The Great Patriotic War is a page in our history that cannot be ignored. For a peaceful sky, for bread on the table, we are indebted to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who, without sparing their lives, fought against a fierce enemy for the sake of a happy future for their children.
As a sign eternal memory and respect in our country it is customary to give veterans flowers and themed cards made by small children's hands. Such masterpieces are worth more than any awards, because they testify that even children know and are proud of the exploits of their ancestors. Today we will tell you how and what kind of drawings for children about war you can draw 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 step by step for children with a pencil.
Example 1
Boys always associate war with military equipment and aviation. Tanks, helicopters, airplanes, various weapons - these are all achievements of scientific progress, without which victory would have come at an even greater cost to us. Therefore, we will begin our first lesson, dedicated to drawings about the war (1941-1945) for children, with detailed description how to draw a tank step by step.
First of all, let's prepare everything you need: pencils 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, we have prepared separate drawings for them that can be used as a greeting card:
As you can see, draw these simple pictures It’s not at all difficult for a child to talk about war, the main thing is to show a little imagination and patience.
World War II(September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945) - the war of two world military-political coalitions, which became the largest war in human history. 61 states out of 73 existing at that time participated in it (80% of the population globe). The fighting took place on the territory of three continents and in the waters of four oceans. This is the only conflict in which nuclear weapons were used.
At the top: 1941. Belarus, a German reporter eats a cucumber offered by a peasant woman
1941. Artillerymen of the 2nd battery of the 833rd heavy artillery battalion of the Wehrmacht are preparing to fire a 600-mm self-propelled mortar “Karl” (Karl Gerät 040 Nr.III “Odin”) in the Brest area.
1941. Battle of Moscow. Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism or LVZ (638 Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment)
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers dressed for the weather during battle
1941. Battle of Moscow. German soldiers captured Russian prisoners of war in a trench
1941. Waffen-SS
1941. Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili among prisoners of war during the battle for Smolensk
1941. Leningrad, Colonel General Erich Hoepner and Major General Franz Landgraf
1941. Minsk, German soldiers in an occupied city
1941. Murmansk, Mountain Riflemen made a stop along the way
1941. German artillerymen inspect the remains of the heavy artillery tractor “Voroshilovets”
1941. German prisoners of war guarded by Russian soldiers
1941. German soldiers in position. Behind them in the ditch are Russian prisoners of war.
1941. Odessa, Romanian soldiers inspect captured property of the Soviet army
1941. Novgorod, awarding of German soldiers
1941. Russian soldiers inspect trophies taken from the Germans and discover potatoes in a gas mask case
1941. Red Army soldiers studying war trophies
1941. Sonderkraftfahrzeug 10 tractor and soldiers of the Reich SS division drive through the village
1941. Ukraine, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks with peasants
1941. Ukraine, column of Russian prisoners of war including women
1941. Ukraine, Soviet prisoner of war before execution on charges of being an agent of the GPU
1941. Two Russian prisoners of war talk with German soldiers from the Waffen-SS
1941.Moscow, Germans in the vicinity of the city
1941.German traffic controllers
1941.Ukraine, a German soldier accepts an offered glass of milk
1942. Two German sentries on the Eastern Front
1942. Leningrad region, a column of German prisoners of war in a besieged city
1942. Leningrad region, German troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city
1942. Leningrad region, one of the first Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger
1942. German troops cross the Don
1942. German soldiers clear the road after a snowfall
1942. Pechory, German officers are photographed with clergy
1942. Russia, corporal checks documents of peasant women
1942. Russia, a German gives a cigarette to a Russian prisoner of war
1942. Russia, German soldiers leave a burning village
1942. Stalingrad, the remains of a German He-111 bomber among the city ruins
1942. Terek Cossacks from self-defense units.
1942. Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolke of the 561st Wehrmacht Brigade with the crew on his Marder II self-propelled gun, the next day he received the German Cross in gold and the Honor Buckle
1942. Leningrad region
1942. Leningrad region, Volkhov Front, a German gives a piece of bread to a child
1942. Stalingrad, a German soldier cleans a K98 Mauser during a break between battles
1943. Belgorod region, German soldiers talk with women and children
1943. Belgorod region, Russian prisoners of war
1943. Peasant woman talks Soviet intelligence officers about the location of enemy units. North of the city of Orel
1943. German soldiers have just caught a Soviet soldier
1943. Russia, two German prisoners of war
1943. Russian Cossacks in the Wehrmacht during a blessing (priests in the foreground)
1943. Sappers neutralize German anti-tank mines
1943. Snipers of the unit of senior lieutenant F.D. Lunina fire volleys at enemy aircraft
1943. Stalingrad, a column of German prisoners of war on the edge of the city
1943. Stalingrad, column of German, Romanian and Italian prisoners of war
1943. Stalingrad, German prisoners of war pass by a woman with empty buckets. There will be no luck.
1943. Stalingrad, captured German officers
1943. Ukraine, Znamenka, the driver of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger looks out of the car hatch at a tank stuck in the mud on the river bank
1943.Stalingrad, city center on the day of the surrender of German troops
1944. Commander of the 4th Air Command, Luftwaffe Colonel General Otto Desloch and commander of II./StG2, Major Dr. Maxsimilian Otte (shortly before his death)
1944. Crimea, capture of German soldiers by Soviet sailors
1944. Leningrad region, column of German troops
1944. Leningrad region, German prisoners of war
1944. Moscow. Passage of 57,000 German prisoners of war on the streets of the capital.
1944. Lunch of captured German officers in Krasnogorsk special camp No. 27
1944. Romania. German units evacuated from Crimea
1945. Poland, a column of German prisoners of war crosses the bridge over the Oder towards Ukraine
No date. Two Soviet partisans inspect a captured German MG-34 machine gun
No date. German soldiers clean their personal weapons. One of the soldiers has a captured Soviet PPSh submachine gun
No date. German court martial
No date. The Germans are taking away livestock from the population.
No date. A Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer poses with a bottle while sitting on the head of a bust of I.V. Stalin
From the title it is already clear what we will talk about. We will study how to draw war with a pencil step by step. It won't be star wars and Darth Vader and not even a shooter game, but a real war! Three soldiers in a trench, with piles of military equipment. In order to draw all this, you will need a lot of knowledge about military affairs. You can, of course, sit down to play WoT, but in the end you won’t draw anything. Who doesn’t know this is such a super action game with the participation of tanks, which has gathered a huge number of gamers in our country. By the way, the yellow-faced Chinese are no less interested in this. It seems that half of their population goes in for 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 an LCD monitor for two years now, while at the same time managing to stain the gaming mouse with greasy fingers from dinner and pour coffee on the keyboard... let’s all say “Thank you” to Wargaming! Although God bless him. Now let's take a break from tanks and try to draw military actions with the participation of real ones. There are five steps ahead.
How to draw a war with a pencil step by step
Step one First, let's outline the people in motion. Head, position of the torso, 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 outlines. 
Step three Let's dress our fighters: helmet, pants, boots. Let's equip one of them with a bag. Let’s draw the face profile of the one closest to us. We will surround the fence with barbed wire. 
Step Four Let's add details: barbs on the wire, belts on people's clothes, a spatula, etc. 
Step five Let's do the shading. There are darker areas on the clothing at the folds. Let's darken the areas on the pillars. Well, here are the soldiers against the backdrop of a military and completely unpicturesque landscape. 
See similar military equipment drawing lessons.
In this lesson we will look at how to draw the Great Patriotic War (WWII) of 1941-1945 with a pencil step by step. This is the war of the USSR against Germany and its allies. The Second One World War began on September 1, 1939, if you are interested in how it all began and what were the prerequisites for development, then read the article on Wikipedia. But let's start drawing.
Draw a horizon - a horizontal line, it is located approximately 1/3 of the top of the sheet. Draw a country road below and place three soldiers, the further away, the smaller the scale. Click on the picture to enlarge.
We draw houses and hills on the horizon, then the farthest soldier, he should not be big. Click on the image to see the details.
We draw the second one with a weapon behind a hillock, its head and body are slightly larger than the previous one, about 1.5 times.
Draw a soldier with a weapon in the foreground.
Apply dark areas on the bodies of the soldiers and on the weapons, draw a little grass.
Use strokes to define the grass, slopes and field.
Now, using a lighter tone, we imitate the smoke from the fires, we shade the steppe part, and in the foreground we highlight the bumpiness of the hillock and trench. This is how you can draw it.
One of the most exciting pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War was and remains the topic of wartime childhood. Children and teenagers worked on an equal basis with adults at enterprises and on collective farms, volunteered for the front and became children of regiments, donated their savings to the USSR Defense Fund 1 and joined partisan detachments. And on the pages of newspapers, children tried to keep up with adults: for example, to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda", as well as a number of other publications for children and youth that continued their work during the war years, children sent drawings, poems about the war and even caricatures in German soldier. Among the letters and drawings there are both childishly naive ones (see document No. 2) and letters from schoolchildren who tried to write and draw “like an adult.” In particular, the guys mastered caricatures of the enemy - a satirical genre, primarily characteristic of “adult” Soviet newspapers.
One of the most popular newspapers among schoolchildren was "Pionerskaya Pravda" - the printed organ of the Central and Moscow Komsomol Committees. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War The structure of the newspaper was rebuilt taking into account wartime. Since June 1941, several special wartime columns appeared on the pages of “Pionerskaya Pravda”: “From the Soviet Information Bureau”, “Pionerskaya Piggy Bank of Scrap Metal”, etc. The satirical column “On the Bayonet” published stories, feuilletons, poems, caricatures of newspaper workers And famous writers both poets and readers. We publish several children's cartoons and letters to them below.
Drawings - children's weapons
Students tried to participate in activities to the best of their ability. pioneer newspaper. Among the drawings you can find both not very skillful and quite professional ones. One of the basic principles has passed from the “adult” genre of caricatures to children’s caricatures, which also vary in execution technique – the depiction of an enemy with animalistic features, more like an animal than a person. Soviet soldiers and nurses in children's drawings were examples of heroism and selfless service to the Motherland.
In addition, schoolchildren responded vividly to stories about the exploits of Komsomol war heroes. Thus, the drawing by V. Arkhipovsky “The Death of “Tanya”” obviously depicts the execution of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who was captured by the Germans while performing a combat mission in the village of Petrishchevo. During interrogation, she introduced herself as Tanya, and for the first time they learned about her feat from the article “Tanya” by Pyotr Lidov, published in the newspaper Pravda on January 27, 1942.
The children's cartoons and drawings about the war published below are part of a set of documents collected in wartime for exhibiting at the exhibition "Komsomol in the Patriotic War" at the State historical museum(GIM).
Exhibitions about heroism
At a meeting of the Secretariat of the Komsomol Central Committee on May 2, 1942, an official decision was made to organize an exhibition 2 that would highlight the heroism of Komsomol members and youth in the fight against the enemy at the front and in the rear. Initially, the opening of the exhibition was scheduled for the anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War - June 22, 1942. In reality, the first exhibition was launched in 1943 at the State Historical Museum. About 40 artists and sculptors took part in the design of the exhibition. In 1944, the Central Committee of the Komsomol decided that the exhibition should display materials not only about the Komsomol, but also about Soviet youth in general; in connection with this, the exhibition became known as “Komsomol and Youth in the Patriotic War.”
In January 1949, the exhibition “Komsomol and Youth in the Patriotic War” was included in the exhibition prepared for the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol (November 1948). In September 1949, this exhibition was named "Lenin-Stalin Komsomol". In July 1953, the exhibition was closed. Material exhibits of the exhibition were mainly transferred to Moscow museums - Historical, Revolution, Soviet army. Documents and some material relics were transferred to the archives of the Komsomol Central Committee. Later, the archive and museum collection of the Komsomol Central Committee was replenished with materials received from participants in the events and their relatives. Currently, the complex of exhibition documents is compiled by the M-7 fund "Documents of the exhibition of the Central Committee of the Komsomol "Lenin-Stalin Komsomol" (1942-1953)" RGASPI. Some materials from the exhibition are also included in fund N M-14 "Museum materials on the history of the youth movement in the USSR and Russia."
Published documents are stored in the M-7 fund of the RGASPI and are reproduced while maintaining spelling, punctuation and stylistic features texts.
The publication was prepared by the chief specialist of the department of scientific information work and scientific reference apparatus of the RGASPI Natalia Volkhonskaya.
Document No. 1.
Letter and cartoons by Oleg Tikhonov sent to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda"
Dear editors!
I am sending you two of my cartoons and asking you to write what is wrong with them (in the text). I live next to S. Sofronov, who sent you the cartoons. He is my friend. I lived in Moscow before and was at your editorial office of Pionerskaya Pravda, I don’t remember what year, but I only remember that I was there when the play “Gorky’s Childhood” was read. There were guys from the class in which I studied, namely: Yulia Rogova, Lenya Novobytov, Galya Osokina and me.
I would love to stay in Moscow, but circumstances were such that I had to go with my dad to Kirov, where I am now.
I am 16 years old, I live on Karl Marx Street, house 8, apt. 9. Oleg Tikhonov. I'll send you another cartoon soon.
Greetings - Oleg.
RGASPI. F. M-7. Op. 1. D. 3545. L. 1-3.
Document No. 2.
A letter from Valya Razbezhkina for an artilleryman with congratulations on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army, sent to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda"
[February 1943]
Dear fighter!
I congratulate you on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army and wish you to quickly defeat these bastards and so that no ashes remain of them. I wish you to shoot down more fascist planes and use the fire of your cannons to destroy all the tanks that are moving towards us in our beloved homeland. Slam and slam the German invaders. I am a student of Energy School No. 9. I ask you to quickly defeat the enemy and come to our school. I shake your hand firmly and wish you a quick victory. From Razbezhkina Valya.
Dear fighter
Congratulations on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army. To the best artilleryman of your unit, I ask you to accept my modest gift.
Ufa st. Volodarsky N 2
RUE N 9 1 [uch] 30 groups
Razbezhkina Valya.
RGASPI. F. M-7. Op. 1. D. 3545. L. 7-7v.
1. "Defense Fund" - a special fund that received voluntary donations from citizens and organizations of the USSR for the needs of the front during the Great Patriotic War. Materials on donations from Soviet and foreign citizens and institutions to the USSR Defense Fund (1942-1946) are stored in RGASPI (F. 628).
2. RGASPI. F. M-1. Op. 18. D. 1558. Personal file of Isaac-Alexander Moiseevich Yezersky. L. 14.
3. MJD - International Youth Day - international holiday youth (1915-1945). Established by the decision of the Berne International Socialist Youth Conference in 1915 in order to mobilize youth to fight for peace. In 1916-1931. was celebrated on the first Sunday in September, and since 1932 - on September 1.
