Even a preschooler can draw a house. It is necessary to depict a square, inside it is a window, a door. Above - a triangular roof and puffs of smoke coming out of the chimney. The apartment building is drawn even easier. An elongated rectangle and a large number of square windows are drawn. How to draw a yurt? Let's get it right.
What it is?
Not sure how to draw a yurt? To begin with, remember what is meant by this word. Yurt - housing of Turkic and Mongolian nomads, which is a wicker cylindrical frame. From above it is covered with a nightmare - a felt carpet made from the wool of sheep or camels. The coating reliably protects from wind, cold and precipitation. The roof is made in the form of a dome with a round hole in the middle. Through it, light enters the yurt, and smoke from the outbreak comes out. During rain or snowfall, the hole is closed with a special valve.
Housing is quickly assembled and disassembled. A pair of women will cope with its installation in one to two hours. All parts are transported on a wagon. The total weight of the disassembled yurt is from 150 to 250 kg. The history of the home is very ancient. Yurts were built starting from the first millennium BC. e. Due to the ease, convenience, cheapness, they are popular at the present time. Proven for centuries, the design is perfectly combined with modern materials: glued beams, waterproof fabrics, durable insulation.
How to draw a yurt in stages?
To depict the housing of nomads, we need a sheet of paper, a simple pencil and an eraser. As a sample, take a picture of a real yurt. It is a short but wide cylinder. The roof looks like a cone.
Think over the composition. If the yurt is the central object, it is better to arrange the sheet horizontally. You might want to depict a scene from a nomadic life or a beautiful landscape around. Then focus on your plan.
When drawing a yurt, exactly follow the instructions:
- Draw a horizon line.
- Mark the bottom of the yurt as a long rectangle. The width of the dwelling is two times its height. Walls should go slightly beyond the horizon.
- Draw a triangular dome. This is the roof.
- Make the shape a little rounded. After all, the yurt has no sharp corners.
- Designate the door as a rectangle.
Detail drawing
How to draw a yurt with a pencil so that it looks believable? It is important to pay attention to details. Let's draw the ropes fastening the carpets thrown on the frame. The lines should not be even, otherwise there will be no sense of volume. The door to the yurt may be wooden. Kazakhs and Kyrgyz often cover the doorway with a felt canopy, as shown in the picture above. What to choose is up to you. You can also transfer volume with the help of hatching, applying shadows.
Outside, the home is often decorated with ornaments designed to scare away evil spirits. It can be strange plants or flowers, horns, circles, spirals, crosses, crescents, etc. Rich families used elegant ribbons covered with patterns for fastening.
Surrounding landscape
A yurt is a symbol of peace. Its shape is like a heavenly dome tilted to the ground. A round hole in the roof (shanyrak) is a symbol of the sun, walls are four cardinal points. Being inside, looking through the shanyrak at the stars, a person feels his unity with the outside world. How to draw a yurt to convey the special flavor of nomadic life, proximity to nature?
Let's work on the background. Housing harmoniously looks in the middle of endless sands and blue sky. Just make the walls darker so that they stand out from the desert. Mountains look no less picturesque in the background. They are indicated by sharp, angular lines. The feeling of infinity can be conveyed by depicting a yurt against the background of the night sky with scattered stars. Create your own version of the landscape.
How to draw a yurt beautifully? You need to feel like a nomad and try to convey your feelings on paper with the help of lines, colors, images. Drawing is a great occasion to travel to the world of freedom, where you can put your house on a wagon, harness a camel and go where your eyes look.