Military pencil drawings can be created step by step even for young children. There are a lot of lessons and instructions on the Internet, as well as pictures for sketching, which allow you to independently transfer various types of military equipment onto paper.
Boys will like to draw drawings on a military theme in pencil, but such pictures can also be created by girls, for example, on the eve of a big holiday on May 9 or February 23. On Victory Day, the drawing will be an excellent gift for veterans or relatives who served in the army.
Military aircraft pencil drawing
A military aircraft can look interesting in the form of a simple pencil drawing without coloring with paints or colored pencils. First, you should check if you have the tools necessary to create an art project:
- ruler;
- pencil;
- blank sheet of paper;
- eraser.
If possible, choose hard and soft pencils, which are convenient for making auxiliary lines or drawing the main ones. The following simple instructions will allow little artists to create their own beautiful military aircraft on paper.
- We create the main lines that serve as the basis for placing the plane on the leaf. Using a ruler, draw a long line, which we tilt down slightly. The second will intersect the first, you need to lead it from the lower left corner of the leaf to the upper right, this is the basis for the wings and tail. To make the tail of the plane realistic, add a small short line on the first main line, it should be perpendicular.
- If the lines are not a good enough guide for drawing the correct shape of the plane, we create additional points that serve as the edges of the nose, tail and wings of the object. It is recommended to start from the far right point, where the nose will be located.
- We draw the airplane cabin with smooth lines. Movements should be smooth; you should not press the pencil on the paper. The cockpit lines should taper slightly as you approach the leftmost point, where the tail of the aircraft is located.
- From the main lines of the cockpit, focusing on the second auxiliary lines with the same soft and smooth movements, we draw the wings of the aircraft.
- An important step that completes the base is drawing the tail. On military aircraft, the tail can have different shapes, with additional elements, so it is advisable to look at the example drawing and ask the child to copy the finished shape.
- The last step is adding important elements to bring the plane to life. A child can add various emblems to the aircraft body; he cannot do without drawing the front glass and side windows.
- After the lines are drawn, using an eraser, auxiliary lines and points are removed, unnecessary strokes that were the basis of the sketch.
All drawings of military equipment in pencil are created on this basis: auxiliary lines intersecting in the right places, as a guide for creating basic contours.
Warship pencil drawing
Military pencil drawings allow a child not only to understand the basics of creating complex drawings, but also to study the structure of various vehicles. Many children enjoy creating a warship and a pencil drawing that requires following instructions.
Unlike the previous drawing, children begin the art project by drawing the waves of the sea, which are located at the bottom of the paper. Waves are curved lines that young artists can draw.
On the waves you need to place one horizontal line without tilting. A ruler will come to the rescue with this. The length of the main horizontal line should be of average length, taking into account the fact that additional lines will diverge to the sides, continuing the base of the ship's hull; they are made using a ruler. To do this, the ruler is placed slightly at an angle towards the outer sides of the leaf. You can connect these two lines with one solid line. The ship's base is ready.
Next, you should focus on the example picture, from which the cabin compartments and deck details are copied. The guns must be drawn, and the main “highlight” of such a creation will be the ship’s flag. An important detail of the drawing. Finally, several curved wave lines are added around the ship to create the illusion of military transport moving.
Such military pencil drawings for children may seem simple at first glance, but with the help of shading they decorate the picture, and if desired, they add a little color with the help of paints.
Soldier drawing
A pencil drawing of a military soldier can be made by small children. The main thing is to first practice repeating basic geometric shapes and learn how to make neat lines.
As in the case of drawing a military airplane with a pencil for children, it is worth creating several auxiliary lines with which the proportions of the soldier’s body will be correct.
- First, let's work on the markup. The frame of the drawing is the basis of the soldier’s body. On the vertical line at the top we draw an oval, which serves as the base for the head. Just below he draws two trapezoids - the base of the body. From the trapezoid we make lines for the arms and lines below for the legs. An important point is that the drawing is made larger in order to clearly display all the details.
- In the oval area, for accuracy, you can create auxiliary lines with thin strokes: one horizontally, just above the center of the oval, the second vertical, clearly in the center, crossing the area of the soldier’s future face. From the oval on the sides we draw ears with neat curved lines. Along the auxiliary horizontal line we add eyes and exactly above them two souls of eyebrows. In the lower part there will be a nose, and between the created details of the face. You can add bangs on top of the oval.
- Let's draw the cap. If it is difficult to replicate its shape, you can settle on a small triangle that “sits” exactly on top of the oval.
- From the oval down to the trapezoids with smooth lines.
- From the neck we move on to drawing the shape of the body, making the trapezoid less angular. At this stage, you can immediately work on such details as a collar, other clothing items in the form of a belt and shoulder straps.
- Don't forget about pockets, buttons and a star on the strap.
- The lower part is trousers. Kids should help with them, because not all little artists will be able to repeat the lines of the folds of trousers. We finish this part with boots.
- Step by step, slowly, we draw the arms and sleeves of the uniform, from which the soldier’s hands can be seen. It is not necessary to draw the hands in detail. Kids can stop at the schematic image.
One of the most exciting pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War was and remains the topic of wartime childhood. Children and teenagers worked on an equal basis with adults at enterprises and on collective farms, volunteered for the front and became children of regiments, donated their savings to the USSR Defense Fund 1 and joined partisan detachments. And on the pages of newspapers, children tried to keep up with adults: for example, to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda", as well as a number of other publications for children and youth that continued their work during the war years, children sent drawings, poems about the war and even caricatures in German soldier. Among the letters and drawings there are both childishly naive ones (see document No. 2) and letters from schoolchildren who tried to write and draw “like an adult.” In particular, the guys mastered caricatures of the enemy - a satirical genre, primarily characteristic of “adult” Soviet newspapers.
One of the most popular newspapers among schoolchildren was "Pionerskaya Pravda" - the printed organ of the Central and Moscow Komsomol Committees. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the structure of the newspaper was rebuilt taking into account wartime. Since June 1941, several special wartime columns appeared on the pages of “Pionerskaya Pravda”: “From the Soviet Information Bureau”, “Pionerskaya Piggy Bank of Scrap Metal”, etc. The satirical column “On the Bayonet” published stories, feuilletons, poems, and cartoons by newspaper workers and famous writers and poets, as well as readers. We publish several children's cartoons and letters to them below.
Drawings - children's weapons
Schoolchildren, to the best of their ability, tried to participate in the activities of the pioneer newspaper. Among the drawings you can find both not very skillful and quite professional ones. One of the basic principles has passed from the “adult” genre of caricatures to children’s caricatures, which also vary in execution technique – the depiction of an enemy with animalistic features, more like an animal than a person. Soviet soldiers and nurses in children's drawings were examples of heroism and selfless service to the Motherland.
In addition, schoolchildren responded vividly to stories about the exploits of Komsomol war heroes. Thus, the drawing by V. Arkhipovsky “The Death of “Tanya”” obviously depicts the execution of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who was captured by the Germans while performing a combat mission in the village of Petrishchevo. During interrogation, she introduced herself as Tanya, and for the first time they learned about her feat from the article “Tanya” by Pyotr Lidov, published in the newspaper Pravda on January 27, 1942.
Children's cartoons and drawings about the war, published below, are part of a set of documents collected during wartime for display at the exhibition "Komsomol in the Patriotic War" at the State Historical Museum (GIM).
Exhibitions about heroism
At a meeting of the Secretariat of the Komsomol Central Committee on May 2, 1942, an official decision was made to organize an exhibition 2 that would highlight the heroism of Komsomol members and youth in the fight against the enemy at the front and in the rear. Initially, the opening of the exhibition was scheduled for the anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War - June 22, 1942. In reality, the first exhibition was launched in 1943 at the State Historical Museum. About 40 artists and sculptors took part in the design of the exhibition. In 1944, the Central Committee of the Komsomol decided that the exhibition should display materials not only about the Komsomol, but also about Soviet youth as a whole, in connection with this the exhibition became known as “Komsomol and Youth in the Patriotic War.”
In January 1949, the exhibition “Komsomol and Youth in the Patriotic War” was included in the exhibition prepared for the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol (November 1948). In September 1949, this exhibition was named "Lenin-Stalin Komsomol". In July 1953, the exhibition was closed. Material exhibits of the exhibition were mainly transferred to Moscow museums - Historical, Revolution, and Soviet Army. Documents and some material relics were transferred to the archives of the Komsomol Central Committee. Later, the archive and museum collection of the Komsomol Central Committee was replenished with materials received from participants in the events and their relatives. Currently, the complex of exhibition documents is compiled by the M-7 fund "Documents of the exhibition of the Central Committee of the Komsomol "Lenin-Stalin Komsomol" (1942-1953)" RGASPI. Some materials from the exhibition are also included in fund N M-14 "Museum materials on the history of the youth movement in the USSR and Russia."
Published documents are stored in the M-7 fund of the RGASPI and are reproduced while maintaining spelling, punctuation and stylistic features of the texts.
The publication was prepared by the chief specialist of the department of scientific information work and scientific reference apparatus of the RGASPI Natalia Volkhonskaya.
Document No. 1.
Letter and cartoons by Oleg Tikhonov sent to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda"
Dear editors!
I am sending you two of my cartoons and asking you to write what is wrong with them (in the text). I live next to S. Sofronov, who sent you the cartoons. He is my friend. I lived in Moscow before and was at your editorial office of Pionerskaya Pravda, I don’t remember what year, but I only remember that I was there when the play “Gorky’s Childhood” was read. There were guys from the class in which I studied, namely: Yulia Rogova, Lenya Novobytov, Galya Osokina and me.
I would love to stay in Moscow, but circumstances were such that I had to go with my dad to Kirov, where I am now.
I am 16 years old, I live on Karl Marx Street, house 8, apt. 9. Tikhonov Oleg. I'll send you another cartoon soon.
Greetings - Oleg.
RGASPI. F. M-7. Op. 1. D. 3545. L. 1-3.
Document No. 2.
A letter from Valya Razbezhkina for an artilleryman with congratulations on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army, sent to the editorial office of the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda"
[February 1943]
Dear fighter!
I congratulate you on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army and wish you to quickly defeat these bastards and so that no ashes remain of them. I wish you to shoot down more fascist planes and, with the fire of your cannons, destroy all the tanks that are moving towards us in our beloved homeland. Slam and slam the German invaders. I am a student of Energy School No. 9. I ask you to quickly defeat the enemy and come to our school. I shake your hand firmly and wish you a quick victory. From Razbezhkina Valya.
Dear fighter
Congratulations on the 25th anniversary of the Red Army. To the best artilleryman of your unit, I ask you to accept my modest gift.
Ufa st. Volodarsky N 2
RUE N 9 1 [uch] 30 groups
Razbezhkina Valya.
RGASPI. F. M-7. Op. 1. D. 3545. L. 7-7v.
1. "Defense Fund" - a special fund that received voluntary donations from citizens and organizations of the USSR for the needs of the front during the Great Patriotic War. Materials on donations from Soviet and foreign citizens and institutions to the USSR Defense Fund (1942-1946) are stored in RGASPI (F. 628).
2. RGASPI. F. M-1. Op. 18. D. 1558. Personal file of Isaac-Alexander Moiseevich Yezersky. L. 14.
3. MJD - International Youth Day - an international youth holiday (1915-1945). Established by the decision of the Berne International Socialist Youth Conference in 1915 in order to mobilize youth to fight for peace. In 1916-1931 was celebrated on the first Sunday in September, and since 1932 - on September 1.
From the title it is already clear what we will talk about. We will study how to draw war with a pencil step by step. It won’t be Star Wars and Darth Vader, or even a shooter game, but a real war! Three soldiers in a trench, with piles of military equipment. In order to draw all this, you will need a lot of knowledge about military affairs. You can, of course, sit down to play WoT, but in the end you won’t draw anything. Who doesn’t know this is such a super action game with the participation of tanks, which has gathered a huge number of gamers in our country. By the way, the yellow-faced Chinese are no less interested in this. It seems that half of their population goes in for sports, judging by the number of Olympic medals in 2012, but the second is mired in the whirlpool of online games. For the fact that half of our population has been staring at the LCD monitor for two years now, at the same time managing to stain the gaming mouse with greasy fingers from dinner and pour coffee on the keyboard... let’s all say “Thank you” to Wargaming! Although God bless him. Now let's take a break from tanks and try to draw military actions with the participation of real ones. There are five steps ahead.
How to draw a war with a pencil step by step
Step one First, let's outline the people in motion. Head, position of the torso, arms, legs. 
Step two Now let's think about what will be around our soldiers: this is a fence, stones, logs. Let's show their outlines. 
Step three Let's dress our combatants: helmet, pants, boots. Let's equip one of them with a bag. Let’s draw the face profile of the one closest to us. We will surround the fence with barbed wire. 
Step Four Let's add details: barbs on the wire, belts on people's clothes, a spatula, etc. 
Step five Let's do the shading. There are darker areas on the clothing at the folds. Let's darken the areas on the pillars. Well, here are the soldiers against the backdrop of a military and completely unpicturesque landscape. 
See similar military equipment drawing lessons.
So today, continuing the military theme and ignoring all sorts of fantasy and the like, you and I will draw a really cool dude with a sniper rifle. In anticipation, I’ll tell you a little about snipers: So, a sniper is a specially trained dude who will give odds to any eagle eye, since, aiming at a small peephole, he manages to hit the target and hit that very target. Here are the types of snipers:
- Sniper saboteur. This is someone who appears in many computer games. Acts alone or with a partner. He tries in every possible way not to give himself away: quieter than water, lower than the grass, that is. It can kill at a distance of 1.5 - 2 kilometers. The weapon is a first-class, precision rifle with a silencer.
- Infantry sniper. Works alongside the infantry. It shoots at important targets with general bang, so it doesn’t really need a silencer. The distance is usually up to 400 meters, there is no time to take special aim.
- Police sniper. Well, this one is generally a loser compared to the previous two: it shoots at a distance of no more than two hundred meters. But not everything is so simple, it turns out. Usually the criminal is armed and has already pointed his gun at the helpless victim. So you need to shoot in such a way as to hit your finger and prevent this bastard from shooting.
So, let's get creative.
How to draw military equipment with a pencil step by step
Step one: Draw an oval head at the top of the sheet. From there downwards there is a large body. We will outline other parts of the body with large oval shapes. The man holds military equipment in his hands, but so far it is only an elongated figure. 
Step two We gradually transform all the defining details into the human body. Some details of the clothing are already visible. Let's give the rifle the desired shape. 
Step Three Draw the clothes: a T-shirt, a cap, rolled-up pants, and shoes. Let's pay more attention to weapons. It is squeezed by strong gloved fingers. By the way, there are folds on the trousers and gloves. Now let's move on to the face. The eyes are covered with dark glasses, and a small ear is clearly drawn. There is a thick beard on his face. 
Step Four Everything that we have drawn needs to be strengthened: outline, add lines, and then draw in the missing details. This is how we ended up with a strong man, holding a serious gun in his hands and carefully watching the target. 
I also advise you to look at drawing lessons for other types of weapons, for example.
In this lesson you can learn how to draw a soldier using a pencil and your own patience.
Previously, we have already drawn drawings on military themes:
In drawing a soldier, you may also find the “” lesson useful, but this is for in-depth understanding. So let's get started.
First we make a base-marking, such a frame for the body of our soldier. At the top there is an oval in the form of a head. Then it connects to the body of two trapezoids, then the line of the legs and also the lines of the arms. Did it look like the picture below? Let's move on.
Within the oval we need to draw the soldier’s head-face. First, we mark the oval with guide lines and draw ears on the sides. Draw the eyes and eyebrows along a horizontal line, and a little lower – the nose and mouth. Add lines to the ears, draw a little short hair of the soldier.
We draw a cap on top. Add its top, as well as a star. Let's finish drawing the neck.
So, our head is ready, we can finish drawing the collar and shoulders of our friend.
The next step will be to draw its shape, or rather its upper part. We draw shoulder straps and a belt.
Pockets, buttons and a star on the belt should also be depicted on the top of the form.
Now you need to draw the lower part - the trousers. Pay attention to the folds.
Don't forget to also draw the hands of our soldier in uniform. We draw the sleeves step by step, and then draw the palms. It won't be very easy for beginners to draw detailed hands, so everything is very sketchy.
All that remains is to draw the boots.
