In this world, it is rather difficult to imagine anything more romantic than a sailboat sailing alone on the waves towards the unknown. Of course, traveling by sea is romance in itself, but a sailboat is just the pinnacle of all romantic dreams.
We have been dreaming of sailboats since early childhood, reading Jack London, Vladislav Krapivin or Jules Verne. But sailing even on a tiny sailing yacht will definitely not leave an adult indifferent. When a large real sailboat with several masts, a full set of straight and oblique sails appears on the horizon, it is simply breathtaking.
Long before the Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea, people on the water mostly moved on ordinary boards with sheets attached. The unique tradition of sending sheets into the sea has remained to this day, though already as an entertainment. Nevertheless, the topic is interesting, so in today's lesson you will see how to draw a sailboat with a pencil. A sailboat is a boat that uses the power of the wind to move. Brilliant and simply angry and cheap, but in complete calm it is extremely inconvenient.
The whole truth about life:
- A sailboat is also a fish that has lived among ships for a long time and its upper fin simply mutated into a sheet.
- The best way to catch the well-known seasickness is to run backwards on the deck during a storm.
- The black labor force appeared when the first ships sailed to the coast of Africa. There were real problems with the wind, but the ship still had to move. Therefore, the peoples of Africa were given oars and the meaning of life.
- A sailboat doesn't normally float on land, but when it does, expect a lot of civilian casualties.
Drawing a sailboat is easier than building or buying, but it will still look beautiful.
In this master class, we will learn together with you how to draw the sea with gouache with a sailboat. So, the drawing technique is gouache.
Haven't held brushes in your hands since school? It doesn't mean anything at all. Gouache drawings are a great start for beginners.
Why this particular technique?
Gouache is the best material to start with.
First of all, it is very affordable and can be purchased at virtually every step (compared to acrylic or oil).
Secondly, the water base of this type of paint makes it possible to easily vary the thickness of the paint, the level of its application, as well as the formation of textures on the canvas.
Thirdly, the fact that gouache is an absolutely non-toxic paint is very important. Thus, gouache lessons are completely safe for children and people with certain diseases and the presence of a variety of allergic reactions.
Fourthly, such paint quite flexibly combines some qualities of watercolor and, in some cases, even oil paints, therefore, painting with gouache will provide an opportunity to work out practical skills in other techniques.
The thick consistency of the paint allows you to impose different layers on top of each other, while painting light areas darker or vice versa. This allows you to make many changes to the image before it dries. At the same time, it is also possible to blur the paint, dilute it with more transparent layers, which makes the drawing realistic.
It is in connection with the important advantages described above that in this lesson we will use gouache-type paint.
Position the sheet you are going to draw on vertically and divide it roughly in half. Let the top of the sheet be a little larger. With a large brush, start painting over the sky.
Draw a small moon with white gouache. It is necessary to circle the border with a bright yellow color. You can also fit a little orange.
While the gouache is not dry, add more dark color around the edges. To do this, simply mix black and blue paint on the palette.
Draw the outer edge of the clouds.
Mix blue, white and some black paint. Add to the clouds so that you get a very smooth transition from the bright part near the moon.
From the inside of the picture, you should draw lighter clouds, as they reflect the light of the moon. As long as the paint is still wet, mixing colors is easy enough. You can take a clean brush and use it to mix two colors in which you want to get an even and smooth transition.
For the stars, first mix bluish paint on the palette and draw a small circle. When the paint is dry, make a small dot of white paint with a thin brush.
Then you should carefully sketch the image of a sailboat with a pencil.
We draw the sea with gouache in stages. The sea should first be painted over with uneven long horizontal strokes, while alternating dark blue, light blue and turquoise paint. In the foreground, paint a large wave with blue-green paint.
Continue to draw the sea. With bright blue paint, draw small waves near the ship itself.
With white gouache, draw glare on the waves. Paint over a sailboat with gouache. Please note that the sails should be drawn with a very smooth transition from blue to white, from left to right.
On the waves, it remains now to draw small lambs of foam, and also to apply glare of light with a thin brush. I sprayed the foam with a hard gouache brush. At first, it is better to practice on some piece of paper.
The result is such a work - a sailboat that sails home through a mysterious moonlit night.
Draw waves
We have already drawn the waves in the sailboat example, but we want you to look at how they are drawn step by step again.
As homework around the world, many second-graders are invited to test their creative abilities by depicting a drawing of “the sea in one of its outfits” on a white sheet of paper. As a hint, the elementary school teacher offers children poems by famous poets that describe the beauty of the vast sea latitudes, southern sunsets and blossoms, the precious shade of water and the unique foamy breeze. However, not every child manages to grasp the meaning of the task by mentally imagining a picture in front of their own eyes, and only after that - depicting it on a piece of paper. Difficulties arise in two cases. The first reason lies in the tendency to study basic subjects, and the lack of time for creativity. The second reason is “misunderstanding” (lack of idea what the sea is). After all, not every family can afford an expensive vacation to the Cote d'Azur ... that's why in today's article we decided to give one more hint to children and their parents about drawing the sea in one of its outfits.
What does the sea look like in one of his outfits drawing?
You can depict the sea with paints, colored pencils and even felt-tip pens in different ways. It all depends on how the child's imagination is developed. The sea can change its outfits many times throughout the day. Therefore, there are no limits in creativity! The color scheme can vary from gentle to extremely deep and saturated tones. It all depends solely on the weather transmitted on the drawing sheet. For example, on a sunny day, calm prevails, so the shade of water can be emerald, blue and even turquoise. During a storm - dirty and even black. During sunset - burgundy, red and dark blue.
While coloring the picture, do not limit the child. Let him use several shades at once. Let the drawing of the sea in one of his outfits become truly “smart” and even a little bit unusual.
Looking at the photo below, it should be noted that children often use classic solutions that include up to 4 colors: green, blue, white and blue, as well as all their variations. But this absolutely does not mean that other colors cannot be used. Any shades are acceptable if they are combined with each other.
The sea in one of his outfits, drawing in the photo for grade 2:
Drawing based on poems by famous poets
To draw the sea in all its glory, just look at examples of works and read author's works.
How good you are, O night sea, -
Here it is radiant, there it is bluish-dark ...
In the moonlight, as if alive,
It walks and breathes and it shines...
Based on this paragraph, you can get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow the sea should look like. Just imagine, at night, the moon falls on the dark-gray sea, forming a lunar path almost to the very shore. The stars are reflected on the water like fireflies, illuminating the mystery of sleeping nature. Beautiful, isn't it?!
- And here is the sea in one of his outfits, according to Yulia Viktorovna Dolganovsky.
Many seas are blue on the maps -
Children will open atlases on their desks.
A sea of flowers flourishes on the planet,
Colored seas exist in the world!
Even small children know that the sea is not alone in the world. And most importantly, it has a different name. Red, white, black, yellow - only a part of what can be conveyed in colors on a landscape sheet.
Photo examples of the sea in one of his outfits:
Only an experienced artist can draw the sea, accurately convey the color and power of the water element. An artist who paints the sea is called a marine painter and draws various types and conditions of the sea and learns this all his life. The pictures of the sea painted with paints, gouache or watercolor, and preferably with oil, very accurately convey the whole gamut of shades and the depth of the color of the sea. The sunset on the sea looks especially beautiful in colors. But let's start step by step draw the sea with a simple pencil.
Drawing the sea is not easy, especially with a simple pencil. It is difficult to convey sea waves and surf with a simple pencil. With a pencil, this can only be done through the technique of strokes. You will need to constantly rub the strokes with your finger or a hard eraser.
1. First, select the main contours of the sea
First, select the horizon and the main contours of the coastline of our composition. On the shore, immediately draw the contours of coastal stones. Then we will separate the horizon line of the sea and draw a line of the beach and draw the sun. You can also draw the contours of small waves around the stones.
2. "Scatter" the sea waves in the picture
Now we need to draw the initial contours of the waves throughout the space allotted for the sea in our drawing. Make strokes with a pencil all over the surface of the sea, but you should not make too many of them, otherwise the waves will not turn out large.
3. Shade the water surface with strokes of a soft pencil
At this stage, we need to draw and shade with strokes the contours of the waves near the stones. To soften pencil marks, you can rub them with your finger or a hard eraser. The shaded part of the sea can also be rubbed with a piece of paper or a finger.
4. Sand on the coastline
Now we will pay attention to the coastline of the sea. In our picture there is a sandy beach by the sea, but you can draw another one. Just like the surface of the sea, sand should be shaded with pencil strokes, slightly rubbed. If necessary, you can remove excessive blackness in some areas of the sea, again with the help of an eraser. After that, you can "color" the stones, strongly shading them, and draw small clouds.
5. How to draw the sea. Clouds
At this stage, we will not draw the sea, but what is above it - the sky and clouds. If necessary, in some areas of the sea, you can slightly wipe the strokes with an eraser vertically, this will give the sea additional highlights. But first, add a few small free-form clouds with weak strokes to emphasize the movement of air. Draw the sun, such a "trifle" always makes any drawing more attractive and realistic.
6. Drawing the sea on a graphics tablet
Now you know how draw the sea with a simple pencil and you can try to make another drawing and paint it with paints, as in this color picture of the sea, made by me especially for this lesson on a graphics tablet.
Video how to draw the sea.
Of course, the drawing of the sea will look much more beautiful if you can draw a sailboat in the distance. In this lesson, you will learn how to draw both the sea and a sailing frigate.
Wandering the seas on sailboats, the pirates made caches of stolen treasures, many of which have never been found. Perhaps these treasures never existed. But not only to indicate the location of an island with treasures in the sea, maps were used by pirates, they were used primarily for navigation.
If you decide to draw a picturesque seascape, draw dolphins. These sea animals are sure to turn out beautiful if you draw them in stages. Draw the contours of the sea and dolphins with a simple pencil, and then paint the entire drawing with paints.
The turtle lives in the sea and is probably the most ancient inhabitant of the seas. For all the years of evolution, turtles only learned to go on land to lay their eggs, but they did not leave the sea forever, like other animals. In this lesson we will try to draw a turtle by the sea on our own.
A mermaid is half a fish, half a person, so you need to draw a mermaid not only a tail, but also fish scales on it. A prerequisite for a picture of a mermaid should be the presence of a reservoir, because they live in a river or on the sea.
In this photo tutorial, we will look at a simple technique for drawing a seascape. This lesson is perfect for beginners, because the plot lacks precise drawings and complex constructions. The main task in drawing the sea is to harmoniously mix paints on wet paper and make a graduated wash for a realistic water effect.
So, prepare your workplace and take the necessary tools:
- watercolor paints;
- special paper for watercolor painting;
- container with water;
- brushes round synthetics or columns No. 5,3 and 4;
- pencil with eraser.
Drawing stages
Step 1. It's worth starting work by creating a pencil sketch. Visually divide the sheet into 2/3 parts and draw a horizontal line in the upper part of the sheet. Thus, we have created a horizon line. Next, draw the coast line in the lower left corner. 
Draw a big wave under the horizon line. 
Below we create small waves. 
The sketch is ready. We turn to drawing with paint, but first we discolor the rich outline of the drawing with an eraser.
Step 2. Fill the upper part of the sea (behind the big wave) with translucent ultramarine. Blur too clear contours with a wet brush. 
Step 3. High waves transmit sunlight well, distorting the main color of the water, making it warmer, so paint over them with a greenish-turquoise tone. We shade the basis of the near wave with lemon diluted with a large amount of water. The crests of the waves are left white for now. 
Step 4. Fill in the gaps between the waves with a light ultramarine. Next, with yellow ocher, we outline a piece of the shore in the lower left corner. 
Step 5. We collect a shade of indigo on the tip of the brush No. 3 and designate with it the dark fate of the waves that form the crests. 
Video recipe for the occasion:
Step 6. Wet technique and graduated blur will help us to make a realistic sky. Wet the sky area with water and with the help of a large brush and cobalt blue, we begin to draw the sky and the outlines of the clouds. 
Step 7. On the sand we draw stones and algae thrown ashore. For a more interesting result, we recommend making a few splashes in a brown tone in order to convey the texture of the sandy shore as much as possible. 
Step 8. Add contrast to the pattern with more saturated shades of turquoise and ultramarine. 
You can draw something like this, calm sea.
We make a general markup of the picture
draw clouds in the sky
draw palm branches
now the sea
add shadows from the palm tree
now, you can color with colored pencils or paints
There are several types of paintings to paint the sea.
The first option is to divide the sheet into the horizon and the sea. You can draw a circle that will be the sun, and the shore.
Then we draw a coast with stones and a boat.
Here is another way of drawing the sea.
every artist paints the sea the way he sees it. but if we talk about phased drawing, then the most important thing is to draw waves. if you cope with this task, consider that you have already drawn the sea. at least that's how it seems to me. wave drawing algorithm is given below:
If you draw the sea in black and white, then in addition to a pencil, you can also use charcoal, so you will quickly achieve the desired effect, where you need to darken to black ...
I pay attention to the second picture where the sea with seagulls is depicted ..))
and here is the color version, we drew quickly, we didn’t work on small details, you can see right away,
and in the last picture you can see that the artist tried to depict the bottom of the sea ..)
You can try to depict the sea by watching this master class:
The work is quite painstaking, difficult, but the result will definitely be worth the effort. And the drawing process itself, I'm sure, will bring a lot of pleasure.
Here is a very simple way how draw the sea step by step. To do this, first we draw two lines, then we sketch the coast and mountains in the background. After that, draw a boat. Next, add the birds and move on to coloring the picture.
It is very difficult to draw the sea like real marine painters. It is necessary to have talent, like Aivazovsky.
The sea has a sea (sorry for the tautology) of colors, shades, overflows. In addition, its color changes from weather changes, from the presence of sunlight, etc.
In the drawings proposed by Enua, I liked the penultimate one, which depicts the bottom of the sea. Already this detail gives more or less realism to the picture.
If you draw the sea not picturesquely, but schematically, then you don’t need to draw anything here!)). It is enough to depict a sailing boat, and anyone will say that the sea is drawn.
Look how I did it in just one minute in Paint! (True, I'm bad at drawing ships ..)
Drawing the sea is not an easy task, but it's worth a try.
It is important to choose the style itself, the technique in which you want to draw, to present the general view of the picture.
You want to show a storm or a coastal surface, or maybe incoming waves.
With paints, the wave can be conveyed in small strokes, mixing shades, adding white, to draw foam and waves. The background can be left flat.
It is better to draw small hills and wave crests with a pencil.
Green, blue, purple - these shades can be used to enliven the picture and convey shadows for volume.
After that, we take ready-made drawings and draw again but on our sheet. Any boat, crab, nudists, vendors with boiled corn, a bio-toilet, beer bottles and other attributes of the modern sea can fit perfectly here. I decided to add such necessary items as a palm tree and a naked woman:
You can also shove the ocean liner Queen Mary 2 and the minion, because this topic whose hour is very popular, as well as the shark:
It remains to decorate beautifully)
Of course, draw the sea it’s not an easy task, it can be quiet, calm, or just a dangerous avalanche that destroys all life, but still most people adore it and dream of relaxing in the sea. Below is an example of a phased drawing of the sea along with the beach, add sun loungers and a couple of palm trees - it will be just a real paradise.
