Many artists like to paint nature. The world of animals and plants in their paintings appears picturesque and causes admiration. To learn how to draw nature, you need to observe it and see its beauty. You can start with the image of a bird's nest. To do this, you need to understand the steps how to get such a picture.
What is needed for this?
You can draw a bird’s nest without preparation, without any special artistic skills. Even a child can master the technique of his image.
To sketch the nest you need to take:
- paper;
- a simple pencil;
- eraser.
In the future, the sketch can be painted. How to draw a nest multi-colored? Take pencils, felt-tip pens, gouache, watercolors or dry pastels.
You can get an excellent monochrome sketch, if you refuse to paint. Then you need to carefully work out the shadows. To do this, use simple pencils of different hardness. Contours make hard stylus, shadows soft.
Draw a sketch with a pencil
Before embarking on a nest, look at a few paintings by artists. Photos will also help to understand the drawing technique. Ideally, you can find a real nest on a tree and carefully examine it.
Buildings for breeding in different birds are different. Usually this is a small cup-shaped structure made of branches.
Now we take art supplies and proceed to the lesson. How to draw a nest in stages:
- Draw an elongated oval in a horizontal position.
- At the bottom of the circle, make hatching using short vertical lines. Above them, draw alternating light and dark horizontal stripes.
- Draw short strokes at the top of the nest. Branches and straws can be located slightly chaotically, but only along the drawn oval.
How to get a finished drawing?
Together with twigs and straw, other building materials may be in the nest. This is green grass, leaves, flowers. You can add bird feathers to the composition. The main attribute of the nest is eggs. You can depict hatched chicks and their parents.
How to draw a nest on a tree? It is necessary to depict the trunk and branch. Draw a vertical straight line and a wide line. Add a branch extending to the side of the tree trunk. On it you need to place a nest. The background will be a blue sky.
There is another interesting idea. In the nest, you can depict Easter eggs. You will get an original postcard with a symbol of the spring holiday.