Master class on drawing for preschoolers of the senior preparatory group on the topic: “SPACE” step by step with photos
Sredina Olga Stanislavovna, teacher, head of the art studio of the MDOU TsRR d.s. No. 1 “Bear Cub”, Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk Region
Purpose:
Creation of educational, gift or competition work
Materials:
A3 white or colored double-sided paper, wax crayons, salt, gouache or black watercolor, soft brush No. 3-5
Goals:
Creation of works on a space theme
Tasks:
Education in various ways space images
Improving practical skills in using wax crayons and watercolors
Education of patriotism.
Developing curiosity
Preliminary work:
1 We look at photographs of cosmic depths.
2 We get acquainted with the history of astronautics, with the names and achievements of our outstanding cosmonauts. We remember the names: Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexey Leonov. The world's first cosmonaut, the first woman in space, the first person to walk in open space. We look at the photographs, talk about the difficulties and delights of the profession of space explorers. How did test pilots become astronauts? What kind of training did they undergo? Let's take a closer look at the first human spacewalk.
2 - Thinking about space, UFOs, aliens. We discuss films and cartoons. We think what kind of aliens they might be: good or evil?
3 - Literary living room:
Arkady Khait
Any of us can name all the planets in order:
One - Mercury, two - Venus, three - Earth, four - Mars.
Five is Jupiter, six is Saturn, seven is Uranus, followed by Neptune.
He is the eighth in a row. And after him, then,
And the ninth planet called Pluto.
V. Orlov
Flying in space
Steel ship around the Earth.
And even though its windows are small,
Everything is visible in them at a glance:
Steppe expanse, sea surf,
Or maybe you and me too!
Practical work No. 1: "Deep Space"
For drawing space landscape we will need stencils of circles of various diameters. You can use special rulers or various “improvised means”.
We draw several planets with wax crayons, placing them randomly on the plane of the sheet. You can use the technique of superimposing nearby planets on lower ones, or depict one of the planets only partially.
After creating the cosmic composition, crumple the sheet of paper, twisting it several times, and carefully straighten it
Coloring the planets. To prevent the planets from becoming like grandma’s balls of thread, we draw very carefully with crayons and do not go beyond the edges.
Before we start working in color, we remember what forests, mountains, deserts and oceans look like from space, and we think about whether all planets can look the same? Fiery and foggy, sandy, gaseous and icy - they can look absolutely fantastic. We come up with complex color combinations.
Cover the entire sheet with black watercolor. The paint, accumulating in the cracks, creates the mysterious depth of outer space.
Practical work No. 2: “Staying in outer space”
For this work we will need a figurine of an astronaut in a spacesuit, circles of various diameters and a silhouette of a rocket.
We place all the figures on the sheet in random order. We start with a rocket and an astronaut. Then we add the planets.
Inside the silhouettes we delimit planes. We add windows to the rocket and divide the spacesuit into separate parts. We begin to gradually color the rocket, the astronaut and the planets. In order to create a festive atmosphere, we take bright, rich colors.
Adding stars. We take yellow and white crayons. We place them in small groups, in the form of constellations, or line them up (like the Milky Way). Each star is a distant, distant sun around which planets can revolve and there can be life on them.
We take a brush and black paint (watercolor or gouache) and begin to paint over the entire work. First we draw lines along the edge of the sheet, then we work along the entire sheet.
While the paint is not dry, “salt” the drawing. In the place where a grain of salt fell, the paint seems to collect, and with the help of this space technical reception again becomes deep and mysterious.
Children's work (5-6 years old)
Drawing options
Flying saucers (UFOs) can be very diverse. Turning on our imagination, we imagine aircraft aliens.
Today we will teach you how to paint space in watercolors. This lesson is quite easy, which means that any beginning artist can master it. In addition, drawing space will also be useful for beginners who have not had time to master the “wet” and “graduated wash” techniques.
So, to draw space you will need:
- watercolor paper;
- tablet and masking/stationery tape (for fixing paper);
- simple pencil;
- round synthetic brushes No. 6 and 3;
- watercolor paints.
Drawing stages
Step 1. When working using the wet-on-wet technique, you must secure the watercolor sheet of paper on the tablet using strips of masking/stationery tape. Thanks to this, the paper soaked in water will not be deformed, and the applied watercolor shades will fall beautifully on each piece of the sheet.
Using a simple pencil, draw an uneven horizon line. 
Step 2. Wet the sheet of paper thoroughly with water using a large brush to the pencil line. After applying water, paint should be applied as quickly as possible in order to achieve smooth, beautiful shade transitions. In the lower right corner we apply a little lemon cadmium with chaotic strokes. 
We draw translucent ocher along the horizon line and the central part of the picture. 
Step 3. Saturate the drawing with cool shades. Apply ultramarine to the central and upper right part of the sketch. Above the ocher horizon we add a little turquoise tone, and in the upper left corner - blue. Using a clean brush, blend the boundaries of the shades, making them smooth. 
Step 4. Paint the upper corners of the sky with black. 
And we make the already applied shades more saturated, using the same shades of watercolor, but with less water. We mix all the clear boundaries of the shades to obtain a beautiful gradient. 
We process yellow borders with purple or violet-pink. 
Step 5. Let the drawing dry, and then fill the unpainted island with black. 
Using a thin brush we create the base of the trees, and then draw the small branches of the tops of the fir trees. 
Step 6. Now add a white tone to the brush and select the light areas in the center of the picture. We blur their edges to avoid a clear outline. 
Congratulations to everyone on the greatest event in history! This morning, August 6, 2012, the Curiosity rover reached its goal and landed in the area of Martian Gale Crater!
Introduction: Where are we from and why are we like this? People never stop developing. Human capabilities are becoming more perfect and flawless every day. Although our life expectancy is short, but with the help modern technologies children absorb new knowledge so quickly that it seems as if modern baby a real scientist compared to people who lived two hundred years ago. Don't believe me? I'll prove it. IN at the moment, You, my dear readers, are near your monitor and, surfing the Internet, looking for pencil drawing lessons, right? But to get them you use a lot of knowledge and skills that are not available to the common man earlier, for example:
- Quick typing of characters on the keyboard
- Using search engines
- Using key combinations, sets of codes, ciphers
- Even a simple VKontakte registration will require knowledge of a certain algorithm.
Still not sure? But you have much more knowledge today, at this particular moment, than advanced programmers had 30 years ago! And you try to explain to your grandfather, who never used a computer, that it is possible, without leaving your home on Google Maps, to see Paris from a bird's eye view, or even better, to make virtual walk along the city streets. And such an opportunity has long become commonplace for us! Let me return to my question. Who are we? Why can’t my cat know how to type on a keyboard, even though he lives with us? We are different. Perhaps not even from this planet, not from this galaxy. Unsuccessful attempts to find out this here on Earth no longer leave hope. That is why the most brainy people on our planet are trying so hard to explore the vastness of space. I'm sure there's an answer there. Let's just wish them success! Let's get back to drawing.
How to draw space with a pencil step by step
Step one. Draw a round shape for the planet and the outline of the landscape. 
Step two. Let's correct the contours of the planet and its satellite. In the foreground we draw two men, these are astronauts sent to the moon. 
Step three. Let's add some touches. 
Step four. Let's draw a starry sky. Or more precisely, it is outer space. In the middle of the lunar landscape we will draw several craters. 
Step five. All that's left to do is add some shadows. The result was this picture of space: 
I hope that scientists will still be able to find life on this planet. And in the near future, we will make flights to Mars not as scientific expeditions, but as if it were a vacation package, like Korben Dallas in the film The Fifth Element. See the continuation of this lesson.
"Every atom of our body
was once a star."
Vincent Freeman
A week ago on our creative Instagram @miftvorchestvo we launched a competition for the best completion of the task from the notebook “642 ideas on what to draw”. The task sounded simple - space. A lot of creative and creative works. You can see them all by tag. We publish best works and give step-by-step master class how to learn to draw space.
Best works for competition #642ideicosmos
“If you can’t fly into space, make it come to you.” Author of the photo - @al.ex_kv.
“And when darkness sleeps beside you, And the morning is far away, I wanna hold your hand and guide you...” Parov Stelar ft. Lilja Bloom - Shine. Photo by @julia_owlie.
Are they really cool? 🙂
Step-by-step master class
If you did not participate in the competition, but also want to learn how to draw space, save these somewhere step by step instructions, what and how to do so that it turns out bright and beautiful.
1. In order to draw the Universe, only 3-4 colors are enough. At least that's the amount you can start with. Important: The sheet for watercolors must be very dense so that it does not wrinkle from water and so that the paint spreads beautifully and evenly.
2. The outline can be drawn solid with a simple pencil to designate the area that you will wet with water. Wet part of the allocated space.
3. Apply paint to the wetted area. Try to make the contours beautiful.
4. Wet the rest of the space with water and apply a different color of paint. Selectively add bright pops of color throughout the design. The drawing must be wet so that the paint spreads beautifully.
5. Once the design is completely dry, apply the stars. This can be done white or yellow paint using an old toothbrush.
6. Some stars could be drawn more carefully.
Photo for the master class from the site kitty-ink.tumblr.com.
If you sprinkle salt on a wet drawing, the structure of space will turn out even more interesting. The salt will absorb some of the paint, and if you shake it off after it has completely dried, there will be beautiful white dots and clouds in place of the salt.
On our creative Instagram @miftvorchestvo we will regularly hold competitions on notebooks “642 ideas, what to draw”, “642 ideas, what to write about” and “642 ideas, what else to write about” (new!). Subscribe to keep up to date with everything creative, interesting and creatively fun.
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There is no doubt that any person, thinking, so to speak, about the eternal, imagines the depths of space with its unexplored expanses and tries to express his feelings in the form of a painting or drawing. Let's see how to draw space using various tools and techniques.
What do we associate outer space with?
The primary association of outer space, even on a subconscious level, for any person is reduced to infinity, although not everyone imagines what it is.
If you approach the question of how to draw space step by step, you should pay attention to some elements that are most often depicted in paintings. First, a spatial structure is created. These can be galaxies or nebulae with rarefied gas, then stars visible to the naked eye or through modern telescopes are included here.
Only then can we assume the presence of a planetary system, although in most cases the question of how to draw space comes down to depicting objects known to us in solar system, because we do not know what the surfaces of planets in other star systems look like (the nearest distance is 4 light years - Proxima of the Centaurus constellation).
And, naturally, to depict his view of what might be there, even a novice artist uses completely different tools that best suit his imagination.
If you look at all the drawings and paintings, you will notice that most often they depict stars (constellations), nebulae, galaxies and planetary systems.
In the first, second and third cases, the question of how to draw space is solved quite simply. On any dark background (even black or gray), inclusions are applied in the form of stars, varying in size and light activity. This is the easiest way.
As for nebulae, they often appear colored not only in the ultraviolet or infrared spectrum, but also in the visible to the human eye range. It is from this perspective that it is worth considering the question of how to paint space in watercolors. It is best suited for this due to the fact that when mixed with water, you can get smooth shades and transitions that are inaccessible to, say, gouache or oil paints. But more on that a little later.
How to get inspiration?
If you’re really thinking about how to draw space, or rather, get some kind of charge that can give impetus to an outburst of emotions, first you should just look at the night sky in clear weather.
Alas, in our hemisphere the sky looks only like darkness interspersed with stars. Another thing is the Southern Hemisphere, where the Milky Way (that’s the name of our galaxy) looks in all its glory.
On the other hand, music is quite a powerful tool for activating thoughts. If previously so-called space music was associated with bands like Space or Zodiac, today it is enough to listen to compositions in the Ambient, Chillout or Downtempo style, which use complex sound effects.
How to paint space with paints?
Now about the colors. Based on the above, the most decisive question will be how to paint space in watercolors.
Here it is worth paying attention to the colors themselves. First you need to apply a dark background to the sheet, let the paint and paper dry a little, and then dilute the depth by adding water as usual. You understand that outer space cannot be equally dark.
After this, you can begin drawing images of galaxies or planets. By the way, it is with the help of watercolors that it is best to depict colored gas nebulae. But you can specify some elements using additional means in the form of gouache or oil.
How to draw space with a pencil?
With pencils the situation is somewhat worse. The fact is that it will not be possible to achieve the blurriness inherent in space.
Here it is better to use vertical, horizontal or oblique shading with a long stylus. In addition, even drawing some global elements requires knowledge of additional effects.
Additional effects
In the case of paints, everything is clear. Regular dilution with water gives a fairly powerful effect. But few people know what else is in Soviet times a method was invented to obtain smooth transitions when drawing with a pencil.
You just need to grind off the lead a little onto a separate piece of paper, then take the powder and smear it over the image on the paper. The effect is simply amazing. By the way, this applies not only to simple pencils, but also to colored pencils. This is called retouching.
Separately, it is worth noting that when it comes to the question of how to draw space, some authors of paintings do not limit themselves only to using standard means. For example, adding sparkles to symbolize stars is quite a hot topic.
Which is better to use?
Now a few words about what is better: a computer program or hand drawing? Both. Of course, applications for creating and processing graphics have their own quite powerful capabilities, but many people first record their flight of thoughts on paper, after which they scan the drawing and convert it into the desired format.
However, programs like Adobe Photoshop or the same package Corel Draw They suggest using complex gradient fills as templates, which are simply not possible to achieve with regular drawing.
Based on this, we can simply advise you to initially make a sketch of the future drawing or painting, and only then decide whether it should be processed in a computer program or left unchanged. In principle, both options are acceptable. Although the solution to the question of how to paint space in the usual way seems preferable.
It’s another matter if the artist does not want to digitize the painting. This is understandable, because a sheet of paper or canvas looks natural. Unlike computer images, when viewing, you can touch the painting and see the paint application technique used by the author of this or that masterpiece.