Among the favorite fairy tales of our childhood, the stories of Hans Christian Andersen occupy a special place. They are touching and unusually fascinating, serious and instructive, funny and exciting at the same time. Andersen's heroes, even the most negative ones, are endowed with great charm and attractive power. For example, the mistress of storms and frosts, the Snow Queen.
Mistress of winter
Remember, in the story of the same name, grandmother tells Kai and Gerda about white bees that begin to swarm with the advent of winter? They are sent to countries, cities and villages by the Snow Queen. She herself sometimes, turning into a large snowflake, flies over the houses, descends on the window sills and looks into the windows. A blizzard is raging around and everything is freezing cold. The image of the lady of the cold is present in the mythology and culture of many peoples. This is the Slavic Snow Maiden, and the Scandinavian Ice Maiden, and the Japanese Yuki-onna - the Snow Woman with white, almost transparent skin, as if made of ice. Each has its own special character, its powers in the human world and other forces, its own history. However, the topic of our today's conversation is as a Queen.
The psychology of the image
Let's remember how Andersen's heroine differs from other similar fairy-tale characters. To do this, you must re-read the work itself. By the way, both you and your child will get great pleasure - the drawing is most likely intended for him! Also, reconsider feature and especially animated films, only ours, domestic ones. It will become clearer to you how to draw the Snow Queen, how exactly she should look, what to look for in appearance and what shades of behavior should be conveyed in the work. Remember that the heroine is extremely arrogant, indifferent to all living things. Her world is a world of perfect but dead beauty of winter nature. Outwardly, she is also beautiful, but this is the beauty of a marble statue, and not an ordinary person. Here's what to think about before drawing the Snow Queen.
Details in details
What elements should the image of interest to us consist of? Crown, high stand-up collar. A loose-fitting or fitted dress, with a puffy bell skirt. Or a short fur coat trimmed with fur. How to draw the Snow Queen so that she looks like Andersen's heroine? Strictly shifted eyebrows, pursed lips, contemptuous, angry facial features are correct, but their beauty should not attract, but alert.
Step by step instructions
Where to begin? How to draw the Snow Queen step by step? Prepare a landscape sheet, plain and eraser. Draw a silhouette of a female figure in a puffy dress “like princesses”. Add long hair as desired. The second step will be the design of the hem of the dress, then draw small legs in shoes. You can stop at the option when only the toes of the shoes look out. The next step on how to draw the Snow Queen with a pencil will be finishing the skirt. Decorate it with flounces and a pattern of snowflakes. Then move on to the corsage and bodice. Draw the line of the shoulder, arms. Make the sleeves long, expanding to the tassels. Make a "snow" pattern. Now move on to the neck. It should be long and slender. Behind, as already mentioned, draw a stand-up collar. Now the face. Eyebrows in flight, under them - big eyes. Their color will be dark blue or light blue. A small chiseled nose and a pale pink mouth, expressive lips, a clear pattern. Choose an oval or heart shape for your face. And finally, hair and crown. You can limit yourself to loose wavy hair, draw curls or depict a complex puffy hairstyle. Choose the shape of the crown yourself. It can be ordinary, teeth, or it can be a complex geometric shape. When the sketch is complete, color your Snow Queen with colored pencils. Use blue and blue shades, white color.
Good luck with your creativity!
There was snow in the yard.
- It's swarming white bees! - said the old grandmother.
“Do they also have a queen?” - the boy asked; he knew real bees had one.
- Eat! Grandma answered. - Snowflakes surround her in a thick swarm, but she is larger than all of them and never stays on the ground - she always rushes on a black cloud. Often at night she flies through the city streets and looks into the windows; that's why they are covered with ice patterns, like flowers!
- Seen, seen! - the children said and believed that all this was the absolute truth.
- Can't the Snow Queen come in here? - once asked the girl.
- Let him try! - said the boy. - I'll put it on a warm stove, so it will melt!
But the grandmother patted him on the head and started talking about something else.
In the evening, when Kai was already at home and had almost completely undressed, about to go to bed, he climbed onto a chair by the window and looked into a small circle thawed on the window pane. Snowflakes fluttered outside the window; one of them, a larger one, fell on the edge of the flower box and began to grow, grow, until finally it turned into a woman wrapped in the thinnest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars. She was so lovely, so tender, all of dazzling white ice and yet alive! Her eyes sparkled like stars, but there was neither warmth nor meekness in them. She nodded to the boy and beckoned him with her hand.
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Kai and Gerda sat and examined a book with pictures - animals and birds; the big clock tower struck five.
- Ai! the boy suddenly exclaimed. - I was stabbed right in the heart, and something got into my eye!
The girl threw her arm around his neck, he blinked, but there seemed to be nothing in his eye.
- It must have jumped out! - he said.
But that's the point, it's not. Two fragments of the devil's mirror fell into his heart and into his eye, in which, as we, of course, remember, everything great and good seemed insignificant and ugly, and evil and evil was reflected even brighter, the bad sides of each thing came out even sharper. Poor Kai! Now his heart should have turned into a piece of ice!
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The snowflakes kept growing and finally turned into big white hens. Suddenly they scattered to the sides, the big sledge stopped, and the man sitting in it stood up. It was a tall, slender, dazzling white woman - the Snow Queen; and her fur coat and hat were made of snow.
- Nice ride! - she said. But are you completely cold? Get into my coat!
And, placing the boy in her sleigh, she wrapped him in her fur coat; Kai seemed to sink into a snowdrift.
Are you still dead? she asked and kissed him on the forehead.
Wu! Her kiss was colder than ice, pierced him with cold through and through and reached the very heart, and it was already half icy. For one minute it seemed to Kai that he was about to die, but no, on the contrary, it became easier, he even completely stopped feeling cold.
- My sleds! Don't forget my sled! he said.
And the sledge was tied on the back of one of the white hens, which flew with them after the big sledge. The Snow Queen kissed Kai again, and he forgot Gerda, his grandmother, and all the household.
- I won't kiss you again! - she said. "Or I'll kiss you to death!"
Kai looked at her; she was so good! He could not have imagined a smarter, more charming face. Now she did not seem to him icy, as she had been sitting outside the window and nodding her head to him; now she seemed perfect to him.
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The boat was drifting farther and farther; Gerda sat quietly, in nothing but stockings; her red shoes followed the boat, but could not overtake her.
The banks of the river were very beautiful; everywhere one could see the most wonderful flowers, tall, sprawling trees, meadows on which sheep and cows grazed, but nowhere was a single human soul to be seen.
“Maybe the river is taking me to Kai?” - thought Gerda, cheered up, stood on her nose and admired the beautiful green shores for a long, long time. But then she sailed to a large cherry orchard, in which a house with colored glass in the windows and a thatched roof sheltered. Two wooden soldiers stood at the door and saluted everyone who passed by with their guns.
Gerda screamed at them - she mistook them for the living - but they, of course, did not answer her. So she swam even closer to them, the boat approached almost to the very shore, and the girl screamed even louder. Out of the house came out, leaning on a stick, an old, very old woman in a big straw hat painted with wonderful flowers.
- Oh, you poor baby! - said the old woman. - How did you get on such a big fast river and climbed so far?
With these words, the old woman entered the water, hooked the boat with her stick, pulled it to the shore and landed Gerda.
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Forest pigeons in a cage quietly cooed; the other doves were already asleep; the little robber wrapped one arm around Gerda's neck - she had a knife in the other - and began to snore, but Gerda could not close her eyes, not knowing whether they would kill her or leave her alive. The robbers sat around the fire, sang songs and drank, and the old robber woman tumbled. It was terrible to look at this poor girl.
Suddenly the wood pigeons cooed:
- Kurr! Kurr! We saw Kai! A white hen carried his sled on her back, and he sat in the Snow Queen's sleigh. They flew over the forest when we chicks were still in the nest; she breathed on us, and everyone died, except for the two of us! Kurr! Kurr!
- What are you saying? exclaimed Gerda. Where did the Snow Queen go?
- She flew, probably, to Lapland - there is eternal snow and ice! Ask the reindeer what is leashed here!
- Yes, there is eternal snow and ice, it's a miracle how good it is! - said the reindeer. - There you jump at will on the endless sparkling icy plains! There will be a summer tent of the Snow Queen, and her permanent palaces - at the North Pole, on the island of Svalbard!
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Then the little robber opened the door, lured the dogs into the house, cut the rope with which the deer was tied with her sharp knife, and said to him:
- Well, live! Yes, look at the girl. Gerda held out both hands to the little robber in huge mittens and said goodbye to her. The reindeer set off at full speed through the stumps and bumps through the forest, through the swamps and steppes.
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Here is my native northern lights! - said the deer. - Look how it burns!
And he ran on, not stopping day or night.
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The deer stopped at a miserable hut; the roof went down to the ground, and the door was so low that people had to crawl through it on all fours. At home there was an old Lapland woman who was frying fish by the light of a fat lamp.
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When Gerda warmed up, ate and drank, the Laplander wrote a few words on dried cod, ordered Gerda to take good care of her, then tied the girl to the back of a deer, and he rushed off again. The sky again fukalo and threw out pillars of wonderful blue flame. So the deer ran with Gerda to Finnmark and knocked on the Finnish chimney - she didn’t even have doors.
Well, the heat was in her home! The Finn herself, a short, dirty woman, went about half-naked. She quickly pulled off Gerda's entire dress, mittens and boots - otherwise the girl would have been too hot - she put a piece of ice on the deer's head and then began to read what was written on the dried cod. She read everything from word to word three times, until she memorized it, and then she put the cod into the cauldron - after all, the fish was good for food, and nothing was wasted with the Finn.
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Stronger than it is, I can't make it. Don't you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent childish heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more! Two miles from here begins the Snow Queen's garden. Take the girl there, let her down by a large bush covered with red berries, and, without delay, come back!
With these words, the Finn planted Gerda on the back of a deer, and he rushed to run as fast as he could.
- Hey, I'm without warm boots! Hey, I'm not wearing gloves! cried Gerda, finding herself in the cold.
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But the deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries; then he lowered the girl down, kissed her on the very lips, and large brilliant tears rolled from his eyes. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left all alone, in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.
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She ran forward as fast as she could; a whole regiment of snow flakes rushed towards her, but they did not fall from the sky - the sky was completely clear, and the northern lights were burning on it - no, they ran along the ground straight at Gerda and, as they approached, became larger and larger. Gerda remembered the big beautiful flakes under the burning glass, but these were much larger, scarier, of the most amazing shapes and forms, and all alive. These were the advance detachments of the Snow Queen's troops. Some resembled large ugly hedgehogs, others - hundred-headed snakes, others - fat bear cubs with tousled hair. But they all sparkled with the same whiteness, they were all living snowflakes.
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Gerda began to read "Our Father"; it was so cold that the girl's breath immediately turned into a thick fog. This fog thickened and thickened, but then small, bright angels began to stand out from it, which, having stepped on the ground, grew into large formidable angels with helmets on their heads and spears and shields in their hands. Their number kept increasing, and when Gerda finished her prayer, a whole legion had already formed around her. The angels took the snow monsters on spears, and they crumbled into thousands of snowflakes. Gerda could now boldly go forward; the angels stroked her arms and legs, and she was no longer so cold.
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The walls of the halls of the Snow Queen were swept by a blizzard, the windows and doors were done by violent winds. Hundreds of huge, aurora-lit halls stretched one after another; the largest stretched for many, many miles. How cold, how deserted it was in those white, brightly shining halls! Fun never came here! At least once a bear party would be held here with dances to the music of the storm, in which polar bears could distinguish themselves with grace and the ability to walk on their hind legs, or a party of cards with quarrels and a fight would be made, or, finally, they would agree to a conversation over a cup of coffee little white gossips of chanterelles - no, this never happened! Cold, deserted, dead! The northern lights flashed and burned so regularly that it was possible to calculate with accuracy at what minute the light would increase and at what time it would weaken. In the middle of the largest deserted snow hall was a frozen lake. The ice cracked on it into thousands of pieces, even and wonderfully regular. In the middle of the lake stood the throne of the Snow Queen; on it she sat when she was at home, saying that she was sitting on the mirror of the mind; in her opinion, it was the only and best mirror in the world.
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Kai turned completely blue, almost turned black from the cold, but did not notice this - the kisses of the Snow Queen made him insensitive to the cold, and his very heart became a piece of ice. Kai fiddled with flat, pointed ice floes, laying them in all sorts of frets. After all, there is such a game - folding figures from wooden planks, which is called the "Chinese puzzle". Kai also folded various intricate figures from ice floes, and this was called the "ice game of the mind." In his eyes, these figures were a miracle of art, and folding them was an occupation of the first importance. This was because he had a shard of a magic mirror in his eye! He put together whole words from ice floes, but he could not put together what he especially wanted - the word "eternity". The Snow Queen said to him: "If you add this word, you will be your own master, and I will give you all the world and a pair of new skates." But he couldn't put it down.
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At this time, Gerda entered the huge gate, made by violent winds. She recited the evening prayer, and the winds subsided as if asleep. She freely entered the huge deserted ice hall and saw Kai. The girl immediately recognized him, threw herself on his neck, hugged him tightly and exclaimed:
- Kai, my dear Kai! Finally I found you!
But he sat still the same motionless and cold. Then Gerda wept; her hot tears fell on his chest, penetrated into his heart, melted his icy crust and melted the fragment. Kai looked at Gerda, and she sang:
Roses are blooming... Beauty, beauty!
We will soon see the Christ child.
Kai suddenly burst into tears and cried so long and so hard that the shard flowed out of his eye along with his tears. Then he recognized Gerda and was very happy.
- Gerda! My dear Gerda! Where have you been for so long? Where was I myself? And he looked around. - How cold it is here, deserted!
And he clung tightly to Gerda. She laughed and cried with joy.
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Fine art ennobles a person, develops imagination, thinking, and calms. There are so many good things that simple drawing gives us. Thinking about what to draw on a cold winter evening? Then you are here, because here and now you will learn how to draw the Snow Queen.
Get ready for the creative process, prepare a clean sheet, pencils, an eraser.
Draw the outline of the Snow Queen
To do this, follow these steps:
- Draw an oval - the face of the Snow Queen. The queen has very beautiful long hair. While we draw only their outline with a smooth line. Below, add a rectangle to the face at an angle of 10 0 to the horizon - the future torso. Add a hand to the body - also a rectangle so far, only long and at an angle of 45 0 to the horizon. Below the rectangle will be the skirt from the dress. She is conical. Only a cone without a top, since its place is occupied by the body.
- Let's bring the outline to mind. To do this, add legs at the bottom of the dress, they will be shod, so draw their contour accordingly. We make the base of the cone-shaped skirt wavy. On the face, we highlight the chin, and generally cover the right side of the oval of the face with hair - smooth wavy lines. Add an aristocratic neck. We crown the hair with a crown. Inside the rectangle, draw a smooth side (on the left) and a side that smoothly connects to the sleeve (on the right). Erase the outline of the rectangle, and the border between the sleeve and the torso. We complete the sleeve with a logical cuff - a small oval, and a palm. We erase the extra lines - the outline is ready.
We supplement the drawing of the Snow Queen with details
Adding details is also divided into stages:
- The hem of the dress should be as if framed by a border. That is, to the wavy line at the bottom of the dress, we add another one - parallel.
- We “wrap” shoes in ribbons, the sleeve too. We attach the free ends of the ribbons to the cuff. Draw a line of symmetry on the body. On it we draw a cutout for the neck, a collar. Trust your imagination and add details to the crown. Draw curls, eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips. Our queen is not simple, but snowy, so here and there on the face you can add beautiful snowflakes.
- Decorate the dress of the ice ruler. Everything should be used - snowflakes, curls, images of icicles, dots, dotted lines.
- The corset also needs to be completed - with the help of short strokes to make it warm.
We hope that everything worked out for you, and tomorrow you will start learning how to draw the Snow Queen in stages, your children, nieces.
This lesson will come in handy for you more than once in your life, and not only for art lessons. Infa cell. I'll show you how to draw snow with just one simple pencil. The difficulty is that when trying to depict falling snow, beginners depict snowflakes flying down. The result is, or invasion, but not snow. Below I will show you what the secret is here. Let's paint this landscape.
How to draw snow with a pencil step by step
Step one. I draw a horizon line. There is nothing in the foreground, everything is covered with snow. In the middle plan, you need to show the tops of the house and trees. And in the back. 
Step two. You should always start drawing from those objects that are closer to the observer. I will sketch the trees and add. 
Step three. Now I draw a wooden house in detail and add a window to the second house. Or is it a shed, I don't know, it's not very important. I draw mountains. 
Step four. This is the most important point. Add shadows to the trees, the house, and the mountains where there is no snow. This is the whole secret: to draw snow with a pencil, you need to draw those places where there is no snow, and leave the rest of the space untouched. Look: 
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