Drawing on the theme of the Christmas landscape. “Life is a precious and only gift, and we waste it senselessly and carelessly, forgetting about its short duration
Everyone knows that the best gift is a handmade gift. After spending quite a bit of time, you can create a beautiful exclusive picture or a New Year's postcard, drawing on the ideas of their article.
It's about how:
Landscape is perhaps the easiest option if you decide to draw a beautiful winter drawing. Where to begin? Of course, with the choice of technology:
- Pencil or crayons... The most ideal option for the first attempt, since it does not require serious financial investments. In addition, with a pencil, you can create New Year's drawings or postcards for 2018 just on the album sheet.
- Graphics... At first glance, everything is simple. All you need is a simple pencil. But, in practice, this technique can be much more difficult, since every stroke is important here.
- Watercolor... In every house where there are children there are also inexpensive watercolors with which you can draw excellent winter-themed drawings for the New Year 2018.
- Acrylic... This is a more serious option. You can paint with these paints on canvas. They dry quickly. But, be careful, because acrylic can cause allergic reactions.
- Butter- the choice of professionals. Such a picture, painted on canvas, will delight the eye for many years.
We offer you to watch a master class on creating a winter landscape.
You can buy canvas today in specialized stores.
What to draw? Most often, drawings dedicated to the New Year are winter nature, village houses, snow-covered tree crowns, and in 2018 the landscape can be supplemented with an image of a dog.
How to draw New Year's characters
What a festive drawing or postcard without Santa Claus and Snow Maiden! Don't worry, even if you don't know how to draw people beautifully. Depicting cartoon characters is not difficult at all. Here are some quick sketches of the main characters. Professional advice will help you create beautiful New Year's drawings in 2018.
We also suggest watching a video that shows step by step how to draw Santa:
It is convenient that in the analysis the drawing is depicted on a sheet of paper. If you are just learning to draw, sketching out a leaf barely noticeable will make the task easier.
The smallest of the artist will enjoy coloring New Year's pictures with Santa, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and other characters of the New Year's holidays.
Any drawings of New Year's characters you like can simply be saved to your computer, printed and colored as you wish.
How to draw a dog - a symbol of 2018
The symbol of the year - the dog - will become an invariable element of many New Year's drawings in 2018. Although the red earthen dog will become the patron saint of the year according to the eastern calendar, you can choose a representative of any breed for a postcard or picture, starting from individual preferences.
Not so long ago, a cartoon about the life of pets that appeared on TV screens added a couple of cute faces to the army of favorite children's characters. Thinking of interesting New Year's drawings for the coming year of the dog, in 2018 you can use new heroes - Max, Mel, Gidget and Buddy.
Also look at the video for a detailed analysis of how to draw Max:
We also offer to download any of the dogs you like and use when creating your own New Year's picture:
We also offer you to get ideas for original New Year's cards with a video that tells in detail how to create a reactive gift with your own hands.
Create a digital postcard on your computer
2018 is approaching, which means that it is time to master not only pencils and paints. And graphic editors. In practice, creating a beautiful postcard or drawing author's New Year's drawings using a PC is much easier than learning how to draw people and animals with a pencil.
To create electronic postcards and drawings, in which, by the way, you can add photos or images of your favorite characters, you can use programs such as:
- Paint - the simplest graphics editor built into Windows;
- Avatan - online version of the graphical environment that allows you to process photos, create collages and a variety of postcards;
- Online Photoshop is a free online version of one of the most popular bitmap graphics editors, which does not require installation of the program.
Of course, you can install the full-fledged Adobe Photoshop CS6, while getting a lot of possibilities. But, be prepared for the fact that it will take some time to master the program.
We suggest starting with a simple postcard with a photo, which will take just a few minutes to create a cat:
Of course, in this program, you can create a wide variety of New Year's drawings, loading the background of the postcard and adding afterwards various stickers (do not forget that 2018 is the year of the dog), inscriptions and effects.
Try it and you will definitely succeed!
In this lesson, we will look at what to draw for Christmas, and also consider a step-by-step drawing, how to draw Christmas, the birth of Christ with a pencil step by step.
So what to draw for Christmas. In Western countries, this holiday is celebrated on a grand scale, like we do. We are Christians, not all, of course, there are many other religions in our country, but most, only the countries of the former USSR are Orthodox, and in the west are Catholics. On Catholic Christmas they like to exhibit such figures, maybe they even saw them in films, the movie "Home Alone" only comes to mind, but I don't remember which part.
In connection with these, you can draw the Birth of Jesus, the cradle with the baby and next to Mary and Joseph. Pictures are enlarged.
Just a Christmas scene.
The Magi go to worship and bring gifts to the newborn prophet, a star shines, which will show the way to him, if I don't confuse anything. This is depicted in silhouettes, very beautiful to me.
Below is an illustrated picture, well, this is for the pros.
These were options related to the birth of Jesus. Now let's see how you can draw Christmas in a different way. Saint Nicholas (Santa) looks at the star, and you can also just distribute to.
Here is your beloved, or rather two, are holding a piece of paper with the words "Merry Christmas!"
Here are other nature-related Christmas options:, twig, church.
Winter landscape and bells.
This old postcard, you see there even after the letters "c" and "m" there is a solid sign (b).
You can just use caramel sticks, leaves, ribbons.
Now let's see our Christmas drawing lesson, that's what we should get in the end, I decided to mix the New Year theme with the birth of Jesus.
I took part of the drawing from this picture.
Look again where the circle should be and draw it, inside which is the animal feeder.
Then draw the hay that sticks out from the top and out of the crevices.
Sheep, star and shine.
Bells (you should already know how to draw them, the lesson is to be) and spruce branches. The branches are easy to draw, draw a curve from which small curves depart, which are at a close distance to each other.
And the final touch is, we show the ringing of a bell and decorate the inscription "Merry Christmas" on the sides with such decorative lines.
We congratulate the readers of our magazine with Merry Christmas with a selection of magnificent winter landscapes with churches and wise phrases of the holy fathers about faith, soul and peace. All the best to you on this bright holiday!
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Serbian Patriarch Pavel
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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
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Saint Philaret (Drozdov)
I wish you neither wealth, nor fame, nor success, nor even health, but only peace of mind. It is most important. If you have peace, you will be happy.
Venerable Alexy Zosimovsky
“The longer a person sits idle, the more he relaxes, and the more he works, the stronger he becomes. In addition to the fact that with his work he drives away sorrow from himself, he also helps himself spiritually. "
Elder Paisiy Svyatorets
“There is such a great art - the ability to make peace. But there is art and above that - the ability not to quarrel. "
Priest Anatoly Garmaev
“Life is a precious and only gift, and we waste it senselessly and carelessly, forgetting about its short duration. We either look longingly into the past, or wait for the future, when, as it were, real life should begin. The present, that is, what is our life, leaves in these fruitless regrets and dreams. "
Priest Alexander Elchaninov
“One of the characteristics of a wise person is the ability to forgive. We are all imperfect, and a wise person understands this. In the meantime, a person does not understand this, his whole life will be spent in sorting out the relationship. We must learn to forgive! "
Professor, candidate of psychological sciences, nun Nina Krygina
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Monk Simeon Athonite
“Never forget, even in the darkest days of your life, to thank God for everything, He is waiting for this and will send you new blessings and gifts. A person with a grateful heart never needs anything. "
Elder Nikolay Guryanov
"There are no coincidences in life, but every circumstance has a higher spiritual meaning, leads to the knowledge of the will of God."
Abbess Arseny
“So much has been given! So easy wasting: love God, love your brother, feed the birdie, have mercy on the cat, give the sick a cup, and give the others a spoon. This is how the Almighty created: we - people not when we breathe, but for now - we love ... "
Archpriest Andrei Logvinov
“If someone is annoyed, it’s better not to try to talk to him, even if it’s kindly. He looks like a wounded man, to whom even gentle stroking irritates the wound.
Elder Paisiy Svyatorets
“The secret of happiness is attention to each other. The happiness of life is made up of individual minutes, of small, quickly forgotten pleasures from a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment and countless small but kind thoughts and sincere feelings. Love also needs its daily bread. "
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
"Do not say: today I will sin, and tomorrow I will repent, but it is better to repent today, for we do not know if we will live until tomorrow."
Monk Ephraim the Syrian
"For the one who believes, there are no questions, and for the one who does not believe, there are no answers."
Abba Isarius
“Always rejoice! You can't do anything good from internal stress, but from joy you can do anything. "
Venerable Seraphim of Sarov
“Fatigue is different - good and bad. The bad one is when you realize that you are exhausted by vanity, exhausted by deeds that hate your soul, which, perhaps, are useful from the material point of view, but they do not give anything to your heart. And good - when there is confidence that everything done for the sake of God and for the sake of one's neighbor is done, when, perhaps, there are no forces left in the body, but peace and tranquility in the soul. Peace with God and peace from this world. "
Hegumen Nektariy (Morozov)
“It's easier to live - the best. Don't break your head. Pray to God. The Lord will arrange everything. Don't torture yourself thinking about how and what to do. Let it be as it happens - this is how it is to live easier. "
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Archpriest Vyacheslav Reznikov
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Monk Silouan the Athonite
“Find in your neighbor at least one good trait, a quality that you do not have, and according to this positive line of value, love, admire, rejoice and perceive him. Don't pay too much attention to the rest. "
Elder Jerome of Aegina
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"Love each other, keep the peace at any cost, let the cause suffer, but the peace will be preserved."
Abbot Nikon (Vorobyov)
“No matter how heavy the cross carried by a person is, the tree from which it is made grew on the soil of his heart.”
Venerable Ambrose of Optina
"God! Give me a heart that is simple, gentle, open, believing, loving, generous, worthy repository of Thee All-Merciful! "
Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt
“A person who knows what gratitude is is happy with everything. He thinks about what God gives him every day, and rejoices in everything. But if a person is ungrateful, he is dissatisfied with everything, grumbles about every reason and suffers ... He who sows complaints, reaps complaints and accumulates fear. And he who sows praise tastes divine joy and blessings forever. "
Elder Paisiy Svyatorets