Gerda from Snow Queen. Photos, pictures for copying

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Gerda is the main character of the fairy tale G. H. Andersen's "The Snow Queen", who went in search of her brother Kai, hoping to save him from the ice palace. Photos of the girl, with a big kind heart, who managed to overcome many obstacles on her way and melt the spell of the evil sorceress, are illustrations of the famous fairy tale, as well as a symbol of kindness and self-sacrifice. You can copy the heroine of the fairy tale from any coloring book or cartoon, capturing both Gerda herself and in the company of her friends.

Drawing tools

Gerda from "The Snow Queen" (a photo of the character is given below in the article) is depicted by illustrators as a little 10-year-old girl with blond hair, and for her creation requires the use of a standard drawing kit.

Name of material	How to choose
Sheet of paper	To draw, you will need a special album with A4 sheets of thick paper intended for drawing. You can also create a drawing on white or light blue cardboard, which serves as a background for the reflection of the northern lights. It is not recommended to use thin A4 printed sheets for copying.
Set of pencils	Drawing pencils should be made of easy-to-sharpen soft wood, of the highest quality, and have varying degrees of hardness: H-pencil – designed for drawing fine lines and creating sketches; HB stylus – allows you to create character outlines; Lead B – used for outlining the outline of a drawing. All pencils used for copying must be sharpened.
Eraser and kneaded paper	A regular office eraser is used to remove unnecessary lines from a drawing, and it is recommended to test it on a separate sheet of paper before using it. A soft eraser made of high-quality material should not leave dark pencil marks on the sheet, easily removing strokes. A kneaded eraser is a special eraser that resembles soft rubber and is put on a pencil and allows you to remove individual strokes of a drawing without affecting its main outline.
Ruler	Used to draw perfectly straight lines, such as the Snow Queen's crown or the ice crystals of the castle.
Colored pencils, paints, markers, crayons or wax pastels	They are used to create a colored drawing and are selected depending on the wishes of the young artist.
A small sheet of paper folded in half	Used to rub the pencil when coloring images and helps to avoid the appearance of sharp lines in areas of color transitions.

How to draw Gerda

Gerda from "The Snow Queen" (photos serving as illustrations for the fairy tale) - a drawing for copying, depicting a little fair-haired, barefoot girl who went to save her brother Kai from the spell of an evil sorceress.

You need to start redrawing the character by creating the girl's oval-shaped head, 3/4 turned to the right. You should draw Gerda's short, light, shoulder-length hair to the head, and then outline the line of her shoulders.
On the face, you need to draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the girl. Since Gerda's face in the drawing depicts sadness, it should be depicted with lowered eyelids.
After creating the face, you can redraw the upper part of the character's body, dressed in a scarf crossed over the chest, resembling a vest.
In the third stage of drawing, you need to add a fluffy ankle-length skirt and bare feet to Gerda's silhouette. The girl's raised arms are bent at the elbow.
When adding detail to the drawing, you need to draw the hands and folds on the clothes.
You can remove auxiliary details from the resulting drawing using an eraser (or a kneaded eraser), and the outline of the drawing itself should be outlined with a pencil with an HB lead.
Using a beige pencil, you should draw the exposed parts of Gerda's body: face, arms and legs. The girl's hair is light, so it is created using a yellow pencil.
Gerda's skirt is colored with a red pencil (marker). The blouse remains white, and the scarf wrapped around the body is shaded blue.
To create the shadow falling from the girl, a gray pencil is used, with which the strokes are drawn at Gerda's feet. All auxiliary details should be removed with an eraser.

Gerda in the Snow Queen's castle

Gerda from The Snow Queen, pictured among the ice crystals of the evil sorceress's castle, is the personification of sacrifice. When depicting the final part of the fairy tale, special attention should be paid to the drawing of the character's facial features, reflecting strong fear and determination.

While sketching a picture:

In the central part of the sheet you need to depict Gerda herself, for this you need to use an oval to draw the outline of her head, turned 3/4 to the right side, and light hair, freely falling on her shoulders and depicted with zigzag and straight lines.
The girl's face expresses fear with wide open eyes and mouth. The character's brow ridges should be positioned at the top of the face and raised slightly.
Gerda's upper body is depicted with straight lines, with her arms crossed over her chest and positioned at an angle.
The girl's legs are not visible in the drawing, which allows the depiction of the character's lower body to be completed with a wide skirt.
Lastly, the character's fingers are drawn together.
On Gerda's clothes, you need to draw folds with small strokes, and then, using a kneaded eraser, you should remove all the auxiliary details of the drawing. The main outline of the heroine should be outlined with a pencil with a B lead.
The background of the drawing is the Snow Queen's castle with huge ice crystals. They should be depicted with clear, straight, pointed lines, connected to each other at sharp angles.
To color the drawing, you will need pencils or watercolors in beige, blue, red, light blue and violet shades. The first 3 are used to color Gerda's face and clothes. Light blue and violet shades are used to create ice crystals. The northern lights, located in the background, can be created by combining light blue and violet shades.

Gerda with the Raven

Gerda from "The Snow Queen" (a photo of the character can be found on the pages of books or on the Internet) can be depicted in a drawing along with other characters from the fairy tale. In order to draw the image of the girl and the wise raven:

Master class:

You need to start the drawing by creating an oval face of the girl, 3/4 turned to the left side and slightly tilted towards the bottom of the drawing. You should draw Gerda's light hair reaching to the shoulders to the head.
When depicting facial features, you should pay attention to the interested look of the character, depicted with the help of fully open eyes and eyelids intersecting in the shape of a "house". The brow ridges are depicted as a semicircle, and the character's mouth should be slightly open for conversation.
After creating the face, you need to start depicting the upper part of Gerda's body, sequentially depicting the neck, the line of the shoulders and the arms that close it at a slight angle. The upper part of Gerda's clothing is a long-sleeved blouse and a grandmother's scarf, wrapped in a cross on the body.
At the bottom of the drawing you need to depict Gerda's long skirt and bare feet with closed toes. The girl holds her arms bent at the elbows, and holds the long, fluffy skirt with her fingers.
To depict a raven, using auxiliary lines, you need to draw two segments intersecting at right angles, allowing you to place the fairy tale character in the right place and indicate important details.
Using an oval and a circle, you should depict the body and head of the raven, so that the circle is located to the right of the oval and falls within the transfer of the auxiliary lines.
The bottom of the oval should be more rounded to represent the crow's belly, and the left rounded edge of the oval should be sharpened.
The raven's tail is drawn to the pointed part of the oval with parallel lines at right angles, and its edges are connected by wavy sections depicting feathers.
The raven's wing is depicted in the center of the oval-shaped body in the form of a drop, slightly smaller in size than the main part of the body. The pointed part of the wing should also be replaced with a wavy line, indicating the feathers of the wing.
The raven's beak is attached to the head, and on the face of the fairy-tale character, oval, medium-sized eyes are drawn, located slightly above the beak. Pupils should also be indicated on the raven's eyes, and on the top of the head, the bird's eyebrow and crown feathers are formed with wavy lines.
At the final stage, the thin legs of the raven with claws on the paws are drawn with long lines and the missing details are added: nostrils on the upper part of the beak and feathers on the abdomen and chest, designed with zigzag lines.
At the final stage of the drawing, its sea background is created. Sea waves are drawn with wavy lines, and in the upper right part of the corner there is a ship with a sail.

The finished drawing can be colored with felt-tip pens, oil paints or crayons.

Beige color is used for the girl's face, hands and feet;
the top and sleeves of Gerda's blouse are decorated in white;
red pencil paints over the surface of the fluffy skirt;
the blue shade is used to draw the scarf that wraps around Gerda's upper body;
the raven is colored with a black pencil, except for the white areas on the belly, tail and head of the bird;
The background of the drawing is decorated with dark colors: sand, sea waves and dark sky.

Gerda with the Reindeer and the Little Robber Girl

Gerda from "The Snow Queen" (a photo of a little girl in a bonnet can be taken as the basis for the image of the fairy-tale heroine) managed to make many friends during her journey, among whom were a little robber girl and a reindeer.

The drawing of fairy tale characters takes place in 3 stages:

In the first one, you need to draw Gerda, sequentially transferring the character's head, turned half a turn to the right, onto the album sheet. The girl is dressed in a bonnet with a fur trim, depicted in the drawing using a large and small semicircle.
At the top of Gerda's face, you need to depict a light fringe, and then schematically draw the facial features expressing joy with wide-open eyes.
The girl is wearing a fur coat with a fur collar, starting right at Gerda's chin with an ermine pattern, from which the toe of a warm boot peeks out.
One of the girl's arms is hidden, while the other is depicted extended at a 90-degree angle with fur sleeves and a glove.
The second part of the drawing is a redrawing of the Reindeer on which little Gerda is sitting. To create it, it is necessary to schematically draw 2 ovals on a sheet of paper, depicting the head and body of the animal. The first oval - the head of the deer, should be located at the level of the head of Gerda sitting on it, and the second - below and exceed the first by 4-5 times.
From the body of the deer come 4 legs, depicted by lines, at the end of which are 4 rectangles (hooves).
On the animal's face, you need to draw an elongated nose, ears, outlines of horns, and then connect the head and body with lines.
The resulting body of the deer needs to be given a slightly curved shape and outline the legs with two lines, and also draw a small round tail.
The little robber girl in the picture is standing with her back turned, so to depict her you need to draw an oval head and a straight line depicting the body. From its upper part upwards you need to draw a straight line to create an outstretched arm.
Having divided the oval into 2 parts, on one of them you need to draw the girl’s facial features, and use the other to depict short black hair in a semicircular shape.
The upper part of the Little Robber Girl's body is depicted in the form of an oval with her arms raised up, and on the lower part, a girl's lush long skirt with lines protruding from it (bare feet) is depicted in zigzag lines.
The character's hands are depicted with outstretched, spread fingers.
Using a kneaded eraser placed on a pencil, you need to remove the auxiliary lines from the central characters of the drawing and outline their contours with a soft pencil.
The background of the drawing is a stone floor and walls, depicted in the form of broken lines and squares.

The finished drawing can be colored according to the sample, using black, brown, gray and red shades of pencils or oil paints.

Gerda, Kai and the Snow Queen

To create a common drawing with the image of Gerda, Kai and the Snow Queen, you need to:

In the central part of the sheet, depict the outline of the Snow Queen's head, her facial expression and long white hair.
Behind the sorceress, you should draw snowdrifts and snow-covered trees with ice crystals.
The foreground of the drawing is a schematic representation of the figures of a boy and a girl, located at the base of the Snow Queen's hair and moving sideways, which allows us not to focus on the detailed drawing of their facial features and clothing details.
A semicircle with edges located on the edges of the album sheet is depicted under the children's feet.
The lower background of the drawing is painted in blue, light blue, white and violet colors, with local mixing of shades.
Before painting over the drawing, all the schematic lines must be removed with an eraser (or kneaded eraser).

Character Image Features

Gerda's photographs, which are illustrations for "The Snow Queen", give the beginning artist the opportunity to accurately convey the character's personality.

When portraying a brave girl, you should remember that:

Her facial expressions must accurately convey the character's mood, changing from despair to hope and gratitude due to the wide-open pupils of her eyes, the position of her eyelids, eyebrows and mouth.
The girl's clothing consists of a long, voluminous, gathered skirt, a white blouse, and a grandmother's kerchief wrapped around the waist. Gerda can also be depicted in a red fur-trimmed coat with the same hood, muff, or gloves.
The background of the drawing can be blocks of ice or ice crystals, painted in blue or purple shades.
Gerda's face is depicted as pale, but covered with a slight blush.
The character's clothes are painted in dark or deep red colors.

Gerda is the central character of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen", known for her self-sacrifice and kindness of soul, which allowed the poor girl to resist evil spells. Focusing on photographs of illustrations of the character, you can draw it yourself, depicting it against the background of ice or in the company of friends, and using color and facial expressions to convey the character of the brave girl and the ominous atmosphere that surrounded her throughout her journey.

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