Stages of work:
1. Preparatory stage
Place and tape the paper sheet.
Combine 10 cotton swabs. You will get 3 “bunches”. One will remain for drawing finer details.
Pour paint onto the palette: white, blue and black.
2. Using a medium brush, draw the tree trunk, its roots and branches. See fig. 1-7
3. Take the first set of cotton swabs to mix some of the blue paint and a small amount of black on the palette. The result will be a dark blue color.
Using the resulting shade, draw the crown of the tree on the branches, simply creating imprints of a “bundle” of cotton swabs. See fig. 8-9
4. Dip cotton swabs into blue dye to lighten the color. Continue drawing the crown. Rice. 9-10.
5. Add more black to the dark blue shade on the palette. Use the resulting color to make prints of cotton swabs. Rice. 11-12
6. Now dilute the dark shade with the original blue to make the crown on the right lighter. Rice. 12
7. Take a bunch of clean cotton swabs and add leaves of the original blue color to the left, center and right of the crown. Draw fallen leaves on the ground. Rice. 13-16
8. Take the third “bundle” of cotton swabs and dip them in white paint mixed with a small amount of blue. It should turn out light blue.
Add light leaves to the crown. Draw blue fallen leaves on the ground. See the example in Fig. 17-20
9. Add more white paint to the light blue. Use the resulting pale blue to draw new leaves, sometimes on top of the ones already drawn.
This is how we create the appearance of sunlight. Fig.21-24
10. Take a medium or thin brush and paint the branches with black paint in some places. Rice. 23-24
11. Use the remaining cotton swab to draw single leaves that fall to the ground. Rice. 24-26
12. Using a brush, paint flying birds with black paint. Rice. 27
13. Draw the outlines of a person sitting near a tree. His image is very simplified, so you can easily cope with it. Draw the head and body, then the arm and legs. Finally, add a staff stick to him. See fig. 28-32
Your fairytale landscape is ready!
The lesson was created based on videos from the YouTube channel Jay Lee Painting
Drawing a “Fairytale Tree”
We will prepare all the necessary materials. We will need:
- watercolor paper,
- brush,
- napkin,
- markers,
- markers,
- colored text highlighters,
- black gel pens,
- simple pencil.
First you need to prepare the background for the drawing. To do this, we will use several colors at once; they can be chosen arbitrarily, for example, red, purple, blue, yellow, green. Ask, how is it possible that there are so many colors? Will the result not be a mishmash of an indeterminate color? I assure you, it won’t work, because we will be spreading the paints on damp paper. First of all, we will moisten the sheet with a damp cloth. In the process of applying watercolor, it will spread picturesquely over the paper, the borders of different colors will intricately merge with each other and we will get a beautiful background for further work.
So, we wet the paper and apply paint, color by color, leaving no gaps with the white paper, the entire sheet should be covered with watercolor.
Let the background dry thoroughly. If the paper bends a little during the drying process, no problem! Let it lie under a press (a stack of books) or carefully, so that there are no creases, roll it into a roll in the opposite direction to the bending and immediately straighten it.
Now you need to figure out what kind of tree you will draw today.
And most importantly, you need to understand exactly how you will draw it, what means of expression you will use, how your materials will help you do this.
We have already said that today you will need markers, felt-tip pens and gel pens. Ask why? These materials produce a line of varying thickness. For the composition that we will draw, this is a very important point. While the watercolor is drying, take pieces of paper and try what lines you can make with a marker with a line thickness of 2.8 mm, a marker with a line thickness of 1 mm, a gel pen with a line thickness of 0.38 mm - 0.5 mm, at the same time you can play with the decorative elements with which you will decorate the tree.
Don’t forget, ours is fabulous, that is, it’s not the same as in life. So, fantasize, remember your dreams, listen to musical compositions with sounds of nature, read or remember your favorite fairy tales. Think about how you want to draw the tree - with a round crown, flexible branches. Or it will be rigid in shape, with broken branches. There is no need to draw naturalistically. Our task is to make the tree stylized, that is, not the same as in life. We will intensify and exaggerate, embellish the shape, scale, characteristic features. You can look out the window or look in the interior for photographs of trees and plants to take something as a basis.
Use a simple pencil to outline a preliminary drawing; you don’t need to do a detailed one. We draw the trunk, main branches, crown, tie the base of the trunk to the ground, maybe someone will draw knotty roots, and someone will draw soft grass around it. We remember that the tree is fabulous, and everything around the tree is also fabulous. It can be various insects, animals, birds, the sun, clouds. You draw all this to match your tree, in the same style as it.
Start drawing the main lines with a marker, gradually filling the composition with details.
If necessary, add additional color. To do this, we take colored markers, highlighters, and pencils.
You will definitely feel that the drawing is “leading” you, and at some point you will understand whether you should continue or it’s time to stop. Remember that it is better to leave a little unfinished than to overload the drawing with unnecessary details and details. If you are not sure, it is better to put off work for a while. Later you will come back to it and see whether something is worth adding or not.
And one little piece of advice: appreciate your work - be sure to frame your finished work under glass. If possible, do it yourself; if not, any art salon will help you arrange it correctly. May the time you spent on this work pass in the joy of creativity, and may your drawing decorate your home or become a wonderful unique gift for your friends and loved ones.”
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Step-by-step drawing of the composition “Fairytale Tree”
Let's consider a scheme for drawing classical compositions (without unconventional techniques and decorations).
Colored pencils
- Draw a triangle and a circle.
- Paint over the trunk.
- Draw magic fruits on the crown.
- Paint over the crown without going over the contours of the fruit.
- Can be painted in several colors.
- The drawing is ready.
With paints
- Draw the outline of the trunk - a rectangle.
- Paint over the trunk.
- Draw the outline of the crown - a circle.
- Paint over the crown using strokes.
- You can combine several colors in painting.
- We draw the grass with thin strokes.
- Trying to make a watercolor background. The drawing is ready.
Photo gallery: examples of work
Magic stories take children into an imaginary world. From this fantastic journey, the child brings back interesting images and draws them on paper with pleasure.
