editor, and the same quality gate our own lessons face. Nothing you make here goes public by itself.