Draw heroes of Russian fairy tales. How to draw an illustration for a fairy tale with pencil and paints. Switch to full recording and to order

It is impossible to imagine a children's book without colorful illustrations that develop the imagination of children and help them imagine the actions described by the author. The illustrator is, in fact, a co-author of the book. If a writer creates imaginary images, then an artist makes them visual. Art centers for children's development widely use illustration techniques in their work, which is a mandatory stage in the development of children's creative abilities.

It is recommended to start creating your first illustrations with Pushkin’s favorite fairy tales. It is very difficult to overestimate their educational significance, because Pushkin’s fairy tales introduce children to the enormous wealth of literary heritage, enrich speech, develop memory and imagination, and instill moral and moral values. Pushkin's unique poetry captivates children with its emotionality, simplicity of language and colorful literary images.

• Formation of skills to convey the expressiveness of an artistic image through color and shape.
• Development of independence in the selection of plot composition and performance technique.
• Practicing the skills of placing a plot drawing on an entire sheet of paper, isolating the main elements and emphasizing them with colors, play of light and shadow.

• Development of children's imagination and emotional attitude to the work and characters of the fairy tale.
• Consolidating the skills to use various visual materials: paints, pencils, wax crayons, etc.
• Moral education of children .

Preparatory work

Before starting to illustrate Pushkin’s fairy tales, children should delve as deeply as possible into the unique fairy-tale world. Preliminary work includes the following steps:

1. Reading a fairy tale.
2. Listening to a fairy tale on audio recording.

• Familiarization with illustrations made by famous artists (Mavrin, Konashevich).

1. Listening to excerpts from the operas of the same name (“The Golden Cockerel”, “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Priest and his worker Balda” and others).

Illustration is a rather complex process that requires special attention to little things that at first glance may seem insignificant.

• We choose a plot. For children's drawings, it is better to choose key moments from fairy tales (the transformation of the Swan Princess, the Old Man by the Sea calling the Golden Fish).
• Do not immediately transfer the image to a large sheet of paper. Try placing character figures and objects surrounding them on small leaves.
• Before coloring the drawing, choose a basic color scheme, remembering that the colors most accurately convey the general mood of the drawing.

Kids who don’t yet know how to draw, but love Pushkin’s fairy tales, can also be involved in creating illustrations, allowing them to color ready-made drawings. Children's coloring books based on Pushkin's fairy tales can be bought at a bookstore or downloaded from the Internet and printed on a printer. For the youngest children, choose large images. Be sure to explain to your child what is shown in the picture; you can even read an excerpt from a fairy tale corresponding to this illustration.

Many parents whose children go to school ask the question “How to draw an illustration for a fairy tale?” In an art lesson in a secondary school or in a composition lesson in an art school, people are often asked to draw fragments of fairy tales. The hardest thing is to come up with a plot. Graphic implementation is not a problem. The main thing is to get good at it and design all the illustrations for one work in the same style.

Features of the illustration

The most difficult thing in illustrating is choosing those pieces from the work that will be depicted in the book. Artists usually draw the main parts of novels: the beginning of the story, the climax and the conclusion. But, of course, you can illustrate a memorable and favorite moment.

How to draw an illustration for a fairy tale as detailed and clear as possible? Before creating a sketch, you need to read the work at least twice. The first time a person gets acquainted with the plot, and the second time he remembers details that do not catch the eye upon first reading.

What you need to pay attention to when illustrating a work:

• Appearance of the heroes. Before portraying antagonistic heroes, you need to remember the distinctive features of their appearance. A mole on the cheek or a scar on the forehead must be drawn, otherwise the main character will lose his individuality.
• Characters' clothes. It’s strange, but few people remember the description of the clothes of even the main characters. Therefore, before sitting down at the drawing table, you need to re-read the passages that describe the clothing.
• Interiors or exteriors complement any illustration, so descriptions of furniture or woods are of great importance. It is worth paying attention even to such little things as the bumps under the feet of the main characters or the worn carpet decorating the center of the room.
• Minor characters need less detailing, but do not forget that the friends of the main characters should be recognizable.

Graphic illustration

How to draw an illustration for a fairy tale in a graphic style? There are several techniques here:

• using a pencil;
• using mascara;
• using soft material (charcoal, pastel, etc.)

Decide what style the illustration will be done in. If you plan to painstakingly draw the smallest details, then take a pencil. If the drawing looks more like a sketch, a soft material will do.

Graphic works are difficult to make as effective as color ones. To achieve a good result, you need to draw an illustration of a fairy tale in stages.

1. The first step is to make a sketch of the fragment of the fairy tale you like.
2. The second step is layout. It is needed so that in the future all parts of the drawing fit into the limited space of the canvas.
3. The next stage is working out the details. This is a responsible mission and if children draw illustrations, parents should supervise this process.
4. The final part is applying light and shadow to figures and objects. The main thing is not to forget that the foreground with the main characters should be darker than the background.

Illustration using paints

How to draw an illustration for a fairy tale using paints? It's not difficult if you take the whole process step by step. For example, we need to draw an illustration for the fairy tale “The Snow Queen”.

To do this, let's break the work into parts:

• First of all, we find the point that needs to be illustrated. Let's take the plot as an example: The Snow Queen sits on the throne, and Kai plays at her feet.
• Decide on the appearance of the characters: will they have long or short hair, will they have snub noses, what color will their eyes be? It is advisable to re-read the description of the heroes in the fairy tale.
• Let's draw a sketch. Choose the poses in which the Snow Queen and Kai will sit.
• Now the fun part: think about the clothes the main characters are wearing.
• The last stage of the sketch is drawing the interior. Look through the fairy tale, be inspired by the atmosphere of the cold palace, find clues.
• After the sketch is made, transfer it to the final copy. Remember that there will be paint on top of the pencil. This is important if the illustration will be done in watercolor, so sketch out the final sketch with watercolor pencils.
• The final stage is coloring.

Combined technique

If you want to paint with several materials, you will have to combine several techniques. How to draw an illustration for the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling”?

First you need to do everything by analogy with the plan for creating an illustration for “The Snow Queen”. When the drawing with paints is ready, draw in the details and shadows with ink. Pay special attention to the foreground. If the fairy tale is illustrated by children, then it is better to leave the faces of the characters undrawn.

The airbrush technique is quite complex and requires the use of additional materials. In this section we will talk about those that are necessary for making illustrations using an airbrush.

Just like any other painting technique, airbrushing allows you to create images on the surface of the base. However, its peculiarity is that

Eight secrets in drawing

Eight secrets that will allow you
learn to draw masterfully

1. Correct construction of objects in space

This skill is the foundation for any professional artist. It will create a sense of volumetric space in your painting, which is very important. This alone will greatly improve your paintings.

2. Proper application of strokes

With the help of strokes, a background is created for the future volume of forms and objects - this is the main basis. When you learn how to apply them correctly, everything you draw will become more saturated and clear.

3. Tone stretching with a pencil

Another secret of the masters. When you learn how to do tonal stretching with a pencil from simple to complex, and dial in tone with pencils of varying softness, you will be surprised at how much more realistic your drawings will become.

4. The art of drawing three-dimensional figures

Another skill that separates people who are great at drawing from those who are new to drawing. This is the ability to give volume to objects that differ in shape, working with light and reflex, one’s own shadow and penumbra. These skills will make your work much better.

5. The ability to work with your own shadow on figures to add volume

This is also important to be able to do if you want to masterfully depict three-dimensional objects and create realistic paintings.

6. Effective construction of falling shadows

The type and shape of falling shadows depends not only on the figure cast by it, but also on the location of the light source. Once you master this skill, you will be able to draw the falling shadows of various geometric shapes, but also apply this knowledge to objects of various shapes.

7. The ability to distinguish objects by tone

Thanks to this, you will not only be able to show the difference between objects and forms, but also indicate the compositional center, which is very important for constructing a composition.

8. Composition skill

But this is the most important knowledge that will “revive” your picture and fill it with meaning, will make the viewer think about what mood you were in at the time of creating the picture, what exactly you wanted to tell the viewer. Knowing composition will allow you to “say” with your painting what you cannot say in words...

... and many other skills and secrets that the world's best artists possess.

How to quickly master the main skills of professional artists?

Of course you can enroll in an art school. However, this is possible if you have a lot of free time. Unfortunately, not everyone can spend several hours a day getting to and from school.

In addition, you can start learning on your own - from books. But this is a very slow and difficult path, and without a professional mentor you will study for a very long time, making many mistakes.

The easiest way is to study using a video course at home. In just 46 days, you can learn to draw great drawings right at home!

HOW TO LEARN TO DRAW

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Learning to paint portraits in oil

Paint a Portrait with Your Own Hands

while receiving a powerful energy boost,
feeling the joy of the process and pride in the result!

And I will help you with this - portrait artist Tatyana Artykova

• Where to start working in oil painting?
• What kind of paints, brushes, etc. use?
• How to build a composition?
• How to transfer an image correctly?
• How to mix colors?
• Stages of creating and completing a portrait;

Get answers in the video course: “Painting a Portrait in Oil” Stages of creating a “living” portrait

What (or who) will facilitate the learning process?

Without knowledge of visual literacy, it will be difficult to cope with the assigned tasks. You will need a “translator” who will help facilitate the process, make it as interesting, efficient and fast as possible.

I act as a “translator” - Tatyana Artykova, portrait artist, teacher.

I have been doing portrait work for 20 years. And, at the same time, at live Master Classes I share my knowledge with those who intend to master the art of portraiture as efficiently and quickly as possible. And now my experience is in video format.

Painting a Portrait in Oil
Stages of Creating a “Living” Portrait

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Who is this course for?

• for those who intend to create their own portraits in the near future;
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Paint your portrait too, using simple recommendations!

• The “textbook” is a wonderful picture. We study the secrets of portrait painting using the example of a painting by a famous portrait master;
• The “object” of the study is a beautiful girl - the goddess Hebe, a symbol of eternal youth; which inspires you to create a beautiful image;
• The step-by-step implementation makes the course as understandable as possible, accessible even to absolute beginners;
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• The problem of creating the most accurate drawing of the person depicted is easily solved;
• A simple technique for selecting the desired colors and shades is shown;
• The main secrets that allow you to create a “living” portrait are revealed;
• In the additional section of the course you will see how students complete the task. This is important for comparative analysis.

Fools are lucky, which means everyone has a chance to be in a fairy tale. Today we will find out how to draw a fairy tale about a fisherman and a goldfish! One day, an amateur fisherman threw a stick and a rope several times into a local swamp called Purgatory, and pulled out a golden Loch Ness monster, which began to speak out of fear. Not knowing how to save her skin, the fish invited the catcher to fulfill any wishes of his choice. Since the fisherman was a representative of the ordinary rural elite with a small house and an old woman, he was the master of the house, and therefore he went to ask his wife everything.

The old woman mistook the old man for a senile man and said: Let the fish make a trough for them, otherwise old Bekha has completely lost her horsepower. When the trough suddenly appeared near the house, the woman realized that she was in the matrix and could do whatever her heart desired. This continued until she wanted to be the queen of the sea, to which the fish showed her a very indecent gesture with its tail and left in an unknown direction, leaving the old woman with a broken trough. Well done for the fairy tale, and whoever listened will see the end. There are different types of wishes that come true:

• Trial version of the golden fish, which grants only three wishes;
• A golden shark that grants three dying wishes;
• The golden octopus, although not a fish, is willing to fulfill several of your needs;
• A golden wedding ring fulfills the whims of exclusively the female part of the population, but takes away freedom of speech, will and money from men;
• Having golden hands, you can make wishes with your own hands from any available material;
• Gold teeth help dentists fulfill their wishes;

All other objects in this world do not fulfill desires. Except for a lot of money. But this is not a desire, but rather a purchase. So believe in fairy tales and grab your pencils and try to draw a fairy tale. It will be fun.

How to draw a fairy tale with a pencil step by step

Step one. Let's draw two circles on a piece of paper, indicating the head of a fisherman and a fish. We will also show the horizon line.
Step two. Let's sketch a fish and grandfather.
Step three. Let's draw the elements of the face.
Step four. Let's add a crown to the fish and a fishing rod to grandfather. Don't forget about the background.
Step five. Let's remove the extra lines and correct the contours with a thicker line. And here's how it should work out.
Try to draw more such fairy-tale characters.

How to draw fairy-tale animals for children over 5 years old step by step with photos

Master class for children from 5 years old "Fairy tales walk around the world"

Author: Natalya Aleksandrovna Ermakova, Teacher, Municipal budgetary educational institution for additional education of children “Children’s Art School named after A. A. Bolshakov”, Velikiye Luki, Pskov region.
Description: The master class is intended for children from 5 years old and their parents, educators, and additional education teachers.
Purpose: interior decoration, participation in creative exhibitions, gifts.
Target: creating a fabulous image of an animal based on Russian folk tales.
Tasks:
-continue to introduce children to the social project “Fairytale Map of Russia”, which combines all the information about museums, estates and residences of all the heroes of Russian fairy tales and epics.
- teach how to draw fabulous animals in national costumes (sundress, shirt);
-to develop students’ spatial imagination, creative thinking, and aesthetic taste;
- to cultivate interest in Russian folk tales and folklore characters.

Valentina Tolkunova Fairy tales travel around the world. Listen
Fairy tales travel around the world
Night harnessed to a carriage.

Fairy tales live in the clearings,
They wander around in the fogs at dawn.

And the prince will love Snow White.
And Kashchei’s greed will destroy...

But still Good wins!

Having illuminated the world with miracles,
Fairy tales fly over the forests,

They sit on the windowsill,
They look into the rivers like through windows.

And the fairy will rescue Cinderella,
Gorynych the Snake will no longer be...

Let Evil play cunning tricks,
But still Good wins!

Fairy tales are with me everywhere,
I will never forget them.

It’s worth closing my eyelashes -
In an instant Sivka-Burka will dream.

And the month will shine clear,
In the eyes of Vasilisa the Beautiful...

Let Evil play cunning tricks,
But still Good wins!
(Music by Evgeny Ptichkin
Words by Mikhail Plyatskovsky
Song performed by Valentina Tolkunova)

Hello, dear friends! I started today's conversation with the wonderful words of the song "Fairy tales walk around the world." And indeed, fairy-tale heroes really not only walk, but also live in the wide and endless expanses of the Russian land! If you go to a bookstore and ask: “Do you have a Fairytale Map of Russia for sale?”, then at best they will simply smile at us in response. But this is in vain!
There is probably not a single person who does not know about the “Golden Ring of Russia” - this is a family of tourist routes passing through ancient Russian cities, in which unique monuments of Russian history and culture, centers of folk crafts, have been preserved. But few people know about the “Fairytale Ring of Russia,” which unites all the “magical” places in the country.

The social project "Fairytale Map of Russia", launched in November 2010, is designed to combine all available information about the museums, estates and residences of all the heroes of Russian fairy tales and epics. The fairytale map of Russia shows the habitats of native Russian fairy tale characters. Among the cities where, according to historical information, fairy-tale characters appeared are Rostov (The Frog Princess, Alyosha Popovich), Moscow and Veliky Ustyug of the Vologda region (Father Frost), Kostroma (Snegurochka), Tver region (Koschei the Immortal). the city of Kirov (Ivan Tsarevich and Kikimora Vyatskaya), the Vladimir region (Ilya Muromets) and many other characters of ancient legends and tales.

Fairy tales have come to us from time immemorial. Written by folk storytellers, wonderful stories were passed down from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation. Then the time came when fairy tales began to be collected and written down. Some fairy tales have reached us unchanged, and some have undergone literary processing, thus becoming clearer and more accessible to modern people.
According to legend, tales about animals were the first to appear in those ancient times when hunting was one of the main crafts. Mothers told their children stories about powerful representatives of the animal world, and children, due to their developed imagination, already attributed human traits to the characters. Tales about animals were passed down from generation to generation, and with each retelling the characters acquired new features. Every person who grew up in Russia can list the main animals that are characters in Russian fairy tales: fox and wolf, hare and bear, dog and rooster, goat and bull.

How do fairy-tale characters differ from ordinary animals?
In fairy tales, animals are endowed with human qualities and traits. Animals live in the forest. Each of them has its own image, which in literary criticism is called an allegory. For example, the wolf we meet in Russian fairy tales is always hungry and angry. This is almost always a negative character. Because of his anger or greed, he often gets into trouble.

A fox is a trick; if this animal is present in a fairy tale, then one of the other heroes will definitely be deceived. The fox's cunning, deceit and cunning have always made her stronger than her eternal companions, the wolf and the bear.
Philologists and local historians of the all-Russian cultural and historical project "Fairytale Map of Russia" named the Novgorod region as the birthplace of the fairy-tale heroine Lisa Patrikeevna - it was there that the appanage prince Patrikei Narimantovich, known for his cunning, cunning and deceit, ruled.

The bear is the owner of the forest, the king. He is usually portrayed in fairy tales as a fair and wise ruler.
The birthplace of the clubfoot bear from Russian fairy tales was the Yaroslavl region, the village of Kukuboy. It is in the Yaroslavl region that the most famous “bear corner” is located - the very dense and dense forests of Poshekhonye, ​​known for the fact that most bears live here. And the beast itself has been decorating the official coat of arms of the Yaroslavl land since the 17th century.

The hare is an image of cowardice. He is usually the eternal victim of the fox and wolf who intend to eat him.
A proud and brave rooster, a stubborn goat with a bull, all these characters are dearly loved by the Russian people. And behind each hero lies his own character, endowed with his own human traits. They live in houses, communicate, argue, talk, quarrel, love, be friends, and are at enmity. They behave like real people, walk on their hind legs, wear human clothes. They have their own names: Goat-Dereza, Runaway Hare, Mikhailo Potapych or Toptygin, Lisa Patrikeevna and many others.

Today we will learn to draw animals of Russian folk tales, and first of all we need to learn Russian folk costume.
Traditional men's and women's clothing were similar; men's and women's suits differed only in details, some elements of cut, and size. Women and men's main clothing was a shirt. The men's shirt was knee-length or slightly longer, and was worn over pants, the women's shirt was almost to the toes.
Only Russian men wore pants; in the old days, boys did not wear pants until they were 15 years old, and often until their wedding.
In winter and summer, men and women wore single-breasted caftans - they were considered outerwear.
Belts were an obligatory part of men's and women's costumes; they were also called girdles; it was forbidden to wear clothes without a belt.

The national costume of Russian women was a sundress, which was worn over a shirt.
To draw clothes, our heroes need to use “helpers” - geometric shapes that in their shape will repeat the silhouettes of a sundress and a shirt.
A triangular shape is suitable for a sundress. But with a shirt it’s a little more complicated, it is belted with a belt. Draw a rectangle, place a triangle on it, and draw thick sleeve lines in the upper part of the rectangle.

Drawing such fabulous animals is very simple, the main thing is to correctly place the geometric “helper” figures.
When constructing a drawing, it is important to beautifully and correctly position the image on a sheet of paper, in the center, so that it is not very large and very small. We start working with auxiliary lines in the form of a frame along the entire sheet format, so that we get a large rectangle.
Then we mark the character’s growth lines with dashes and draw a circle of the head—we’ll draw a fox. From the head to the bottom line we draw lines, forming a triangular sundress shape.
Add triangular ears, muzzle, tail and paws.
If you want, for example, to draw a bunny, then instead of triangular ears we draw elongated ovals, and leave the muzzle round.

Now let's draw a bunny boy, first we build his "skeleton". We find the center of the sheet, draw lines that determine the height of the hero. We draw the circle of the head just below the top line, since the hare has long ears. Then the line of the shoulders and arms, and we dress the bunny in a suit.

So, for work we need materials and tools:
-sheet of A3 paper
-simple pencil, eraser
-wax crayons
-colour pencils
-plasticine
-gouache, brushes
-water jar
-cloth for brushes

Progress of the master class:

We begin work with the lines of the work frame (on each side of the sheet). Then a light sketch of the silhouette of a bear. And we draw a circle of the head, and add a bear’s face to it (a wide and narrow oval).

Next are round ears, nose and eyes. And draw the upper part of the shirt up to the belt line - a rectangle with rounded edges.

For the bottom of the shirt, draw two arcs on the sides and connect them with a wavy line. Then the leg-leg lines.

We put shoes on the bear in peculiar felt boots. We draw hands, a cane. Then we lighten the drawing with an eraser and lightly wipe it.

We outline the contours of the bear with crayons: brown for the head, bast shoes and hands, red for the shirt, black for pants and foot wraps.

Using the edge of the chalk, we draw the background (we rub the chalk sideways on the sheet), blue for the sky and green for the field.

Use a brown pencil to decorate the head, paws and cane.

We enhance the color of the head along the edges with brown chalk. We decorate the belt, bast shoes with yellow color and draw a patch on the sleeve. Then we outline the head, paws and cane with black chalk, draw an eye and a nose, and a pattern on the legs and bast shoes.

We paint over the shirt with a red pencil, then with a red chalk we apply a stronger color in places - folds. Add purple shades to the sky (draw with the edge of a chalk). Using green chalk we draw the lines of the hills and horizon.

On the horizon we draw a blue haze of the forest (crayon).

This is how the portrait turned out, the Yaroslavl bear from the village of Kukuboy.

For older children, you can complicate the task by completing a portrait of Mikhailo Potapych in plasticine and gouache. A pencil drawing is constructed in exactly the same way, then we begin to work with plasticine.

We cover the entire figure of the bear with plasticine: red, brown and white.

We make bast shoes with yellow plasticine. Cane, eye, nose - black.

We roll thin sausages from green plasticine, place them on the neck of the shirt, sleeves, and belt, and flatten them slightly.

Using black thin sausages we lay out the contours of the entire figure and details of the bear’s clothing.

For the bear's face, we select a lighter shade of brown plasticine, and use it to create the bear's ears and cheeks. We make a pupil from a green flattened ball, and place two small white balls on it. Use a dark brown color to create a convex eyebrow above the eye.

We place a thin brown sausage on a cane. We decorate the shirt with small orange balls.

Next, work with paints, draw the background. We use blue, green and orange gouache.

When the paints dry, paint white clouds.