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The Snow Maiden is one of the symbols of the New Year. An amazing girl, her granddaughter is known to everyone for her meekness, kindness and beauty. Children love her very much, because she is always ready to help. Therefore, do not be surprised if a child asks you to help draw this magical girl.

How to draw the Snow Maiden step by step?

Before starting work, it is worth explaining to the child the main elements that make up the image of the Snow Maiden.

The granddaughter of Grandfather Frost is usually depicted wearing a hat or crown, from under which a long golden braid is visible.

It is better to draw the Snow Maiden costume in pale blue or blue tones. It can be a long fur coat or a sheepskin coat with a fluffy, white edge. White or white ones always look very good on a fur coat. silver snowflakes. You can also add miniature boots, slightly peeking out from under your outerwear.

The Snow Maiden can be drawn either with paints or with a pencil. It all depends on skill young artist and available materials.

Gold or silver paints will add real magic to your drawing. Sequins or beads placed on glue on top of the finished work will look great.

We bring to your attention a series of master classes, among which you will definitely be able to choose the appropriate option for your child. You can draw a charming Snow Maiden with a magic crown.

To do this, first draw the girl’s silhouette and outline the future braid. Then we gradually begin to draw individual elements of our drawing - clothes, miniature boots and a face. Don't forget to decorate the charming head with a magic crown. All that remains is to add a little color - and the Snow Maiden is ready.

It's hard to remain indifferent to the cute Snow Maiden who holds Christmas tree toy, shining with gold.

We start drawing from the face - outline an oval, form a hairline and two braids. Then we draw a hat and draw the hands that hold the New Year's ball. After this, you should gradually draw a fur coat with a white edge. Finishing touch– draw a face and add color to the drawing.

No less attractive images magical girl with a fluffy muff in his hands.

Here's another option. The easiest way to start a drawing is with schematic sketches of the main fragments of the future figure - the head, torso and arms. Then carefully draw out the details of the drawing. After we have drawn the face, clothes and hands, we begin to color the resulting drawing.

Quite often, beginning artists are faced with an image problem. human face. How to easily draw the Snow Maiden's face? In order for the face to be proportional, it is worth conditionally dividing it into four parts. Then we outline the eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows. After that, all that remains is to draw the details - and our charming granddaughter of Santa Claus is ready.

In order to develop the skill of depicting a human face, you can try to draw faces separately. Therefore, a master class that helps you draw a girl’s face step by step can be a good workout and a great help for you.

If you have already drawn the Snow Maiden, it is worth remembering the appropriate background that will highlight the image of our heroine. As a rule, the Snow Maiden is drawn in the middle snowy forest. You can also add a few forest creatures - or small ones

Armed with patience and our tips, you and your child will gradually begin to achieve the desired image of the Snow Maiden. And soon your house will certainly be filled magical drawings. And the hours spent with your child will bring a lot of joy from joint creativity.

The fairy-tale girl who constantly accompanies Father Frost and helps him is the Snow Maiden. Her feminine image brings its own zest to new year holidays. The Snow Maiden can be found in fairy tales and at children's matinees. Although she is considered the granddaughter of Santa Claus, this heroine appears before us both in the form of a little girl and sometimes as an adult girl. The story goes that she was born from snow, because her original name was “Snowflake”. There is a kokoshnik on her head, and she is dressed in long skirt, a short fur coat and high-heeled boots. IN this lesson we will find out how to draw Snow Maiden in the form of an adult girl.

Tools and materials:

1. A graphics tablet and pen (I used Wacom Intos Draw, but any will do) connected to a computer or laptop.
2. Program Adobe Photoshop.

You can also use a simple pencil, an eraser and a piece of paper.

Stages of work:

Step 1. In graphic Adobe program Photoshop create a new document (File – New): width – 850 px. and height - 595 px. The main diameter for the brush is 5-3, color – black:

Step 2. We create the “skeleton” of the character. From above we outline the oval of the girl’s face, and from there we draw down center line through the girl's entire body. Let's draw on top horizontal line shoulders, then the waist and hips. We fix the lines at the ends with serifs:

Step 3. Let's draw the chest part of the body, and also draw the line of the skirt from the waist down. It will expand towards the bottom. The width of the bottom of the skirt is equal to double the width of the waist:

Step 4. Let's finish the sleeves. Left hand lowered down, and the right one raised, bent at the elbow. We will make wide cuffs at the bottom of the sleeves. The Snow Maiden's short fur coat will cover her hips, but widen slightly towards the bottom:

Step 5. Let's outline the location of the hands and feet. Let's draw them with general lines, without detail:

Step 6. Now we do the following: select the black outline using the “ Magic wand and change the color from black to grey. Thus common lines become paler. Using the created template (above), we draw a thinner outline of the entire body. Attention, the brush color should be black so that the lines do not merge:

Step 8 Apply shadow over the clothing near the folds. The main diameter of the brush should be no more than 3, you can make it even smaller:

Step 9 Now let's draw the kokoshnik on the head. Decorate it around the edge with beads:

Step 10 We continue to draw the surface of the Snow Maiden’s clothing, making the shadow even smoother:

Step 11 The white inserts on the suit, which are located along the edge of the skirt and fur coat, also need to be lightly covered with strokes. Thus, the shadow appears on this part of the clothing:

How to draw Snow Maiden

Portrait of the Snow Maiden. Drawing step by step

Master class on drawing: “Portrait of the Snow Maiden in mixed media».

Progress of the master class:

The story of distant childhood -
Snow beauty
Hurt my heart,
I can't handle him.
The thin frame of a reed,
Like fingers of ice,
The girls remember you
Boys love you.

You are white in winter
Born on the sidelines
Where are the brave ones on the roller coaster?
The Christmas trees have become friends.
Among all the outskirts
Mother villages
There is no better assistant
At my beloved grandmother's.

But in the thawed spring
You trust fate
And a small snowflake
You'll melt again in the evening.
When he meets a dream in the grass -
Winter dream oak tree,
They will be waiting for you to come to them
Grandfather and grandmother.

The windows are painted
Silvery frost.
- Don’t ask anything
The blue sky will say.
Wait until autumn
Moons are colorful
The world will be decorated with gray hair
The pearls are countless.

On a winter night, fabulous,
I'll go out onto the street
From a mysterious country
I'll call the Snow Maiden.
It will swirl, it will swirl
There's a snowstorm above me,
Maybe the fairy tale will come true
I will hope.
Oleg Abritsov

(You can view the resulting drawing in the section of this site)

In order for the forest drawing to be voluminous and the space of the forest to be felt in the landscape, you need to be able to apply the laws of chiaroscuro to complex natural forms. If you imagine an academic drawing geometric bodies- a ball, a cylinder, a cube, then you can remember how chiaroscuro is constructed. It consists of six main zones: highlight, light, penumbra, shadow, reflex, falling shadow. The crown of a tree can be conventionally represented as a ball. Those. from above the tree will be illuminated by light, then there will be partial shade, and below there will be the darkest part - the shadow. But this is only conditional. The tree does not have smooth surface and even from a distance its silhouette will be clumsy, curved... Therefore, if in general the tree is illuminated like a ball, then in particular individual branches and groups of leaves will be illuminated more or, conversely, less. So we get uneven surface foliage, illuminated unevenly, inside of which, in the shadows, one can observe dark spaces between the branches. The trunk of the tree and large branches are illuminated like a cylinder, because they have a cylindrical shape. But a tree trunk is rarely even and smooth, so you need to add features to the chiaroscuro that introduce unevenness, bends, knots, cracks, bark...

If we talk about the space of the forest, then the same laws of chiaroscuro also apply to it. For example, falling shadows from trees will lie on the ground. But since the earth does not have a flat surface, the shadows will bend around these irregularities, repeating their shape. A huge variety of grasses and shrubs also add features to the character of the falling shadows. The shadows will bend around the tops of the blades of grass, so these shadows will not be even. The silhouettes of the shadows will take on a “loose” texture based on the nature of the grass. In addition, the drawing of the forest will consist of different plans: first, second, third... If in the foreground the artist can draw the trees in sufficient detail, then in the background they are generalized. For example, a group of five or six maples in the background can be drawn in a general way: the trees are combined into a group and the artist draws chiaroscuro not individual trees, but the whole group.

In addition to the laws of chiaroscuro, the laws of aerial perspective. This means that the tonality of the trees in the first and second planes will be different. For example, tree trunks in the distance will be either darker or lighter than those trunks that are in the foreground. It depends on the weather, time of day, time of year... If you take foggy weather, then the silhouettes of plants in the foreground will be darker than those in the distance. Everything is in the fog dark silhouettes become lighter, and light silhouettes become darker. And the further away the tree is, the more clearly this pattern appears.

In conclusion, I would like to add that drawing a forest is an image of various masses. These can be masses of foliage from one tree or an entire group. These can be masses of tree trunks, or masses of grass and shrubs. The artist must know the nature of certain plant species. This will affect the texture of the stroke, the shape of branches or tree trunks. The artist must also see the difference in tone of these multifaceted masses of vegetation. It is necessary to convey the light and shadow of these masses. Well, the above skills are crowned by the ability to generalize the unnecessary and draw the details of the main thing. As a result, in these masses of foliage and grass there will appear branches, individual leaves, bark, a hollow, a snag, a stalk of grass, flower petals... Then the landscape will delight the eye of the author and the viewer with its expressiveness.

The main task of academic drawing is to reliably convey form And volume. These are the 2 main characteristics of any object, and they are inextricably linked. It is impossible to imagine something having form, but not having volume and vice versa. Under shape usually understood geometric shape, the outline of an object, and volume is its three-dimensional spatial characteristic.

You can find items with the same shape, but different volume. Let's say, a sheet of paper, a notebook, and a book - form one, volume- varies.

No matter how difficult they may be shape and volume object, they can always be reduced to a set of simple geometric primitives. A jug may consist of a ball and a set of cylinders, a person may consist of parallelepipeds and prisms. This may sound strange, but the ability to see objects as a set of geometric bodies is one of the most important skills of an artist.

This skill is called spatial vision(the ability to perceive the shape and spatial relationships of objects), and it should be constantly developed.

Of course, out of habit, it is quite difficult to discern geometric primitives in the figure of a person or animal. However, their shape is very complex; there are a lot of details that do not allow a beginner to see the main volume. And the attention of the novice artist focuses mainly on these details. In a portrait, for example, he begins to carefully draw holes in the nose and eyelashes, without paying attention to the shape of the nose and eyes. I think there is no need to clarify that such a portrait will not be realistic.

I once saw a portrait made in this way of a very pretty freckled girl in reality. The drawing showed a flat pancake with eyes, a mouth and many black dots - it felt like the artist had counted and depicted every freckle. The model didn't like the portrait)

So, in a drawing, the most important thing is not to copy the visible image, but to analyze and generalize. That is, draw not what you see, but how you understand the shape of the object - then the result will be more convincing. In general, drawing is a process in to a greater extent logical than sensory, especially in the early stages.

Artistic analysis concerns not so much the external form as the design, because it is the design that determines the character of the form. The structural shape of a building is a parallelepiped, an apple is a sphere, and so on.

In the design of objects of a more complex shape, more geometric bodies can be isolated, but the work always proceeds from larger to smaller: first the main volume, then the details (which are also broken down into geometric components).