How to draw the Loch Ness monster step by step. The most famous photographs of the Loch Ness monster

The “best” photograph of the Loch Ness monster was taken by 60-year-old George Edwards - the picture has already been studied by the US military experts and recognized it as genuine . The Nessie hunter has spent 60 hours a week capturing the monster for the past 26 years. The author of the photo believes that there are several similar monsters in the lake.

"It was moving slowly up the lake towards Urquhart Castle, it was something dark gray in color. It was quite far from the boat - about half a mile," Edwards told The Sun tabloid. He did not want to publish the photo he received until he received confirmation from experts - the photo was taken back in November last year.

The photo taken by Edwards shows a strange hump sticking out of the water. Experts concluded that the image shows a moving object. According to Edwards, he watched Nessie for about 10 minutes, after which it sank under the water and disappeared.

Loch Ness is a large, deep freshwater lake in Scotland, stretching 37 km southwest of Inverness.

It's interesting that modern technology I have spotted the Loch Ness monster more than once. In April, Captain Martin Atkinson said that the echo sounder on his ship discovered a snake-like creature one and a half meters long at the depths of the famous lake. He provided evidence of this. His photograph won the "Best Recent Nessie Sighting" award, presented by bookmaker William Hill.

The first mention of the Loch Ness Monster dates back to 565 AD, when in the life of Saint Columba, Abbot Jonah spoke of the saint's triumph over the "water beast" in the River Ness. Since then, the world has been divided into those who believed in the existence of the monster and those who considered it impossible.

Maybe there really is some kind of hefty fish swimming there?

Well, in general, on the Internet you can collect such photographs of this monster, although I won’t vouch for the authenticity :-)

If you want to learn how to draw the Loch Ness monster, Nessie with a pencil step by step, take a few simple steps.

Step 1. First I will show you a diagram of a generic plesiosaur. You can see the hydrodynamic body, composed of a small head, long neck and compact body, and equipped with four fins.
See also how I divided the spine into three curves with different directions. Although these contortions certainly changed in different positions of the animal, this is the 'rest' of the pose.
Remember that there is a wide variety of plesiosaurs (to obtain additional information, visit www.plesiosauria.com), so it's okay if you change the proportions a little.

Step 2. Let's get started, then. Draw a circle for the head and a curved spine (remember to change the direction for the neck, torso and tail segments).

Step 3. Draw a large oval for the body and smaller ones for the hips and chest area.

Step 4. Before drawing the limbs, here's a little tip:
The limbs of plesiosaurs had the same bones as many other animals, but they were just arranged differently. In this case, you can see the arm (the largest bone of the humerus).
As a drawing aid, I resumed rolling the pattern into sticks.

Step 5. Draw the fins. Remember that the most likely mode of locomotion was to alternate movements between the forelimbs and hindlimbs (some up, some down).

Step 6. Adding flesh to the 'skeleton'...

Step 7. Now when adding volume: muscular but stylized neck, powerful chest, short tail. Head relative to the East. Just remember that big eyes were placed in the MU eupper part of the skull.

Step 8. Base color.

Step 9. Deciding which parts are lit and which remain in the dark.

Step 10: Mixing! It depends on the material, for example if you are working with crayons, you can use cotton wool.

Step 11. The plesiosaur is finished!...but there's still a lake here, right?
You can color the environments on different paper, then cut and paste the plesiosaur here.

First, I made the blue degrade, the darker the blue at the bottom of the lake.

Researchers and enthusiasts from all over the world have long been tormented by the question: does the Loch Ness monster exist? Even sophisticated modern technology cannot give an exact answer. The existence of Nessie, living in the waters of Loch Ness, was officially announced in 1933. The British newspaper The Telegraph collected the most famous photographs of the legendary monster.

At the end of 2013, two UK residents on satellite maps from Apple a mysterious silhouette about 30 meters long on the surface of Loch Ness. For six months, experts studied the image and came to the conclusion that the object could very well belong to the legendary monster.

In the summer of 2009, a resident of Great Britain said that while viewing satellite photos on the Google Earth website, he saw the creature he was looking for. The photograph of the service actually shows something that vaguely resembles a large sea animal with two pairs of flippers and a tail. However, it is possible that the satellite could capture an ordinary boat leaving a foam trail.

In May 2007, 55-year-old Englishman Gordon Holmes claimed that he had convincing evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness monster. The researcher decided to place microphones in the lake and study the sound signals coming from the depths. Near the western shore, he noticed movement in the water and immediately turned on a video camera, which recorded the movement under the water of a long dark object heading towards the northern part of the lake. The creature's body mostly remained under water, but its head surfaced from time to time, leaving a trail of foam behind it.

Experts who examined the film confirmed its authenticity and came to the conclusion: a creature about 15 meters long moved at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. However, Holmes' filming is not considered conclusive evidence of the existence of a prehistoric monster in the lake. Opinions arose that it could be a giant snake or a worm, a light illusion or a log set in motion by an internal current.

A photograph of the alleged monster taken in 2005.

And this photograph from 1977 turned out to be an ordinary fake. A certain Anthony Shiels claimed to have taken the photo while walking near Yorkhart Castle.

This underwater photograph taken in 1972 by members of an expedition led by Dr. Robert Rhines shows a creature resembling a plesiosaur.

In this photograph, also taken in 1972, the monster appears to be moving to the right, with its wide-open mouth and powerful back visible.

Former army captain Frank Searle arrived at Loch Ness in the early 1970s. Going to find the mysterious creature, he took a huge number of photographs of Nessie, many of which were widely circulated by the media. However, they all turned out to be fakes.

In July 1955, Aersher banker Peter McNab photographed something in the bay near Yorkhart Castle that looked like a huge dark creature cutting through the surface of the lake.

In 1951, Lachlan Stewart photographed some strange hills above the water. Later it turns out that these hills were actually tufts of grass floating on the surface of the lake.

And this is perhaps the most famous photograph of Nessie. London colonel and physician Robert Wilson took this photo in April 1934. The author claimed that he photographed the monster by accident while traveling in the area, bird watching. Only in 1994 was it established that this photograph was a fake made by Wilson and three accomplices.

First famous photograph The Loch Ness monster was created on November 12, 1933 by a certain Hugh Gray.

Loch Ness (literally Nose Lake) is located in the north-east of Scotland in the county of Inverness. The area of ​​the lake is about 60 square kilometers, and the maximum depth reaches 230 meters. The water in the lake, curiously, does not freeze even in the most cold winter. And the living creatures living in its depths amaze with their abundance and diversity. Scottish folklore is replete with centuries-old legends about a monster living in the lake.