How to draw a violin? Let's learn together

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

Do you like to draw? If yes, then let's try to draw something beautiful and unusual on paper, for example, a violin. And, of course, when drawing this musical instrument, you must definitely place a bow nearby, because it is one indivisible whole. So, get to work and do not think that something will not work out for you.

How to draw a violin? For starters, you just need to imagine it. It’s good if you have it in its natural form: as a toy or a real tool. Agree, it's nice and magical to touch the strings and extract from it, albeit not very correct, but amazing sounds.

How to draw a violin

Are you asking how to draw a violin with a pencil? Easy. To depict this tool, it is enough to have the most ordinary simple pencil. Still, it is better if there are several of them, differing from each other in the degree of softness and hardness of the graphite itself. The drawing will be more expressive if you apply hatching and shadows. Sometimes, to give the drawn violin the desired proportions, shapes and sizes, you can also usemarker.

Violin drawing steps

How to draw a violin step by step, let's take a closer look.

▪ First, we determine the approximate size of the instrument: the thickness of the body, the main length of the soundboard, neck, and also its width. With straight lines horizontally from the beginning of the violin to the upper edge, its neck, we outline the outline. We estimate the width both above and below and draw an irregular rectangle.

▪ Let's try further by smooth bends of lines along this contour to depict two semi-arches on both sides, resembling something like the English letter "S".

▪ Now, having reached the middle, you need to make two arches that will connect the semi-arches, and direct one to the right, the other to the left.

▪ Next, draw the violin's "neck" in the form of a long thin vertical rectangle, slightly tapering at the top. In the center, it should be as even as possible, because here, on the so-called deck, we will draw the exact location of the stand for the strings of the instrument.

Proportions are met, the outline is marked, so the main part, that is, the sketch of the violin drawing, is completed.

Learning to apply hatching

You still don't quite understand how to draw a violin? Let's continue then.

▪ With another simple but softer pencil, we clearly draw the fine details of the instrument.

▪ Using hatching, apply shadows to the side of the main body of the violin. We also carefully work out the visible part of the neck. In the course of the necessary hatching and feathering, we emphasize the mainshape of this object in our foreground as well as in the shadow.

▪ Next, with rather short shading, we draw the characteristic real volumetric elements of the violin.

▪ Use soft lines to highlight the S-shaped holes on the case. Using the trimming method, carefully soften the main shape of the violin and the upper part of the neck itself.

▪ Next, we clearly draw the visible foreground, make outlines for the strings.

▪ To brighten express natural volumes, depth of shadows, you can use a marker.

That's it, part of the work is completed, half of what has been started is done. How to draw a violin, we now know. But that's not all. What is a violin without a bow?

Learn to draw a bow

What is a bow, probably everyone knows. Without this component, violin playing is impossible. This is a thin stick made of a special type of wood, with the help of which sounds are extracted from the instrument.

With the correct drawing of this stick, so necessary for a musical instrument, it is necessary to observe proportions. It, of course, should not be longer than the violin itself. Let's try to draw it.

The main musical instrument is depicted lying horizontally. The bow, for greater persuasiveness and to preserve the completeness of a beautiful and correct drawing, will be placed in relation to the violin at an angle of forty-five degrees.

▪ Draw a small line, slightly less than the size of the tool itself. Next, with a simple soft pencil or marker, circle it several times.

▪ Draw two loops at the ends of the future bow, through which we draw another thin line from one end to the other. This will be an imaginary string.

Case completed. And now we know how to draw a violin with a bow. It's a beautiful drawing, isn't it?

You need to know this

In this article we tried to clearly and step by step talk about how to draw a violin. If you still don't understand, here are some tips to make it easier to learn how to do it.

▪ Draw slowly, slowly, as if you were playing the violin.

▪ Watch videos where a skilled specialist will tell you in detail how to do this job more accurately and correctly.

▪ Don't back down. Maybe not everything will turn out beautifully the first time, but the next one will definitely be much better.