How to draw water and its cycle in nature

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

Water. It is the most important element of nature. There is nothing more meditative than the sound of a wave crashing against the shore, creating a kind of melody, and soft ripples bring integrity to the picture.

The possibilities of the water landscape are endless. But without tools it is impossible to understand how to draw water. There are many questions before us about how we propose to draw it. The ripples of the waves, the reflection of the sun, the blueness of the clouds, we set aside with a brush on the canvas to capture it all in the picture.

Preparatory stage

How to draw water? Not everyone can organize a plein air on the spot. And not everyone knows how to draw water. Therefore, we use photographs, but we need to be aware of the limitations of their use. One such drawback is that they flatten the representation of dimensions. You cannot see what is behind the object. If you didn't take the photo, you need to take extra steps to "plug in" to the scene. You need to mentally imagine walking through this area. Do your research: Look at the photos from different angles. Feel the textures, feel the wind on your face or the water at your feet.

What should be considered when creating a picture, how to draw water?

In this article you will learn how to draw waves on the lake and the sea.

What you need:

• paper;
• hard pencil (HB);
• medium soft pencil (2B);
• soft pencil (5B or below);
• sharpener;
• Eraser.

Draw water close-up

Prepare some object. Water reveals itself by what it reflects.

Use a hard pencil to draw the outline of the reflection.

Draw a wavy pattern under the object. Remember that the farther the waves, the denser they should be to each other.

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 outside of 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 version, then you must also add a shadow under the tail.

Take a soft pencil and use it to highlight some parts of the subject.

Draw a lake, sea

Of course, first you need something that reflects on the water.

It is very important to use the correct perspective for reflection.

Use a pencil to sketch.

Take a soft pencil and draw waves under dark objects.

The sky is very bright so it doesn't 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

Waterfall is water flowing down. Therefore, we need to first create a background for it. A rock would be ideal for this purpose.

Use a hard pencil to make the shadows of the ground under the water appear very thin on the surface of the water.

Use the same pencil to draw streams of water flowing down. If necessary, use an eraser to lighten a few shadowed details. In the "vertical" parts, don't draw the flows like simple lines, but create V-shaped drains from them downwards.

Shade the "cave" under the waterfall by filling in the space between the streams. To do this, use a soft pencil.

Make the rims of the rock shelves sparkle by highlighting the thread parts on them.

Put emphasis on the threads by shading some parts of it. Make sure the V and rotated V-shaped streams are clearly visible in the painting in running water.

Take a soft pencil and emphasize some parts of the streams, especially in the shadows and next to dark objects that can be reflected by water.

Take a hard pencil and draw the foam of the 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 sparkle to the highlights. It will highlight any of your paintings.

You can try your hand and draw a "Save water" poster.

Try to capture the beauty of water in a poster. Find an idea you want to convey.

Don't know how to draw Save Water?

Here are ideas to reflect:

• careful attitude to water and its economical use;
• protection from pollution.

It's worth reflecting on all these values and capturing them on a "Save Water" poster. Depict what is close to you in spirit, then the result will be excellent.

How to draw the water cycle in nature

Depicting sky, water, earth and mountains on a piece of paper. We supplement with clouds, clouds. Raindrops are painted with blue paint. Add a bright yellow sun. Light wavy arrows pointing upwards depict evaporation. From them we will begin to draw a diagram of the water cycle in nature. The water evaporates and turns into clouds. We depict this with a rounded arrow. The steam then turns into droplets and falls to the ground. Shown with an arrow. Water from the mountains flows into reservoirs, the process repeats. Therefore, it was called the water cycle in nature.