How to draw snowdrops: 17 options for every taste

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Spring paintings with paints, felt-tip pens or pencils. Even a child can do it!

How to draw snowdrops with a simple pencil or black felt-tip pen

What is needed

• Paper;
• a simple pencil, liner or felt-tip pen.

How to draw

Start with the knot that connects the stem and flower. Just above the middle of your sheet of paper, draw a shape similar to your index fingernail - strongly curved at the top and slightly rounded at the bottom.

From the bottom of the arc, start drawing the petals. Draw a smooth wave down, and from the bottom point, make a slightly curved stroke up and to the right.

A couple of millimeters away from the node where the flower is formed, draw the central petal - these are two arcs converging at the bottom.

From about the middle of the central petal, draw a slightly curved stroke downward. Bring down a wavy line from the center of the flower to its tip, forming the right petal.

From the top of the center node, draw a stem that resembles a question mark upside down to the right.

Draw the second side of the stem parallel to this line and add the top leaf at the bend.

Draw large, tapering leaves under the stem.

The entire progress of the work can be seen in this video:

What other options are there

A bush of three snowdrops can be drawn like this:

This drawing will work well for those who already know how to draw a little:

How to draw snowdrops with colored pencils or felt-tip pens

What is needed

• Paper;
• simple pencil;
• colored pencils or markers.

How to draw

Using a simple pencil, divide the sheet in half vertically and horizontally. On the upper left side of the sheet, draw a half of a small oval and connect its edges with a straight line.

From the top of the oval, draw two parallel arc-shaped lines - this is a blank for the stem.

Draw the first petal. It has the shape of a drop, with its wide side directed downwards, and with its narrow side towards the crossbar of the semi-oval.

Draw the other two petals. The third petal is partially hidden behind the second, so its outline starts from about the middle of the second petal.

Draw the lines indicated in the picture in red: they imitate the inner petals, which are almost invisible behind the outer ones. Later, when coloring, add a green color there: this will give tenderness to the flower.

Draw the stem. It consists of two parallel lines extending downward from the blank that you drew in the second step.

Draw the top leaf of the snowdrop bent towards the flower.

Draw a line down the center of the top leaf.

Draw thin, elongated snowdrop leaves at the base of the stem.

Color the leaves and stem with a green pencil or felt-tip pen, add some light yellow and light green tones to the petals.

This video will guide you through the instructions:

What other options are there

Having mastered drawing one flower, try to depict several snowdrops at once, for example, on a spring yellow-green background:

Or these, on a pale blue background, in the snow:

And here's another easy way to draw snowdrops with a felt-tip pen:

How to paint snowdrops with acrylic paints

What is needed

• Paper;
• wide flat brush or flutes;
• fan brush;
• round brushes;
• acrylic paints;
• glass of water;
• palette.

How to draw

Dampen the canvas by applying a little water to it with a brush or spray bottle. On a damp canvas, the paint will not dry as quickly, and you will be able to blend the background well.

Using a wide brush, take some black paint and with diagonal movements from the left corner down and to the right, spread the paint over the canvas in a very thin layer, creating a non-uniform gray background. Add a little more paint as needed until 2/3 of the canvas is tinted.

Without rinsing the brush, take white paint on it and cover the lower left corner of the canvas with it non-uniformly. It is good if the black residues on the brush will give light gray streaks. With a few strokes, add white strokes to the lower right corner of the picture, depicting a snowdrift in which the snowdrops will grow. Spray some thinned white paint onto the canvas with a brush to simulate snow.

Using small strokes with a fan brush, form the outlines of a white snowdrift at the bottom of the painting.

Using a round, pointed brush, paint a white petal in the middle of the canvas in one stroke. At the same time, move your hand from the bottom up, as if you were wiping the brush on the canvas with slight pressure. You can practice on a draft first.

To the left and right of the petal, draw a couple more of the same. The petals at the edges partially hide the central one.

Similarly, draw seven snowdrops over the snowdrift.

With a thinner brush, depict several wide shoots directed from the snowdrift to the flowers.

Mix green and black for a dark green color. Brush over the sprouts right on top of the black, adding play of tones.

Draw black shoots around the snowdrops. You do not need to rinse the brush: the remaining green paint on it will not interfere.

Walk over the black shoots in dark green.

Draw a black knot above each flower.

Place a black dot inside each snowdrop to represent the center of the flower. Draw with the thinnest brush the stems going towards the flowers and shoots.

Draw some white on the tip of a fan brush. Lightly touching the shoots, stems and the surface of the snowdrift, add white frost to the picture.

If something is not clear, here is a video instruction:

What other options are there

Draw with acrylic a whole scattering of snowdrops in a thawed patch:

Or such a bright flowering bush:

How to paint snowdrops in watercolor

What do you need

• Watercolor paper;
• a set of watercolor paints;
• round brushes for watercolors # 0, 2, 6;
• palette;
• glass of water;
• napkin;
• simple pencil.

How to draw

Draw the thin lines of the stems with a pencil on the sheet to imagine how the flowers will be located.

Along the outlined lines from top to bottom, go with a thin brush with herbal green paint, depicting the stems. You do not need to draw them carefully, let the line be light.

Mix grassy green with yellow-green and draw a snowdrop leaf sticking up from the stem. You can add a touch of yellow cadmium. Make the tip of the leaf darker than the base. Just below the leaf, draw the bend of the stem on which the flower will be located.

Draw green bumps where the stems bifurcate and where the flowers are attached.

With a wider, round brush, pressing it evenly against the paper, paint gently curved leaves extending from the base of the stems. In height, the leaves will be about a third of the height of the stems. Add a drop of paint to the base of the bush, it spreads slightly, and you get an interesting accent color.

Mix color for white petals. Take some burnt sienna, ultramarine, yellow-green and herbal green, stir and dilute strongly with water - the shade should be barely visible on the paper. Draw a drop-like petal. If there is too much water on the brush, blot with a tissue.

Thus, draw three petals for each flower. Let dry.

Dilute the Prussian blue with burnt sienna and work on the details of the drawing with the thinnest brush. Refine the contours of the stems, draw thin veins extending from the base of the flower to the petals. Add some shadow at the intersection of the stems.

Add some herbal green to the paint from the previous step and paint a shadow on one or two leaves at the base of the snowdrop.

Here you can see the process in more detail:

What other options are there

You can also draw snowdrops in a vase in watercolor:

And here is such a gentle composition:

And a thawed patch with flowers in the snow:

How to draw snowdrops with gouache

What do you need

• Paper;
• gouache;
• round synthetic brushes # 2, 4, 8;
• palette;
• a glass of water;
• napkin.

How to draw

Mix blue and white colors on the palette. With the resulting blue, fill the sheet with wide horizontal strokes. Add white, blue, ultramarine to the brush from time to time for interesting transitions.

In the center of the lower part of the picture, make the background darker, interspersed with purple - snowdrops will grow from here.

Mix several shades: green with a drop of blue, green with white, green with yellow. Mixing these colors at random, draw six stems sticking out with the rounded part up from the thawed patches. They are like hooks.

Add some elongated leaves growing from the ground.

At the tip of each of the six stems, draw a small green cap under which the petals will be gathered. In the top third of each stem, draw a narrow leaf sticking upward.

At the base of the bush, add some blue-green and purple shoots to create a sense of volume and depth.

Paint the first petal with white paint. It is thickened in the middle and tapers towards the bottom, therefore, when drawing, press the brush a little harder in the middle, and loosen the pressure towards the end.

In this way, draw three petals for each of the snowdrops. The largest can show the edges of all six petals.

Use the thinnest brush to highlight the edges of the petals with blue paint.

At the base of the bush, add some brown horizontal strokes to simulate the ground. Dilute the white on the palette with water, dip a crumpled napkin in them and apply white prints to the background around the snowdrops, creating openwork snow patterns.

On top of the snow, you can also paint some blue strokes to emphasize the shadows. How to draw such snowdrops, see the video:

What other options are there

These snowdrops can decorate any postcard:

And with such a pattern, you can decorate a room, giving the interior a spring mood: