How to draw a mirror with a pencil step by step for children. How does a “cylindrical” mirror “work”? Tracing with two-year-old Seryozha

Hello again!
Question: How is this done?- Doesn't leave me when I see interesting works on the Internet, and not only there... And the process immediately begins... I want to sit down at the computer and create...))))

IN this lesson Let's try to draw a mirror like this.
It's simple to do, but it turns out beautifully - it might be useful to someone...

Create a New Document...

...and fill the New or Background layer with 50% gray ( Edit-Fill… - Edit-Fill…).
Then, above - on a New layer we create Rectangular selection (RectangularMarqueeTool) with feathering ( Feather) approximately 45 pix.
And fill it up #bebebe gray.

Using a tool Ellipse(ElipseTool) or Oval Highlight (ElipticalMarqueeTool) draw an oval of any color.

Now we begin to turn a simple oval into a mirror!
Apply to the layer with an oval (if the oval is drawn using a shape, it is better to rasterize the layer - RMB - rasterize layer - Rasterizelayer) the following Layer Styles (Layer-LayerStyle):

And again, above - on a New Layer we create an oval, but of a smaller size, color #d0d0d0.
Add a layer style to this Stroke (Stroke), as they did before.

So we did facet mirrors
Something is usually reflected in mirrors... Surprisingly)))))
Let's add a window reflection.

Using the tool Rectangular selection (RectangularMarqueeTool), draw a white rectangle on a New Layer.
And then, using the same tool, we cut out unnecessary parts (we use Selection -Transform Selection -Select-TransformSelection).

You can choose the window shape yourself.
We apply Filter-Gaussian Blur (Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur) radius 15 pix. And we put Opacity(Opacity) layer 85% .

Distorting the window a little using Transform Distortions (Edit-Transform-Distort).
Copy the layer with the window. Removing the visibility of the copy.
Now we remove the excess parts around the mirror.
To do this, go to the layer with a small oval and create a selection of this layer ( Ctrl+click on the layer icon), invert the resulting selection ( Shift+Ctrl+I) and on the layer with the window click Delete-Delete.
This is what happens.

Now, on a New Layer located below the mirror, create an oval selection ( ElipticalMarqueeTool) with feathering ( Feather) 10 pix. Let's call him light spot.
And fill it up #bababa.
We put Opacity(Opacity) layer 80% .

Let's do visible copy layer with a distorted window and flip it vertically Edit-Transform-Flip Vertical ( Edit-Transform-FlipVertical).
We match the reflection of the window on the mirror and on the surface. This layer will be called Light spot 1.

Create a layer selection light spot(while on a layer, Ctrl+click on the layer icon), invert the selection and remove unnecessary details of the layer Light spot 1.
Opacity(Opacity) for this layer we do 30% .

And again using the oval selection tool ( ElipticalMarqueeTool), draw as shown in the screenshot with shading 45 pix:

Invert the resulting selection ( Shift+Ctrl+I).
AND Eraser (eraserTool) With Opacity(Opacity) 50% use a soft brush to erase the layers a little light spot And Light spot 1.

Now let's add a shadow.
We stand on the layer with the large oval and create a selection of this layer ( Ctrl+click on the layer icon).
Go to the Quick Mask state ( EditinQuickMaskMode) and apply Filter-Gaussian Blur (Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur) radius 10 pix. Exiting the quick mask state ( EditinStandardMode).
Below (under the mirror) create a New Layer and fill the selection with color #666666 .
We slightly reduce the shadow vertically and move it to the side.

We are done with the mirror itself.
But I want to add something... you've probably heard about decorating mirrors with pieces of baked glass? Fusing called. So, let's draw this. Forward …)))
Using a tool Feather (PenTool) draw a leaf (it is better to save the outline so that you can draw only once - double click on the outline).

And on the New Layer (above the mirror) we draw a simple ornament.
With the selected instrument - DirectSelectionTool and the active contour, being on a new layer, right-click and select Fill -Fill…).

Doesn't look like glass yet...))))
Therefore, for greater plausibility, we use Filter Texture (Filter-Texture-Texturizer):

And slightly weaken the effect of applying the filter: Edit-Weaken Texture - Edit-Fade-Texturizer(reduce the percentage). This step is done immediately after applying the filter!
It wouldn’t hurt to show the glass volume (add Layer Styles):

AND Opacity(Opacity) layer reduce to approximately 90% .
Here you go! Work is done! Evaluate the result!
You can slightly tone down the white outline in the dark parts of the mirror.

Fantasies on the topic:

With best wishes,
PIROGOVADESIGN

For us, this type of drawing is useful because it promotes the development of interaction between the right and left hemispheres of the brain of children and adults: the exercise is useful at any age.

Mirror drawing

Drawing with both hands at the same time helps to develop a sense of symmetry, which is lacking in some schoolchildren and adversely affects the learning of mathematics. It is also used as a method of art therapy, relieving excessive anxiety in schoolchildren and adults.

We begin work with the so-called double doodling - mirror drawing with both hands.

Double doodling options:

1. tracing the drawing with both hands;
2. actual mirror drawing.

Tracing with two hands

Let's start by tracing the drawing. This kind of drawing can be started quite early - at 1.5-2 years.

The drawing is simple, with a minimum of details (house below). We draw an extraneous (not related to the drawing) line intentionally. She helps the kids initial stage distinguish between the right and left parts of the drawing, find a point to start drawing. You can explain to older guys that this is a special line. If you bend a sheet of paper along it, the halves of the drawing will coincide. Learn about the importance of understanding symmetry for learning here.

Walking around with two-year-old Seryozha

A two-year-old is not able to complete the task on his own. You can follow our example.

Take a board and attach a drawing to it with masking (paper) tape. The adhesive tape will hold it in place. Sit on the floor, place the child on the floor between your legs with his back to you. A board with a drawing in front of you.

Give your child a felt-tip pen (or marker) in each hand. The child holds markers, and you hold his hands. Place the tips of the markers at one point - the top of the roof. We begin to trace the drawing with both markers at the same time, but in different directions. Make sure that neither hand is in a hurry. The point is the simultaneity of actions.

Older children can do mirror drawing on their own. But don't leave them alone, especially at first.

Seven-year-old Artyom could not get his left hand to work. The right one easily slid across the pattern, but the left one barely moved. The guys advised Artyom to stop right hand, which he also could not do. This pattern during drawing is evidence of weak interaction between the hemispheres. The left one carries the main load, while blocking the right one. The boy needed external help: an adult sat next to him and held his right hand, limiting its movements so that the left could keep up with it.

Let's complicate the task. Children 3 years old and older can practice tracing a line drawing with both hands.

We advise you not to skip tracing a symmetrical pattern with both hands, focusing on the age of the children. If tracing works well, just reduce the time spent on it.

Drawing with two hands

Actually, double doodling is accessible to older children and is performed in two ways:

1. based on part of the drawing (complete drawing),
2. free drawing

I write “older”, without being tied to the “passport” age, because many factors influence the skill of two-handed drawing, and a four-year-old can easily outperform a six-year-old. Here each child progresses at his own pace. Comparison only with yourself, and not with Vasya or Petya.

Reliance on part of the drawing

Draw half of the object: for a right-hander - the left, for a left-hander - the right. We fix the sheet with half the drawing with paper tape. There is a felt-tip pen in each hand. The leading hand draws the missing part of the object, and the “subordinate” traces the drawn half.

Without relying on part of the drawing

Free two-handed work is best started with doodles. Drawing with two hands starts from the line of symmetry. Both hands try to produce the same but symmetrical appearance. I repeat: the main thing is the simultaneous work of both hands. From scribbles you can go to simple drawings: house, tree, flower, etc.

Or you can draw two drawings at the same time. It will look like this.

Wet sand is perfect for adding variety summer rest. We draw with our fingers or a stick.

Art therapy

Double doodling - great option art therapy. Useful for anxious kids high level self-control. We draw with paints: gouache is better suited for children. You can also take acrylic paints, but they have a drawback: they dry quickly. Art therapists believe that drawing with two hands removes fears and blocks.

Entering the topic step by step

1. alternate drawing with the right and left hands;
2. we draw with both hands at the same time: we go from simple to complex (first scribbles, then objects);

Mirror drawing– it’s not an easy task even for adults, so two conditions are important: leisurely and systematic work. This will undoubtedly have a beneficial effect on the children’s education and the development of their minds. The site Non-standard children wishes you success.

A lesson on how to draw a mirror step by step was prepared at the request of Svetlana Kudryavtseva and many other girls, readers of DayFan. I won’t name everyone’s names, because the list will be too long. I hope you enjoy the lesson, and as an example I took an image sent by one of the readers, here: A mirror is the only way a person can look into his own eyes. This is an amazing property smooth surfaces reflect light. Understanding how light rays travel is very important if you want to depict someone's reflection in a mirror. In our example, we will try to depict the object itself; no one will be displayed in it. Therefore, we will not cover the principles of reflection here, but if you want, you can practice on your own in front of a mirror.

A few more ways to use this item:

• False mirror - special kind art, the basis of the genre, and also the brainchild of Petrosyan (yes, Evgeny Vaganich, this is not a joke);
• A symbol of another world that writers often use. Good example this is a fairy tale about ;
• Erised is a magic mirror that can show a person’s deepest desires (from the book about);
• There is also a myth that mirrors do not reflect;

In addition, the mirror still often appears in Russian folk tales. Try to draw it yourself:

How to draw a mirror with a pencil step by step

Step one. Let's mark the place on the paper where the mirror and its leg, or stand, or whatever it may be, will be depicted. Step two. Let's sketch out the outlines of an oval shape. Step three. Let's draw in more detail. Step four. Let's remove the excess and correct the contours. Let's add some shading: We have already accumulated a large number of lessons in drawing useful things, try to draw them.

April 6th, 2016

I have seen such drawings and examples of such creativity more than once. This is when the drawing looks like some kind of mountains, but you put a shiny cylinder and see real picture. I always wanted to know how they draw it. Now let's figure it out...

Anamorphosis is a deliberately ugly distorted image of an object, which under certain conditions appears correct. The images in anamorphic paintings are highly distorted, but if you look at them with a mirror, you can see an undistorted image of the subject. Anamorphic pictures can be linear, conical, cylindrical, etc.

According to some sources, it is believed that anamorphosis, or otherwise the art of distorting projection, was once invented in China, and later brought to Europe. Although it is possible that similar inventions may arise independently of each other in different corners world, but in different time periods. The founder of anamorphism in European art considered to be Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519).

First famous example An anamorphic drawing is considered to be his drawing, which research scientists found in one of the artist’s treatises - the Codex atlanticus. When viewed in the drawing plane at an angle, a clear image of the child's face appears.

In the Middle Ages, artists painting cathedrals and temples in Italy introduced anamorphism into high art paintings. In order to see the correct image, one had to look at the painting underneath certain angle. Since the Renaissance, anamorphic works have been created on cathedral lampshades in such a way that the viewer viewing them from below can grasp the correct perspective.
Often a similar technique was used by artists to depict “forbidden” scenes that, for example, have an erotic connotation. In the 16th and 17th centuries, such anamorphoses made it possible to distribute political and religious cartoons and store prohibited images.

From an early 17th century engraving:

Many artists created anamorphic paintings with educational goals in mind, some of them were also mathematicians.

A famous example of partial anamorphosis was painting Hans Holbein the Younger's The Messengers, created in 1533 and currently on display in London.

The artist's depiction of the skull in the lower center becomes clearly visible when the painting is viewed from a very low angle on the lower left side.

Below is the anamorphic work unknown artist(about 1550 g), which is an example of linear anamorphy. Here the distortion lies in the incredible stretching of the picture horizontally.

If you look at the plane of the picture at an acute angle or using flat mirror, you can clearly see images of the apostles Peter and Paul and other characters.

Anamorphic portrait of Carlos V private collection. From the catalog of Carolus Charles Quint 1500-1558 Kunsthal De Sint-Pietersabdji a Gand

If you hold up a small mirror and look into it, then

This is an example of linear distortion...

During the Renaissance, anamorphic painting was one of the favorite techniques. The paintings were painted in such a way that they could only be viewed using a special anamophoscope device. Because of their unusual nature, anamorphic paintings were believed to have magical properties.

Another anamorphic work of “old” artists: a portrait of Charles I. The place where the cylindrical mirror needs to be placed is indicated by a circle with a skull.

Now let's move on to the "physics" and talk about cylindrical mirrors, which are so often used to view anamorphic drawings.

Cylindrical mirrors come in both convex and concave forms, and interesting effects can be observed when using these mirrors.

In the old days, copper, brass or bronze cylinders, polished to a mirror shine, served as cylindrical anamorphoscope mirrors.

Images that are obtained undistorted in a cylindrical mirror are called cylindrical anamorphoses.

An anamorphic picture for a convex cylindrical mirror can be recognized by a circle, usually located somewhere in the middle of the picture. To view anamorphic cylindrical paintings in an undistorted form, it is necessary to place a cylindrical mirror on it in the center of the circle.

In the novel "Invitation to Execution" by Vl. Nabokov has this passage:

"... I remember: when I was a child, they were in fashion - ah, not only among children, but also among adults - such things were called “netkas” - and they were supposed to have a special mirror attached to them, not much else crooked - absolutely distorted, nothing could be understood, gaps, confusion, everything slides before the eyes, but its curvature was not without reason, but just so fitted... Or, rather, they were matched to its curvature in such a way...
No, wait, I'm not explaining it well. In a word, you had such a wild mirror and a whole collection of different nonsense, that is, absolutely absurd objects: all sorts of shapeless, motley, holes, spots, pockmarked, knobby things, like some kind of fossils - but a mirror that ordinary objects were distorted, now, therefore, they received real food, that is, when you placed such an incomprehensible and ugly object so that it was reflected in an incomprehensible and ugly mirror, it turned out wonderful; no to no gave yes, everything was restored, everything was fine - and from the shapeless motley a wonderful harmonious image emerged in the mirror: flowers, a ship, a figure, some kind of landscape. It was possible - to order - even own portrait, that is, they gave you some kind of terrible porridge, and it was you, but the key to you was in the mirror. Ah, I remember how fun it was and a little scary - what if nothing happens! - to pick up such a new incomprehensible net and bring it closer to the mirror, and see in it how your hand is completely decomposing, but how the meaningless net is folded into a lovely picture, clear, clear..."

How does a cylindrical mirror “work”?

A straight line drawn on a sheet of paper turned into a curve in a cylindrical mirror, and vertical parallel arrows turned into diverging rays.

In order to see an undistorted image of an anamorphic picture, you need a polished metal cylinder, and for this you can roll a sheet of foil into a cylinder. Then you need to come up with a picture and draw it in the original rectangular coordinate grid.

For example, in a rectangular grid there is a circle, a square and a triangle. After which it is necessary to draw a new, but already radius coordinate grid, and transferring the coordinates of the points of the original drawing to it, trace the contours. When anamorphizing, a square becomes a rectangle or rhombus, and a circle becomes an oval.

The higher the reflection of the design in the cylinder, the further and wider it should be on the paper.

Now we place a cylindrical mirror at the central point and look! Although the drawing is distorted on paper, on the surface of the mirror the reflections of the figures have the correct outlines: circle, square and triangle.

As we can see in the old drawing above, for accurate transfer regular image onto a sheet of a future anamorphic picture, you need to clearly calculate the possible distortions of the objects in the picture. For this regular drawing is divided into cells, and a radial grid is created on a sheet of amorphous pattern with a center where in the future it will be necessary to place a cylindrical mirror. Have you ever had to enlarge a drawing by redrawing it cell by cell? Here it’s the same thing, only the cells are curved. Usually artists draw such anamorphoses, constantly checking with the mirror; this is very painstaking and tedious work. Now this can be done easier: not manually, but on a computer.

One of contemporary artists Who revives the technique of creating anamorphic images is the Hungarian artist István Orosz.

For this purpose, Oros uses a conical or cylindrical mirror, which transforms indistinct strokes on paper into a three-dimensional image on the walls of the mirror.

It turns out that there is another type of anamorphic paintings. And it is completely incomprehensible to an outside viewer how the artist paints such pictures, how is he capable of such a “vision”? This is exactly what you saw in the first GIF.

In these paintings we see on the sheet a pattern that is completely understandable to the viewer, BUT as a reflection on the side surface of the mirror cylinder, a completely different pattern appears! Are there any calculations here? What laws of mathematics and physics help the artist in this work on the painting?

How do you like these things, these are the works of Jonty Hurwitz:

Here are more works by other masters.

To learn how to draw a reflection in water you need to understand the following principles:

1. The surface of water is essentially a mirror. And this “mirror” reflects everything that is above the water.

2. Reflection in water can be very different. The surface of the water can be calm, or it can be covered with small ripples, small waves, big waves... All this greatly distorts the pattern reflected in the water. Water is changeable, and therefore the nature of the reflection pattern is changeable.

3. The color of the water is not blue or cyan. It's transparent. Large masses of sea water create an effect in which the sea acquires a blue-green and blue color. But it also constantly changes depending on the weather, the nature of daylight, etc. The color of water mainly depends on what is reflected in it. If an orange sunset is reflected in the water, then Orange color will dominate color scheme water. If the water reflects green Forest, then the main color of the water will be green, etc.

4. All light fragments reflected in water look darker. And dark areas are lighter. Therefore, the reflection in the water will be slightly different in tone and will be more muted. But there are often exceptions to this rule due to various optical effects and weather conditions.

5. If the artist draws an object on the bank of a river (for example, a tree trunk), and if this object is depicted close-up, then its reflection in the water will be displayed in more detail and detail. If the reflection of large masses is drawn from afar, (for example, a forest wall at a distance of 1 kilometer), then such a reflection will be completely different. It will become more generalized, may be more blurry, etc. In addition, the water can be calm and smooth like a mirror, or it can be disturbed by a light breeze or a strong gust of wind... All this affects the characteristics of the transmission of reflection in the water.

6. Above stated key points. It is impossible to describe all the patterns, so the artist must be observant and constantly make sketches while studying nature. This is the key to success.