All children and even adults love winter. This time of year envelops everyone with its fabulous atmosphere. The winter landscape is fascinating: trees silvered with snow and hoarfrost, falling soft snow. What could be prettier? How to draw a winter and transfer this fabulous mood to paper without any problems? This can be done by both an experienced and a novice artist.
Thinking through every step
How to draw the winter in stages, namely the winter landscape with paints and a pencil, we will consider in our article. Let's start with the winter landscape painted with gouache.
Before you paint the winter with paints, on a piece of paper we sketch with a pencil. We arrange the house, trees and courtyards to fill the picture.
Draw the background. It will be more convenient if we start work from the distant plan, gradually moving to the foreground. The implementation of such a rule is not a prerequisite. For some artists, on the contrary, it is more convenient to draw from the foreground, gradually moving to distant objects and the background. Our future landscape will be flooded with sunlight, so to add brightness and fabulousness to the picture, we draw the background in warm colors.
Drawing elements
On the left side we outline the dense coniferous forest. To do this, mix three colors of paint on the palette: yellow, blue and a little black.
The main element in the figure will be a wooden house. To achieve the most natural color for drawing logs, you need to mix three colors on the palette: yellow, brown and ocher. We use a bristle brush, with which we make strokes along the entire length of the logs, staining them unevenly for a more natural-looking tree.
After applying the main color, you do not need to wait until the paint dries, but it is worth immediately starting to apply the shadow on the underside of the logs. In order for the transitions not to be evident and not too sharp, it is advisable to mix black paint with ocher.
We draw a distant forest
In the paint that we used to draw the background, add more white and yellow so that the forest appears a little brighter than the background itself.
So gradually we got to the tree trunks. To achieve greater naturalness and color similarity, we draw tree trunks, mixing brown, green and black colors. Apply strokes in several layers, without waiting for the previous layer to dry.
Using the same principle, we draw the trunks of all the trees. After the paint has dried, it is necessary to lighten some areas on the bark, making white highlights from the bright sun. And the shadow side (the back wall of the house) is painted over with red-brown color.
Thin strokes
Until the paint is completely dry, a thin brush can mark the texture of the logs and paint the window frames with yellow paint. Although the picture is sunny and bright, the time on it is already afternoon, when the sun is slowly setting. It seems that the street is also light, but the house has already turned on the light. Glare in the window can be drawn with white gouache, and closer to the frame the glass is slightly darkened.
Move on to the details
We take a brush from the bristles and point the dark bushes around the wooden house. By the same principle, add white snow-covered bushes.
With a white hillock in gray-blue we mark the ski track. The lower part of each strip is brightened with white paint, and the upper edge is darkened.
The next step will be to draw thin branches on the trees. To do this, take the thinnest brush and draw snow-covered branches with white paint.
We decorate the foreground of the picture with a small spruce. The figure shows that the sun is shining in our direction, so the spruce stands on the shadow side to us. Mix blue, black, green, white and a little yellow paint and paint over thick branches of spruce. The shadow under the tree also do not forget to show. Black and green paint marks the places in the snow from where spruce branches peek.
In order to mark bright highlights on the tree, draw them with blue and white gouache.
And the last step
The last step in the step-by-step course "How to Draw a Winter Landscape" will be the creation of an imitation of snowfall. To do this, we need a hard large brush and white paint. Spray the paint with a brush, the main thing is not to overdo it, so as not to create a blizzard instead of light snow.
Street in the village with a pencil
Now let's look at how to draw winter with pencils. This lesson is not intended for beginners, but artists with little experience will be able to master it. Let's try to draw a street in a village in winter, covered with snow. The lesson will explain how to draw winter in stages with a pencil.
Stages of execution
First of all, we outline the location of the house, trees. This is done with light movements.
We turn to the shading of the sky. It is better to do this with a hard pencil.
Gradually we move on to drawing a house, a fence around it and trees. We draw trees in the foreground in more detail, draw bark and branches.
We do not shade the places where snowdrifts with snow are with a pencil, but leave them empty.
In the picture, the light falls on the right, so do not forget to add shadows and properly design the walls of the house. Where the sun falls, it is lighter and darker on the shadow side (side wall). To increase the brightness of the picture we use softer pencils. In place of the branches covered with snow, while we leave clean places.
Details
We proceed to a more detailed drawing of the house. On the trees we add small branches. Near the house we draw a pole with power lines, we paint over it well and do not forget about the shadow. On the right side we depict another pillar and behind it in the background are additional buildings, as in any rural yard.
We draw the tree in the foreground more clearly and place snow caps on it. With a hard pencil, paint over additional buildings in the background. Do not forget to place heaps of snow on the trees. You can practice a bit and learn how to draw children in winter.
Finishing touches
After all, the picture has already become quite clear. Now it remains to add the finishing touches. We break snow caps on trees with thin branches. Lightly paint the snow lying on the road, leaving only small illuminated segments, glare.
The lesson "How to Draw Winter with a Pencil" came to an end. In the cold season, most often adults and children spend their leisure time at home. There is a lot of free time for drawing with your children. You can try to make some winter-themed drawings.
Voluminous snow paint
For this technique, mix PVA glue and shaving foam in equal amounts. Such paint can draw airy snow, surround snowman, beautiful winter landscape. To begin with, we outline the contours of the future drawing with a pencil, and after that we apply paint. Such a painting can be decorated with sparkles before it hardens. The drawing is ready.
Falling snow
If the remnants of a bubble wrap are lying around in the house, which they wrap up in stores when selling equipment, it can be used for children's drawings. We apply white and blue paints to the bubbles and apply it to the finished landscape. The resulting dots very much resemble falling snow.
Unusual paint
How to draw winter using ordinary rock salt? In the winter landscape, salt will add fabulous beauty. It is sprinkled with an un-dried drawing, and when it dries, just shake off the remaining salt. The drawing is ready. You can admire the sparkling snowflakes that have formed from salt particles.