Before you draw the tundra, you need to find out what kind of flora and fauna there is. Then you need to decide what time of the year you will reflect in your artistic creation. After that, you can begin to create a masterpiece.
What is growing and who lives in these places?
Winter is long here: snow lies for six months, cold reaches –50 degrees. Summer is short. Not every animal and plant can adapt to such conditions. In summer, the ground thaws only 1 meter deep. Strong winds blow, tall trees do not grow here, moreover, not every one of them will suffer such frosts. Chunky low shrubs and some flowers have adapted to such conditions.
From plants on the canvas you can depict rosemary, dryad, heather - these flowers appear in all their glory in spring. If you decide to create an autumn landscape, draw fruiting cloudberries, blueberries, and brown boletus. You can depict dwarf birch, shaggy willow.
Animals (arctic fox, reindeer) and birds of this place (polar owl, peregrine falcon, buzzard, eider) can also take their rightful place in the landscape.
All this must be known before drawing the tundra. Now you can choose which representatives of flora and fauna will be on the canvas.
Build a drawing plan
It's time to start marking the sheet. Lay it in front of you, draw a horizontal line approximately in the middle. Place a mountain above this stretch. She's not very cool. You can leave it like this, drawn only in pencil or cover it with white, and in shady places with light blue paint.
Beyond the mountain, the sky stretches almost the same color. To make the shade of these objects a little different, use dark blue paint to color the sky.
The top of the image is ready. What is needed to draw the tundra further? Let's start drawing the details of the bottom of the sheet. The plain is covered with reindeer moss. Ledum grows between the creeping bushes of this plant. Its bright pink flowers consist of five petals, in the middle of which there are seven stamens.
If you do not want to create such small details, depict flowering caps of rosemary in the form of small islands that alternate with a green reindeer covering the rest of the plain.
A deer grazes on the right side of the canvas. Draw his rectangular, horizontally located body, four thin legs, a muzzle pointed to the nose, ears and branched horns.
Here's how to draw a tundra in early spring.
Uncomplicated landscape
If you want to quickly portray a piece of this harsh edge, pay attention to the following photo. She will tell you how to draw a tundra with a pencil in stages in an easy way.
Unlike the first example, in this case, draw not a horizontal but a slightly inclined line. Let it rise slightly from left to right. You recreated on the canvas the foot of the mountain.
Draw its left slope so that it is parallel to the foot. Right down from the top a little down. This canvas shows that summer comes into its own, so on the mountain draw a few circles and ovals of irregular shape - these are the remaining islands of snow that will soon melt.
Down on the plain, among the hard grass, several flowers of the dryad grew. Petals of the plant are white, the core is yellow. If you draw with a pencil, just cover the core with solid touches. Between the low bushes of the dryad, you can depict several small stones.
Here's how to create a pencil drawing in stages. The tundra can be captured during the snowmelt, then a cascade of puddles forms in the lowland. You can draw a section of a river or a small lake, let a gaga-comb swim on it.
How to draw a waterfowl - an inhabitant of the tundra
Draw a small horizontal line on the surface of the water. This is the lower body of the eider, which sways in the waves. Next, draw a “2” with a short “neck” over this segment. This is a schematic representation of the head and upper body of a duck. Draw her elongated nose, a growth on the frontal part, a small narrowed eye, wings that are pressed to the sides.
If you want the bird to be depicted in color, following the hint in the photo, leave its goiter white, the growth grow orange, the beak red. Sketch the area under the eyes in green, gray above them, and turn the body and wings black.
Here's how to draw the tundra, its nature and its inhabitants.