Master class "Learning to draw an autumn landscape" (using natural material). How to draw autumn
If you always wanted to learn how to draw, but for some reason you didn’t succeed, then our article will definitely come in handy for you. Here you will find simple golden autumn drawings with step by step explanation.
Even without a special talent for drawing, you can draw fairly simple but beautiful drawings. There are already many articles on our site that explain in detail how to draw various drawings with pencils, gouache or watercolor.
This article will help you draw not very complex autumn landscapes with colored pencils and paints.
How to draw a beautiful autumn landscape of nature with a pencil step by step for beginners?
Now we will tell you how to draw a bright autumn landscape using the most common simple pencils that you can buy at any stationery store.
On a blank sheet of paper, we first outline the approximate location of our fence. To do this, draw a short vertical line below the middle of the sheet and slightly to the right. Then we draw a horizontal strip crossing it and two stripes below, going to the vertical one.
We outline the trees. To do this, draw, as shown in the figure, two vertical lines. We draw a crown for trees - large ovals of irregular shape. In the background, we mark the forest with a curved horizontal line.
We draw the fence in detail. There should be 7 vertical stakes in total. The two bottom horizontal lines we drew at the beginning are the bars behind the stakes. We also circle them. Grass can be marked under the fence.
We make our trees voluminous - we add a lush crown, not very thick trunks. Be sure to draw branches in the crown so that the picture looks more natural. In the foreground we mark the path. You can take the path into the distance, or you can do it as in the photo.
. "There is no place for more details." That could be the name of this part of the work. All the details that were conceived must be transferred to paper. These are clouds, drawing leaves, bark, grass in the foreground. Draw a little bird on the fence.
Take an eraser and remove all unnecessary strokes. so to speak, "clean up" the picture. The lines should be smooth, single. Since a person is not a robot, the hand of even an experienced artist can sometimes tremble and give out less than ideal lines.
We take colored pencils in the amount of 5 pieces: 3 shades of green (from light to dark) and two shades of yellow (one lemon, the other warmer, a mixture of lemon and ocher). And with the help of these pencils, with vertical short strokes, we begin to draw grass in the foreground and in the background. Please note that the grass in the foreground is drawn in more detail, unlike the far one.
With the help of red, gray and yellow color we draw a path and stones. On the path we leave a few red small spots - these are fallen leaves.
With a black pencil we draw trunks and branches of birches. Do not forget that the birch trunks are painted with stripes (we use black and gray pencils for this), and the branches can be drawn in black. At the bushes, we paint over the trunks brown.
Now let's play with colors! We take green, brown, red, orange, yellow and lemon pencils (if there are more shades in the set, be sure to use them too!). With all these colors we draw a crown near trees and bushes. To do this, we recall autumn and what colors the foliage is usually painted in autumn. For birch, you can take yellow and orange, for other bushes - red, green, yellow, lemon, brown gray. Burgundy, marsh, emerald are also suitable. Lastly, we add colors to our bird.
With the help of gray and brown pencils we draw our fence. Do not forget that the fence is in the foreground, which means it should be drawn well enough and in detail.
With the help of green, yellow and orange pencils draw a distant plan. And in the background we have a forest. Draw a forest so that looking at it, you would like to go there.
At the beginning of the work, we outlined the clouds with a simple pencil. Now with the help of blue and purple we will paint the sky and those same clouds. With light vertical movements of the blue pencil, mark the sky, and with even lighter movements, but with a purple pencil, add volume to the clouds.
Bring the drawing to perfection, correct minor flaws. Purple pencil on clouds can be lightly shaded with a finger or a dry brush. The drawing is ready! Now you can draw a simple autumn landscape with a box of crayons!
How to draw a beautiful autumn landscape of nature with paints, watercolors, gouache? Step by step for beginners?
What kind of gouache drawing can even a beginner draw? The answer is: “The one that does not contain clear lines, shapes and can be almost anything, depending on the mood and desire of the author of the work!”. In this part of the article, we suggest you learn how to draw a beautiful and colorful landscape with a brush and gouache.
We take two colors: blue and white. Mentally divide the sheet horizontally into two halves, the top should be slightly smaller. Now with wide horizontal strokes we paint over the upper part with white gouache, and the lower part with blue.
We create a background. Now our task is to somehow mix these two colors, to make the transition smoother. We continue to go with white with the same wide strokes on the blue part, the colors will begin to mix and a gradient will turn out. Highlight the middle with white color, as shown in the figure.
At this stage, we mark the horizon line and right on it, with the help of white, gray and brown colors, we mark the forest in the background with strokes. With a pencil, we denote a narrowing path to the horizon from the near edge of the sheet. Along this path with a thin brush and black paint we draw trees. Try to make the trunks not equally straight. There must be bends, fractures - everything to make the tree seem "alive".
We let the trees dry and with yellow paint we literally press the leaves into the paper. To do this, take a pony brush No. 4-6, dip it in water, then dry it with a towel or a rag, make the brush fluffy by running your finger over it a couple of times and dip the brush into the paint. Then, with this “ruffled” brush with paint, we put it on paper in those places where the foliage should be, “blots”, as in the photo below. These "blots" will be the leaves.
In the palette, mix yellow and white paint until a light yellow pastel shade is obtained. In exactly the same way as in Step 4, we denote the background. On the path marked with a pencil, draw the reflections of the trees.
Adding red and orange to work. A few strokes of red in the foliage of the nearest trees. Asphalt on each side is visually divided into 3 sections, separated by blue. Color each section in red and orange. You can make a few strokes of yellow paint in the foreground on the asphalt - these are fallen leaves.
Designate the border, as shown in the figure, add more detail to the work. You can add more leaves, draw a few branches to the trees.
Your work is now complete! Let it dry and place it in a frame.
If such a drawing seems too complicated for you, then try to draw a simpler version - just a very beautiful tree.
Take clean watercolor paper, visually mark where your tree will be located. We recommend choosing a place for it in the middle. Now we take the yellow watercolor, dip the brush into the water, then into the paint. We will need an additional item: a toothbrush, a stick, a ruler, in general, something that you can lightly tap on. We bring the brush as shown in the figure and with tapping movements shake off the paint on a sheet of paper.
Add another color - red. We get beautiful splashes.
Important! Don't get too much water on the brush, otherwise the drawing may turn out too blurry!
Add green, orange and a few drops of blue to yellow and red.
You can add a few more colors: pink, lilac, raspberry.
With the help of a spray bottle, we slightly blur the crown of our future tree so that the colors are not so bright and beautiful overflows are obtained. It is enough to sprinkle the drawing with water only 2-3 times.
When the paint spreads a little - let it dry, before that, a little shading with a brush.
With a thin, sharp brush, we draw branches here and there. Use brown paint to mark the bottom of the trunk and the ground - the tree is ready!
How to draw a light landscape in autumn with a pencil for beginners?
The landscape that we suggest you draw below is actually quite easy. And our step-by-step guide will allow you to avoid mistakes in your work. Good luck!
We mark the horizon line just above the middle of the sheet. Then, with an inclined line, we denote the foreground - a hill where our trees will grow.
We draw the silhouettes of the trunks with two vertical lines. We try to avoid straight lines.
Between the hill and the horizon line we will have a lake. We mark its far and near shore on the left side.
On the right, in the distance, the far shore is also visible. Designate a low forest in the upper part of the shore, as shown in the picture.
In the foreground, where we outlined the hillock, draw grass. To do this is quite simple. Again, try to avoid straight lines.
Now try to be as realistic as possible, as far as your skills allow, to draw tree trunks with branches. The tree on the right should be quite sweeping.
Now draw the left tree. In some places, draw leaves on the branches, draw leaves of the same shape on the ground near the tree. Where you drew grass, draw reeds in addition.
Shade the lake with a simple pencil with wide strokes, not tightly, leaving a large distance between the lines.
Take a simple pencil and shade the hillock on which the trees are located. Do not forget that the shadow falling from the trees will be darker.
Shade the background as well, sorting out the shadows. Paint over the reeds with a shade of medium intensity.
Paint over the entire background, including the lake and the left bank of the lake, as shown in the figure. And try to make part of the lake along the banks a little darker than in the center.
Shade the sky with a slight pressure on the pencil. Then, pressing the pencil a little harder, draw light clouds.
Using the eraser, highlight the small circle on the left side, as shown in the picture - this is the sun. Now the atmosphere is not so gloomy, and your drawing is finished! Congratulations!
Simple and light and beautiful autumn landscapes: drawings for sketching
These three drawings are very simple. you can make them in color, or leave them as sketches.
drawing in color 2
Video: how to draw a golden autumn?
We have selected for you 3 simple, but completely different in terms of technique, images of autumn nature. Choose the one you like.
Autumn landscape in watercolor in monotype technique
A traditional autumn landscape - a colorful forest on the shore of a reservoir, reflected in a mirror of water, can be drawn using an original and easy-to-perform technique.
You will need:
- watercolor paints (preferably on a honey basis);
- water;
- natural brush (squirrel) - recommended size 2.5;
- a sheet of thick paper for watercolor painting;
- palette for mixing paints.
Technique for drawing an autumn landscape in stages:
Apply a thin layer of water to the paper with a brush. Leave the sheet to dry.
Draw a horizon line. Determine where the sky will be in the drawing by allocating more space for it than for objects located on the ground. Paint the sky in a soft blue tone, applying paint from the bottom up, starting from the horizon line.
Draw water. To do this, choose a more saturated shade of blue and apply it from top to bottom from the horizon line. When drawing the water surface, make horizontal movements with the brush. Leave the sheet to dry - the paint must dry completely!
Draw the sky. Type yellow on the brush and draw a strip across the sky, approximately in its central part. Closer to the horizon line, draw exactly the same crimson stripe. These lines represent the reflections of the sun.
Pick up a sufficient amount of white paint on the brush, dilute it a little with water. Draw several oblique stripes across the sky and blend them in the same direction. These will be the clouds.
Type water on the brush and blur the crimson and yellow stripes by moving the brush in a horizontal direction.
Dipping the brush in brown paint, draw a wide stripe on the horizon line. It will be a forest located in the distance. Wait for the paint to dry completely.
With orange paint, draw the silhouettes of trees that will be located in the foreground - directly on the shore. You can do this not only with a brush, but also directly with the help of prints of leaflets.
Fold the sheet in half, folding it from top to bottom. Run your hand across the paper and unfold the drawing. You have imprinted the reflection of the trees in the introductory mirror.
Draw the sun behind the trees, silhouettes of birds flying across the sky. Wait for the drawing to dry
Type yellow paint on the brush and draw the silhouettes of the trees at the top of the sheet. Fold the drawing in half again, run your hand and unfold.
At the top of the landscape, paint the trees in orange and yellow and the grass in yellow.
Draw the trunks and branches of the trees.
Autumn drawing in monotype technique is ready!
Autumn landscape in pencil
With the help of a pencil, it is best to depict late autumn, when there is practically no foliage on the trees, the weather is gloomy, and the artist’s mood is a little sad. We invite you to depict two thin autumn trees bending under the gusts of cold autumn wind on the banks of the river.
Autumn landscape technique in stages:
Draw straight horizons and perspectives
Draw tree trunks in the foreground
Draw the left and right bank of the river
So that the trees do not “hang in the air”, draw a small mound at their foot, covered with dry and sparse grass.
Draw in detail the silhouettes of both trees - rhizomes, trunks, branches
Draw fallen leaves on the ground and draw a few remaining leaves on the branches of trees. Draw reeds along the banks of the river.
Use the horizontal lines to represent the flow of the river.
Cover the mound on which trees grow with hatching of different intensity.
Draw the silhouette of a forest on the far bank of the river with the same hatching.
Draw clouds in the sky and silhouettes of birds flying to warmer climes.
Draw a thin autumn cobweb among the branches of the tree.
Use the eraser to add highlights to the landscape to give the drawing an even colder mood.
Creating an autumn landscape using natural materials
Children will surely like working on this landscape, because the original technique involves the use of real autumn leaves.
You will need:
- watercolor paints;
- gouache;
- simple pencil;
- thick paper for drawing watercolor;
- natural brushes (pony, squirrel No. 2.6);
- masking tape;
- autumn leaves of various shapes.
Progress:
Draw a horizon line with a simple pencil
Tear the paper tape into free-form pieces and stick them above the horizon line - these will be clouds floating across the sky
Draw a horizon line with yellow watercolor. When depicting the horizon, draw more water on the brush so that the line is blurry.
Use a rich yellow color to paint the sky, moving the brush from left to right.
Gradually introduce greenish shades into the general background of the sky. Don't forget to get plenty of water on the brush.
Emphasize the horizon line with dark shades of blue and green. Thus, you will depict a forest located in the distance.
Paint the foreground of the landscape with blurry spots of various shades of yellow and green.
Peel off the paper tape above the horizon line.
Prepare autumn leaves that you will use to draw trees in the distance.
Cover the leaves with orange, yellow or brown gouache.
Attach the leaves to the background of the picture, beyond the horizon line. Make prints.
In the same way, print the outlines of the leaves in the foreground of the landscape. For the foreground, pick up leaves of a different shape and use more saturated shades of gouache.
With a thin brush, paint the trunks and branches of the trees located in the foreground.
The original autumn landscape is ready.
Creative autumn to you!
We offer detailed instructions for writing an autumn landscape with gouache. The finished picture will be a wonderful interior decoration, especially framed in a baguette.
This creative master class will help you improve your gouache skills, learn how to draw the reflection of trees in water, develop a sense of composition and the ability to reflect the beauty of nature in a drawing.
You will need: gouache, watercolor paper, brushes.
Execution steps:
1. Draw the horizon line in light blue.
2. Cover the upper part of the sky with dark blue.
3. Add white gouache and paint over the rest of the sky to the horizon line.
4. Draw water, painting the background with light blue, turning into dark blue.
5. We draw clouds with white gouache.
6. We draw the earth with small strokes of brown, light brown and yellow.
7. In the background, draw a tree
8. Against the background of water, draw a mirror image of this tree
9. In the same way, draw a few more trees
10. We paint the crown of the tree with bright autumn colors with a semi-dry brush using the poke method, and in the water reflection we use less saturated shades.
11. By the same principle, draw the rest of the trees.
12. We can finish the Christmas tree and bushes.
13. In the foreground, draw a pine trunk and branches.
14. Draw a pine crown with green paint in horizontal strokes.
15. Let's draw horizontal stripes against the background of water with a semi-dry thin brush with white gouache. We draw a couple more trees next to the pine.
16. With a semi-dry brush using the poke method, draw the crowns of trees, fallen leaves in small strokes of the same colors and grass.
Your work is ready! Now it can be decorated with a baguette and decorate the interior, or you can give it as a gift.
Of course, it is not necessary to draw exactly as shown in the master class, because this is a creative process.We wish you inspiration and success!
Now we will have a lesson in drawing an autumn landscape in pencil in stages. Autumn is the most inspiring time of the year for writers, photographers, and artists. The abundance of colors gives artists the opportunity to convey their feelings in a huge number of shades. However, a simple pencil can convey the autumn mood. The first thing that came to my mind on the theme of Autumn is sadness, rain, a bench, an umbrella, leaves.
Step 1. We start drawing from the bench. Since it is located slightly at an angle to us, we draw lines of perspective. On the bench we indicate the location of the umbrella. It is not necessary to try to draw the oval too even, as these lines will be removed later.
Step 2. Add knitting needles and a cane to the umbrella. We modify the bench a little and draw the legs.
Step 3. "Pull" the fabric on the knitting needles.
Step 4. We draw a background - a lantern, trees. On the asphalt we add a reflection in the puddles. You can add leaves on the ground or on a bench.
Step 5. Apply shadows and midtones. Objects in the foreground should be more contrast than the background.
Step 6. With cross strokes on the pavement and straight strokes in the air, draw rain with a pencil or a sharp eraser.
I hope now you have some idea of what you can draw on the theme of Autumn without resorting to bright colors.
Autumn landscape with children: step-by-step description of drawing, creative tasks for children, examples of children's drawings.
Autumn landscape with children: step by step drawing
The autumn landscape is a delightful picture. How you want to capture bright colors, interesting lines, the special beauty of the autumn sky and the motley colors of the foliage of trees! Let's draw an autumn landscape with the children today - an autumn tree in a clearing - and complete creative tasks.
This master class was held in a kindergarten, and it presents children's drawings made by children of senior preschool age.
Materials for drawing an autumn landscape
To draw an autumn landscape with children, you will need:
- Gouache or watercolor paints
- White landscape sheet (better for watercolor)
— Brushes
- Palette
— Notebook sheet, office or newsprint paper
A step-by-step description of drawing an autumn landscape with children
First stage. Drawing the autumn sky
Prepare a palette, paints and wide brushes for the children.
- On the palette, dilute white and blue paints and with a wide brush (in this case, a flat brush No. 12) draw the sky. It will take up half a sheet of paper. The movement of the brush should go from left to right, tear off the brush from the sheet.
In the upper part of the picture, the sky is more blue, the lower we go down the picture, the lighter the background becomes.
How to make the sky lighter:
- option A: for gouache. Add white to blue.
- option B: for watercolor. Washing out the paint. To do this, we do not pick up paint on the brush, but dip it lightly in water and thus blur the paint on the brush.
To the horizon line, the sky in the children's drawing will be almost white.
We got the sky background for the autumn landscape.
Second phase. Autumn field drawing
At the second stage, the children and I draw the field with yellow-orange paints. Let's depict the elevation with a curved line. Let's apply separate strokes of green paint.
Helpful advice: Pay attention to the mixing of colors. If you brush over wet orange paint with green, you get an earthy brown color.
Third stage. Drawing the trunk and branches of a tree
Let's start drawing with the children the main element of the autumn landscape - a tree in a clearing.
Take a thin brush and draw a tree trunk and branches with brown paint: first, with light lines, we outline the tree trunks by moving the brush from top to bottom. We draw branches not symmetrically, but randomly.
We draw the children's attention to the fact that the trunk in the upper and lower parts is of different widths, because the tree grows from below and near the ground its trunk has the widest part.
Then we paint over the trunk with brown paint.
Draw thin lines along the trunk with black or brown paint of a different color, giving the texture of the bark.
Fourth stage. Drawing autumn foliage with stamps
Step one. First, we will prepare homemade stamps for drawing leaflets with the children. To do this, we take ordinary office paper or a notebook sheet (of course, you can make stamps from a newspaper).
To make a stamp, you need to tear off and twist a small piece of paper into a tube with a diameter of approximately 7 - 10 mm. Then fold it in half and wrap it with a thread. Moreover, it is desirable to fix it closer to the fold of the paper, because during operation the paper will get wet and the width of the stamp will increase. Although this also has its own charm, because the leaves on the tree do not have the same size.
Helpful advice: It is advisable to use used paper, introducing children to thrift. After all, the forest is cut down for the production of paper! If everyone saves one blank sheet of paper, the tree will be saved from being cut down. This is also saving the family budget. Teach children to respect the world from an early age.
Step two. Dip the resulting stamp with a fold in red paint and make prints imitating leaves on tree branches.
Step three. Take another stamp and dip it in green paint and in a similar way imprint green leaves on the crown of the tree. Do the same with orange paint.
Step four. And make the last stamps in yellow. Of course, the sequence of applying paints may be different - this is the right of the child's choice! If desired, also apply fallen leaves with stamps under the tree.
Autumn landscape with a tree in a clearing is ready. You can add any details to it.
Creative tasks for drawing an autumn landscape with children
Drawing an autumn landscape with children is always based on the life experience of a child. , his observations of nature, looking at pictures of autumn nature, photographs, listening to poems in which poets expressed their autumn mood.
To help you - a few creative tasks that will prepare children for drawing an autumn landscape.
- Watch the autumn sky. What color is it? What color are the clouds? Think and discuss with the children how you can depict such a sky in the drawing of an autumn landscape, what colors you will need. Draw the autumn sky with your child after coming home from a walk.
Helpful advice: You can take a picture of the sky with your mobile phone while walking with your child. At home, before drawing the sky, consider your photos so that the baby can clearly see the features of the autumn sky and the autumn landscape and convey them in his drawing.
- Think about how and from what you can make your own stamps for drawing leaves on a tree.
- draw autumn tree in the meadow. Watch other autumn landscapes while walking and draw them with your children.
- Task for children 6 years and older. Read to the children a poem about autumn - the artist. How does autumn paint its picture? How does autumn “interfere with colors”, how does it “tear the drawing to shreds” (for example, it can be explained to the child that when the wind blows, the leaves fall and the drawing changes, as if autumn had torn its drawing with the wind)? What does "dropped the crimson" mean? What is the picture of autumn? What does it mean "impossible to take your eyes off" - this means, what kind of picture?
Autumn is an artist
Autumn just got to work
just took out a brush and a chisel,
put some gilding,
dropped a crimson somewhere,
and hesitated, as if deciding
to be accepted by her like that?
That despairs, interfering with the colors,
and in embarrassment step back ...
That will go from anger and to shreds
everything will be torn apart by a merciless hand ...
And suddenly, on a painful night,
find great peace.
And then, having brought together
all efforts, thoughts, ways,
paint a picture like this
that we can't take our eyes off. (Margarita Aliger)
Here are the drawings that were made by preschool children who drew an autumn landscape in kindergarten in an art circle.
Note - how different moods are conveyed in the drawings. Some of the children have an alarming autumn landscape, the wind is blowing, nature is tense, the lines are broken. And someone got a sunny autumn. Do not drive the child into patterns - let him express his mood and his perception of the autumn landscape!
Autumn landscape - this is a wonderful opportunity to discuss with the child the changes in autumn nature, to talk about autumn moods and different perceptions of autumn by people, poets, artists. Use this opportunity and rediscover the world and its beauty together with your children!
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