Drawing is essential in everyone’s life. To draw is to express oneself. It is difficult to explain what is drawing. It is like teaching someone to ride a bike. One can guide the learner how he has to balance the bike, pedal and focus. The learner has to learn through practice and determination to master the art of biking. He has to learn how to balance, pedal and focus.

The first step of learning to write letters and numbers is to learn how to hold the pencil firmly. The child has to practice the art of using the pencil correctly. Scribbling and simple drawing are the preliminary exercises for the child to master the art of writing. To hold a pencil and write, the child needs to have visual and finger muscle co-ordination .The child has to know the concept of position, shape, size and movement. The pencil has to move vertical, horizontal, slant, curve, etc.

The father of the nation. Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography, “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, wrote, “I am of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. Let the child learn the letter by observing as he does different objects such as flower, birds etc, and let him learn handwriting only after he learnt to draw objects. He will then write beautiful formed hand.”