How to draw space with gouache

What you need

• Thick paper;
• large brush;
• gouache;
• brush “bristle”;
• thin brush;
• a jar of water.

How to draw

Take a large brush and paint over the top left corner of the sheet with red paint. Below, add a purple hue, and below that, blue. To make smooth transitions, mix colors directly on paper.

Paint the middle of the sheet diagonally with red gouache. Put a layer of blue paint below, and then use white to make a smooth transition to blue.

Let the background dry a bit.

Lightly thin the white paint with water. Scoop it up with a brush and shake it over the paper so that it splatters. With this technique, you will show small stars.

In the lower right corner, make a black arc and paint over the space below it. This is part of the planet.

Attach the lid from the jar of gouache to the middle of the sheet and circle. You will get a circle that needs to be shaded from the inside.

Take some white paint on a dry bristled brush and paint on the planets.

With a thin brush, mark a white stripe on the rounded outline of a large planet.

Draw a few small black planet circles in the background and add a lighter shade to them.

On a large planet in the corner, make blue strokes, on small planets – purple and pink. Draw a white ring around the planet in the center of the composition.

The full version of the master class can be viewed here:



What other options are there

Fascinating space landscape in shades of green:

View of the Earth from space:

An original way to draw space with a dish sponge:



How to draw space in watercolor

What you need

• watercolor paper;
• watercolor;
• a jar of water;
• large brush;
• thin brush;
• white gouache;
• coarse salt.

How to draw

Wet the watercolor paper with water. With a large brush, make a lot of purple and dark blue strokes. Leave the center and bottom of the background blank.

Add pink and yellow stains at the bottom of the sheet, turquoise in the center. Place black drops around the edges.

Sprinkle salt on the part of the drawing where you want to make the Milky Way. It will absorb the paint along with the water and create small white spots.

Let the drawing dry.

Use your fingers to remove the dried salt from the leaf. Dilute white gouache with water, take it on a brush and shake the tool over the paper. Get spray stars.

Along the bottom edge, outline mountains of various sizes with black watercolor. Try not to make them too high. The main part of the composition is space.

Draw trees with a thin brush. To do this, draw several vertical lines of different lengths and add oblique strokes to each blank on both sides. It is not necessary to make the details even, otherwise the trees will look unrealistic.

Details are in the video:

What other options are there

This video shows how to draw several planets in space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8HRwuK4kA

And this is a master class on how to draw space in four different versions on one sheet:

A very simple way that even a child can handle:

A small picture, which, if desired, can be repeated on a larger scale:

How to draw space with pastels

What you need

• Paper;
• oil pastel;
• masking tape;
• white gouache;
• tassel;
• napkin;
• screwdriver;
• corrector pen.

How to draw

Secure the piece of paper to the table with masking tape. Draw a slanted yellow oval in the center. It is empty inside.

Behind the outer contour of the figure, make another one, only orange.

Add purple, dark purple, turquoise, blue and black layers in the same way.

Fold the napkin several times and blend the pastel with it.

On the yellow and orange areas, make red strokes, on the blue and purple – black.

Scoop up some white gouache with the brush and shake the tool over the composition to make splashes. So you “light” in space a lot of small stars.

Using a screwdriver, scratch an oval at an angle and a few circles in the figure. Inside each shape with a corrector pen, make one more small one.

Remove masking tape.

You can see the whole drawing process here:



What other options are there

Space landscape with an aircraft:

A “glowing” picture that is easier to draw than it seems:

Here is how to depict Saturn:

And this is very…