From the title it is already clear what will be discussed. We will be studying how to draw war with a pencil step by step. It will not be Star Wars and Darth Vader, and not even a shooter game, but a real war! Three soldiers in a trench, with heaps of military equipment. In order to draw all this, you need a lot of knowledge about military affairs. Of course, you can sit down to play WoT, but in the end you won’t draw anything. Who does not know this is such a super action with the participation of tanks, which has gathered a huge mass of gamers in our country. By the way, the yellow-faced Chinese are no less addicted to this. It seems that half of their population is involved in sports, judging by the number of Olympic medals in 2012, but the second is mired in the whirlpool of online games. For the fact that half of our population has been staring at the LCD monitor for two years now, while at the same time managing to smear the gaming mouse with greasy fingers from dinner and pour coffee on the clave ... let's all say "Thank you" Wargaming! Although God is with him. Now let's digress from tanks and try to draw military operations involving real ones. There are five steps ahead.

How to draw war with a pencil step by step

Step One First, let's outline the people in motion. Head, body position, arms, legs.
Step Two Now let's think about what will be around our soldiers: this is a fence, stones, logs. Let's show their contours.
Step Three Let's dress our combatants: helmet, pants, boots. Let's supply one of them with a bag. Draw the profile of the face closest to us. We wrap the fence with barbed wire.
Step Four Let's add details: thorns on the wire, belts on people's clothes, a shoulder blade, etc.
Step Five Let's do the hatching. There are darker areas on the clothes at the folds. Darken the areas on the pillars. Well, here are the soldiers against the backdrop of a military and completely non-picturesque landscape.
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In this lesson you can learn how to draw a soldier with a pencil and your own patience.

Previously, we have already drawn drawings on a military theme:

In drawing a soldier, the lesson "" may also be useful to you, but this is already for an in-depth understanding. So let's get started.

First, we make the base markup, such a frame for the body of our soldier. Above - an oval in the form of a head, Then it connects to the body of two trapeziums, then the line of the legs and also the lines of the arms. Did it look like the picture below? We move on.

Within the oval, we need to draw the head-face of a soldier. First, mark the oval with guide lines, draw the ears on the sides. On a horizontal line, draw the eyes and eyebrows, a little lower - the nose and mouth. Add lines to the ears, draw a little short hair of a soldier.

From above we draw a cap. Add its top, as well as a star. We finish the neck.

So, our head is ready, you can finish the collar and shoulders of our friend.

The next step is to draw its shape, or rather its upper part. We draw shoulder straps and a belt.

Pockets, buttons and a star on the belt should also be depicted on the top of the form.

Now you need to draw the bottom part - trousers. Pay attention to the folds.

Do not forget to also draw the hands of our soldier in uniform. Step by step we draw the sleeves, and then we draw the palms. It will not be too easy for beginners to draw detailed hands, so everything is very schematic.

It remains only to draw the boots.

Step-by-step instructions for practical drawing of tanks, planes and helicopters in the process of mastering the art of black and white and halftone graphics.

We suggest you learn how to draw domestic, mainly Russian, samples of military equipment in their modern form in a phased method.

Remember! Any mistake made at the very beginning of the drawing process can hopelessly ruin the final result. At first, you may find it difficult to draw curvilinear contours (round, egg-shaped or similar to a sausage) or even stick a pencil across the paper to the intended point. Do not despair! Stay enthusiastic, keep drawing with perseverance and patience. The more practice, the higher the skill. If you wish, you can use a compass - professional artists do not consider it shameful for themselves.

Items needed for work: a clean white sheet of good quality paper, a pencil with medium hard or soft lead, an eraser. Compasses, ink, feather, brush, ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen - optional.

Choose a sample of military equipment that you want to draw. With light touches of the pencil, without pressure, very carefully and carefully draw on the paper the strokes that make up the initial (first) "step" - usually it is located in the upper left corner on the pattern you have chosen. Then take the second "step" - also without pressure and just as carefully. Follow not only the direction and curvature of the lines, but also the distance between them, that is, their relative position. The size of the drawing should match the size of your sheet of paper - neither too small nor too large. The first "steps" seem to be the least difficult, but they must be carried out with particular precision, because any mistake made at the beginning of the process can ruin the final result.

It is also very useful to look at the reflection of your work in the mirror from time to time - it can reveal distortions that you would otherwise not be able to notice.

The new lines for each "step" are shown in bolder in the diagram to make it easier for you to recognize what exactly should be added to your drawing at the next step. Continue working as before with light, thin strokes. If some line turned out to be too thick or dark - lighten it with an eraser: draw it along the line without much pressure, without trying to erase it completely.

And a few more tips. Remember that for all the apparent complexity of some objects, they can always be reduced to simple geometric shapes: a ball, a cone, a pyramid, a cube, a parallelepiped, a cylinder.

Try to draw the technique not from the front, but from more advantageous angles, taking into account the perspective, so that they do not look flat, but voluminous.

You can also "cheat" a little when depicting complex details: in order not to be distracted from the integrity of the image and not to waste too much time, you can draw them approximately, as a complex of expressive strokes, dots, underlines, wavy lines.

Well, of course, say, ships do not exist on their own, but, as a rule, organically fit into the surrounding landscape. Therefore, the elements of the landscape - the sea, the river, the rocks, even if only slightly outlined - will greatly enliven and enrich the drawing.

When you have finished applying light strokes, that is, having completed the entire eight "steps" shown in the selected diagram, and making sure that all the elements of your drawing correspond to the desired image, outline them with confident pencil movements with the necessary pressure. After this final finishing, the drawing can be considered ready. If desired, you can increase the contrast of the lines using ink (using a thin brush or steel feather), a ballpoint pen, or a felt-tip pen. When the ink, paste, or ink is dry, use an eraser to remove any unnecessary pencil marks.

Remember: if the first attempts to draw do not lead to the desired result - keep trying. It is very important not to lose perseverance, patience, enthusiasm. In the end, your efforts will be crowned with complete success - at that moment you may not immediately believe yourself, but you will still be pleasantly surprised by what you have achieved.

We sincerely hope that your drawing skills will improve and the long time spent on recreating the images of all these formidable and in their own way beautiful examples of technology will not be wasted.

The Great Patriotic War is that page of our history that cannot be ignored. For a peaceful sky, for bread on the table, we owe it to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who, not sparing their lives, fought against a fierce enemy for the sake of a happy future for their children.

As a sign of eternal memory and respect, it is customary in our country to give veterans flowers and themed postcards made by small children's hands. Such masterpieces are more precious than any awards, because they testify that even kids know and are proud of the exploits of their ancestors. Today we will tell you how and what drawings for children about the war can be drawn on the eve of a great holiday or simply to consolidate the knowledge gained from a history lesson.

So, we bring to your attention a master class on how to draw the Patriotic War for children in stages with a pencil.

Example 1

For boys, war is certainly associated with military equipment and aviation. Tanks, helicopters, planes, various weapons - these are all the achievements of scientific progress, without which victory would have come to us at an even greater cost. Therefore, we will begin our first lesson on drawings about the war (1941-1945) for children, with a detailed description of how to draw a tank in stages.

First of all, we will prepare everything you need: simple and colored pencils, an eraser and a blank sheet of paper.

Continuing to improve our skills, let's draw a military aircraft:

Example 2

Of course, little princesses may not like drawing military equipment. Therefore, for them, we have prepared separate drawings that can be used as a greeting card:

As you can see, it is not difficult for a child to draw such simple pictures about the war, the main thing is to show a little imagination and patience.

The ability to draw military equipment for many boys becomes a kind of step in the process of growing up, when a simple drawing of a tank or armored personnel carrier begins a real passion, a desire to learn more not only about the technology itself, but also about people, glorious history, defense of the Motherland.

And although the task of learning how to draw with your own hand is quite simple, drawing a tank with a pencil in stages with detailing all the elements becomes quite difficult for many, because it is much easier to download a picture you like from the network and print it on a printer.

But for those who are not afraid of difficulties and are ready to diligently learn to draw on their own, this will be an excellent activity and time well spent.

Luck at the beginning of work always sets the tone and mood, the work begins to argue and bring pleasure, even if temporary difficulties are discovered.

That is why a drawing for a child should be clear and simple, in sketches for this it is better to use not white clean paper, but an ordinary checkered notebook sheet.

For novice battle painters depicting such formidable military equipment, it is a sheet with a grid that will allow you to first navigate in the size of some elements, and later move on to a more complex drawing, for example, depict tanks from the World of Tanks game (World of Tanks), or transfer to a sheet not planar image, give it a certain angle.

The second point, which is better to use at the initial stage, is the ability to transfer an image to a sheet of paper, having previously selected certain shapes.

Step by step drawing of a tank. Photo:

Here, if you look closely at the models of different tanks, you can identify several common features for them - in the drawing of almost all types of equipment I will use the techniques of drawing simple geometric shapes - a circle, a rectangle, a square, an oval and a triangle.

And if a child can draw several identical circles next to each other in one line and add two small circles on the right and left so that they are a little higher, then we can say with confidence that the caterpillars of the formidable IS-7 are almost ready.

Tank IS-7, drawing. Video lesson:

How to place a model in a drawing?

The stages of development of the child's creative potential must be corrected, drawing a tank from a certain angle, fitting it into a specific landscape or scene is a rather difficult task.

Therefore, at the initial stage, for an easy sketch, it is better for the child to offer two options for the image:

• front view;
• side view.

In the first version of the drawing, rectangles will be used mainly, and the drawing itself will be located symmetrically about the central vertical line.

True, such an image is unlikely to cause delight in a small artist, rather, on the contrary, it is precisely this kind that can scare him away from further drawing, the frontal view of armored vehicles is so difficult to perceive.

The second type will allow you to show more creative thinking, here circles, rectangles, and smooth connecting lines will be involved in the image, and the view of such a tank will be more spectacular.

Well, drawing a tank in 3/4 or 1/2 turns will require not just great efforts, but knowledge of the main structural elements and the ability to maintain their proportions in the image.

Staged drawing of the T-34. Photo:

Tank tracks

Among the methods of teaching children to draw a tank, the simplest method recommends starting the construction of a sketch with a sketch of the tracks of the car. To do this, the first step is drawing the line of the earth. Everything is simple here - you need to draw a horizontal line in the lower third of the sheet.

But from that moment on, the image of the caterpillars of Soviet tanks will begin to appear on the sheet - both the T-34 and even the more modern T-54 and T-62A have almost the same type of caterpillars - with open large rollers. Therefore, a small circle is drawn in the central part. This circle will act as the middle track roller.

Having thus received the start of the drawing, it is easy to depict the rest of the road wheels:

1. For the convenience of drawing on top of the circle, a straight line is drawn parallel to the ground line, this line will help to get the same size rollers.
2. Two rinks are drawn on the right and left - the circles should touch each other or have a small gap.
3. On the left and right, slightly touching the extreme circles, smaller circles are drawn, approximately 1/3, while they should be half as high as the main rollers.
4. A smooth line connects all the upper points of the circles, the line should sag a little above the point where the rollers touch, like a real tank, the tracks will hang a little in this place.
5. But the extreme circles of a smaller size and the extreme road wheels from below are connected by a straight segment, in this place the tracks of all types of military equipment are always stretched.
6. To give expressiveness in the center of the circles, you can put a bold dot and draw 2-3 small circles around it.
7. The outer contours of the rollers are drawn with a thick line, and the caterpillar itself must be highlighted with a line 2-3 times thicker than the contour of the rollers, this is a caterpillar!

The resulting chassis can be used to design a whole family of Soviet-made machines. But what kind of tank will turn out depends on how the hull and turret above the tracks will be depicted.

Is it difficult to draw a car body?

In fact, the final result will depend on how this element is depicted. In the drawing, the image of the case, even in the children's version, will allow you to express the individuality of the model that the kid is trying to copy.

So, the German tank in all the drawings, and in life, has a massive large hull, it is almost equal to the height of the tracks, but even the most powerful and reliable KV-1 and KV-2 had a relatively low side of the hull.

Therefore, in the figure of the most famous domestic T-34 or the ultra-modern T-90, the height of the tank hull will be small:

1. Rising literally above the upper points of the extreme rollers of the drawn caterpillar, a horizontal line is drawn parallel to the ground line.
2. Departing from it 1/2 of the height of the rollers, a second segment is drawn - the line of the height of the side of the machine body.
3. On the left side of the conditional vertical line that passes through the center of the small rink, an arc is made along the circle of the first rink to the horizontal level of its center - this is how the front wing is depicted.
4. The rear wing is also drawn on the right.
5. Further from the point of contact of the first and second road wheels, a point is placed at the level of the upper side line - this is the top of the front armor plate.
6. This point and the center of the front small rink are connected by a segment, while it is clearly drawn to the bottom line of the side.
7. Behind the hull, the top point of the side is a point at the level of the center of the last small roller, it connects to the rear wing of the caterpillar.

Tank T-34 in pencil in stages. Video lesson:

As you can see, when drawing a body, you have to take into account the proportions and correlate different points in the figure with ready-made elements. When drawing with children, complex elements need to be spoken out so that the child learns not just to drive a pencil on paper, but begins to understand what he is doing and learns to draw consciously.

Gun turret and other expressive elements of the hull

In most models, the gun turret remains the most recognizable structural element, which is why most people recognize the name of the vehicle by its silhouette. For example, a tiger has an angular silhouette and, although the tower itself has a teardrop shape from above, from the side it is precisely because of such a rectangular shape that this model cannot be confused with any other.

When drawing a tower, it is easiest to use the already learned method of constructing a drawing using anchor points.

Such a drawing is constructed as follows:

1. From the vertical line of the center of the first large skating rink, located on the left, slightly retreating from the upper point of the hull, the point of the beginning of the base of the tower is set.
2. The same point is placed vertically on the body line and in the middle of the middle roller.
3. Raising the points a few millimeters up, a segment is drawn parallel to the body and thus the base is obtained.
4. A circle is drawn in the center of the first main roller above the base of the turret so that its lower edge touches the base, this will give the contour of the frontal armor of the gun turret.
5. The back part is drawn according to the same principle, however, in this case, the circle should be half as large as the circle of the rink.
6. The uppermost points of the circles are connected and the outline of the tower is obtained.

In order for the drawing to become completely similar to the T-34, in front of the turret from the center of the small circle, just above the horizontal line, two parallel segments 2 gun turrets long are drawn, so the tank gets a gun.

Behind the tank, above the hull in the rear above the 4 and 5 rollers, about 1/3 of the tower high, a rectangle is drawn - this is how the T-34 had spare fuel tanks.

The gun turret can be different, for example, in the KV-2 it looked simply menacing, it was much higher than the hull and towered several meters above the ground.

But for its predecessor, the KV-1, the tower has a more streamlined shape and you can draw it using the already studied technique.

Or one, for example, like that of the SU-100, combined with the hull, when a truncated pyramid is formed in the front of the hull with the help of parallel segments - as a result, the tower is ready:

How to captivate a child to draw in the future?

Considering that we are learning to draw rather complex elements in order to show the child his capabilities, we can suggest drawing a car of a different design, the silhouette of which, for example, resembles the T-54

or T-62A with a machine gun on the commander's cupola.

The principle of drawing here is the same - caterpillars, hull and gun turret. True, in order for the child to feel the difference, the tower will need to be placed neatly in the middle of the hull.

It will have a semi-circular shape and should be set low on the body. From this moment on, it becomes quite easy for a child to draw, because he already understands how to draw all the elements correctly step by step and other elements will be easily given to him.

You can add expressiveness to the picture by adding small squares to the hull and turret, such as on modern tanks, and then the picture will look like a real modern tank.

In many models, size matters, for example, in the Maus tank, in which the turret and hull are the same height.

Or in another, no less exotic instance, just a huge E-100, which remained only a prototype on paper.

To decorate the drawing (what kind of drawing without color design?), It is worth choosing an expressive green color, but this is the color of the hull and rollers, but on the tower it is necessary to draw a three-digit number with white paint and, of course, a red star or, as is customary among Germans, black cross with white borders.

An excellent continuation of such an activity would be drawing other equipment to continue the military parade, for example, draw an armored personnel carrier:

Or draw a German panther:

At the same time, when decorating, apply two or even three colors, giving the model a beautiful camouflage.

You can choose your favorite model in order to copy it in screenshots for computer games. For example, you can draw a tank from World of Tanks by viewing all the cars and choosing the one you like the most.

When drawing modern tanks, such as the T-90, for example, you can add elements such as squares to the turret or hull - this way you can get more realism.

Step-by-step drawing of a sketch allows you to master not only drawing a contour with one line, but also the ability to paint it with color or, more importantly, teach a child to draw using shading, when a light and more saturated tone is made with simple movements, individual elements stand out, the concept of light and shadow is formed , transition on bulk surfaces.

Examples of drawn tanks. Photo:

In any case, having learned to draw such a drawing in stages, the child acquires not only the ability to hold a pencil, but also the opportunity to significantly increase his self-esteem, because a tank is a great reason for a kid to be proud of himself.