How to Draw a Christmas Scene

Drawing a Christmas scene is quite an open-ended choice, limited only by one's own creativity. However, conceptualizing an idea and planning the execution are essential, as your attempt here would be to organize several disparate elements in your frame. Following steps will guide you about how to create a magnificent holiday scene out of your imagination:

• Location. The logical first step is to decide upon whether you want an indoor or outdoor picture, as the choice of the components and their placements will vary accordingly.

• Elements. As mentioned earlier the elements indoor shall be different from the elements outdoors. In an outdoor layout, a snowman, snow covered pathways, houses with chimneys (preferably hut designs), tall trees (Christmas tree shaped); Birch trees, falling snowflakes, etc. may be placed. Christmas indoors include a prominent Christmas tree, socks, wreath decorations, lights, decorative candles, a fireplace, sofa set & table, partial Christmas feast or snacks, and so on.

• Layout. Once you have decided upon the items, organize them into coherent scenery. Mark basic geometrical shape to represent each item on your drawing base. For outdoors, begin with the ground structure - well-defined streets (urban) or a continuous patch of undulating land (rural). Place your houses and trees systematically. Triangles placed over rectangles/cuboids form the basic structure for hut-like houses. Usually, Christmas landscapes are depicted in the nighttime, but you may choose a day setting, as per your preference.

Christmas tree is the biggest and most prominent feature in the interiors. Place your tree on the either side of the frame to create space for the other objects. To portray warmth during the Christmas season, brightly burning wood in the fireplace is an essential part. Position the fireplace with hanging socks, adjacent to the tree and the sofa set & table in the front of the fireplace. You may use decoration on the walls and elsewhere in any manner. The skeletal shape for the tree is a large triangle resting over two vertical bars. Similarly, use rectangle for fireplace, cubes/cuboids for sofa, circles for wreathes, curves for hanging decorations, and the like.

• Christmas tree. After creating the fundamental triangle, draw a five-pointed start at the top. The leaves are then pictured in layers that keep increasing in width along the slant of the main triangle. However, do not attempt to draw individual leaflets; the outlines of the layers would suffice. How to adorn the Christmas tree is again a matter of personal choice. Nevertheless, traditional embellishments, including ornaments in solid tones or color bands, lights, candy sticks, sweets, toys, etc. form an integral part of the decorations. Wrapped gifts under the tree complete festive touché and are easy to sketch. Therefore, you can be generous with their numbers.

• Details. The final steps would be to add details to your base drawings and set them in bright seasonal colors.

 
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