Summer is one of the brightest and most beautiful times of the year. After all, it is during this period that the most fragrant flowers bloom, fruits and mushrooms appear. To understand how to draw summer, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the works of modern masters and painters of past centuries. High-quality photographs taken yourself or found on the pages of magazines and books will also help you learn how to draw summer with a pencil or paints.
Before you draw summer you need to prepare:
1). Paper;
2). Pencils with different shades;
3). Regular pencil;
4). Eraser;
5). Liner (preferably black).
It will be much easier to understand how to draw summer with a pencil if the whole process is divided into several steps:
1. Use thin lines to mark the foreground and path. And also mark the horizon line;
2. In the foreground, draw the trunks of three trees and schematically draw flowers;
3. Draw the birches more clearly. Draw the branches and foliage of these trees;
4. On the other side of the path, draw a bunny hiding in the tall grass. In the background, depict haystacks and a grazing horse. In the distance, draw a wooden house, a church and the outlines of a forest;
5. Now you understand how to draw summer with a pencil step by step. Of course, now the image looks unfinished. Before coloring this sketch, carefully outline it with a liner;
6. Use an eraser to remove the pencil sketch;
7. Paint the foliage of the trees with green, and lightly shade their trunks with gray. Use a black pencil to paint over the branches and stripes on the birch trees;
8. To depict a summer evening, you need to pay special attention to the shade of the sky. Shade the lower part of the sky with a soft pink pencil, and tint the rest of the sky with a blue pencil;
9. Color the forest in the distance blue-green. Use green pencils to color the grass in the background;
10. Use pencils of different colors to color the horse, haystacks, village house and church;
11. Color the path in brown tones. Color the grass with green pencils. Shade the hare with a gray pencil, and make the inside of its ears and nose pink;
12. Use bright pencils to color the flowers and grass near the birch trees.
The drawing is ready! Now you know how to draw summer step by step. To create an even more vibrant and creative landscape, you should use some paints. For example, watercolor and gouache are great.
Help your child draw his summer: a river, sea, meadow or house in the village. Learn to draw a girl who symbolizes summer.
Summer is a fertile time, a vacation time that children spend walking in the streets and parks, relaxing at the sea or by the river, being close to nature in the village with their grandparents. When they return to school in September, they have a story to tell. Sometimes there are so many emotions that you want to create - draw a picture on the theme “Summer”.
What can you draw on the theme of summer for children? How to draw a picture for children - “How I spent my summer”?
What is summer in a child’s understanding? What can he depict in his drawing?
Summer means bright, hot sun, green trees, blooming flowers, butterflies and bees. A child can draw a meadow or clearing - summer nature.
Children's drawing "Summer".
If a child spends his summer holidays in the city, he can depict a playground with slides and swings, children playing in the sandbox, riding bicycles, rollerblades and scooters.
Children's drawing "Summer on the playground."
Another popular theme for children's drawings about summer is the river bank. The child draws sand, reeds, running water, the sky and the sun, birds in the sky and, of course, himself and his family, swimming and sunbathing.
Children's drawing “Summer on the river.”
Did your child go to visit his grandparents living in the village in the summer? He will draw their house, vegetable garden, a friendly dog in the yard and domestic animals: goats, cows and horses grazing in the meadow, geese and chickens running in the yard, a pig and piglets eating from a trough.
Children's drawing "Summer in the village."
Summer holidays at sea for a child are very diverse. He will draw what impressed him most: dolphins, sailboats and ships, a lunar path on the surface of the sea, people relaxing on the beach and swimming in the sea.
Children's drawing “Summer at the sea”.
How to draw summer with a pencil step by step for beginners and children?
Summer is a blooming meadow.
In the drawing on the theme “Summer” the child draws a sunlit clearing with grass, flowers and green trees. In this clearing he can depict himself.
- The child takes a sheet of paper, a pencil and an eraser. First, he needs to mark the sheet - draw a line - the “horizon” dividing heaven and earth.
- He is faced with the task of drawing a meadow. He should use thin pencil lines to mark where the grass bushes will be.
- Each blade of grass should be drawn.
- At the next stage, you can complement the image of the meadow with several colors and erase the auxiliary lines.
Summer meadow: step 1.
Summer meadow: step 2.
Summer meadow.
Ways to draw grass.
You can draw summer flowers, for example, daisies and cornflowers.
Cornflower step by step.
Chamomile step by step.
Now the child moves on to drawing himself, for example, a girl picking summer flowers.
- You should start by designating the girl’s head, torso and arms; they are designated as ovals.
- The line of the hips (the girl will be in a summer dress) is drawn in a semicircle.
- On the face, lines of symmetry should be drawn for the eyes, nose and lips. Next, the face is detailed.
- The girl's hair is drawn with smooth, light pencil movements.
- Draw the girl's dress and her hands. A flower is being drawn in her hands.
- Erase auxiliary lines. Using pencil shading, the figure of the girl in the drawing is made three-dimensional.
Girl in the meadow: step 1.
Girl in the meadow: step 2.
Girl in the meadow: step 3.
Girl in the meadow: step 4.
Girl in the meadow: step 5.
Girl in the meadow.
Let the child bring the drawing to life - complement it with images of insects: butterflies and ladybugs.
Addition to the “Summer” landscape: ladybug in stages.
Addition to the “Summer” landscape: butterfly in stages.
VIDEO: Drawing a summer meadow
How to draw summer in the village?
In a drawing on the theme “Summer”, the child often draws a house in the village.
- On the sheet, first mark the horizon line, subtly, so that it can be easily erased where it is not needed.
- The sun and floating clouds are depicted in the sky (several of them to make the weather look sunny).
- Trees will grow near the house; draw their trunks.
- The trees are detailed - their branches and crowns are drawn.
- They draw a house. To prevent it from looking flat, it is looked at as if from an angle. The house is marked with two rectangles.
- It will be easier for a child to draw a roof if he looks at the drawing for instructions on how to do it.
- A pipe is drawn on the roof. An attic is being painted above the future entrance to the house.
They draw the windows and entrance to the house. - It's time to add bright details to the drawing - a fence, grass, a path leading to the house, flowers.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 1.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 2.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 3.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 4.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 5.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 6.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 7.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 8.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 9.
Summer in the village in pencil: step 10.
Summer in the village in pencil.
You can also add animals to the drawing - a dog in a booth, a cat on a fence, or even a goat nibbling grass.
Addition to the “Summer in the Village” landscape: a doghouse.
Addition to the landscape “Summer in the Country”: a dog.
Addition to the landscape “Summer in the Village”: a cat sitting on the fence.
Addition to the “Summer in the Village” landscape: goat.
VIDEO: How to draw a house in the village?
How to draw a summer landscape step by step with pencil and paints?
For many children, the summer landscape is associated with the sea, the beach and sand castles.
The simplest version of the drawing “Summer holidays at sea” is an image of the water surface, the shore, a sailboat floating on the water and seagulls flying in the sky.
Sea in summer.
You can also draw an exotic beach with palm trees.
- Mark the sheet: draw the horizon line and the line where the land meets the water with thin lines, determine the places where palm trees, a beach umbrella, and a deck chair will be depicted.
- The trees are drawn and shaded, the umbrella and deck chair are detailed.
Beach: step 1.
Beach: step 2.
Beach: step 3.
Pencil drawing "Beach".
The picture with children building sand castles on the seashore looks very summery.
- Draw a horizon line, as well as a line dividing the coast and the sea.
- On the shore they draw figures of children, a boy and a girl, as well as the outline of a sand castle.
- Draw children's faces, hairstyles and clothes. They draw shovels in their hands, and a bucket on the sand.
- They detail the sand and decorate the sand castle with shells and starfish.
Children on the beach in summer: step 1.
Children on the beach in summer: step 2.
Children on the beach in summer.
VIDEO: How to paint a summer beach in watercolor?
How to draw summer nature step by step with pencil and paints?
The beauty of nature in summer can be conveyed by drawing a river bank. It's so fun to have picnics with the whole family!
- Have your child sketch out the shore line with a thin pencil line. It is also necessary to outline the horizon. There will be a fishing boat on the shore. You need to outline its contours, and then detail it.
- The river will be surrounded by forests, so the outlines of trees are first drawn against the background, then the trees are detailed.
- Hills overgrown with grass and bushes framing the river are also visible.
- The reflection of trees on the water is indicated by shading.
River bank in summer in pencil: step 1.
River bank in summer in pencil: step 2.
River bank in summer in pencil: step 3.
River bank in summer in pencil.
In the foreground of such a picture you can depict a picnic scene - a girl sitting on a wicker basket, a mat, a fire.
First, the contours of the girl’s figure are drawn, under her hips - a rectangle, which will later turn into a basket.
- Draw the girl's ears and hair. The shoulders and arms are detailed, drawn with smooth lines.
- Drawing a girl's face.
- Then they decorate the wicker basket.
- They draw clothes and a wide-brimmed hat with a bow for the girl. Folds are depicted on clothes with light strokes.
- Auxiliary lines are removed.
Girl on a picnic: sketches.
Girl on a picnic: detailing of the drawing.
The fire is drawn according to the following diagram.
Bonfire in stages.
Summer: picnic in nature.
How to draw a girl Summer?
A girl, symbolizing summer, sun and warmth, is usually depicted in a light sundress, with her hair flowing in the wind, surrounded by greenery and flowers.
You can depict summer in a feminine likeness as a little girl, a teenage girl, or a young girl.
You can draw a girl – Summer according to the scheme as in the picture below.
For drawing: summer on the river.
VIDEO: Quick Drawing | Her Name is Summer | Watercolor
How to draw a summer landscape step by step? If you asked this question, then most likely it’s already summer outside your window, and you don’t even remember the cold, long nights.
Today we will learn to draw, let's get started!
Stage 1
Our landscape will be quite standard; it will consist of a piece of a house, trees and a narrow path.
Let's start with home. By lightly pressing the pencil we outline the building with perspective lines extending into the distance beyond the horizon.
Stage 2
According to the laws of perspective, we outline the windows and their frames. Please note that we are only depicting a small part of the building on paper, so the top window is not completely visible.
Stage 3
Now it's time for the path and trees. We draw three trees, you can read about how to work with trees. We also depict a winding path going to the center of the horizon.
Stage 4
We continue to detail the vegetation of our summer landscape. We draw more trees and use careless strokes to depict their foliage.
Try not to press too hard on the pencil, because you may have to redraw something or you will later paint over the drawing with watercolors or gouache.
Stage 5
Let's put on paper the most important attributes of summer. Namely, a cat and flowers. In the foreground, right on the path, we depict a cat. You don't have to get too detailed at this step, just sketch out the basics.
We plant flowers nearby, again, no need to draw them in too much detail. We don't need this for now.
Stage 6
So, it's time to erase all the lines drawn in pencil and trace them with a pen. The building needs to depict the relief of the boards, we work on the bark and foliage.
In the foreground we are working on the grass, cat and flowers. Also, don't forget about the grass in the background. The farther a piece of land is from us, the less grass there should be - this is the law of cartoons :)
Already at this step our landscape looks very impressive, and we haven’t even started coloring it yet!
Of course, you can get rid of the elements you don't like. For example, it is not necessary to depict flowers or trees. Experiment and come up with something of your own :)
Stage 7
The final step is coloring, so find some colored pencils or paints.
We paint almost all the grass and path. The area behind the house will turn out a little darker than the rest of the picture, since less light falls there.
The right side of the trunks will be darker than the left, because the source of light, that is, the sun, will be on the left.
We are finishing all the grass and trunks. Also, use darker shades to depict the shadow on the path falling from the trees. Well, don’t forget about the furry animal...
We plant the foliage and start working on the background. The top of the head behind the horizon should be painted a slightly different shade of green, this will give the picture a more expressive effect.
Our sky, accordingly, is blue, the closer to the horizon, the brighter it is.
Finally we paint the house and flowers and our drawing is ready!
Also, there are other options for drawing summer landscapes:
The summer drawing can be the culmination of the past summer holidays and family travel season.
It allows you to recall in your memory all the most significant events of days filled with sunlight and save them for the future, transferring them to a piece of paper.
Questions for conversation in a lesson on the topic “Summer”
In order to make it easier for children to spill out their memories onto the space of a white sheet of paper, they need to be configured accordingly, to open a channel to the source of imagination and creativity. Therefore, before we begin the drawing process itself, we conduct a focused conversation, during which we look for answers to auxiliary questions:
- Did the kids enjoy their summer holiday?
- Where does summer feel best - in the apartment or on the street? In the city or in nature?
- What natural phenomena indicate that it is summer outside?
- How can you tell by plants that it’s summer outside? Which plants have become the real symbol of summer?
- How do you remember this summer - fine, warm, or rainy, cloudy?
- Which days did you like best – sunny or rainy?
- What did you do when it was raining outside? Did you enjoy it?
- What event do you remember most?
- What colors would you like to depict a memorable event?
- Which colors are happy and which are sad?
- What colors best reflect the colors of a sultry sunny day? (We gradually lead the children to the definition of warm and cold shades).
How to conduct a lesson on the topic “Summer Drawing”?
Having smoothly guided the kids to think about the upcoming work, we give them a few basic ideas to start the creative process.
- Let's discuss where to start our drawing. (By defining what exactly we will try to depict).
- Many kids will want to depict nature. We tell you that such a picture will be called a landscape, and in French this word means “country” or “terrain.”
- We are thinking about where we will start filling the space of the white sheet. (From drawing the horizon line). We think in which case the horizon line should be lower (if we want to draw a lot of sky) or higher (if the main goal is to draw what is located on the ground). We explain that the horizon line is drawn thinly, with a simple pencil, and then erased.
- We are thinking about whether it is necessary to depict the sun, and if so, in what ways can this be done.
- We ask if someone will paint the forest. Usually there are a lot of such people in the group. Then we conduct a small master class on drawing trees: we gradually lead the kids to the fact that trees become thinner as they move up their trunk, that their branches are also thicker and more powerful at the bottom than at the top. We examine several ways to depict the deciduous crown and silhouettes of coniferous trees.
- Let's find out if someone will draw flowers. We think about how best to do this, remember that some flowers have a center and petals, and some do not. We recall the stylized image of flowers, explain to the children what the concept “stylized” means.
- We discuss how animals can be depicted - realistically or stylized. Children are very fond of stylized drawings; they manage to convey well the main characteristic features of the depicted object.
- For inspiration, we show the kids several reproductions of summer images by famous artists. We discuss how the master managed to convey the atmosphere of a summer day, how he distributed objects on his canvas, what colors he used, and what special techniques he uses in his work.
- Let's turn on some nice light classical music and begin the creative process. As we work, we approach the children and tell them if something is not working out for them.
- At the end of the lesson, we make sure to arrange an impromptu gallery, asking each child to tell about his painting and give it a name. We suggest doing a series of similar works yourself in order to preserve a more complete picture of the past summer days.
Children's drawings: ideas for inspiration
Children's drawing summer is always rainbow colors, positive energy and piercing sincerity.
Such a painting will not just decorate the room, it will fill the surrounding space with its positivity, attract attention to itself and create a benevolent atmosphere in the house.
We all love summer - a time for relaxation, vacations, games, adventures and swimming. Personally, I just love summer for a whole bunch of reasons, and therefore I invite you to draw this time of year with me step by step with a pencil.
So, what do you associate with summer? Personally, for me - with clear skies, sun, greenery and a house in the village. Let's try to draw a carefree landscape that would be perfect for illustrating your story about holidays and summer.
First, we divide our sheet with a line, marking the horizon. Draw with a simple pencil so that you can sometimes erase all the extra lines.
At the top of the sheet we draw a sun and clouds. You can draw a completely cloudy sky, or you can draw a clear one.
Add a couple of tree trunks.
And, of course, what would summer be without lush, bright foliage? We draw lush tree crowns.
The general landscape is ready, now it’s time to draw a house away from the trees. By the way, in the next lessons I want to show you how to draw houses. So, we draw the base of the house from two rectangles.
Add a roof to the rectangles. Don’t forget to remove all unnecessary lines along the way so that they don’t distract you.
Let's add another element and a pipe to the roof.
Let's finish drawing the doors and windows.
