The Nutcracker is a character in the tale of Amadeus Hoffmann, written in 1816. The story of the enchanted prince, a twelve-year-old girl and the mouse king is known throughout the world. On Christmas Eve, a girl named Marie received a gift from her godfather, a very beautiful toy. It was the Nutcracker, the future hero of the night battles that took place on Christmas night between dolls and rat hordes, led by the three-headed Rat King. On the side of the Nutcracker is a sharp saber, which came in handy during the battle, and despite the fact that the rats at some point captured the hero, he eventually emerged victorious.
Outline drawing
Readers often ask the question: "How to draw a Nutcracker, how to make the picture symmetrical and proportional?". There are a lot of images of the hero, but not all of them correspond to the artistic level of a fairy-tale character. Readers of this article can also create an author's drawing. About how to draw the Nutcracker, we will tell in all details. At first glance, the image of a fairy-tale character is rather complicated. This is a brave officer, dressed in a gussar-embroidered hussar, and has bicorn on his head, in some cases a shako. However, the basis of any drawing is the contour, namely the contours of the Nutcracker are extremely simple, they are dominated by straight lines intersecting at an angle, and, therefore, the question of how to draw the Nutcracker is not difficult.
Pencil drawing
The angular shape of the wooden character is dictated by its functional purpose, because in fact the Nutcracker is a device for chopping walnuts, which is a mechanism of special strength, which means that its shape should be simple and reliable. Thus, to the question "How to draw a Nutcracker?" you can answer that this is quite simple, besides, the drawing will be simple for the readers of this article in form, but quite fascinating in terms of the colorful design of the drawn character. In order to create a drawing, you will need a sheet of A4 paper or a piece of drawing paper measuring approximately 25 x 30 centimeters, a simple pencil of medium softness for drawing contours, a ruler 30 centimeters long, an eraser and a simple school compass. First we draw the contours with a pencil, we'll talk about coloring later.
We draw in stages
How to draw a Nutcracker with a pencil, you can understand if you carefully consider the attached photo, which shows the individual stages of the drawing. The scheme consists of eight separate positions, arranged in strict sequence and suggesting how to draw the Nutcracker with a pencil in stages. The first position is a rectangle located in such a way that the middle vertical line runs in the middle of the contour, and the horizontal one is slightly lower than its middle. Having placed the rectangle, we got the outline of the Nutcracker body.
The next step is to draw the contour of the legs. The task is simple, you need to draw four vertical lines from the body down, not reaching 6 - 8 millimeters to the bottom edge of the picture. These four lines will be the outline of the Nutcracker's legs. Next, we draw two horizontal lines that will become the upper edges of his boots. Then, using a compass, it is necessary to draw two semicircles, connecting the bottom line of the pattern and the contours of the legs - as a result, we get the feet.
Epaulettes and Saber
How to draw the Nutcracker further, you can decide in accordance with your own taste. You can either depict the epaulettes shown in Figure 4, or draw a head and then hands. In any case, the final result is already visible, and the question of how to draw the Nutcracker and in what sequence is no longer standing, the choice is yours. On the side you need to depict a saber, the Nutcracker should be ready for battle.
Coloring
After the drawing is finished, you can start painting. The nutcracker should be painted with bright colors, only in this case it will turn out beautiful.
Colored markers can give the image the desired color, you can also use a set of pencils "STABILO aquacolor" for coloring. If you want to get even more intense colors, you can use watercolor paints in tubes such as Neva or Gouache. In this case, you need thin soft brushes. First, paint is applied to the outline of the drawing, which will serve as the background. Suppose the Nutcracker uniform is green, the trousers and cuff of the uniform are crimson, and the boots are black. The paints that create the background should dry, after they have completely dried, you can begin to display the stripes of the jacket and buttons. In order to draw buttons, you need a bright yellow paint. In addition to buttons, epaulettes can be painted with yellow paint and horizontal strokes on the headdress can be drawn. It is recommended to color the headdress with two colors - red and green.