Santa Claus pencil drawing for kids step by step

Learn to draw Santa Claus It's not difficult with simple pencils. You need to know what tools you might need for the job, and you should also look at step-by-step master classes on drawing different variations of pictures and choose an image to copy.

What you need for drawing

A beginning artist should always have 4 pencils of varying degrees of hardness on hand.

Degree of hardness	Marking	Purpose
Solid	T or H	Creating sketches, shading the light parts of the drawing.
Hard-soft	TM or HB	Drawing details, indicating shadows, shading elements of the picture with medium saturation.
Soft	M or B	Highlighting shadows, shading dark elements of the picture, drawing very small details.
Very soft	M5 or B5	Final tracing, highlighting small details.

Pencils should always be sharp, so you need to buy a sharpener. To avoid litter on the table, you can buy a sharpener with a removable container that collects shavings.

You also need an eraser for drawing. It should not crumble or roll off too much when erasing graphite. Also, the eraser should not smear the graphite on the paper. Experienced artists advise using double-sided rubber erasers. The abrasive tip perfectly removes traces from soft pencils, and the smoother side of the eraser easily erases lines from hard pencils and also cleans the background well.

Smooth and white paper is suitable for drawing with simple pencils. You can use sheets of paper for writing, album pages, and also paper for an office printer.

Santa in his magical sleigh

Santa Claus (a pencil drawing without shading is considered simple) moves across the sky on a festive night in a magical sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. Children aged 6 and up can be asked to draw Santa delivering presents in this manner.

How to draw a picture like this:

1. Place a sheet of paper horizontally on the table.
2. Using a hard pencil, draw a sleigh on the right side of the sheet.
3. Draw Santa's round head a little higher.
4. Finish drawing the body, sleeves and mittens.
5. Draw a cap on the head.
6. Use an eraser to remove excess lines.
7. Draw a sack behind Santa's back.
8. Draw Santa's eyes, eyebrows, and a bushy beard.
9. Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
10. Finish drawing the mouth and nose.
11. On the left side of the sheet, draw an oval head of a deer and a body.
12. Schematically indicate the position of the hooves and horns.
13. Connect the ovals with a smooth line.
14. Draw the legs and hooves. Add horns.
15. Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
16. Draw the deer's eyes, nose and mouth.
17. Add the harness and draw in the reins that Santa Claus is holding onto.

Trace the outline of the drawing with a soft pencil. Draw a few stars in the background.

Santa in the Chimney

When Santa arrives at the right house, he looks for a way to get inside to leave a gift under the tree. Sometimes he has to go down the chimney into the rooms.

How to draw Santa going down the chimney:

1. Using a hard pencil, draw a rectangle at the bottom of the sheet. This will be the base of the pipe. To make the pipe straight, you can use a ruler.
2. Draw the top of the pipe in the form of a narrow rectangle.
3. Draw snow on the edge of the pipe.
4. Above the pipe, draw an egg-shaped figure, slightly tilted to the right.
5. Draw Santa's hat on top of the drawn figure.
6. Draw the shape of the face.
7. Add a large nose, dotted eyes, eyebrows, blush.
8. Draw Santa's beard and mouth.
9. Use an eraser to remove all unnecessary lines.
10. Finish drawing Santa's fur coat with buttons. Draw fluffy fur on the hem.
11. Draw a large bag behind the old man.
12. Draw Santa's hands. Finish drawing the edges of the bag.
13. On the bag behind the bag and to the right of Santa, depict several gift boxes tied with bows.
14. Draw a month on the right side of the picture.
15. Densely shade the pipe, Santa's coat, hat, bag and boxes.
16. Color the moon.
17. Blend the strokes.
18. Use a hard-soft pencil to draw a shadow on the pipe.
19. Darken the bottom and left part of the bag.
20. Highlight the shadow under the beard.
21. Mark the shadows on the cap.
22. Show the shadow of the bag on the fur coat.
23. Blend all the strokes that indicate shadows.
24. Using a very soft pencil, draw bricks on the base of the pipe.

Trace the outline of the picture. Highlight Santa's facial features.

Kawaii style drawing

Characters drawn in the Kawaii style look cute. They have big eyes with highlights, meek limbs and small bodies.

How to draw Santa in this style:

1. Using a hard pencil, draw a small square with rounded corners.
2. Draw a cap on top.
3. Finish drawing Santa's beard.
4. Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
5. Shape the face. The eyes should be round and large, with 2 highlights. Draw the nose as a small oval. Draw an open mouth, add a tongue. Draw thin eyebrows.
6. Finish drawing the ears.
7. Add the body.
8. Draw arms and legs.
9. Draw fur on the bottom edge of the fur coat and on the sleeves.
10. Finish drawing the belt with a large buckle.
11. Divide the fur coat into 2 parts with a vertical line. Draw the fur.
12. Draw a sack behind Santa. Add some bumps to it.
13. Depict snowdrifts.
14. Use a hard-soft pencil to shade Santa's clothes and hat. Color the bag.
15. Use a very soft pencil to shade the eyes, without touching the highlights.
16. Color the belt and shoes.

Trace the outline of the drawing, draw small details. Clean the background with an eraser.

Santa and the reindeer

Santa Claus loves his magical reindeer, because without them he wouldn't be able to deliver presents on time. You can draw a picture of Santa and his reindeer exchanging friendly hugs. You will need 2 pencils: a hard one and a very soft one.

How to draw:

1. Using a hard pencil, draw Santa's head.
2. Finish drawing the cap and beard.
3. Draw Santa's eyes, a round nose and a mustache. Draw a smiling mouth under the mustache.
4. Use an eraser to remove excess lines.
5. To the right of Santa's head, draw a small circle. This is the reindeer's muzzle.
6. Draw eyes above the circle.
7. Finish drawing the nose and mouth on the deer.
8. Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
9. Above the eyes, draw a pair of large ears and a large horn.
10. Draw the ears.
11. Finish drawing Santa's body, arms and legs.
12. Draw elements of clothing and shoes.
13. Draw a plump body for the deer.
14. Add thin arms and legs with hooves.
15. Use an eraser to remove excess lines.
16. Using a hard-soft pencil, highlight the shadow under the characters' feet.
17. Use a very soft pencil to outline the drawing. Draw small details.

Color Santa's belt and shoes using dense shading.

Funny Santa and his reindeer

Santa Claus (a pencil drawing can decorate the page of a greeting card) and his reindeer, in this picture, look like they are hiding from a curious child, so that he will not reveal their secret.

How to draw a picture like this:

1. Using a hard pencil, draw a thin horizontal line at the bottom of the sheet.
2. On the left, above the line, draw Santa's hands in mittens. They should be depicted as ovals.
3. Draw an oval nose between the arms.
4. Draw 2 eyes of different sizes above the nose. Draw the pupils.
5. Draw a Santa hat.
6. On the right, draw the deer's oval nose and hoof.
7. Above the nose, draw 2 eyes of different sizes, draw the pupils.
8. Draw the shape of the deer's head.
9. Draw a tuft of fur sticking out on the top of the head.
10. Add ears and horns.
11. Draw a bow on the right horn.
12. Highlight the inner parts of the ears.
13. Use an eraser to remove excess lines.
14. Without pressing down on the pencil, shade Santa's face.
15. Paint the deer's antlers.
16. Shade the right side of the cap, mark the shadows on the pompom and fur.
17. Blend the strokes.
18. Use a hard-soft pencil to shade Santa's mittens and the center of his hat. Color in the nose.
19. Highlight the shadow on the deer's antlers.
20. Using light pressure on the pencil, shade his head, hoof and nose.
21. Use a soft pencil to highlight the shadows on the hoof.
22. Paint the inner parts of the ears.
23. Use an eraser to lighten the highlights on Santa's mittens, the reindeer's hoof, and their noses.
24. Highlight the highlights on the deer's antlers.

Use an eraser to clean the background. Use a very soft pencil to outline the drawing.

Santa is handing out presents

This picture is made in an illustration style. Small details and complex shapes are included here, so children over 12 years old can do this drawing.

How to draw:

Drawing by cells

Santa Claus (a pencil drawing on the squares will help develop the child's memory and attentiveness), drawn on the squares, still remains a recognizable character, because he has a lush beard and a New Year's cap.

For work you will need a hard-soft and very soft pencil.

Instructions:

• Rows are counted from the bottom. Coloring and counting cells should be done from left to right.
• Using a ruler and a hard pencil, you need to draw a square whose width will be 28 cells and whose height will be 32 cells.
• The cells shaded with a hard-soft pencil will be called gray, and the cells shaded with a very soft pencil will be called black.

The number of each item corresponds to the row number.

1. Leave 9 cells empty, paint 4 gray, 2 empty cells, 4 gray, 9 empty cells.
2. 7 empty, 2 gray, 4 empty, 2 gray, 4 empty, 3 gray, 6 empty cells.
3. 5 empty, 2 gray, 15 empty, 1 gray, 5 empty cells.
4. 4 empty, 1 gray, 17 empty, 1 gray, 5 empty cells.
5. 3 empty, 1 gray, 8 empty, 4 black, 7 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty cells.
6. 3 empty, 1 gray, 7 empty, 6 black, 7 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty cells.
7. 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 3 gray, 8 empty, 3 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
8. 2 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 2 gray, 5 empty, 2 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
9. 1 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 6 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 1 gray, 6 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 1 empty cell.
10. 1 gray, 5 empty, 3 gray, 4 empty, 2 black, 4 empty, 3 gray, 5 empty, 1 gray cell.
11. 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 4 gray, 2 black, 4 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray cell.
12. 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray, 16 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray cell.
13. 1 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 2 black, 5 empty, 2 black, 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 1 empty cell.
14. 2 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 2 black, 5 empty, 2 black, 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
15. 2 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 14 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
16. 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 3 black, 4 empty, 3 black, 2 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.

    

17. 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty, 1 gray, 14 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
18. 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 1 empty, 3 gray, 4 empty, 3 gray, 1 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray, 2 empty cells.
19. 4 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 1 empty, 2 gray, 3 empty, 1 gray, 4 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty cells.
20. 4 empty, 1 gray, 8 empty, 1 gray, 10 empty, 1 gray, 3 empty cells.
21. 5 empty, 19 gray, 4 empty cells.
22. 5 empty, 19 black, 4 empty cells.
23. 6 empty, 17 black, 5 empty cells.
24. 7 empty, 15 black, 6 empty cells.
25. 8 empty, 13 black, 7 empty cells.
26. 9 empty, 11 black, 1 empty, 3 black, 4 empty cells.
27. 10 empty, 9 black, 2 empty, 3 black, 4 empty cells.
28. 11 empty, 7 black, 3 empty, 3 black, 4 empty cells.
29. 12 empty, 5 black, 2 empty, 2 black, 7 empty cells.
30. 13 empty, 3 black, 2 empty, 2 black, 8 empty cells.
31. 14 empty, 5 black, 9 empty cells.
32. 15 empty, 3 black, 10 empty cells.

This instruction can be used for conducting a graphic dictation. Such activities help improve the child's attentiveness and develop counting skills.

Tips for young artists

To make your drawings beautiful, you need to know a few secrets:

• You can't shade pencil strokes with your fingers. Graphite left on your fingers can stain the drawing, and the smudged lines will look sloppy. Therefore, you should use cotton swabs or disks for shading.
• You need to shade the lines along, not across.
• When sketching, you should not draw a straight, continuous line. On the contrary, you should draw sketches with smooth and short strokes. This will make it easier to draw complex shapes.
• When creating a sketch, do not press hard on the pencil. Some lines will have to be erased with an eraser, and if they are too intense, it will not be possible to remove them completely.

Parents, teaching children to draw Santa Claus with a pencil, should tell about the origin of this character, as well as about his features. As a result, the child will not only learn to copy pictures, but also learn new information that will allow him to expand his horizons.

Author: Frolova Ekaterina

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