GRID STEP. You can print out the base construction lines and start drawing on tracing paper, or you can draw the grid layout yourself using the following steps.1) Draw a rectangle that will define the conditional proportions and boundaries of the chosen drawing. 2) From the middle of the rectangle, draw one vertical and one horizontal line equally dividing the shape. 3) Draw another horizontal line equally dividing the upper half of the rectangle. Similarly, draw a horizontal line equally dividing the bottom half of the rectangle. 4) Draw a vertical line equally dividing the left half of the rectangle. Similarly, draw a vertical line equally dividing the right half of the rectangle.

STEP 1. Mark off the width and height of the picture. Draw an oval for Kermit’s body. Add his head and a line through its center. Sketch the tree.

STEP 2. Draw the neck, body and fretboard of the banjo.

STEP 3. Add guidelines for Kermit’s arms, hands, legs, feet mouth and eyes.

STEP 4. Draw shapes for Kermit’s arms, hands, legs and feet. Add semicircles for his eyes and collar.

STEP 5. Sketch the tongue, toes, fingers, collar and banjo. Add pupils.

STEP 6. Add more detail to the figure and his banjo. Draw the tree branch.

STEP 7. Contour Kermit the frog, trying to vary the thickness and darkness of the line. Add details. Erase all guidelines.