Water. This is the most important element of nature. There is nothing more meditative than the sound of a wave beating on the shore, creating a kind of melody, and soft ripples give integrity to the picture.
The possibilities of the water landscape are endless. But without tools, it’s impossible to figure out how to draw water. We are faced with many questions about how we intend to draw it. We lay the ripples of the waves, the reflection of the sun, the blue of the clouds with a brush on the canvas to capture all this in the picture.
Preparatory stage
How to draw water? Not everyone can organize an open air on the spot. And not everyone knows how to draw water. Therefore, we use photographs, but we need to remember the limitations of their use. One of these drawbacks is that they smooth the idea of measurements. You cannot see what is hidden behind the object. If you didn’t take the picture, you need to take additional steps to “connect” to the scene. You need to mentally imagine a walk through this area. Do research: look at photos from different angles. Feel the texture, feel the wind on your face or the water at your feet.
What should be taken into account when creating a picture, how to draw water?
In this article, you will learn how to draw waves on a lake and sea.
What you need:
- paper;
- hard pencil (HB);
- medium soft pencil (2B);
- soft pencil (5B or lower);
- pencil sharpener;
- eraser.
Draw water close-up
Prepare some object. Water reveals itself by what is reflected in it.
Use a hard pencil to draw a reflection outline.
Draw a wavy pattern under the object. Remember that the farther the waves, the denser they should be to each other.
The waves intersect with each other, creating circles. They must be shaded with a simple pencil.
Cross the white areas between the shapes with thick lines.
Take a soft pencil and press hard to darken parts of the shapes. If the subject is bright, darken the details beyond its reflection. If your subject is dark, darken the parts within its reflection.
Take a soft pencil and fill in the areas between the dark shapes.
Use the same pencil to highlight some shadows in the reflection. If you use the swan option, you must also add a shadow under the tail.
Take a soft pencil and use it to emphasize some parts of the object.
We draw a lake, the sea
Of course, first you need something that will affect the water.
It is very important to use the right perspective for reflection.
Use a pencil to sketch.
Take a soft pencil and draw waves under the dark objects.
The sky is very bright, so it does not need to be reflected.
Press even harder when drawing close to the shore to make the boundary between water and land more visible.
Draw a waterfall
A waterfall is water flowing down. So we need to first create a background for her. For this purpose, a rock will be ideal.
Use a hard pencil to make the shadows of the earth under the water very finely visible on the surface of the water.
Use the same pencil to draw streams of water flowing down. If necessary, use an eraser to lighten several shaded parts. In the “vertical” parts, do not draw streams like simple lines, but create V-shaped drains down from them.
Shade the "cave" under the waterfall, filling the space between the streams. To do this, use a soft pencil.
Make the rim of the rocky shelves shiny by emphasizing the parts of the flows on them.
Focus on threads, obscuring some of its parts. Make sure that the V and rotated V-shaped streams are clearly visible in the picture in running water.
Take a soft pencil and emphasize some parts of the currents, especially in the shade and next to dark objects that may be reflected by water.
Take a hard pencil and draw the foam of a waterfall.
Draw the direction of the water moving from the center point.
Draw and “fill” the water in this area with soft pencils.
Use a clean eraser to add shine to the most lit places. This will emphasize any of your picture.
You can try your hand and draw a poster "Save the water."
Try to reflect in the poster all the beauty of water. Find the idea you want to convey.
Not sure how to draw "Save the Water"?
Here are ideas to reflect:
- careful attitude to water and its economical expenditure;
- pollution protection.
It is worth considering all these values and capturing them on the poster “Take care of water”. Show what is close to you in spirit, then the result will be excellent.
How to draw a water cycle in nature
We depict sky, water, land and mountains on a piece of paper. We supplement with clouds, clouds. We draw the rain droplets with blue paint. Add a bright yellow sun. Light wavy arrows pointing upward depict evaporation. With them, we will begin to draw a diagram of the water cycle in nature. Water evaporates and turns into clouds. We depict this using a rounded arrow. Then the steam turns into drops and precipitates on the ground. We depict the arrow. Water from the mountains flows into water bodies, the process repeats. Therefore, it was called the water cycle in nature.