Today we will tell you what drawings on the theme of war you can draw for the holiday “Victory Day”. This great holiday informs us that in 1945 we won a victory over Nazi Germany. The 1941 war was the worst and claimed many lives. Now, celebrating this holiday, we pay tribute to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers for their victory!
If you want to draw drawing on the theme of the Great Patriotic War, then we will help you with this! Here are the options for themes for drawing war:
1. Battlefield (tanks, planes, military);
2. In the trench (a military man shoots from a trench, a doctor bandages a wound in a trench);
3. Portrait of a military man or full-length;
4. The return of a soldier from the war.
Topic: Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) drawings
Here is a lesson on this topic that we have prepared for you. It shows a fight between two soldiers on the battlefield. This drawing is quite simple to make; you can color it with pencils, paints or any other way.
We have also prepared pictures for you to draw. There is children's drawing on the theme of war and several examples of pictures on the same topic. You can simply sit in front of your computer and draw any of these pictures with a pencil.
And also here are some variants of drawings on the theme of war, drawn with a pencil or pen.
Children's drawing on the theme of war
We have developed several step-by-step lessons especially for beginning artists. How to learn to draw a tank, a military plane or a rocket with a pencil - this is what you can learn, and if you come up with a drawing theme and combine several of our lessons into one, you will get a complete drawing on the theme of the Great Patriotic War!
2 variants of St. George ribbons
And here are 2 options for tanks for your drawing. It’s difficult to draw them, but it’s possible with the help of our lessons.
We draw various military equipment: airplane, helicopter, rocket. All the lessons below will help even a novice artist draw a picture on the theme of the Great Patriotic War.
Drawing on the theme of Victory
If you need to draw a greeting card, then here are lessons on drawing a card with a pencil (everything is explained step by step). The cards depict symbols of victory, and the inscriptions “Happy Victory Day!” are beautifully executed.
On the card you will draw a beautiful number 9, congratulatory inscriptions, stars and ribbons.
And here is a drawing of a military order, a St. George ribbon and an inscription for Victory Day.
Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. known to everyone.
Songs are written about them, and many memorials are dedicated to them. However, few people remember that many children died during the war.
And those who survived began to be called “children of war.”
1941-1945 through the eyes of children
In those distant years, the kids lost the most precious thing in their lives - a carefree childhood. Many of them had to stand at the machines at the factory, like adults, and work in the fields to feed their families. Many children of war are real heroes. They helped the military, went on reconnaissance missions, collected guns on the battlefield, and took care of the wounded. A huge role in the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. belongs specifically to children and teenagers who did not spare their lives.
Unfortunately, it is now difficult to say how many children died then, because humanity does not know the exact number of deaths, even among the military. Children-heroes went through the siege of Leningrad, survived the presence of fascists in the cities, regular bombings, and famine. Many trials befell the children of those years, sometimes even the death of their parents before their eyes. Today these people are over 70 years old, but they can still tell a lot about those years when they had to fight the Nazis. And although at parades. Dedicated to the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. They honor mainly the military; we should not forget the children who bore on their shoulders the hunger and cold of a terrible time.
Related materials
Pictures and photos on the topic “Children of War” will help tell you what war looks like through the eyes of these people.
Many photographs known to modern children mainly show heroes who fought for the liberation of our land and took part in battles. On our website we offer pictures, drawings and photos on the topic “Children of War”. Based on them, you can create presentations for schoolchildren about how children, together with the military, achieved victory in the fight against the Nazis.
Children should pay attention to the life, clothing, and appearance of children of that time. Most often, photos show them wrapped in downy scarves, dressed in overcoats or sheepskin coats, and wearing hats with earflaps.
However, perhaps the most terrible are the photos of children in concentration camps. These are real heroes whom time has forced to endure unforgettable horrors.
It is worth including such photos in presentations for older children, since children are still too impressionable, and such a story can negatively affect their psyche.
The war through the eyes of those guys looked like something terrible and incomprehensible, but we had to live with it every day. It was a longing for their murdered parents, about whose fate the children sometimes knew nothing. Now children who lived at that time and have survived to this day remember, first of all, hunger, a tired mother who worked for two at the factory and at home, schools where children of different ages studied in the same class, and they had to write on scraps of newspapers. All this is a reality that is difficult to forget.
Heroes
After the lesson and presentation, modern children can be given a task, timed to coincide with Victory Day or another military holiday, to create color drawings depicting children of war. Subsequently, the best drawings can be hung on a stand and photos and illustrations of modern guys can be compared as they imagine those years.
The heroes who fought against fascism today remember the cruelty that the Germans showed against children. They separated them from their mothers and sent them to concentration camps. After the war, these kids, having grown up, tried for years to find their parents, and sometimes they found them. What a meeting it was, filled with joy and tears! But some still cannot find out what happened to their parents. This pain is no less than that of parents who have lost their babies.
Vintage photographs and drawings are not silent about those terrible days. And the modern generation must remember what they owe to their grandparents. Teachers and kindergarten teachers should tell children about this, without hushing up the facts of bygone years. The better young people remember the exploits of their ancestors, the more they themselves are capable of exploits for the sake of their own descendants.
Time passes, years, centuries, the events and experiences of the terrible war days go further and further. But they are not forgotten, so each new generation draws their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers on sheets of paper, trying to capture the feat they accomplished. How to draw a war so that it does not look like a heartless drawing that will be forgotten over time, but so that it is remembered and deposited in the soul and heart of every person?
Drawing on a military theme
Before discussing the topic “war”, you should decide on several parameters. In your mind you need to imagine what the drawing will look like, what will be depicted on it.
Will it be a separate character or part of a military action? Maybe it will be an image of some kind of military equipment in the ruins of a city, or a plane in a blazing sky, or a nurse in a hospital, or an old woman looking out the window with the hope of the return of her son or husband. The main thing is that it comes from the heart. Then the image will come out with soul. No person can remain indifferent when thinking about the past and picturing war. A piece of paper conveys the state of war, the hostility towards it and the destructive consequences it leaves behind.
Color and paints of military drawing
Each person who undertakes to draw on a military theme sees his future drawing in his own color. The palette of war is multifaceted. It can also be in black tones - a sign of mourning, horror and loss. Maybe in red colors - a symbol of spilled blood, rage and cruelty. Also, the drawing can be “colorless gray”, this is the color the desperate people who lived in those years saw the war. The image may be bright, vibrant (in the color of hope). How to draw a war, in what color or in many shades? Everyone decides for themselves.
An example of a drawing about the war in pencil step by step
In order to complete the drawing, we will need: paper, pencil and thoughts about what will be depicted. So, how to draw a war with a pencil step by step, if you decide to depict some kind of battle scene, with a crowd of people, equipment, and so on? First, mark all the main lines of the drawing with very light strokes, so that if necessary, you can correct this without harm to the picture. When drawing a building, draw its main part (roof, walls), then indicate details, for example, a hole in the wall where a bomb fell, or part of a collapsed staircase. What if you decide to draw several soldiers on the battlefield? In this case, you should start from the farthest. In the figure it should be the smallest in size, and all the rest should gradually increase.
When displaying various equipment, be it an airplane, a tank or a ship, you need to start in the same way as with various buildings, first drawing the base, and then gradually adding reality, color or historical nuances to them. Also, in order for your characters, equipment and buildings to look as realistic as possible, you should turn to literary sources. Look through photographs of those years, find out, for example, what uniform the soldiers had, what tanks and planes they had, how they differed from each other, and pay attention to this in the picture. With the help of books and various illustrations, you can easily understand how to draw a war or various military actions.
Great Patriotic War on a sheet of paper
How to draw the Patriotic War on a piece of paper? The Great Patriotic War is often called the “war of engines.” Indeed, at that time, motorized equipment began to operate in the arsenal of the Soviet troops. Particularly noteworthy is the appearance of tanks. In this regard, the idea of what war looks like has also changed. Tanks began to appear in the drawings against various backgrounds. It could be a tank in an abandoned city or on a battlefield, or a separate element of an entire picture. Enemy tanks are drawn separately, they certainly contain various elements of nationality (for example, a swastika).
In films about the Great Patriotic War, you can also see Soviet soldiers with machine guns, Shpagin pistols (PPSh), and fascists with angular MPs. Also, heavy and heavy-duty installations of the Baltic Fleet took part in the Great Patriotic War. They can also often be found in drawings. Taking all this into account, the Great Patriotic War is often depicted on a sheet of paper with drawings of various types of equipment and weapons.
Life without war, but with the memory of its heroes
How to paint war with light colors? It is possible to depict this event without using dark and terrifying colors. The image of a soldier returning home, or an already gray-haired veteran and his family, can also be attributed to the military theme of the drawing. The purpose of a film about war is, first of all, the memory of those terrible events and one of the ways of warning for the future. Therefore, all drawings about the war are of enormous significance, and the younger generation learns the history of their country from these subjects.
So today, continuing the military theme and ignoring all sorts of fantasy and the like, you and I will draw a really cool dude with a sniper rifle. In anticipation, I’ll tell you a little about snipers: So, a sniper is a specially trained dude who will give odds to any eagle eye, since, aiming at a small peephole, he manages to hit the target and hit that very target. Here are the types of snipers:
- Sniper saboteur. This is someone who appears in many computer games. Acts alone or with a partner. He tries in every possible way not to give himself away: quieter than water, lower than the grass, that is. It can kill at a distance of 1.5 - 2 kilometers. The weapon is a first-class, precision rifle with a silencer.
- Infantry sniper. Works alongside the infantry. It shoots at important targets with general bang, so it doesn’t really need a silencer. The distance is usually up to 400 meters, there is no time to take special aim.
- Police sniper. Well, this one is generally a loser compared to the previous two: it shoots at a distance of no more than two hundred meters. But not everything is so simple, it turns out. Usually the criminal is armed and has already pointed his gun at the helpless victim. So you need to shoot in such a way as to hit your finger and prevent this bastard from shooting.
So, let's get creative.
How to draw military equipment with a pencil step by step
Step one: Draw an oval head at the top of the sheet. From there downwards there is a large body. We will outline other parts of the body with large oval shapes. The man holds military equipment in his hands, but so far it is only an elongated figure. 
Step two We gradually transform all the defining details into the human body. Some details of the clothing are already visible. Let's give the rifle the desired shape. 
Step Three Draw the clothes: a T-shirt, a cap, rolled-up pants, and shoes. Let's pay more attention to weapons. It is squeezed by strong gloved fingers. By the way, there are folds on the trousers and gloves. Now let's move on to the face. The eyes are covered with dark glasses, and a small ear is clearly drawn. There is a thick beard on his face. 
Step Four Everything that we have drawn needs to be strengthened: outline, add lines, and then draw in the missing details. This is how we ended up with a strong man, holding a serious gun in his hands and carefully watching the target. 
I also advise you to look at drawing lessons for other types of weapons, for example.
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 and poets, as well as readers. We publish several children's cartoons and letters to them below.
Drawings - children's weapons
Schoolchildren, to the best of their ability, tried to participate in the activities of the 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 called herself 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.
Children's cartoons and drawings about the war, published below, are part of a set of documents collected during wartime for display 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, and 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 of the 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, with the fire of your cannons, 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” is 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 - an international youth holiday (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.