Everyone knows that the best gift is a gift made with your own hands. By spending very little time, you can create a beautiful exclusive picture or New Year’s card, taking ideas from our article.
We'll talk about how to:
Landscape is perhaps the easiest option if you decide to draw a beautiful winter picture. Where to begin? Of course, from the choice of technology:
- Pencil or crayons. The most ideal option for the first attempt, since it does not require serious financial investments. In addition, with a pencil you can create New Year's drawings or cards for 2018 simply on a landscape sheet.
- Graphic arts. At first glance, everything is simple. All you need is a simple pencil. But in practice this technique can turn out to be much more difficult, since every stroke is important.
- Watercolor. Every home where there are children has inexpensive watercolor paints that can be used to paint excellent winter-themed drawings for the New Year 2018.
- Acrylic. This is a more serious option. These paints can be used to paint on canvas. They dry quickly. But be careful, because acrylic can cause allergic reactions.
- Oil– the choice of professionals. Such a picture, painted on canvas, will delight the eye for many years.
We invite you to watch a master class on creating a winter landscape.
You can buy canvas today in specialized stores.
What to draw? Most often, drawings dedicated to the New Year are winter nature, village houses, snow-covered tree crowns, and in 2018 the landscape can be supplemented with an image of a dog.
Drawing New Year's characters
What would a holiday drawing or card be without Father Frost and the Snow Maiden! Don't worry, even if you don't know how to draw people beautifully. Portraying cartoon characters is not at all difficult. Here are some quick sketches of the main characters. Advice from professionals will help you create beautiful New Year's drawings in 2018.
We also suggest watching a video that shows you step by step how to draw Santa:
It is convenient that in the analysis the drawing is depicted on a sheet of paper with a checkered pattern. If you are just learning to draw, outline the sheet barely noticeable - this will make the task easier.
The artist's little ones will get great pleasure from coloring New Year's pictures with Santa, Father Frost, Snow Maiden and other New Year's holiday characters.
You can simply save any drawings of New Year’s characters you like to your computer, print and color them as you wish.
Drawing a dog - the symbol of 2018
A constant element of many New Year's drawings in 2018 will be the symbol of the year - the dog. Although according to the eastern calendar the patron of the year will be the red earthen dog, you can choose a representative of any breed for a postcard or picture, based on individual preferences.
Not long ago, a cartoon about the life of pets that appeared on television screens added a couple more cute faces to the army of favorite children's characters. Thinking over interesting New Year's drawings for the coming year of the dog, in 2018 you can use new characters - Max, Mel, Gidget and Buddy.
Also watch the video for a detailed analysis of how to draw Max:
We also suggest downloading any of the dogs you like and using them when creating your own New Year’s picture:
We also offer you to get ideas for original New Year's cards from a video that tells in detail how to create a reactive gift with your own hands.
Create a digital postcard on your computer
2018 is just around the corner, which means it’s time to master more than just pencils and paints. And also graphic editors. In practice, creating a beautiful postcard or drawing custom New Year's drawings using a PC is much easier than learning how to draw people and animals with a pencil.
To create electronic cards and drawings, into which, by the way, you can add photos or images of your favorite characters, you can use programs such as:
- Paint is the simplest graphics editor built into Windows;
- Avatan is an online version of the graphical environment that allows you to process photos, create collages and various postcards;
- Online Photoshop is a free online version of one of the most popular raster graphics editors, which does not require installation of the program to use.
Of course, you can install the full-fledged Adobe Photoshop CS6, and get a lot of features. But be prepared for the fact that it will take some time to master the program.
We suggest starting with a simple postcard with a photo, which will only take a few minutes to create:
Of course, in this program you can create a wide variety of New Year’s drawings by loading the background of the card and then adding various stickers (don’t forget that 2018 is the year of the dog), inscriptions and effects.
Try it, and you will definitely succeed!
We wish the readers of our magazine a Merry Christmas with a selection of magnificent winter landscapes with churches and wise phrases of the holy fathers about faith, soul and peace. All the best to you on this bright holiday!
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Venerable Seraphim Vyritsky
“Happiness is something to which there is nothing to add.”
Monk Simeon of Athos
“We did not choose the country where we would be born, nor the people in which we would be born, nor the time in which we would be born, but we choose one thing: to be human or non-human.”
Patriarch of Serbia Pavel
“Don’t chase good grades or a good opinion of yourself. Do everything according to your strength and conscience, and leave the rest to the will of God. This is the best way; he will give calm and peace to the soul, which is dearer than anything.”
Hegumen Nikon (Vorobiev)
“Love is when you can be silently close together and you don’t need to talk to communicate.”
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
“Do not look for anything outside the soul - everything is in it. Look for happiness in your own heart: if it’s not there, you won’t find it anywhere.”
Saint Philaret (Drozdov)
I don’t wish you wealth, fame, success, or even health, but only peace of mind. It is most important. If you have peace, you will be happy.
Reverend Alexy Zosimovsky
“The longer a person sits idle, the more relaxed he becomes, and the more he works, the stronger he becomes. In addition to the fact that through work he drives away sadness from himself, he also helps himself spiritually.”
Elder Paisiy Svyatogorets
“There is such a great art - the ability to put up. But there is an art even higher than this - the ability not to quarrel.”
Priest Anatoly Garmaev
“Life is a precious and only gift, and we waste it meaninglessly and carelessly, forgetting about its short duration. We either look longingly at the past, or wait for the future, when, as if, real life should begin. The present, that is, what is our life, disappears in these fruitless regrets and dreams.”
Priest Alexander Elchaninov
“One of the characteristics of a wise person is the ability to forgive. We are all imperfect, and a wise person understands this. Until a person understands this, his whole life will be spent in a showdown. We must learn to forgive!”
Professor, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, nun Nina Krygina
Photo: Vilenia Selivanova, Russia, Tutaev
“The sign of a person who has found God is silence and peace emanating from him.”
Monk Simeon of Athos
“Never forget, even in the darkest days of your life, to thank God for everything, He is waiting for this and will send you new blessings and gifts. A person with a grateful heart never lacks for anything.”
Elder Nikolai Guryanov
“There are no coincidences in life, but every circumstance has a higher spiritual meaning and leads to knowledge of the will of God.”
Abbess Arsenia
“So much has been given! Spending is so easy: love God, love your brother, feed the bird, have pity on the cat, give the sick a cup and others a spoon. This is how the Almighty created: we are people not when we breathe, but for now we love...”
Archpriest Andrey Logvinov
“If someone is irritated, it is better not to try to talk to him, even in a kind way. He looks like a wounded man, for whom even gentle stroking irritates the wound.”
Elder Paisiy Svyatogorets
“The secret of happiness is attention to each other. The happiness of life is made up of individual minutes, of small, quickly forgotten pleasures from a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment and countless small but kind thoughts and sincere feelings. Love also needs its daily bread.”
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
“Don’t say: today I’ll sin, and tomorrow I’ll repent, but it’s better to repent today, because we don’t know whether we’ll live to see tomorrow.”
Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
“For the one who believes there are no questions, and for the one who does not believe there are no answers.”
Abba Isarius
“Always rejoice! You can’t do anything good from inner stress, but from joy you can do anything.”
Venerable Seraphim of Sarov
“Fatigue can be different - bad and good. The bad one is when you realize that you are exhausted by vanity, exhausted by things that are hateful to your soul, that may be useful from a material point of view, but do not give anything to your heart. And a good one is when there is confidence that everything done for the sake of God and for the sake of one’s neighbor, when, perhaps, there is no strength left in the body, but there is peace and tranquility in the soul. Peace with God and peace from this world."
Hegumen Nektary (Morozov)
“Living simpler is best. Don't break your head. Pray to God. The Lord will arrange everything. Don't torture yourself thinking about how and what to do. Let it happen as it happens - this is living easier.”
Photo: Zenonas Rotautas, Kavarskas, Lithuania
“If something happened not according to your will, rejoice: it means it happened according to the will of God!”
Archpriest Vyacheslav Reznikov
“An overfilled vessel overflows. So a person’s overflowing heart pours out onto his neighbors what it is full of.”
Venerable Silouan of Athos
“Find at least one good trait in your neighbor, a quality that you do not have, and appreciate, love, admire, rejoice and perceive him based on this positive trait. Don’t pay much attention to the rest.”
Elder Jerome of Aegina
Photo: Dmitry Novikov, Moscow, Church of Igor of Chernigov
“Love each other, maintain peace at all costs, let the cause suffer, but peace will remain.”
Hegumen Nikon (Vorobiev)
“No matter how heavy the cross that a person bears, the tree from which it is made grew from the soil of his heart.”
Venerable Ambrose of Optina
"God! Give me a simple, kind, open, believing, loving, generous heart, a worthy receptacle for You, the All-Good!”
Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt
“A person who knows what gratitude is is happy with everything. He thinks about what God gives him every day and rejoices at everything. But if a person is ungrateful, he is dissatisfied with everything, grumbles about everything and suffers... He who sows complaints, reaps complaints and accumulates fear. And he who sows praise tastes divine joy and blessing forever.”
Elder Paisiy Svyatogorets
In this lesson we will look at what to draw for Christmas, and also look at a step-by-step drawing on how to draw Christmas, the birth of Christ with a pencil step by step.
So, what to draw for Christmas. In Western countries, this holiday is celebrated on a grand scale, just like we do. We are Christians, not all of them, of course, there are many other religions in our country, but the majority, only the countries of the former USSR are Orthodox, and in the West they are Catholic. At Catholic Christmas they like to display figures like these, maybe they’ve even seen them in films, the movie “Home Alone” comes to mind, but I don’t remember which part.
In connection with this, you can draw the Birth of Jesus, a cradle with a baby and Mary and Joseph nearby. The pictures are enlarged.
Just a Christmas scene.
The Magi go to bow and bring gifts to the newborn prophet, a star is shining that shows the way to him, if I don’t confuse anything. This is depicted in silhouettes, for me, very beautifully.
Below is an illustrated picture, well, this is for the pros.
These were the options associated with the birth of Jesus. Now let's see how you can draw Christmas differently. Saint Nicholas (Santa) looks at the star, and you can also simply distribute it in .
Here is your loved one, or rather two, holding a piece of paper with the inscription “Merry Christmas!”
Here are more options for Christmas related to nature: , twig, church.
Winter landscape and bluebells.
This old postcard, you see after the letters “s” and “m” there is a solid sign (b).
You can simply use caramel sticks, leaves, and ribbons.
Now let's see, our Christmas drawing lesson, this is what we should end up with, I decided to mix the New Year theme with the birth of Jesus.
I took part of the drawing from this picture.
Look again where the circle should be and draw it with an animal feeder inside.
Then draw the hay that sticks out from the top and from the cracks.
Sheep, star and shine.
Bells (you should already know how to draw them, there is a lesson) and spruce branches. Branches are drawn simply, draw a curve from which small curves extend, which are at a close distance to each other.
And the final touch is to show the ringing of the bell and decorate the inscription “Merry Christmas” on the sides with these decorative lines.
