How a birch is drawn in stages. Autumn birch in gouache in stages

Drawing a birch step by step

Drawing master class. "Drawing a birch"

Meshcheryakova Yulia Vladimirovna, teacher of fine arts, MBOU secondary school №1 in the city of Demidov, Smolensk region.

Master class for children 10-12 years old, teachers, parents.
Purpose: gift, decoration for the interior.
Target: development of creativity.
Tasks:
- teach to draw birch foliage using a hard washcloth;
- improve the ability to work with wax pencils and pastels;
- develop creative imagination;
- to bring up accuracy during work;
Materials: album sheet, hard washcloth, wax crayons, pastel, brush, watercolor, glass of water.

Stages of work
1. Arrange the leaf vertically, begin to draw a birch trunk, draw a curved line with a wax pencil, leaving intervals to "insert" branches into the trunk.

2. In the places where we left the interval, draw branches.

3. We continue to supplement the tree trunk with twigs.

4. Getting started on the finer details. We start drawing small branches from the main branch in the upper left corner.

5.Now we work with the branch in the upper right corner - draw small branches extending from it.

6. Similarly, we continue to work with all the main branches on the right side.

7. We continue working with a wax pencil - draw dark areas on the bark of the birch trunk.

8. Let's go to work with watercolors. We paint the background around the tree with paint abundantly diluted with water.

9. We will draw the leaves using a stiff washcloth. We moisten the paint with water, dip the washcloth in the paint and draw foliage using the poke method.

In order to correctly and beautifully draw a birch, you need to know its features, what distinguishes it from other trees. Before proceeding, study the structure of this plant, the features of its leaves, inflorescences, shoots. Armed with this knowledge, you can easily display them in a complex in your drawing. It doesn't matter with what colors you paint. If you know what exactly you are drawing, you will certainly succeed!

Step by step drawing of a birch

• It is necessary to start the drawing by drawing auxiliary lines, which should represent the future trunk and converge at the top of the tree. It should be noted that these trees are quite slender, so the base of the trunk should not be too thick, in addition, this tree, as a rule, does not have pronounced bends.
• Then outline the largest branches. They usually start to protrude high enough from the trunk. Therefore, the segments that will be the prototype of the branches must be drawn higher.

• Draw convex and concave parts along the trunk and branches of the future tree. Then pay attention to the condition of the cortex. For example, old trees have a lot of irregularities, various cracks, bumps on it, which, of course, should not be ignored in the drawing.
• Also noteworthy is the thin birch bark, which tends to peel off slightly from the trunk. Taking into account all these nuances in the drawing will make it more realistic.

• Now that the main "frame" is completed, proceed to drawing young, thin shoots, those very hanging branches with which many associate this tree. These shoots are very long, thin and flexible, so they bend under the weight of leaves, buds and inflorescences.
• If necessary, add earrings to our birch tree. In size, these decorations are approximately equal to the size of a large birch leaf. They always hang down. Usually, earrings are grouped in two or three pieces. These inflorescences form many scales. Earrings grow at the ends of long shoots.
• Start drawing the leaves. They resemble an egg or rhombuses in shape, but are pointed at the end. The edges of the leaf have many notches, and on the leaf itself, the axis of the cutting and several lateral grooves extending from it are clearly visible.

• When all the contours are ready, you need to move on to staining. Remember that the bark does not have to be pure white. Its color depends mainly on the lighting. For example, if you want to depict a birch tree at sunset, then reddish and yellowish-orange shades will definitely be present in the trunk. Spots, longitudinal stripes on the trunk should be black and gray. Birch leaves must be given a deep green color. Those of them that are younger have a shade close to the color of young grass, older leaves have a darker color. The color of long shoots is fundamentally different from the color of the trunk and branches - it should be brown-black. The tone of the shoots will also change depending on the lighting.

How to paint a birch tree with oil or watercolors?

First, draw a birch trunk, without any irregularities and spots. In the example, the trees stand against the light, so the trunk is darker in the middle, and it is "highlighted" at the edges. The trunk in the dark parts will have a bluish-gray tint. It is also necessary to darken the bottom of the barrel a little.

Then we start working on the dark spots. They must be applied over the entire area of ​​the barrel. If you plan to depict a young birch, then the spots should be placed horizontally, if the tree is older, then vertical bark defects prevail on it. Closer to the ground, there are more spots and cracks. At the very base of the trunk, their pattern is such that it gives the impression of a black rough cloth draped over the trunk. Do not draw the spots especially carefully yet. Just mark their location with light gray paint.

The outside of the stain is slightly behind the wood, so the edges should be lighter. When lightening the edges, you need to pay attention to which side more light gets on it, it is there that the spots need to be lightened. Vertical jagged lines inside the stain are needed to make it look natural. They must be painted with a tone or slightly lighter than the stain itself.

Inside the spot on the side of the illuminated edge, you need to add paint that is darker than the spot itself. In order for some drawing to disappear, you need to shade the paint with a dry brush. Draw horizontal, soft lines all over the trunk. To do this, it is best to use a brush with 1, and black paint can be mixed with blue and white.

Therefore, today we present to you a new lesson in which you can draw a birch. When you study our step-by-step simple lesson, this job will be easy.

Necessary materials:

• black marker;
• regular pencil;
• paper;
• eraser;
• colored pencils in brown, light green, green tones.

Stages of drawing with pencils:

1. First you need to draw a trunk. "Russian beauty" has a thin long barrel, so these features should be taken into account when drawing.

3. Draw the thick branches. They have an uneven line. This also needs to be drawn to make the tree look like a real birch.

4. We draw small branches on the Russian beauty, which depart from the thick ones. They are twisted.

5. After that we outline the contours of the picture with a marker. Then you need to paint spots on the bark, this will distinguish the birch from other trees. Let's add a small tubercle base.

6. Paint the base of our beauty with brown color.

7. Now draw small thin leaves with green pencils.

8. Use a marker to outline the leaves. It is not necessary to outline the outline of each leaf. Let's draw a couple of lines for each leaf on the birch - and you're done!

This is where our step-by-step drawing is ready. You can quickly add a green lawn to such a birch, a sun with rays and birds that will chirp their songs.

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Birch is a delicate and beautiful tree with white bark. No wonder the birch tree symbolizes the nature of Russia, where such trees are most often found. The Russian birch tree is also called "Blond Beauty". At first glance, drawing a birch tree with a pencil is not so easy, but if you follow the simple instructions in the picture diagram, then gradually everything will work out.

Pencil drawing scheme in stages: Birch

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1. Draw a curved line (after all, birches are often curved and delicate, thereby touching, for which poets and prose writers love them)

2. Then add volume to the tree trunk with protrusions for future branches

3. Release branches with curved lines from the protrusions on the tree trunk.

4. Add twigs and specks to the birch bark step by step. We got a tree with fallen leaves, typical for the autumn-winter period.

5. And now let's have spring come and we will add green leaves, releasing them from each branch, and if the leaves are painted yellow, then it will already be a birch tree in the fall.

How to draw a birch in stages.

Anyone immediately recognizes a birch in winter and summer by the white color of the bark. The birch bark is very white with longitudinal light brown specks, but they are small and indistinguishable on the scale of the whole tree. From a distance on the trunk of a birch, we also see marks - black cracks on the bark and traces of dead branches. On large branches, the bark is also white, and on thinner branches it is dark brown, almost black. In drooping birch (aka weeping birch), young thin branches often hang in long lashes. But, I note, this is not the case for all birches. Very often you see birches growing nearby and one is all drooping, the branches are hanging like a living curtain, and the second stands cheerfully that you have a linden or poplar - no despondency.

Comrades, when learning how to draw trees in kindergarten, kids are offered the image of a "birch" that resembles a triangle ... in general, a speckled carrot with four or five hanging branches. Having mastered this image, children subsequently stamp any "birch" like this, introducing some variety only in the width of the base of the "trunk", that is, from an acute-angled triangle, the trunk gradually turns into an obtuse-angled one. I don’t know what to do about it. Just DO NOT teach such distorted schematic conventional signs. But in kindergarten, this is almost inevitable. What to do now, how to draw a birch realistically?

Well ... deliberately abandon the stereotypes instilled in infancy and try to see a real tree, and not a template imprinted in your head. In essence, this is possible.

Why am I talking about this? - Because children, when drawing, both from imagination and from nature, operate mainly with cliches hardened in infancy and experience strong internal resistance to the very idea of ​​drawing from nature. Therefore, I would teach drawing trees from nature only to adolescents who have already gained awareness and only those of them who love plants and really want to learn how to draw trees similarly. This is my opinion. What do you think of that?

So, we draw a birch in stages.

The sequence is the same as always when drawing plants: we first draw a diagram of the trunk and branches with a pencil.

Let's designate the crown and separate large branches:

Here I confess honestly, from this place I have already painted at home - with felt-tip pens and then with watercolors. To go out alone on the street with a box of watercolors, water and brushes, my determination is definitely not enough. The ability not to be embarrassed in public does not develop overnight.

I painted drooping branches with small leaves with jabs - with a brush number 1.