Many children in response to the question "what do you want to become when you grow up?" eagerly answer: "Astronaut!". They dream of space and stars, hang posters from Star Trek and Star Wars on the walls of their room, run to friends to watch a telescope at night. How much joy such a child will receive if mom or dad teach him how to draw an astronaut! After all, he can proudly hang such a picture next to Yoda or Luke Skywalker.
It will be much easier for your child to master the technology if you show him how to draw an astronaut in stages. This approach will allow you to learn the basic principle and create new masterpieces, guided by your imagination, and not by someone else's instructions. Knowing the proportions of the human body will allow the young artist to better understand how to draw an astronaut. Work on any image of this kind should begin with the designation of baselines. In other words, you will need to immediately sketch the location of the head, body, legs and arms.
In our step-by-step lesson “how to draw an astronaut” we specially selected the most simple body position: straight legs, arms down. This allows you to explain the basics of the image of a given character, without being distracted by concepts such as proportion and physiology. But to create more interesting paintings, you should definitely familiarize yourself with them.
So how to draw an astronaut? First, the base of the image is poured.
When the artist will be satisfied with the proportions, you can begin to draw the ammunition of the astronaut. It’s best to start with the simplest part — the helmet.
Now we are working on the chest and shoulders.
Now we move on to the more complex parts of the spacesuit. Inexperienced artists here may have problems with reliable depiction of folds (especially in the process of subsequent coloring). But do not lose heart - a little practice will help to overcome this obstacle. So, first we work out the hands.
Then a belt.
And now we are working on pants and gloves.
The matter remains for small. We are finalizing shoes.
Now it remains only to remove the excess lines and once again circle the desired ones.
Now you know how to draw an astronaut with a pencil. If you want to make it in color, you can use colored wax crayons, gouache, pastel, watercolors or any other coloring matter. Or you can resort to the help of special programs - graphic editors. To do this, you need to scan the image and open the resulting document in "Photoshop", "Paint" or some other similar software.
The completed drawing, painted in Photoshop, looks something like this, provided that the artist is not a master in this program (in this case, the result will be much more impressive).
Thus, now you know how to draw an astronaut, and this knowledge will allow you to experiment with other poses and angles.