The main symbol of Russia is considered a nesting doll - a funny wooden figurine of a doll, inside of which one in one contains its small copies. She gained world fame more than 100 years ago. Its creator was the Russian turner Vasily Zvezdochkin, and the prototype was a Buddhist statue. How to draw a nesting doll that has become a favorite souvenir from Russia among foreigners?
The main details of the figure
To understand how to draw a nesting doll, you need to turn to folklore. According to one version, the Russian doll is the younger sister of the Japanese dolls Fukurume and Daruma, representing sages or spirits. Unlike them, a nesting doll is an elegant girl or a gossip wrapped in a painted scarf and ruddy from the frost. Accordingly, the main details of our drawing will be a face, a scarf with an intricate pattern, a dress or apron. It is noteworthy that the doll has a waist, in some cases arms and legs are depicted.
Where to begin?
Decide for yourself what your drawing will be, imagine it in your imagination. From this picture will depend on how to draw a nesting doll. What content and semantic load will your picture have? Will one doll or the whole family be present? Maybe it will be three girlfriends walking with baskets in the forest for mushrooms and berries? A popular storyline for depicting nesting dolls is the Russian folk tale "Turnip", where the largest nesting doll is Grandfather, followed by Grandma, Granddaughter, Bug and Cat, and the smallest figure is the Mouse. Give room to your imagination, remember tales heard in childhood, dream up.
How to draw a nesting doll with a pencil?
After considering the plot, you can begin to work. If you are drawing for the first time, draw lines with a thin pencil that can be erased with an eraser without leaving a trace. Draw 2 circles so that the upper smaller one is adjacent to the lower lap. If everything went well, erase the unnecessary lines. Make the bottom edge of the image flat so that the nesting doll "stands".
The next stage is the face. Inside the upper circle we draw a small circle, with two lines inside we indicate the bangs.
We depict eyebrows, eyes and nose imitated by two points. To draw lips, make a horizontal line, then 2 wavy lines below and one above.
Then from the face we draw lines to the sides - this will be a scarf. We draw sleeves, palms. Then draw a horizontal semicircular line from below - the apron edge.
There will be a border around the edge of the scarf, and flowers and patterns on the apron. Color the matryoshka as you wish, do not forget to brown the cheeks.
Additional Information
Patterns for drawing can be purchased at the store for children's creativity. They can be useful if you still do not understand how to draw a nesting doll in stages.
If you want to depict the figure of a boy, instead of a scarf, you can draw hair with bangs or any men's headdress. The traditional clothes for the guy doll are a Russian shirt with a belt, shoes - bast shoes.
These tips on how to draw a nesting doll are useful for both adults and children, because all the details are simple figures that are easy to depict on your own.