The hedgehog is a rather unusual and interesting animal., which children really like and they draw it with pleasure. You can draw a hedgehog with pencils, paints and other drawing tools. For small children, the drawing can be done with a pencil or a felt-tip pen, and older children can use paints.
Drawing tools
The quality of the drawing tools you choose determines how bright and saturated the drawing will be.
Pencils
Hedgehog (a pencil drawing for children can be beautiful and rich if you choose the right pencils) is a cute and funny animal. When choosing pencils, you need to pay attention to their size and shape, as well as their strength.
For small children, it is better to choose short pencils with a faceted shape. The number of different colors should not exceed 12, since at the initial stage, too many of them can confuse the child, and he will spend more time trying them out than on the drawing process itself.
The triangular shape of the pencil allows the child to hold it firmly in his hand, which allows him to draw much more clearly than with a smooth pencil. For older children, you can buy pencils with a round surface. If the child is engaged in drawing professionally (in an art studio), then he needs to buy pencils of the appropriate quality. The best manufacturer of professional pencils at the moment is Faber-Castell.
The pencils of this brand are quite durable, rarely break and have a bright, saturated color. Among quality manufacturers, we can also note SILWERHOF, JOVI and Crayola.
Paints and gouache
When choosing paints, you should take into account the age of the child for whom they are being purchased. For children under 6, gouache is recommended (since it is easier to draw with such paints), and for older children, you can buy watercolor paints.
For children from 3 to 5 years old, you can buy finger gouache, as it allows you to make numerous overlaps and corrections in the process of drawing. Among the Russian brands that produce high-quality gouache, you can note "Luch", "Gamma", "Sonnet".
When purchasing artistic gouache, a basic set of colors will be enough:
- yellow;
- red;
- blue;
- white;
- black.
Other colors are created by mixing the above colors.
How to obtain different colors can be found in the following table:
| Color | Mixable color | Result |
| Blue | Yellow Red | Green
Violet |
| Red | Green
Yellow Blue | Brown
Orange Violet |
| Brown | Green
Blue | Khaki
Dark brown |
| Green | Violet
Red | Green-brown
Brown |
| Yellow | Blue
Red | Green
Orange |
For older children, you can buy watercolor paints. These paints require a special painting technique that uses a lot of water. These paints require thick paper, and the color of the paints themselves should be rich and pure.
Among the watercolours, the following brands should be considered: “Ladoga”, “Sonnet”, “Leningrad”. For gouache, it is recommended to use flat bristle brushes. For watercolours, it is better to buy soft sable brushes.
Felt-tip pens
Felt-tip pens are a good alternative to pencils, but it is not recommended to replace pencils with them completely. Pencils develop the strength and fine motor skills of a child's fingers, while felt-tip pens perform this function less significantly, since the process of drawing with a felt-tip pens does not require much effort. When choosing felt-tip pens, you should make sure that they wash off when applied to the skin, since young children often draw on their hands.
The thickness of the rod should not be too thin, and the rod itself should not fall into the base of the marker when strongly pressed during drawing. The caps of the markers should not be too small, so that the child could not accidentally swallow them. It is also recommended to choose markers with transparent caps, so as not to look for the cap of the right color each time to close the marker.
Drawing paper
When choosing a drawing album, first of all, you need to pay attention to the density of its sheets, so that during the process of drawing with paints, the drawing does not show through on the back of the sheet. The child should like the album cover, so that he wants to take the album in his hands again and again. When buying an album, it is recommended that the child choose the album with the cover he likes.
If the album is bought for a preschool-aged child, the number of pages in such an album should not exceed 10, since young children often squeeze and play with the album as with a toy, which quickly leads to deterioration of its appearance. It is better to buy him a new album after some time, and put the old one in the archive, in order to preserve the masterpieces of the little artist.
For school-age children, you can buy an album with 30 or more sheets. If you plan to draw with a pencil in the album, you can use an album with sheets fastened with staples. If the child plans to draw with paints, it is better for the sheets to be fastened with spiral wire, which maintains a smooth surface of the paper when turning the sheets.
Master classes
Hedgehog (a pencil drawing for children can be drawn in different ways, from pencils to paints) can be depicted as a classic, cartoonish, with fruits in the forest. Preschoolers can draw it with paints, and older children can use both pencils and markers.
With a pencil
Hedgehog (a pencil drawing for children can be done in a few minutes) is a popular cartoon character. To draw, you need to prepare pencils and a sheet of paper.
The drawing process is carried out sequentially and consists of the following stages:
- Place the sheet of paper horizontally. Mark the middle of the sheet of paper with a dot and from there draw the upper needle part of the hedgehog in the form of a semi-oval, the outline of which is a zigzag line.
- From the starting point of drawing the hedgehog, you need to draw a small horizontal zigzag line to the right (under the upper line of the body), which will be the upper border of the muzzle, along the edges of which draw two ears (in the form of semicircles). Next, from the ears, you need to draw two connecting semi-oval lines to the left side, which should connect (you will get the outline of the muzzle). Next, at the junction of these lines, draw a nose in the form of a small oval.
Hedgehog pencil drawing, step-by-step instructions for a child. - A mouth in the form of a small arc is drawn just below the nose, and two eyes in the form of circles are drawn on the muzzle symmetrically to the ears, the size of which should be 2 times smaller than the size of the nose. Next, you need to draw small pupils inside the eyes.
- From the right ear, draw a zigzag line to the connection with the right edge of the back. From the middle of the muzzle to the right edge of the back, draw the belly of the body in the form of a semi-oval. When drawing the arc of the belly, it is necessary to leave two small empty spaces inside the arc for the paws.
- Draw the hedgehog's paws.
- Add needles to the hedgehog with a black pencil. Then paint the head and body orange-yellow. The nose and upper body should be painted black.
From the cartoon "Smeshariki"
The drawing can be done with a pencil and markers.
The sequence of drawing the hedgehog-smeshariki for children is as follows:
- Mark the center of the album sheet and draw a circle, for which you can trace some round object or use a compass.
- Divide the circle into 4 equal parts with two lines intersecting at the center of the circle. Divide each part in half using inclined lines from the center of the circle.
- At the top of the circle, you need to draw a half-diamond with rounded sides. Next, just below the diamond, draw eyebrows in the form of symmetrical ovals inclined to each other. Next, closer to the center, you need to draw two round eyes. The eyes should not go beyond the lower part of the upper half of the Smeshariki's head. Next, you need to outline the eyes with circles to get glasses. Next, closer to the center of the head, inside the eyes, you need to depict small round pupils.
- Draw the arcs of the glasses along the oblique lines that divide the upper quarters of the head circumference in half. Next, under the glasses, draw a triangular nose, and a little lower, a smile in the form of a wide curved triangle.
- Draw an unfinished triangle above the head. Next, to the right and left of the head circumference, you need to draw two unfinished triangles, so that the lower parts of these triangles connect to the head, and the upper part is located at a small distance from it. Next, using two more unfinished triangles, you need to connect the upper triangle and two side ones. As a result, you will get 5 needles above the Smeshariki's head.
- Draw two pear-shaped legs under the head, and draw vertical oval arms on the right and left.
- Use a black felt-tip pen to outline all the contours and elements of the drawing.
- Color the glasses' frames and mouth blue, and color the pupils of the eyes black.
- Paint the body, arms and legs pink. Next, to make the smeshariki more realistic, you need to additionally paint the lower part of the body and paws with a red felt-tip pen.
- Color the eyebrows red and cover the area above the head (the hedgehog's needles) with purple.
With paints
To paint a hedgehog, you will need a set of watercolor or gouache paints, a thick sheet of paper and a brush.
The sequence of actions for drawing a hedgehog with paints is as follows:
- Wet the brush in water, put white paint on it and draw a circle in the middle of the sheet, which is also painted with white paint. To the left of the circle, draw an angular and long nose with the same paint.
- Wash off the paint from the brush, and then, taking black paint on it, paint the body. As a result of mixing with white paint on paper, the body will become dark gray. Next, you need to apply many needles in several layers to the body with the same black paint.
- Wash the paint off the brush, then load it with brown paint, outline the muzzle, and then paint it with the same color.
- Using brown color, draw 4 small oval-shaped paws under the body.
- Draw a round apple on top of the needles in red. Then paint the right side of the apple in orange.
- Wash off the paint from the brush, and then, taking black paint on it, draw a nose, eyes and mouth (in the form of a smile) on the muzzle. Then you need to draw a tail to the apple.
- Wash the paint off the brush, then, using green paint, add a green leaf to the apple and draw some grass under the hedgehog.
Even a preschool child can draw a hedgehog with a pencil. Of course, in some difficult moments of drawing, help from parents is required, but by interesting the child and controlling the entire creative process, the result will not take long to come, and the child will get a lot of joy from his work.
Video about drawing a hedgehog
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