The swan is a wonderful and very beautiful bird, which is considered royal in England. Also, it is considered one of the largest birds that can swim on water. In this article we will tell you step by step how to draw a swan.
Beautiful drawing in 5 steps
This drawing example is quite simple, but at the same time beautiful. Prepare pencils, markers and a piece of paper, we will start with an example that will tell you how to draw a swan step by step.
1 step
For convenience, you can draw two lines: one horizontal and the other vertical. At the end of the drawing we will erase them, since they are auxiliary.
We draw an oval of the head, and from it we draw the neck of our bird in the form of the English letter “S”.
Step 2
We draw a second line for the neck and draw feathers at the other end of the drawing.
Step 3
Let's draw the wing. Its upper part should be smooth, and the left side should look like feathers.
Step 4
We depict a long key and the eye of our bird.
Step 5
Our drawing is ready. If you wish, you can color it, put it in a frame and put it on a shelf.
Also, don't forget to draw the waves that he leaves behind in the lake.
Simple pencil example
Like the previous one, this drawing is very beautiful, but the drawing method is a little simpler. Be sure to prepare an eraser, as now we will learn how to draw a swan with a pencil.
The first thing we need to do is draw a diagram of the body and head of our future bird. Don't press too hard on the pencil as we will have to erase some of these lines in the future.
Based on our auxiliary drawing, we will draw a head with eyes and a beak and a long neck.
Now let's work on the torso. From below it is quite smooth, and from above it is steeper, creating a small hump. The end of the body on the left side is connected by a sharp tip.
Take an eraser and erase everything unnecessary, as in the example below.
The final stage will be drawing the feathers and wings of our swan. And also the waves emanating from his body.
Example for a child
A very, very simple drawing example that is perfect for a child. So, we teach children to draw swans.
Nobody likes to get D's, but today we need exactly that. We draw a beautiful and smooth two, which will later turn into a beautiful swan.
Now, on the right edge of our two, we draw on the plumage with sharp corners, and below we can add waves.
At the upper tip we draw a beak and an eye.
The final touch will be the neck and wing. You can also add more waves and color the resulting picture.
Easy way
We've come to simple way, which will help us learn how to draw a swan in the lake. For this method, we will use a marker or a regular pen.
Let's start drawing from the head. With a few simple lines you should get something similar to the image below.
As in the previous examples, we carefully display the English letter “S”.
Do not forget that the lines must be smooth and neat. If you don't succeed the first time, don't worry. You can always draw everything again.
Well, at the very end we work with small details, namely we draw the eye, plumage and waves from the lake.
Couple in love
At the end of the article, we come to the most romantic way of drawing birds. Now we will figure out how to draw two swans in love.
First we need to get a heart like in the picture below. The heads of the two birds come together wonderfully and their necks form the outline of a heart.
We add torsos to our heart on the left and on the other side.
We depict the lower parts of the bodies of our lovers. If you didn’t do something very neatly, then it’s not a big deal, because then we will outline our birds with a felt-tip pen.
We take a felt-tip pen and trace our sketch.
The final stage in drawing our couple will be working out small details and adding water surface.
How to draw the Swan Princess step by step for children
Purpose:
Creation of educational, exhibition or competition works
Materials:
Paper A 4 watercolor, pencil, gouache, brushes.
Goals:
Learning to draw a swan, fill the background in different ways.
Develop curiosity, fantasy, imagination.
Improve skills compositional construction leaf.
Tasks:
Educational: Expand knowledge about waterfowl,
about the features appearance, lifestyle.
Visual tasks: Introduce techniques for filling the background (color stretching and brushstrokes),
learn to draw a swan, conveying the size and proportions of the bird’s body parts and various movements.
Technical tasks: Develop an understanding of the variety of colors and shades, teach how to create colors and shades by mixing them on a palette; continue to develop the skills of drawing thin lines with the end of the brush.
Educational tasks: instill the ability to see beauty in the surrounding reality, cultivate accuracy and love of creativity, develop memory and visual control, independence, develop fantasy and imagination, patience.
Preliminary work:
Reading a fairy tale by A.S. Pushkin's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his glorious son and mighty hero Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the beautiful Swan Princess", conversations about waterfowl, looking at illustrations.
Swans are rightfully considered the most beautiful birds, not only among waterfowl, but also among all others. These birds often become heroes of epics, fairy tales and songs. And ancient astronomers gave one of the constellations the name Cygnus.
In early spring, when water bodies are just beginning to become free of ice, swans return to their homeland from warm countries. Swans are waterfowl, they settle where there are lakes and swamps, and make their nests on islands, away from people and predatory animals.
Among waterfowl, swans are the largest. Their wingspan reaches two meters, and their weight can reach up to fifteen kilograms. But despite this heavy weight, swans stay in the air very well and can fly thousands of kilometers during seasonal migrations.
These birds usually feed on herbaceous plants, which they obtain both on land and in water. Their long neck helps them reach food from the bottom of reservoirs. In addition to various grasses, swans also eat insect larvae, as well as small crustaceans and mollusks.
IN family life swans are constancy. Once formed, a couple never separates. Swans remember their nests well, which they use for several seasons in a row. Every year they improve and build on their home, which can reach two meters in diameter.
About forty days after the start of incubation, chicks covered with gray down appear in the nest. The chick does not look at all like its snow-white parents, but really resembles the ugly duckling from famous fairy tale Andersen..
In late autumn, when the first snow falls on the ground, swans gather in flocks and fly away in a beautiful wedge to warm countries until next spring.
All species of swans are listed in the Red Book and hunting of these majestic birds is strictly prohibited. Lev Poyasnikin
1.Draw a horizon line.
2. Draw a semicircle in the center of the sheet. This is the body of a swan.
3.Now let’s draw the head and use a long neck to connect it to the body.
4.Now we need paints. Mix white and purple on the palette. And paint over half the sky.
5. Now mix scarlet with white. And paint the lower half of the sky.
6. Rinse the brush well, and use a damp brush to create a color stretch, i.e. smooth transition from lilac to pink. Longitudinal movements of the brush.
7. Now we draw the waves in the sea. Mix blue with white and draw small stripes (waves)
8. Continue drawing the waves. Mix purple with white and add waves. And now scarlet and white. Let's fill our sea with colorful waves.
9. Now let's color our swan. IN white paint add a drop of yellow. And we will paint the swan with this color.
10. Mix green with blue and draw reeds on the far bank. The brush moves upward from the water.
11. Let's draw the reflection of a swan in the water.
12.Now the green reeds that grow closer to us.
13. Add to green yellow paint and draw some more reed leaves.
14. Now the reeds themselves.
15. Let's draw the beak and eyes of the swan.
16. Now we begin to draw the wing.
17. Let's add more feathers.
18. Draw the second wing.
19. Let's draw a tail. If this is our Swan Princess, then we will draw a crown for her. So our Swan Princess is ready.
This lesson fell into the category of easy ones, which means that in theory it can be repeated by small child. Naturally, parents can also help young children draw a swan. And if you consider yourself a more advanced artist, then I can recommend the “” lesson - it will require more perseverance from you, although it will be no less interesting.
What you will need
In order to draw a swan we may need:
- Paper. It is better to take medium-grain special paper: beginning artists will find it much more pleasant to draw on this kind of paper.
- Sharpened pencils. I advise you to take several degrees of hardness, each should be used for different purposes.
- Eraser.
- Stick for rubbing hatching. You can use plain paper rolled into a cone. It will be easy for her to rub the shading, turning it into a monotonous color.
- A little patience.
- Good mood.
Step by step lesson
Swan and similar domestic animals are best drawn from life. This will help you understand all the anatomical nuances of the animal, its behavior and how to correctly make a stroke here or there. If it is not possible to be present with the animal, then be sure to look for photographs on the Internet - this will really help.
By the way, in addition to this lesson, I advise you to pay attention to the lesson “”. It will help improve your skill or just give you a little fun.
Simple drawings are created using contours. It will be enough for you to repeat what, and only what is shown in the lesson, to get an acceptable result, but if you want to achieve something more, then try to present that. What do you draw in the form of simple geometric bodies? Try to sketch not with contours, but with rectangles, triangles and circles. After some time, with constant use of this technology, you will see that drawing becomes easier.
Tip: create a sketch with as thin strokes as possible. The thicker the sketch strokes are, the more difficult it will be to erase them later.
The first step, or rather the zero step, is always to mark a sheet of paper. This will let you know where exactly the drawing will be located. If you place the drawing on half of the sheet, you can use the other half for another drawing. Here is an example of marking a sheet in the center:
Now you know how to draw a swan. If you put in the effort, I believe you will achieve everything you set your mind to. Now you can pay attention to the lesson “” - it is just as interesting and exciting. Share the lesson on social networks and show your results to your friends.
Swans are, of course, one of the most beautiful and graceful representatives of birds. Perhaps this is why most novice artists dream of understanding how to draw a swan. If you draw a swan well with a pencil, then you can create an attractive greeting card from the drawing, which will be an excellent gift for almost any occasion.
Before you draw a swan, you should definitely make sure that the following stationery supplies are at hand:
1). Liner;
2). Pencil;
3). An eraser;
4). Multi-colored pencils;
5). Paper.
Then you should move on to learning how to draw a swan with a pencil step by step:
1. Using light pencil strokes, outline the outline of the bird's head. Then draw a neck to the head, which is shaped like a question mark. Please note that the neck should not be too thick or thin; its width should almost coincide with the head;
2. Draw a wing and tail to the swan’s neck. The swan is a waterfowl, so use thin lines to indicate the water;
3. Draw a not too large beak to the head. Then draw an eye and a kind of “mask”, as if connecting the beak and the eye;
4. Draw feathers on the wing and tail of the bird;
5. Knowing how to draw a swan step by step using the most regular pencil, you can stop there. But still, if you finish the drawing by coloring it with colored pencils, it will ultimately look noticeably better. Therefore, first you need to outline the sketch of the swan with a black liner;
6. Using an eraser, carefully remove the pencil sketch;
7. Color the bird’s eye with a brown pencil, and the “mask” with black. Color the swan's beak burgundy and orange shades;
8. Lightly shade the swan’s feathers in places with a dark gray pencil;
9. Paint the water with blue and cyan shades.
The swan drawing is ready! An elegant swan drawn in stages will be an excellent motive for creating a bright and attractive greeting card. By the way, to color a sketch it is not at all necessary to use multi-colored pencils. After all, paints, for example, such widespread ones as watercolor or gouache, are also well suited for this purpose. You can also draw this beautiful bird using felt-tip pens, which always have bright and extremely saturated colors.
Our video tutorial "How to draw a swan"! Enjoy watching and see you at the next drawing lesson!
In this lesson we will draw with you the most beautiful, loyal and gentle bird in the world. People associate the swan bird with romance, beauty, purity, nobility and wisdom. And all this is because of their elegance and ability to fly and swim beautifully.
So let's start drawing beautiful swan:
Stage 1. Let's start drawing our beautiful swan by drawing the frame. Our auxiliary frame should consist of three auxiliary circles and one curved line. Draw the frame as shown below:
Stage 2. Let's start drawing the swan itself. First we need to draw its thin, delicate neck and beak of the swan. In the figure below, everything that needs to be drawn at this stage is highlighted in red.
Stage 4. Now we need to draw only the outlines of the wings of our beautiful swan, then in the next stages we will draw some small parts of the swan's wings. In the meantime, we are drawing two wings for our cute bird.
Stage 5. Draw a face for our swan. We draw the eyes and also draw its beak.
Stage 6. Perhaps the most difficult thing in our drawing is drawing some small elements of the swan’s body to make it more realistic. Everything that needs to be drawn at this stage is highlighted in red. Just look at the picture below and carefully draw these elements.
Stage 7. Now let's start drawing environment. We need to draw the water where our swan is located
Stage 8. And the final stage of our drawing will be coloring the resulting swan as follows:
