Drawing on the theme of a soldier near a birch. How to draw a birch with a pencil step by step

Studying the basics of painting, there comes a time when drawing landscapes is of interest. To do this, you need to learn how to depict trees. The most common trees in our strip are birch and spruce.

Before you start drawing, let's take a closer look at the birch and try to highlight the main features that distinguish it from other trees. The main feature of birch is a white, yellowish or pinkish trunk, covered with characteristic spots, the upper part of which peels off with peculiar ribbons. The trunk is curved, the branches are directed downwards. Birch leaves are serrated and very small. It often seems that the crown of a tree is a homogeneous green mass. Leaves turn yellow in autumn. Birch flowers are collected in earrings. Birch has a powerful root system, so there is rarely dense vegetation under them. First, let's try to draw a birch with a pencil. It is necessary to start drawing a tree from its trunk. To do this, draw a slightly curved vertical line. Add volume to the trunk, draw branches. There should be quite a lot of them, they are all directed to the ground.

On each branch, add a lot of hanging "earrings" typical of birch. Draw dark spots on the bark. Now start coloring the leaves. Birch leaves are yellow in autumn, green in summer. To make the picture more lively, use several shades of the same color, from very light to saturated dark. Draw as many leaves as possible, densely fill each branch.

A thin, weightless birch looks very beautiful made in watercolor. To paint with this paint, you need to have some skills and follow the practical recommendations exactly. Start by creating a sketch. To do this, take a thick watercolor sheet and draw with a slate pencil on the rough side. Please note that the pencil should not be sharpened too sharply, as it will leave scratches on the paper, which are subsequently visible through transparent watercolor paint.

We begin to draw the future birch from the trunk, depict the branches. Unlike a pencil drawing, we do not draw each sheet, but mark the place where the crown will be. Draw with minimal pressure so that later unnecessary lines can be easily wiped out with an eraser.

Now get your brushes ready to go. It is best to use natural round ones made of squirrel wool. Also in the process you will need a palette, for this use an old glossy postcard. It is not advisable to use plastic cups or lids, because. on a completely smooth surface, watercolor will collect in a drop, and the color will be very different from what you end up with on paper. It is also important to stock up on a separate container of water for each of the colors used.

Let's start painting our sketch. We start with the lightest shades. We use green paint for foliage and grass under the tree. Light blue outline the sky. We cover the bark of the tree with light gray or pale pink. After that, we move on to darker colors. For the sky, you can use purple, putting it on top, gradually fading to the horizon line. Dark green, with separate dashes pointing down, denote the foliage. Draw a shadow on the grass. We mark dark dashes and spots on the bark of the tree, trying to place them as randomly as possible. On the crown of the tree we add thin hanging branches.

As you can see, drawing a birch is not that difficult. Choose your favorite tool and start drawing.

How to draw a birch step by step.

Anyone immediately recognizes a birch both in winter and summer by the white color of the bark. The birch bark is very white with longitudinal light brown specks, but they are small and indistinguishable on the scale of the whole tree. From a distance, we also see marks on the birch trunk - black cracks on the bark and traces of dead branches. On large branches, the bark is also white, and on thinner ones it is dark brown, almost black. At a birch drooping (it is also a weeping birch), young thin branches often hang in long lashes. But, I note, this is not the case for all birches. Very often you see - birch trees grow nearby and one - all drooped, the branches hang like a living curtain, and the second one stands cheerfully, that you have a linden or a poplar - no despondency.

Comrades, when learning to draw trees in kindergarten, kids are offered the image of a “birch”, reminiscent of a triangle ... in general, a speckled carrot with four or five hanging branches. Having mastered this image, the children subsequently stamp any “birch” like this, introducing some variety only in the width of the base of the “trunk”, that is, the trunk gradually turns from an acute-angled triangle into an obtuse-angled one. I don't know what to do with it. Just DO NOT teach such distorted-schematic conventions. But in kindergarten, this is almost inevitable. What to do now, how to draw a birch tree realistically?

Well... consciously abandon the stereotypes instilled in infancy and try to see a real tree, and not a template imprinted in your head. In essence, this is possible.

Why am I talking about this? - Because children, when drawing both from imagination and from nature, operate mainly with stamps hardened in infancy and experience strong internal resistance to the very idea of ​​drawing from nature. Therefore, I would teach drawing trees from nature only to teenagers who have already gained awareness, and only to those of them who love plants and really want to learn how to draw trees in a similar way. Such is my opinion. What do you think about it?

So, we draw a birch in stages.

The sequence is the same as always when drawing plants: first, draw a diagram of the trunk and branches with a pencil.

Let's denote the crown and individual large branches:

Here I confess honestly, from this place I have already painted houses - with felt-tip pens and then with watercolors. My determination is definitely not enough to go out alone with a box of watercolors, water and brushes. The ability not to be embarrassed in public is not acquired in one moment.

I painted drooping branches with small leaves with pokes - brush number 1.

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Draw a birch with STABILO felt-tip pens on drawing paper.

With a gray felt-tip pen, we outline with two vertical lines converging at the top into one line, a birch trunk.

With the same gray felt-tip pen, from the middle of the height of the trunk, draw branches with ends lowered to the bottom. From above, the branches decrease in length and form a rounded crown.

With a light green felt-tip pen above the branches, draw the outline of the foliage.

We shade the indicated zones with light green color in a circular motion.

Under the zones of light green color, randomly shade with dark green. We form a crown pattern in the form of an oval.

We shade the lower part of the birch trunk with a gray felt-tip pen. Then we make adjustments to the drawing of the trunk and branches with a black felt-tip pen.

Birch is one of the symbols of our homeland - Russia. Endless fields, forests, and beautiful white-trunked trees - curly birches. This is the picture of central Russia. Birch is a very beautiful tree. It has a white trunk with black notches - spots. The dense spreading crown of the tree provides shade and coolness on a hot summer day. Even on a birch, you can collect very tasty and healthy birch sap in the spring.

To do this, cuts are made on the trunk of a tree, a jar is tied under the cut and thick, viscous birch sap is dripping into it. But it’s just not possible to do this, because the symbol of our forest is protected by the state. They do it in special nurseries. Many beautiful songs have been composed about the birch. On many canvases of great artists, she is depicted as an invariable symbol of Russian nature. We draw in stages a Russian curly birch.

Stage 1. First, let's draw a slightly curved wavy thin birch trunk. We will darken some places on it with spots. From the birch we draw several branches to the sides. At the top, we frame the upper vertical branches with a crown of leaves. For this, we draw wavy lines, bending around the branches from above. Then we add some branches on the tree and start painting the areas of foliage.

Stage 2. We move on, drawing more and more islands of leaves. We add foliage to the branches with smooth waves. So our crown is filled with more and more new areas of foliage. It becomes thick and fluffy. Draw sections of foliage, bending around all the branches of the tree.

Stage 3. Let's draw more leaves on top and bottom on separate branches.

Step 4. Color the resulting black and white drawing bright green. So the forest beauty birch came out!

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Thin, slender birch has always been a symbol of beauty and shyness. This beautiful and useful tree, which gives delicious sweet juice, is very graceful and it is a pleasure to draw it. Birch is especially magnificent in summer, when lush foliage and birch "earrings" appear. Be sure to make several sketches in nature with a simple pencil, watercolor or watercolor pencils, crayons and watch how the wind sways its thin branches, how shiny carved leaves shimmer in the sun, touch the warm trunk. And now let's try to draw a birch in watercolor.

How to draw a birch in stages?

1. Take a thick sheet of A4 size watercolor paper. We draw on its rough side, not on the smooth side. You will also need a hard slate pencil, sharpened sharply. You don’t just need to try to make the stylus sharp as a needle, it will scratch the surface of the paper and the watercolor paint, getting into these scratches, will eat into it tightly and all of them will be very noticeable in the drawing. We make a light sketch of the future birch with a pencil. Its features are a thin trunk and flexible branches that bend under the weight of foliage. The leaves are small, so we will depict them only as a hint, without drawing carefully.

   

   
   
2. We outline with a pencil the area where the birch foliage will be. Since it is small, from a distance it will seem that it is a dense bulk mass. The areas are uneven, somewhere part of the branches goes down, somewhere it lies in an even layer, especially at the top. Birch foliage descends like a cascade or a large green waterfall.

   

   
   
3. Now watercolor comes into play, and let's try to paint a birch with paints. With a transparent green-yellow paint, we paint over the surfaces where the foliage will be. We outline the sky with pale blue - the darkest paint will be on top, and light on the bottom. We make a smooth gradient transition, adding more water, we get a gentle summer sky. We denote the grass under the tree.

   

   
   
4. We enhance the color of the sky, you can add either a warm violet or a cold blue, outline the shadows. Each branch is like a big bunch, it has volume. Since the sunlight falls at an angle from above, the shadow will be at the bottom. We do not completely paint over the surface, but as if we are making such light strokes with a brush, indicating small clusters of birch leaves. In the lightest areas, the leaves can be drawn with small dashes or dots, just outline.

   

   
   
5. In the shadows, add more dark to give volume to the foliage. Notice how the layers of paint overlap - with little indentation. First came the lightest watercolor layer, then a little darker and the last - the darkest. You can make another one darker than the previous one and also draw it with a little indentation. We draw the leaves with dots or small “droplets”. See how the birch leaves are arranged.

   

   
   
6. We draw a trunk of a birch and its branches. On the trunk with a thin brush, draw small dark stripes. Please note that they are very different and uneven - some are small, there are more. It is better to take not thick black watercolor, but blue with red, so that you get a rich brown color with a cold tint. Part of the birch branches hide the foliage, so do not draw solid lines, make them dashed. This is especially noticeable in the figure in the lower branch on the left. We draw hanging thin branches. Under the branches we make a shadow - brown paint + blue or blue. Near the trunk, the branches will be darker. We add blue to the sky, you can leave spots and stains, they look like clouds. At the bottom at the base of the tree, we will strengthen the shadow - green + blue.

   

   
   
7. We complete the drawing. With a thin brush, we work out the details, enhance the shadows for contrast on the branches, tree trunk and on the ground. Pure black paint should not be used, it will look rather rough. It is better to take a combination of dark blue and red or dilute black with blue watercolor.

   

   
   

Now you can move away from the drawing and look at it from afar, check if you missed anything and what needs to be corrected. Following this not very complicated instruction for you, it will be quite easy to paint a birch tree with watercolors on your own.