Cacti are different: short, tall, green, yellow, blooming, prickly ... These lovely plants came to us from the tropical lands, where they grow in the wild arid deserts. Nowadays, a lot of decorative cacti makes us happy with their festive look in apartments on the windowsills and reminds their owners that somewhere on earth there is eternal summer. Many of them bloom year round and surprise us with their exotic appearance. Every child at least once in his life saw this funny houseplant, and therefore today we will try to figure out how to draw a cactus in a pot. In fact, it is not as difficult as it seems at first glance!
First stage
The first question will, of course, be how to draw a cactus in stages? As with any other drawing, prepare first. In order to draw a cactus, it is enough to stock up with sheets of paper, simple and colored pencils. You can draw a cactus using paints.
In order to know how to draw cacti, you need to understand what they are. As a rule, a cactus consists of one not very long green stem dotted with thorns. Sometimes on a cactus there are bright flowers. Where to start?
General form
First, draw a small oval in the middle of the sheet with a simple pencil. It will be the body of the future cactus. It is worth considering that usually this plant grows directly from the ground.
Next, connect the cactus with a pot. To make the plant easier to draw, it is advisable to have a live example or at least an image on hand. A photo of a cactus can be found in a book or on the Internet.
Sometimes cacti have a more branched structure. How to draw cacti with branches? For this, it’s worth adding some more peculiar “kidneys” to the main body.
You can add typical for such plants signs like thorns. In addition to these small needles that will decorate the cactus and give it a natural look, for greater truthfulness and realism, you can draw gyrus or longitudinal stripes on the cactus. For this purpose, on a light cactus, long lines can be drawn in dark green, and on dark green - black or dark brown.
Detail drawing
Next, give the plant a certain color. Usually, both dark and light green cacti are found in indoor conditions. You can use colored pencils and paints to sketch the plant.
How to draw cacti - light green or darker - depends on the desire of the author.
Sometimes cacti bloom. Although this, unfortunately, is a very rare phenomenon, but it is fascinatingly beautiful. Some cacti bloom in small flowers that grow directly on the stem, other types of cacti produce whole inflorescences and even arrows with flowers on them! Cactus flowers look like small flowers of the correct form, similar to miniature daisies. Their colors are completely different: from white to red and purple.
Habitat
As a rule, at home, cacti do not grow in open ground and do not stand in vases. In the rooms, these tropical plants are in small pots. In order to draw a cactus pot, it is enough to depict a small object of cylindrical or semicircular shape. The pot can be of any appearance and it can be painted in any color.
That cactus is ready! How to draw cacti? And very easy! In order that he was not bored alone, you can even draw several of these colors. And besides, with great desire, the availability of free time and extraordinary imagination, you can portray the whole desert with giant cacti of all shapes and sizes. Indeed, in the desert, cacti can reach up to several meters in height!