In this lesson we will introduce you to how to draw the sea with gouache step by step in pictures and with a description. Will be introduced step by step steps, with which you will learn to draw the sea with gouache, like this.
You can draw waves on the sea if you understand how the wave moves. First let's draw the background. Draw the horizon line just above the middle. Let's smoothly paint the sky from blue to white near the horizon. You can draw clouds or clouds as you wish.
To make the transition smoother, paint part of the sky with blue paint, part with white, and then use a wide brush to mix the paint at the border using horizontal strokes.
We will also paint the sea itself with blue and white paint. It is not necessary to apply strokes horizontally. There are waves at sea, so it is better to make strokes in different directions.
Now mix green paint with yellow and add a little white. Let's draw the base for the wave. In the picture below, the darker areas are wet paint, the gouache just didn’t have time to dry.
On the green stripe, use a hard brush with white paint to distribute the movement of the wave.
Please note that the left part of the wave has already fallen into the sea, next to it is the raised part of the wave. And so on. Under the fallen part of the wave we will make the shadows stronger. To do this, mix blue and purple paint.
Mix blue and white gouache on the palette and draw the next falling part of the wave. At the same time, we will strengthen the shadow under it with blue paint.
Let's outline the front wave with white gouache. 
Let's draw small waves between the big ones. Let's draw shadows under the near wave with blue paint.
Now you can draw the details. Spray foam with a brush along the entire length of the wave. To do this, take a hard bristle brush and white gouache. There should not be a lot of white gouache on the brushes and it should not be liquid. It is best to smear your finger with gouache and blot the tips of the brush, and then spray it in the area of the waves. It is better to practice on a separate sheet so that you can direct the splashes to a specific place. You can also use a toothbrush for these purposes, but the result may not justify the result, because... the splash area can be large. But if you succeed, then that's good. Don't forget, try the splashes on a separate sheet.
Many second graders as homework around the world around you, you are invited to test your creative abilities by drawing a drawing of “the sea in one of its outfits” on a white sheet of paper. As a hint, teacher junior classes offers poems to children famous poets, describing all the beauty of the vast sea latitudes, southern sunsets and blossoms, the precious shade of water and the unique foamy breeze. However, not every child manages to grasp the meaning of the task by mentally imagining the picture before his eyes, and then drawing it on a piece of paper. Difficulties arise in two cases. The first reason lies in the tendency to study basic subjects and lack of time for creativity. The second reason is “misunderstanding” (lack of understanding of what the sea is). After all, not every family can afford an expensive vacation to the Cote d'Azur... that is why in today's article we decided to give one more hint to children and their parents about drawing the sea in one of its outfits.
What does the sea look like in one of its outfits?
You can depict the sea with paints, colored pencils and even felt-tip pens in different ways. It all depends on how developed the child’s imagination is. The sea can change its outfits many times throughout the day. Therefore, there are no restrictions in creativity! The color scheme can vary from delicate to extremely deep and rich tones. Everything depends solely on the weather conveyed on the drawing sheet. For example, on a sunny day, calm prevails, so the shade of the water can be emerald, blue and even turquoise. During a storm it becomes dirty and even black. During sunset - burgundy, red and dark blue.
Do not restrict your child while coloring the picture. Allow him to use several shades at once. Let the drawing of the sea in one of his outfits become truly “elegant” and even a little unusual.
Looking at the photo below, one cannot help but notice that children often use classic solutions, including up to 4 color solutions: green, blue, white and light blue, as well as all their variations. But this absolutely does not mean that other colors cannot be used. Any shades are acceptable as long as they are combined with each other.
The sea in one of his outfits, drawing in the photo for 2nd grade:
Drawing based on poems by famous poets
To paint the sea in all its glory, just look at examples of work and read the author’s works.
How good you are, O night sea, -
It’s radiant here, gray-dark there...
IN moonlight as if alive
It walks and breathes and shines...
Based on this paragraph, you can get an idea of what the sea should look like. Just imagine, it’s night, the moon falls on the dark blue sea, forming a lunar path almost to the very shore. The stars are reflected on the water like fireflies, illuminating the mystery of sleeping nature. Beautiful, isn't it?!
- And here is the sea in one of his outfits, as presented by Yulia Viktorovna Dolganovsky.
Many seas turn blue on maps -
Children will open the atlases on their desks.
A sea of flowers blooming on the planet,
Colored seas exist in the world!
Even small children know that there is more than one sea in the world. And the most important thing is that the name is different. Red, white, black, yellow - only part of what can be conveyed in colors on a landscape sheet.
Photo examples of the sea in one of his outfits:
In this world it is quite difficult to imagine anything more romantic than a sailboat sailing alone on the waves towards the unknown. Of course, traveling by sea is romantic in itself, but a sailboat is simply the pinnacle of all romantic dreams.
We dream of sailboats with early childhood, reading Jack London, Vladislav Krapivin or Jules Verne. But even an adult can swim on a tiny sailing yacht definitely won't leave you indifferent. When a large real sailboat with several masts and a full set of direct and oblique sails appears on the horizon, it is simply breathtaking.
Long before the Titanic sailed sea bottom, people mostly moved on water on ordinary boards with sheets attached. The unique tradition of sending sheets into the sea has remained to this day, albeit as entertainment. Nevertheless, the topic is interesting, so in today's lesson you will see how to correctly draw a sailboat with a pencil. A sailboat is a watercraft that uses wind power to move. Brilliant and simply angry and cheap, but in complete calm it is extremely inconvenient.
The whole truth about life:
— A sailfish is also a fish that lived among ships for a long time and its upper fin simply mutated into a sheet.
— The best way The famous way to catch seasickness is to run backwards on the deck during a storm.
— Black labor appeared when the first ships sailed to the shores of Africa. There were real problems with the wind, but the ship still had to move. Therefore, the peoples of Africa were given oars and the meaning of life.
— A sailboat usually does not float on land, but when it does, we can expect a lot of casualties among civilians.
Drawing a sailboat is easier than building or buying, but it will still look beautiful.
In this master class, we will learn together how to draw the sea in gouache with a sailboat. So, the drawing technique is gouache.
Haven't held a brush in your hands since school? It doesn't mean anything at all. Gouache drawings are a great start for beginners.
Why this particular technique?
Gouache is the optimal material to start with.
First of all, it is very affordable and can be purchased virtually at every step (compared to acrylic or oil).
Secondly, the water base of this type of paint makes it possible to easily vary the thickness of the paint, the level of its application, as well as the formation of textures on the canvas.
Thirdly, the fact that gouache is a completely non-toxic paint is very important. Thus, gouache lessons are completely safe for children and people with certain diseases and various allergic reactions.
Fourthly, this paint quite flexibly combines some of the qualities of watercolor and, in some cases, even oil paints Therefore, painting with gouache will provide an opportunity to develop practical skills in other techniques.
The thick consistency of the paint allows you to layer different layers on top of each other, while painting light areas with darker ones or vice versa. This allows you to make many changes to the image before it dries. At the same time, it is also possible to blur the paint, diluting it with more transparent layers, which makes the drawing more realistic.
It is in connection with the important advantages described above that this lesson we will use gouache type paint.
Place the sheet of paper you are going to draw on vertically and divide it roughly in half. Top part let there be a little more leaf. Using a large brush, start painting the sky.
Use white gouache to draw a small moon. It is necessary to outline the border with bright yellow. You can also add a little orange.
While the gouache is still wet, add more dark color around the edges. To do this, simply mix black and blue paint on the palette.
Draw the outer edge of the clouds.
Mix blue, white and a little black paint. Add it to the clouds so that you get a very smooth transition from the light part near the moon.
From the inside of the picture, you should draw lighter clouds, since they reflect the light of the moon. While the paint is still wet, mixing colors is fairly easy. You can take a clean brush and use it to mix two colors in which you want to get an even and smooth transition.
For the stars, first mix some bluish paint on your palette and draw a small circle. When the paint is dry, use a thin brush to make a small dot of white paint.
Then you should carefully sketch out an image of a sailboat with a pencil.
We draw the sea with gouache step by step. The sea should first be painted over with uneven, long horizontal strokes, alternating dark blue, light blue and turquoise paint. In the foreground, paint a large wave with blue-green paint.
Continue drawing the sea. Use bright blue paint to paint small waves near the ship itself.
Use white gouache to paint highlights on the waves. Paint the sailboat with gouache. Please note that the sails should be drawn with a very smooth transition from blue to white, from left to right.
All that remains now is to paint small wings of foam on the waves, and also apply highlights of light with a thin brush. I sprayed the foam with gouache using a hard brush. First, it is better to practice on some piece of paper.
The result is a work like this - a sailboat sailing home through a mysterious moonlit night.
Drawing waves
We have already drawn the waves in the sailboat example, but we want you to look again step by step at how they are drawn.
Artists who paint the sea learn this throughout their lives. After all, it is not so easy to convey all the violence of the elements, the play of colors, the nature of the waves, the depth of shades. Therefore, the marine painter specializes only in working with paintings that convey the different states of the sea space. Before we move on to painting pictures with paints, let's look at the beach with a pencil step by step.
Basic outlines
The first step is to position the sheet vertically and draw a horizontal line approximately in the middle. She will separate sky and water.Then draw a shore line with a slight curvature on either side of the sheet, at your discretion. It should start near the horizon and move down to the opposite corner of the sheet. Next, it is important to imagine how to draw the beach and the sea, what will be on the shore, and what state the elements will be in. On the coast, closer to the middle line, you can draw the contours of stones or rocks. Behind the horizon at the edge of the sheet, draw a couple of small hills that are mountains in the distance. Label the sun at the top of the sheet. On land, which is a beach, draw the trunk of the future palm tree, slightly curved towards the sea. At the top of the tree, draw round coconuts and large spreading palm leaves. Next to the trees you can add a large open umbrella and a sun lounger spread out underneath it. Draw a small balloon circle near the water. Draw the outlines of cloud clusters and several seagulls soaring in the sky near the sun. At this stage we looked at how to draw the beach and the sea.
Shading
You need to draw small waves on the surface of the water. For this with a simple pencil Apply a few strokes to the sea surface. Shade the surface of the sea near the boulders, this will visually enliven the waves. Use an eraser to lightly rub rough edges to soften the pencil outline. The surface of the sea can also be smoothed by rubbing it with a finger or a piece of paper. These manipulations help you understand how to draw the beach and sea so that they look more realistic. Repeat the same steps with the coast - shade the surface and lightly rub it, creating the appearance of sand on the beach. Excess dark areas in the picture can be removed with an eraser. Rocks and mountains should be the darkest areas, so shade them with more pressure on the pencil and increased frequency of movements. On the clouds, draw faint shading, enough to visualize the movement of air. OnFor additional details in the drawing, apply strokes along the contour, creating shadow and depth of the object.
colorful picture
We looked at how to draw a beach and sea using a pencil. Next we will use gouache. In this case, the work is carried out without a pencil, but we will take the main contours of the previous drawing as a basis. We mark the horizon on paper and divide the celestial space into three parts. The top one will be blue, then pink will be applied and then yellow. Using a damp, washed brush, we blur the rough transition from one color to another. On the bottom half of the sheet we again create three lines of color, starting from the horizon - blue, sand, orange, creating the sea, the coastal area and the beach itself. Blur the transitions again without touching midline. Use white gouache to mark the clouds and paint over the top pink, bottom dark blue. Remembering our pencil drawing, we draw rocks using gouache brown tint. Draw the relief, shadows and blur them along the top edge. We emphasize the line of the beach area with orange gouache and use white to indicate the contours of the sea waves. Using thin strokes we set the direction of the waves. We apply foam along the edges of the waves and crests with white gouache. With strokes of blue color We emphasize the shadows.
This is how we learned how to draw the sea and the beach with gouache. If desired, you can add seagulls in the sky, and apply several large stones on the coast.
Only experienced artist. An artist who paints the sea is called a marine painter and paints different kinds and the state of the sea and learn this all your life. Painted pictures of the sea with paints, gouache or watercolors, and better with oil very accurately convey the entire range of shades and depth of color of the sea. The sunset on the sea looks especially beautiful in its colors. But let's start step by step draw the sea with a simple pencil.
Drawing the sea is not easy, especially with a simple pencil. Difficult to convey with a simple pencil sea waves, surf. With a pencil this can only be done using the stroke technique. You will need to constantly rub the strokes with your finger or a stiff eraser.
1. First, let's highlight the main contours of the sea
To begin, highlight the horizon and the main contours of the coastline of our composition. On the shore, immediately draw the outlines of the coastal stones. Then we will separate the horizon line of the sea and draw the line of the beach and draw the sun. You can also draw the outlines of small waves around the stones.
2. “Scatter” the sea waves over the pattern
Now we need to draw the initial outlines of the waves throughout the space allocated for the sea in our drawing. Make pencil strokes over the entire surface of the sea, but you should not do too many of them, otherwise the waves will not turn out large.
3. Shade the water surface with strokes of a soft pencil
At this stage we need to draw and shade with strokes the contours of the waves near the stones. To soften pencil marks, you can rub them with your finger or a hard eraser. The shaded part of the sea can also be rubbed with a piece of paper or your finger.
4. Sand on the coastline
Now we will pay attention to the sea coastline. In our picture there is a sandy shore by the sea, but you can draw another one. Just like the surface of the sea, the sand needs to be shaded with pencil strokes, lightly rubbing them. If necessary, you can remove excess blackness in some areas of the sea, again using an eraser. After this, you can “paint” the stones, heavily shading them, and draw small clouds.
5. How to draw the sea. Clouds
At this stage we will draw not the sea, but what is above it - the sky and clouds. If necessary, in some areas of the sea you can lightly erase the strokes vertically with an eraser, this will give the sea additional highlights. But first add some small clouds free form with faint strokes to emphasize the movement of air. Draw the sun, such a “trifle” always makes any drawing more attractive and realistic.
6. Drawing the sea on a graphics tablet
Now you know how draw the sea with a simple pencil and you can try to make another drawing and color it with paints, as in this color picture of the sea, which I made especially for this lesson on a graphics tablet.
Video on how to draw the sea.
Of course, the drawing of the sea will look much more beautiful if you can draw a sailboat in the distance. In this lesson you will learn how to draw both the sea and a sailing frigate.
Wandering the seas on sailing ships, pirates made caches of looted treasures, many of which were never found. Perhaps these treasures never existed. But not only were maps used by pirates to indicate the location of a treasure island at sea, they were used primarily for navigation.
If you decide to draw a picturesque seascape, draw dolphins. These sea animals will definitely turn out beautiful if you draw them step by step. Draw the outlines of the sea and dolphins with a simple pencil, and then color the entire drawing with paints.
The turtle lives in the sea and is probably the most ancient inhabitant of the seas. Over all the years of evolution, turtles only learned to go to land to lay eggs, but did not leave the sea forever, like other animals. In this lesson we will try to draw a turtle by the sea ourselves.
A mermaid is half fish, half human, so you need to draw the mermaid not only a tail, but also fish scales on it. Required condition For a picture of a mermaid there must be a body of water, because they live in a river or on the sea.