How to draw a pine cone with a pencil step by step. Cones in watercolor

Every year in all kindergartens and schools they ask to make products with their own hands. This is perhaps the most common puzzle for parents.

And you know, it's not even bad at all.

We have a lot of natural material, we need to add a little imagination.

Well, most importantly, you and your whole family will immerse yourself in the charming world of creativity.

Today, we will look at a natural resource - pine cones.

It is used not only in school crafts, but also for interior design, Hand-Made designers and others.

Below are photos and a detailed diagram of several crafts made from pine cones.

What crafts from pine cones can you make with your own hands?

Almost everyone can make a craft from real pine and spruce cones, the main thing is desire and a little imagination.

Using this amazing natural resource you can do:

• Decorative elements that will bring the stunning smell of the forest and a cozy atmosphere to your home.
• New Year's crafts: festive wreath, candlestick, Christmas tree, garland, New Year's ball and much more.
• Interesting crafts of funny animals with children.

Festive wreath

You can convey the New Year's mood to your guests right from the doorstep. To design the New Year's wreath we will use:

• Cardboard
• Spruce or pine branches
• Cones
• Satin ribbon
• Not real snow
• Dye
• Glue gun
• Decorations for decoration, optional.

Many materials are used to make the base.

For example: plastic, cardboard, branches, bending wire, and even newspapers.

We settled on cardboard; it is quite simple and convenient to work with.

On cardboard we cut out the diameter of the circle that we need. Next, we attach the branches and cones, forming a symmetrical circle.

After the cones are glued, we continue to decorate our wreath. Take a can of artificial snow and spray the edges of the cones.

If you couldn't find snow, you can paint the scales with white or silver paint.

We tie it with a satin ribbon, choose the color yourself.

Note!

For a more interesting and rich wreath, you can add additional decorative elements: red beads, acorns, nuts, flowers.

Use your imagination and you will succeed!

New Year's garland

A quick and easy craft to make.

Material you will need:

• bumps
• glue gun
• rope
• dye
• glitter

Step-by-step instructions for the craft:

• We prepare the cones in advance and paint them with paint. The paint can be chosen in different colors. Or make it in one color that matches your interior design. You can also use glitter to make the product more elegant.
• We take a rope and mark the distance between the cones.
• We leave 10-15 cm from the edges so that there is room to attach the garland.
• Using a glue gun, attach the pine cones to the rope. Glue along the entire length.
• We are waiting for the glue to dry. And Voila! The New Year's garland is ready.

Note!

For kids and schoolchildren it will be easy to make crafts from pine cones and plasticine of funny animals: Teddy Bear, Hedgehog, Squirrel, Owl, etc.

Mishutka

We will use:

• Cones of different types (pine, spruce, open, closed)
• Scissors
• Plasticine

Step-by-step instructions for making crafts:

Body. From the collected material, select an elongated pine cone. Apply glue to the connecting parts of the scales. We connect the parts so that the scales secure each other.

Paws. We choose 2 larger cones for the lower paws, and 2 smaller ones for the upper paws. Glue the parts to the body, pay attention to symmetry.

Head. We make the head from open pine cones. They perfectly convey the fluffiness of a bear's fur. We attach it to the base with glue.

Note!

Ears, eyes and nose. You can make it from plasticine, and the tip of the nose, for example, from black peppercorns.

If you want to surprise everyone around you, then you can make a big bear. You choose the size of the bear, the main thing is to collect the required number of cones.

You can make the base - the frame of Mishutka - from polyurethane foam, polystyrene foam or papier-mâché. An excellent solution for the stability of the product would be to attach something heavy to the bottom.

We cover the frame with pine cones, and make the ears and muzzle from plasticine or pom-poms.

Hedgehog

The simplest children's craft made from pine cones. To make it you need only two materials:

• Cones
• Plasticine

Step by step description:

Body. The cone itself is well suited for the base of the craft. If you look closely and rotate the scales correctly, they look like hedgehog needles.

Muzzle. Here we will need some plasticine. We make an oblong muzzle from it. And fix it on the craft.

Eyes, nose, paws, ears. We also use plasticine, only in a different color.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated, this craft from pine cones is suitable for kindergarten.

Experiment! Decorate your home with interesting design solutions that you have prepared yourself. Don’t forget about the children, they will also be interested in taking part in the creation of a small miracle.

Photos of crafts made from pine cones

Even in winter, you can find interesting objects to draw in the forest. For example, these could be fir cones. It will be especially useful for beginning artists to learn how to draw such complex objects. In the process of drawing cones, in addition to the correct construction of a sketch, which requires accurate drawing of each scale, everyone will be able to practice accuracy and courage in applying paint and mixing shades directly on paper. Before drawing from life, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with this master class in order to understand the sequence of work and important nuances in painting pine cones in watercolor.

To paint cones in watercolor you will need the following materials:

• watercolor paints;
• watercolor paper (with a density of at least 200-300 mg/m2);
• elastic brush No. 3 round (synthetic or kolinsky);
• simple pencil;
• water;
• palette or saucer;
• eraser.

Drawing stages

Step 1. Outline a sketch of the composition with a simple pencil. We draw the contours of the future two cones in the center - a circle and a slightly smaller oval. Below we finish drawing three small ovals - the outline of spruce branches. We immediately mark the middle of the objects with lines in order to correctly draw the needles on the branches and scales on the cones.

Starting from the top, draw semicircular scales.

The sketch is ready, now we remove unnecessary lines with an eraser, and lighten the main ones a little.

Step 2. We also start adding color from the tops of the cones. The ends of the scales are well illuminated and therefore we do not paint them over. For the topmost parts you will need a translucent mixture of umber and natural sienna. We use it to work two or three rows of “petals”. Then we pick up burnt sienna with a brush and go through it along the third and fourth rows.

We shade the lowest scales with sepia and Voronezh black.

Step 3. Paint the second bump using the same principle - darken the base and leave the edges white. But to draw this object you will need only two shades: sepia and burnt umber. We carefully work out all the small details of the drawing.

Step 4. Use neutral black to create volume and depth of objects. Apply paint to the base of the top few rows of scales. Using a damp, clean brush, blur the outline of the dark paint with the main color. At this stage it is important not to stain the white edges of the scales. On the second cone we paint almost all the scales.

Step 5. Next we register the branches. We outline the direction of the needles with a pale green tint.

In this lesson I will try to explain how to draw naturalistic pine cones using standard graphic tools. Bumps like these:
Cedar cones
We will need:
1. Paper.
2. Simple pencils. Hard-soft (TM) and very soft.
3. Shading (how to do it is described below)
4. The softest eraser you can find.
To begin with, on separate sheets of paper, I drew a lot of light sketches of cones in different positions in space, and when I decided on the ones I wanted, I simply transferred their outlines to a clean copy and made another copy for the future (if you ever want to do it in color, you can do it use).

Let me note that I personally try to apply shading from the upper left corner to the lower right corner - this way there is no dirt or rubbing, and my hands always remain clean. In this work, from the left cone and pine needles, through the middle to the right.

It is very important to initially convey the direction of the tunga with contours (these are the scales of the cedar cone in which the nuts sit). Along the axis of the cone they are turned towards us, and towards the edges they already turn sideways. There are also nuances at the base of the cones, where they seem to point towards the viewer, and at the very end the cones narrow and close into a pyramid.

Let's start drawing. Initially we use a TM pencil, because we need a medium tone and it can be erased if anything happens. For now we will work in the plane, outlining the primary chiaroscuro, all with one sharp pencil.

Personally, I am a supporter of a clean stroke, a carefully applied stroke, clearly directed, is not only an artistic means, but also an aesthetic pleasure for the viewer. Speaking of the artistic medium... when drawing the tunga, using the direction of the stroke we show the direction of growth of each scale. It is round and in the middle is divided in half by nature, so all this needs to be shown with a stroke. The pencil should be like a needle.

How to show volume. When the initial hatching is applied in the plane, the volume can be outlined. This is done using a very soft pencil. The furthest scales on this cone from the viewer are those at the base, so they should be the darkest. We outline this with short strokes FROM the lightest adjacent place. Contrast is a means of volume.

We complete the primary shading throughout the entire cone.

To round the entire cone, you need to apply black strokes from the edges, less and less towards the middle. Having finished this work, we darken with a TM pencil the joints of the scales that go under the ones located above (circled in the figure) and make a correction along the entire bump.

The latest work involves applying “pumps” to the tips of the scales.

The needles of cedars, especially adults, are distinguished by the fact that they do not stick out, but hang down in cascades, for which you always want to stroke the branches; they are heavy, but elastic.
We outline its position on the left with a hard-soft pencil, filling the very depths with tone.

We use black for depth.

We sharpen the ends.

We repeat the same thing above.

Where it is necessary to make a smooth transition or an even tone, we use “shading”. This is a cone made from a piece of paper, rolled up and secured with tape. You can’t rub graphite with your finger; it won’t do anything except smear and dirt. Lightly touching the hatching layer with the tip of the cone, carefully scratch it.

Special effects. This is what I call the use of an eraser not for erasing extraneous lines, but the deliberate use of its ability to tear graphite from the surface with a simple touch. In other words, the process of lightening. You can also use a nag for this.
We take the softest eraser we have, cut off a part of it to make it sharp, well, or almost sharp. And at random we remove the graphite from the drawing where it needs to be lightened. (I circled these places in the picture) A soft eraser pulls out the graphite from the surface of the paper. We also use a sharp edge to go along the lightest needles.

You can also draw a cone along with its branch on which it grows. Therefore, in this lesson we will learn how to draw in watercolor just such a drawing on a forest theme. Yellow ocher, natural and burnt sienna, green and olive tints will be used for coloring. If desired, you can add other colors to them so that they are harmoniously combined and look natural in the drawing.

Materials for drawing a pine cone with a twig

• - different brushes;
• - palette;
• - pure water;
• - napkins;
• - pencil;
• - liners of different thicknesses.

Stages of drawing a pine cone in watercolor

1. In the first stage, we sketch a cone that weighs on a branch. Determine the length of the branch and its needles. We also draw the general outline of the cone and then draw out the scales. Let's get this nice sketch for painting with watercolors.

2. Dilute yellow ocher with natural sienna with plenty of water. Apply the resulting shade to most of the pine cone. Let's leave small fragments for highlights.

3. Now we paint the twig with its needles. To do this, we take shades such as olive, burnt sienna and natural sienna. We apply this new color with sharp movements to get needles on the branch. We also use olive color for the pine cone, mixing it with ocher or natural sienna.

4. Darken the picture and highlight areas of shadow and light. We use watercolors of the same shades that were used previously, adding a new green with a more saturated color. We make strokes on the branch and paint over the pine cone in its darkest areas.

5. We further darken and add color to the drawing with a pine cone and a pine twig. We use a large amount of green watercolor with a minimal amount of brown. Also, when mixing paints, water should also be minimal.

6. We wait for the drawing to dry completely and now you can add shading and a thin outline using liners of different thicknesses. We draw the needles on the branch with simple lines.

As it turned out, you can also draw cones in different ways, you can do it professionally, at the level of an artist, carefully selecting pencils according to softness/hardness, doing shading and shadows, or you can do it simply and quickly, at the level of children. Here they draw cones as I described in the first version. Article in two parts. Second part here. It should look like this:

This page shows how to draw cones like this:



Bump You can draw not only in a complex way, but also in a simple way. I suggest drawing a cone based on an oval. That is, we simply draw an oval and narrow it a little at the edges. Draw an oval the size you want the cone to be. After all, the cones can be green. If we draw a green cone, then we will narrow the oval a little downwards. We will make marks in the oval - we will give our oval such a peculiar ribbing). We create ribbing by drawing either just straight lines, and then dividing them into squares; or we make ribbing with corners.



Then we can draw a twig and needles. This drawing is very beautiful as is, but if you revive it by adding colors, it will be even better. You can use regular green paint and then just add, for example, yellow. But if you prefer a brown cone, then we just use brown paint.



I really like to draw nature; I often draw pine trees and pine trees with cones hanging on them. Drawing from is not at all difficult; all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and a little effort and patience. This is how you can draw cones:







Try to draw and you will definitely succeed.

You can draw cones with varying degrees of skill. You should also note that before you draw a pine cone, you must first select the tree whose cones you are drawing. Below is a quote that will allow you to theoretically prepare for the process of drawing cones:



1 Start your drawing with an image of a branch,

to which the bump will be attached.

Keep in mind that on one spruce tree

paw can grow up to twenty of these

shoots. Please also take into account the fact that in

unlike pine or cedar

spruce cones hang straight down.

2.Make a preliminary drawing of the cone

in the form of an elongated oval. Position

it is at the end of the spruce paw, in the middle

the branches of the cone do not grow because they

are a continuation of the escape. IN

later you will change this oval,

add details and draw

structural features of this shoot in

depending on what time of year

you choosed. But it's a start anyway

the same.

3 Sharpen the bump from that

end that will not be attached to

branch. Please note that the bump must be

symmetrical relative to the central

vertical line. Erase

auxiliary lines with an eraser.

4 Draw scales all over the surface

escape. At the base of the cone they are more

large and thin, have cracks,

uneven edges. At the end of the scale

younger and smoother. If you want to

to depict summer, then draw a bump with

tightly adjacent to each other

scales. Closer to autumn they begin

lag behind each other and puff up,

this lump looks loose. Except

in addition, in wet weather the scales

They shrink and open when dry.

So if you draw rainy

day, depict the bump as dense.

5 Consider the order of growth of scales on

bump. They are not aligned

in rows, like corn kernels

on the cob, but like bricks in a masonry.

The middle of the lower scale is located

between the two from the top row.

6 Color the drawing. For mature autumn

cones use brown and beige

colors, for young people add green

shade. Don't forget about the shadows underneath

protruding scales. Highlight

dark paint damage and

irregularities on their surface.

Since there are different types of cones, the first thing we need to decide is what we want to get in the end.



You can draw a cone schematically, starting from the branch itself.

We draw the branch with lines, then outline the cone (can be an oval, or better yet, a more characteristic shape - slightly narrowed at the tip).

We draw needles on the branch with strokes, not forgetting that the length of the needles is almost the same.

And on the cone blank we will make a grid with diamonds - these are future scales.

Then each diamond is slightly rounded at the base so that the cone is voluminous.

The cone can be painted in the desired colors or with shadows and light to enliven it.



You can also learn from artists!) With a steady hand and skills, the bumps you get are like this:



There is also this drawing of a pine cone, it has not yet opened to sow its seeds. We start drawing with an oval



now, let's draw scales like those of a fish, as in the photo



now, wipe the contour line so that the edges are lumpy



add to the picture on each scale a small oval drawing, as in the photo



That's it, now you can color it with colored pencils



In order to draw a bump You can use the following master class, but you must have pencil skills to give the bump a shadow and make it seem alive and voluminous:

But here is a real lesson for a novice artist, which describes the entire drawing process in sufficient detail:

Also, so that the cones do not look lonely, you can draw them on a spruce or pine tree, and then paint them with paints, then they will look more colorful and are more suitable for a child (especially since most people do not know how to draw with a pencil at all). Or you can try to draw not step by step, but immediately by drawing from life:





Drawing of various cones occurs mainly in the winter. New Year's holidays: children's drawings, cards for adults, etc.

first you need to decide: what kind of tree cone we will draw - spruce, pine, cedar, larch cone or some other.

The buds of different crops vary slightly. The picture clearly shows 2 cones: spruce and pine. Drawing them is not at all difficult. First we draw an outline: an oval for a fir cone and a circle for a pine cone. And we begin to draw scales inside the ellipse.









To draw a bump with a pencil step by step, you don’t need a lot of skills and effort. Cones are quite easy to draw.

And so, first you should draw a branch on which there will be cones. We finish drawing needles on the branch. Near the needles, draw oval figures of cones and apply diamonds connected to each other on them. These will be scales. After you have drawn the scales, you can paint them.

More detailed instructions in the video below.

Let's draw a pine branch with as many as three cones, and even seeds spilled out of them. I warn you right away that the drawing is very complex.

To make it easier, first draw a branch and three ovals. Then each oval will turn into a bump.