How to make space color with paints. Step-by-step instructions on how to paint space with watercolors

Congratulations to everyone on the greatest event in history! This morning, August 6, 2012, the Curiosity rover reached its goal and landed in the area of Martian Gale Crater!

Introduction: Where are we from and why are we like this? People never stop developing. Human capabilities are becoming more perfect and flawless every day. Although our life expectancy is short, but with the help modern technologies children absorb new knowledge so quickly that it seems as if a modern child is a real scientist compared to people who lived two hundred years ago. Don't believe me? I'll prove. IN this moment, You, my dear readers, are near your monitor and, surfing the Internet, looking for pencil drawing lessons, it is so? But to get them you use a lot of knowledge and skills that are not available to the common man earlier, for example:

Quick typing of characters on the keyboard
Using search engines
Using key combinations, sets of codes, ciphers
Even a simple VKontakte registration will require knowledge of a certain algorithm.

Still not sure? But you have much more knowledge today, at this particular moment, than advanced programmers had 30 years ago! And you try to explain to your grandfather, who never used a computer, that it is possible, without leaving your home on Google Maps, to see Paris from a bird's eye view, or even better, to make virtual walk along the city streets. And such an opportunity has long become commonplace for us! Let me return to my question. Who are we? Why can’t my cat know how to type on a keyboard, even though he lives with us? We are different. Perhaps not even from this planet, not from this galaxy. Unsuccessful attempts to find out this here on Earth no longer leave hope. That is why the most brainy people on our planet are trying so hard to explore the vastness of space. I'm sure there's an answer there. Let's just wish them success! Let's get back to drawing.

How to draw space with a pencil step by step

Step one. Draw a round shape for the planet and the outline of the landscape.
Step two. Let's correct the contours of the planet and its satellite. On foreground We draw two little men, these are astronauts sent to the moon.
Step three. Let's add some touches.
Step four. Let's draw a starry sky. Or more precisely this open space. In the middle lunar landscape Let's draw some craters.
Step five. All that's left to do is add some shadows. The result was this picture of space:
I hope that scientists will still be able to find life on this planet. And in the near future we will not be flying to Mars like scientific expeditions, but as if this is a vacation package, like Korben Dallas in the film The Fifth Element. See the continuation of this lesson.

Master class on drawing for preschoolers of the senior preparatory group on the topic: “SPACE” step by step with photos

Sredina Olga Stanislavovna, teacher, head of the art studio of the MDOU TsRR d.s. No. 1 “Bear Cub”, Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk Region

Purpose:
Creation of educational, gift or competition work
Materials:
A3 white or colored double-sided paper, wax crayons, salt, gouache or black watercolor, soft brush No. 3-5
Goals:
Creation of works on a space theme
Tasks:
Education in various ways space images
Improving practical skills wax crayons and watercolors
Education of patriotism.
Developing curiosity

Preliminary work:

1 We look at photographs of cosmic depths.

2 We get acquainted with the history of astronautics, with the names and achievements of our outstanding cosmonauts. We remember the names: Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexey Leonov. The world's first astronaut, the first woman in space, the first person to go into outer space. We look at the photographs, talk about the difficulties and delights of the profession of space explorers. How did test pilots become astronauts? What kind of training did they undergo? Let's take a closer look at the first human spacewalk.

2 - Thinking about space, UFOs, aliens. We discuss films and cartoons. We think what kind of aliens they might be: good or evil?

3 - Literary living room:

Arkady Khait
Any of us can name all the planets in order:
One - Mercury, two - Venus, three - Earth, four - Mars.
Five is Jupiter, six is Saturn, seven is Uranus, followed by Neptune.
He is the eighth in a row. And after him, then,
And the ninth planet called Pluto.

V. Orlov
Flying in space
Steel ship around the Earth.
And even though its windows are small,
Everything is visible in them at a glance:
Steppe expanse, sea surf,
Or maybe you and me too!

Practical work No. 1: "Deep Space"

For drawing space landscape we will need stencils of circles of various diameters. You can use special rulers or various “improvised means”.

We draw several planets with wax crayons, placing them randomly on the plane of the sheet. You can use the technique of superimposing nearby planets on lower ones, or depict one of the planets only partially.

After creating the cosmic composition, crumple the sheet of paper, twisting it several times, and carefully straighten it

Coloring the planets. To prevent the planets from becoming like grandma’s balls of thread, we draw very carefully with crayons and do not go beyond the edges.
Before we start working in color, we remember what forests, mountains, deserts and oceans look like from space, and we think about whether all planets can look the same? Fiery and foggy, sandy, gaseous and icy - they can look absolutely fantastic. We come up with complex color combinations.

Cover the entire sheet with black watercolor. Paint accumulates in cracks, creating a mysterious depth outer space.

Practical work No. 2: “Staying in outer space”

For this work we will need a figurine of an astronaut in a spacesuit, circles of various diameters and a silhouette of a rocket.

We place all the figures on the sheet in random order. We start with a rocket and an astronaut. Then we add the planets.

Inside the silhouettes we delimit planes. We add portholes to the rocket, divide the spacesuit into individual parts. We begin to gradually color the rocket, the astronaut and the planets. In order to create a festive atmosphere, we take bright, rich colors.

Adding stars. We take yellow and white crayons. We place them in small groups, in the form of constellations, or line them up (like the Milky Way). Each star is a distant, distant sun around which planets can revolve and there can be life on them.

We take a brush and black paint (watercolor or gouache) and begin to paint over the entire work. First we draw lines along the edge of the sheet, then we work along the entire sheet.

While the paint is not dry, “salt” the drawing. In the place where a grain of salt fell, the paint seems to collect, and the space with the help of this technical reception again becomes deep and mysterious.

Children's work (5-6 years old)

Drawing options
Flying saucers (UFOs) can be very diverse. Turning on our imagination, we imagine aircrafts aliens.

"Every atom of our body
was once a star."
Vincent Freeman

A week ago on our creative Instagram @miftvorchestvo we launched a competition for the best completion of the task from the notebook “642 ideas on what to draw”. The task sounded simple - space. A lot of creative and creative works. You can see them all by tag. We publish best works and give step-by-step master class how to learn to draw space.

Best works for competition #642ideicosmos

“If you can’t fly into space, make it come to you.” Author of the photo - @al.ex_kv.

"And when darkness sleeps beside you, And the morning is far away, I wanna hold your hand and guide you..." Parov Stelar ft. Lilja Bloom - Shine. Photo by @julia_owlie.

Are they really cool? 🙂

Step-by-step master class

If you did not participate in the competition, but also want to learn how to draw space, save somewhere these step-by-step instructions on what and how to do so that it turns out bright and beautiful.

1. In order to draw the Universe, only 3-4 colors are enough. At least that's the amount you can start with. Important: The sheet for watercolors must be very dense so that it does not wrinkle from water and so that the paint spreads beautifully and evenly.

2. The outline can be drawn solid with a simple pencil to designate the area that you will wet with water. Wet part of the allocated space.

3. Apply paint to the wetted area. Try to make the contours beautiful.

4. Wet the rest of the space with water and apply a different color of paint. Selectively add bright pops of color throughout the design. The drawing must be wet so that the paint flows beautifully.

5. Once the design is completely dry, apply the stars. This can be done with white or yellow paint using an old toothbrush.

6. Some stars could be drawn more carefully.

Photo for the master class from the site kitty-ink.tumblr.com.

If you sprinkle salt on a wet drawing, the structure of space will turn out even more interesting. The salt will absorb some of the paint, and if you shake it off after it has completely dried, there will be beautiful white dots and clouds in place of the salt.

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In this lesson you will learn how to draw space and planet .

Step 1.

First we will draw a starry sky. Create a new document and fill it with black. I set the size of the new document to 1600x1200 so that it could later be used as desktop wallpaper. Duplicate this layer (Ctrl+ J) . Next, apply a noise filter to the new layer. Filter - Noise - Add Noise(Filter - Noise - Add Noise). Set the amount of noise to 10%, Gaussian distribution and check the box for Monochrome.

Step 2.

Next we go to the menu item Image > Adjustments > Brightness & Contrast(Image> Corrections> Brightness/Contrast) and set Brightness 30 and Contrast 75 . Now the noise looks more like stars.

Step 3.

Now let's add larger stars. Duplicate the previous layer with stars (Ctrl+ J) and change the brightness and contrast for it Image > Adjustments > Brightness & Contrast(Image> Corrections> Brightness/Contrast) set Brightness 100 a Contrast 50

Step 4

Click (Ctrl+T) and make a layer with big stars approximately twice as much. Hold Shift to transform the layer proportionally. Click (Ctrl+L) to bring up the Levels window. Set the parameters as shown in the picture to increase the contrast. (In my case I had to set the parameters opposite to those of the author 0 , 1.00 , 20)

Step 5

Set the layer's blending mode to Screen. To avoid the echo effect (overlay effect), press Ctrl+T and rotate the layer 90 degrees (while holding down the key Shift while rotating the layer, the layer will rotate in 15 degree increments). Use this technique when rotating.

Step 6

Take a soft rubber band with a diameter of approximately 20-30 px and start erasing our stars on both layers. Try to create various shapes in all directions to make our stars look more natural. Also remember that there should be more black space than star space and more small stars than large ones.

Step 7

Try creating some star areas using the tool Clone Stamp(Stamp) using a soft-edged brush. You have to decide for yourself where to place clouds with stars and where to leave empty space. Use your imagination and you will succeed.

Step 8

Let's add a glow to the stars. Duplicate the layer with the big stars. Apply filter Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur(Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur) with a radius of approximately 10 px and change the color blend mode to Linear Dodge(Linear Dodge). Press Ctrl+U and colorize the glow of the stars (I set Hue (Color tone) at 230). Repeat this step several times to make star Light more expressive.

Step 9

Now let’s create the remaining details of our cosmic landscape: huge stars, stardust and a multi-colored nebula. Create a new layer and set the layer's blending mode Linear Dodge(Linear Dodge) and fill it with black. Further Filter - Render - Lens Flare ( Filter - Rendering - Highlight ) . The type of lens I used was 35mm. Create another pair this way big stars by changing the location of the highlight center and the brightness of the highlight. Use different colors for each of the stars, this will give some variety big picture(most easy way to do this - press Ctrl+U and change Hue ( Color tone)).

Step 10

Create a new layer to create the stardust. Install opacity(layer opacity) to 25% and change the layer blending mode to Screen(Lightening). Select any brush with soft edges and set it up as shown. I used a texture for the brush Confetti, this is one of the standard Photoshop textures. Now that we have set up the brush, let's paint our stardust blue (#ced0f1).

Step 11

Now let's create a multi-colored nebula. Create a new layer, take a soft round brush and paint a cloud like mine. It's quite easy: first draw the blue base, then the red area, and finally the yellow and white. Apply a filter to the nebula layer Filter - Blur - Gaussian blur(Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur) with a radius of 50 px.

Step 12

Now let's give our nebula the shape of clouds. To do this, create a new black layer and apply a filter to the layer Filter - Render - Clouds ( Filter - Rendering - Clouds). Change the layer's blending mode to Overlay(Overlap). After that, duplicate the clouds layer (Ctrl+ J) .

Step 13

Select the nebula layer and change it opacity(layer opacity) to 55%, and layer blend mode to Screen(Lightening). Find best place for your nebula and move it there.

Step 14

Well, we have finished drawing the starry sky. Now let's create a planet. Find a stone texture for your future planet. I used this one from SXC. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1011795
You can also use your texture.

Step 15

Open the texture image. Let's change the canvas size to give the texture a square shape. Image- Canvas size ( Image - Canvas Size ) . Set the height and width to the same values. Use the tool Clone Stamp(Stamp) to fill empty seats texture. Also remove too dark spots with the same instrument. Further Edit - Define Pattern(Editing - Define pattern). Save the pattern under any name you like. After this, you can close the image with the texture.

Step 16

Create a new document (Ctrl+ N) size 1600x1600 pixels. Fill it with black. Using the tool Elliptical Marquee Tool (“Oval area” selection ) create a selection in the form of a circle. To make the circle even and fit into the square, press Shift + Ctrl and without releasing these keys from approximately the center of the square, begin to draw a selection. After you draw the selection, fill it with the pattern that we created in the previous step. Image - Fill- Contents: Pattern
(Editing - Fill - Use: “Pattern”). And select the pattern that we created for the fill.

Step 17

Without removing the selection, apply the filter Filter - Distort - Spherize ( Filter - Distortion - Spherization ) Amount 100% ( Degree 100%). Click Ctrl + F to repeat the last applied filter.

Step 18

Duplicate the planet layer (Ctrl + J) and fill the circle with a light blue color (#455571). This will be the atmosphere of the planet. You can use any other color for this.

Step 19

Duplicate this layer and fill it with black. This will be the shadow of the planet. Now select the atmosphere layer and double click on it to bring up the Layer Style window. Apply the following layer styles to the atmosphere layer:

Step 20

Move the shadow layer above the atmosphere layer ( Ctrl +] - layer up )
(Ctrl +[ - layer down ) . Apply a filter to the shadow layer Gaussian blur
(Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur) Gaussian Blur (Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur) with a radius of 75 px.

Step 21

Press Ctrl+T and transform the shadow: increase its size and move it a little to the upper left corner. I chose this shadow position because I'm going to place the planet in the top left corner of the painting and the light is coming from the very big stars, which is in the center.

Step 22

Select the atmosphere layer and set the layer blending mode Screen(Lightening), so we will see the surface of the planet. I don't like the brightness and contrast of the planet, so I reduced opacity ( layer opacity ) up to 33%. After that I duplicated the layer with the surface of the planet and set the layer blending mode Soft Light(Soft light). Also I changed opacity shadow layer by 90%.

Step 23

Now we need to copy our planet onto the starry sky. For this
turn off background(background) by clicking on the eye icon
responsible for the visibility of layers. Shift+Ctrl+E to merge visible layers. Now copy the planet to the file from starry sky and place it in the corner of the document. Finally I added a glow to the planet.

Conclusion

That's all!
Good luck and patience in creating your own space landscapes.

So the month of April has come... with hope for warmth and bright sunshine, with flowers and joy... Very soon the world will celebrate Cosmonautics Day. This is a holiday that includes important events And greatest discoveries, achievements of human civilization and the discovery of inaccessible secrets and worlds.

IN different time The children and I conducted various activities on the topic of Space; links to some of them will be at the end of the article and in. And today I invite you and your children to arm yourself with pencils and paints and go paint space!

Hooray! I announce the opening new section “Learning to Draw” and I invite you to meet the artist Julia, who shared her drawing skills with us.

How to draw space step by step

Drawings on the theme of space are a common April assignment in schools and kindergartens. Julia offers us two options space theme on different ages: for preschoolers and primary school students.

I know that many parents are categorically against templates and examples in drawing. But I am also convinced that in order to learn to draw, sometimes you need a push, an example, which, when embodied, the child will believe in himself and begin to reveal his capabilities and talents. Shall we try?

Drawing “Rocket in space” for children 4-5 years old.

The drawing is so simple and easy that it seems to me that it does not need additional descriptions. However, if you prefer the video format of the lesson, then watch this video:

Drawing on the theme “Space” for children 6-7 years old.

And here is the video MK of the rocket’s drawing, posted on ours:

These are the simple and accessible drawings about space that the artist Julia offered us today. And I am grateful to her for her beautiful creativity.

What do you think of these drawings about space? And what do you and your children like to draw on? given topic? By the way, you can send your drawings for this MK to me by email, I will post them in this article.