15 ways to paint a beautiful snowy winter

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker's step-by-step instructions can be handled even by those who have never picked up a pencil.

How to draw a winter landscape with a house

What do you need

• Paper;
• black marker;
• watercolor pencils;
• a napkin for shading.

How to draw

On the upper left side of the sheet, draw two lines that intersect at an angle, like the top of a triangle. This is the spruce top. Connect the lower points with a line of irregular, "ragged" shape. She will imitate snowdrifts on a Christmas tree. In the same way, draw three more tiers of spruce, each of which is wider than the previous top.

Under the tree, mark the trunk with two vertical strokes, and under it - the drifts with "brackets". Draw the outlines of the snowy hills to the left and right of the spruce.

Start drawing the house: outline the walls with three vertical lines of about the same length and add a roof with smooth curves, leaving room for the pipe on it.

The pipe consists of two rectangles, one on top of the other, with wavy lines on top - snow. Also, using rectangles, add the windows and the door of the house with small layers of snow on top.

At the bottom of the sheet on the left, between the snowdrifts, mark a path with a smooth line. Behind the house, draw three more spruces by analogy with the first, but in a smaller size.

Draw a snowman. The contours of the figure are three vertical semicircles connected to each other. He has a top hat-cylinder, and on the sides - arms-twigs of straight lines. Add circles of different sizes to the picture. This is falling snow.

Paint over the sky with a blue pencil, leaving the snowflakes white. Blend the background with a napkin, you can moisten it a little. Do not strive to achieve perfect accuracy: light flaws will not spoil the drawing.

Color in the rest of the details. The walls of the house are in orange pencil, the doors, chimney, spruce trunk and path are brown. You can add a little brown to the walls of the house. Using a yellow pencil, draw light in the windows and reflections in the snow below them. Use light blue, blue and purple to mark the shadows on the snowdrifts, snowman, fir trees and roof. Use a purple pencil in the darkest places, blue in the lightest.

The video will help you better understand the instructions:

What other options are there

Try to paint a winter landscape with a house in gouache:

Or repeat a gentle painting with pastels:

And this is another children's option with a house and a snowman:

How to draw winter in the forest

What do you need

• A sheet of thick paper;
• gouache;
• set of brushes;
• a glass of water;
• palette;
• napkin.

How to draw

Dampen a little water on the widest brush, pick up a dark blue paint and paint over about a fifth of the sheet. It is the sky that runs along the paper in a curved line.

Rinse the brush and dry it with a tissue. On the palette, mix the usual blue paint with a little white and paint over one fifth of the sheet below the sky just painted. This is the farthest snowdrift.

Rinse and dry the brush again. Adding more and more white paint to the blue, draw in the same way three more snowdrifts from top to bottom, so that each next one is lighter than the previous one.

Dampen a thin brush, pick up some white paint and paint a tree trunk with a base on the first snowdrift. Draw long wide branches from the trunk in different directions, and from them - thinner ones. The trunk should be bent and widen downwards, the upper branches should reach the dark blue sky. There is no need to draw the tree carefully, slight negligence is acceptable.

Mix white paint and some blue and paint a smaller tree on the second snowdrift. Add more blue to the paint on the palette and repeat the wood, again a little less, on the third snowdrift. Make sure that the branches do not go beyond the contours of the trees drawn earlier.

"Scatter" white dots - snowflakes - over the pattern. Apply strokes of blue paint under each of the trunks to indicate the holes in the drifts. Draw footprints in the snow with the same blue strokes.

The process of creating a winter landscape is presented in more detail in this video:

What other options are there

Snowy landscape with a huge moon painted in pastel:

Another winter in the forest, done in gouache:

This way of capturing winter is suitable for those who already know how to draw a little:

How to draw a winter landscape with a deer

What do you need

• Paper;
• simple pencil;
• colour pencils;
• oil pastels;
• black marker;
• white marker or white paint;
• round shape, such as a lid;
• eraser;
• ruler.

How to draw

Draw a slightly curved horizontal line with a blue pencil, dividing the sheet in half. This is the horizon line. Outline the round shape with a pencil so that you get the sun, with its lower edge hidden behind the horizon.

Add two more long, curved horizontal lines at the bottom of the sheet - drifts. With the sun in the background, start drawing a deer with a simple pencil. First, the head. It looks like a slanted egg, the sharper end of which looks down and to the left. The next detail is the pointed, leaf-shaped ears. Then outline the outlines of the deer's chest and back with a small sticking tail. Draw the legs. They narrow strongly downward, the right one is almost hidden behind the left one and repeats its shape.

Draw the front legs with long triangles and add the horns. They are constructed by analogy with the curved branches of a tree. Draw the contours with black marker and paint over the deer.

Along the outer outline of the sun circle, draw a wide arc with blue pastels, followed by blue pastels, and then purple. It should look like a rainbow.

Blend the pastels so that the colors blend smoothly into one another. Do not go beyond the contours of the sun. Paint over the top of all three snowdrifts with blue pastels, leaving the bottom white. Blend a little of the border with white pastel crayons so that on each snowdrift there is a gradual transition from blue to white. Also shade the border of the blue sky and the empty sun circle with white chalk. You can apply white arched stripes all over the sky.

Draw four tree trunks of different heights along the ruler with black chalk. Draw sketchy branches.

Paint the trees with light green and dark green chalk. They should expand downward. Blend the spruce legs. Paint the sun light yellow and shade its left edge with a deeper shade of yellow.

Use a white marker or paint to put snowflake dots on the trees and a little on the whole picture. Use a purple pencil to mark the thin outlines of the trees on the horizon.

Check out the video to clarify any confusions:

What other options are there

Laconic winter landscape painted with pastels:

Winter landscape with a deer in brighter colors:

How to draw a black and white winter landscape

What do you need

• Drawing paper;
• pencil;
• eraser.

How to draw

Start with a broken roofline in the upper right quarter of the sheet. Please note that it is not even, but slightly curved at the point where the house goes into the extension.

Draw another parallel line with a slight offset. Connect them, turning them into a roof. Mark the walls: on the left - two vertical lines of the same length, on the right - one line about four times higher. Add a horizontal line with a slight snowdrift bend. Draw a rectangle in the lower right side of the house.

Fill the right and left sections of the wall with small rectangles-bricks. In both areas, paint over one brick at a time to depict ventilation. Draw a rectangular door and an extension window.

Shade the door and side wall of the extension. Add doorknobs. Draw and shade the attic window. Work on the shadow under the roof: the closer to the roof, the darker it is. Mark the curly edge of the boards at the border of the attic and the first floor.

Draw the planks of the upper and lower floors with vertical lines. Shade them lightly so that there is more tone in the right half of each board than in the left. This will give the wall a bump.

Mark the Christmas tree behind the house with conventional strokes. It is a triangle with protruding branches. You don't need to draw it carefully.

Add another Christmas tree, darker and with sharper outlines. Draw parallel curved lines for a road and a free-form stream with sharp edges to represent snow and ice. Paint over the road and the river. The river should be darker.

Draw a horizon line. Use vertical strokes to mark the bushes in the background. Draw the trees behind the house.

Add a water heater turret to the roof on the right. It consists of a rectangular base and a triangular cover. Mark the fence here and there with horizontal lines and vertical slanted dark rectangles-pegs.

Add upward strokes and strokes to indicate the trees behind the house. Lightly blend the pencil with your finger or a soft eraser near the tree and river, adding shadows to the drawing.

You can see the whole process of creating a black and white winter landscape here:

What other options are there

Try to paint winter in the mountains with coal:

Or add just one color and get a bright detail - a lantern glowing among the snowdrifts:

Or convey on paper a real snowfall outside the city: