How to draw a picture with your own hands?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

In our time, more and more people are trying to show their creativity. Someone tries to sew or knit toys, some are interested in carving figures from wood or sculpting various gizmos from polymer clay. But the most traditional way to show your creativity is painting. A novice artist does not always know how to draw a picture so that it turns out beautifully.

Choosing a subject for a painting

First you need to decide what picture to draw yourself. Perhaps it will be a portrait or landscape, or maybe a still life. Next, you should determine in what style the future picture will be written. Since there are many styles in painting, you can consider those that are best suited for a novice artist who wants to paint a picture with his own hands.

Styles in Art

Naive or naive art. It is self-taught creativity. Very good for those who want to draw for themselves and their friends. It will allow you to learn how to properly hold a pencil in your hands and handle paints.

Orphism. Appeared in 1910 in France. The main thing in this style is aesthetics, plasticity, graceful lines.and rhythm. Representatives of Orphism - Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine.

Primitivism. Beautiful paintings by Marc Chagall and Niko Pirosmani are written in this style. The forms of work are simplified to suit the creativity of a child or a primitive drawing. It differs from the naive style in that these paintings are painted by professionals, specifically stylizing them as folk art. While naive is the creativity of amateurs.

Pointillism. A bitmap that is created from small dots or squares. Henri Matisse, Paul Signac and Georges Seurat worked in this force. When mixing colors, thus, original and interesting pictures are obtained.

Rayism. The style invented by Larionov and Goncharova. It is an abstract art based on light transmission.

Kitch. Translated from German, it means "bad taste". It is, rather, pseudo-art, which is distinguished by extravagance and noisy forms. Must have an original plot and quality performance.

Graphics. Objects in the picture are depicted with strokes and lines. Usually this is a one-color drawing and you need to draw a picture with a pencil. In such work, different colors are sometimes used, but, as a rule, they have a supporting role.

Materials and tools

Before you start drawing, you need to prepare tools and paper. Best forfor beginners, A3 paper for drawing is suitable. A sheet of paper must be fixed on a tablet or any hard surface. If you plan to draw a picture with watercolors, then the paper must be glued to the tablet, after wetting the sheet with water.

Tools and materials:

• Simple pencils.
• Eraser or soft rubber.
• Watercolor paints and watercolor brushes.
• Pastel pencils.
• Colored pencils.
• Paper napkins.
• Water jar.
• Paper for drawing.
• Paper attachment pad.

Getting Started

For a novice artist, the best training will be a drawing created from the simplest geometric shapes. Using triangles, squares and circles, you can create an abstract drawing on any topic. This style of painting is called geometric abstractionism. It is also worth trying to draw a picture of three-dimensional objects, for example: a ball, a cone, a pyramid and a cylinder. All these items can be used to compose the composition of your work. Such exercises will help you draw a picture with a pencil and teach you how to correctly reproduce the shape of objects.

Experimenting with watercolor

Watercolor paints give a huge scope for creativity. Even if you just pour paint with colored spots on a sheet of paper, you can get a work of art. In this case, it is necessary to know the laws of color and be able to correctly combine colors with each other. Get this kind of knowledgeyou can when studying the color wheel.

Red, yellow and blue are primary or primary colors. On their basis, you can get any color. When you mix red and yellow you get orange, when you mix red with blue you get purple. When yellow and blue are combined, it is green. Green, purple and orange are called secondary or complementary colors. The remaining colors are obtained from the predominance of one color over another.

It is important to remember about the contrast of colors (opposite colors on the color wheel). Contrast occurs between primary (primary) and secondary (secondary) colors:

• Red - green,
• Yellow - purple,
• Blue - orange.

Using this knowledge, you can paint a very interesting picture on any topic. The easiest option is to paint a picture on the theme of sunset or sunrise.

Southern sunset watercolor drawing

In order to draw a picture in stages, you need to draw up a work plan. First you need to choose a plot. The example of the presented picture shows palm trees on the shore, the ocean, the sky and the setting sun. You can make your own changes to the plot of this work, add a boat or remove palm trees. Next, you need to prepare the workplace. It is best to retire so that there are no distractions. Creativity is a process in which the master plunges headlong, and any obstacle will prevent him from concentrating on work. Watercolor paints can be replacedpastel crayons or colored pencils, in which case you do not need to use water.

Watercolor steps

• Sketch the picture with a simple pencil. Mark the horizon line, which should be located below the middle of the sheet. Use thin lines to outline palm trees, coastline, sun and a sunny path on the water.
• How to dampen a piece of paper stretched over a tablet with water. The setting sun and its reflection in the water are the lightest and brightest parts of the picture. They practically do not need to be filled with watercolor. Very often, stereotypes appear in the perception of a person that interfere with the correct expression of reality in the picture. The sun disk should not be yellow or red. In the picture, it remains white, and its rays and the space next to it must be painted in yellow.
• When working on a painting, you should know that water always reflects the sky. If the sky contains pink, red, yellow and any other shades, they must be drawn on the surface of the water.
• Palm trees and the coastline in the picture should be drawn in dark color, as they are located opposite the setting sun.
• Fill the drawing with watercolor from the lightest parts of the picture to the darkest. As determined, the lightest part of the drawing is the sun with reflection, and the darkest part is the palm trees and the shore. Accordingly, you need to choose colors and get to work.
• Watercolor paints need a lot of water. Only under this condition it is possible to obtain the necessary transparency and realism of the image. In the process of drawing, it is necessary to dry the layers of paint, and then add color additions. Otherwise, the elements of the picture will flow on top of each other.

If a novice artist failed to draw a beautiful picture the first time, then you should not get upset and give up. As in any activity, in creativity it is necessary to train and learn, to fill your hand. Only with constant exercises will it be possible to draw a picture in such a way as to arouse the admiration of friends.