How to draw a baby in a diaper, full-length and sitting step-by-step in pencil: tips for future artists

If you are reading this article, you probably like to draw. Here we will try to explain in the clearest possible way how you should draw a baby. Take into account all our tips and comments. In this case, we guarantee that after reading this article you will definitely succeed!

Tips for beginner artists

I want to begin this article with a few things that not all beginners know about. Be sure to read these tips, they will be useful to you.

• Buy pencils of different hardness.

No matter how banal this tip is, but you can't do without it. Pencils of different hardness are the most important attribute of any artist! If you want to make professional drawings with a pencil, be kind enough to buy a set of pencils.

A medium-hard pencil (HB) and all soft pencils (up to and including B7) are a must.

• Learn anatomy!

If you want to make portraits of people, including children, then the knowledge of facial proportions, structure and features is a must! Pay attention to this and spend time if you plan to become a portrait painter.

• Practice, practice and practice again!!!

Without constant practice you will not learn to draw at a professional level. That's why we try to devote every free minute to drawing! The time you invest will surely pay off in the future.

• Do not make exact copies of drawings!

It is not conducive to your development as an artist, in sketching you will trivially stand still. Learn to feel the drawing, develop your eye sight and you will be happy.

• Once you are done, mirror your image.

This is a good tip for portrait painters who want to test the symmetry of their work. If you make your drawing a mirror image (with the camera in many cell phones), you will be able to see all the mistakes and correct them.

• Constantly learn, learn something new

Yes, as trivial as it may be, it is a must for every artist. I advise to watch a large number of training videos, read useful articles on the Internet (for example, ours).

About books, too, should not be forgotten. Now there is a lot of interesting literature that will broaden your horizons and give you a new perspective on drawing!

Now let's move on to our options for drawing a baby. Here are 4 ways for you to draw a baby. These options are suitable for artists of different levels.

1. Drawing a baby in a diaper
2. Drawing a full size baby
3. A picture of a sitting baby
4. Portrait of a baby

Drawing of a cartoon baby in a diaper

Perfect for those of you who find newborns adorable. There is nothing super-complicated in this drawing, beginners will be able to perform this image without problems, following the steps outlined below:

1. We start our drawing with the image of a diaper, resembling a cocoon of caterpillars (remember the zoology of invertebrates).
2. The continuation of the cocoon will be the baby's rounded head. Here we sketch our future eyes, nose, lips, draw ears
3. Draw eyes, nose, lips, remove unnecessary lines. If desired, you can paint in color or make it in black and white.

Drawing a full-length baby

This is where your imagination can run wild, because you can depict both a one-year-old baby and a relatively grown-up twelve-year-old child, so we can give you sound advice depending on the age of the child you're depicting.

Let's give you some important information about the peculiarities of the facial and body structure:

• Peculiarities of Facial Structure

I want to ask the legitimate question, "So how do you draw a baby's face?" In order to depict a baby's face, there are some anatomical features to consider, about that below:

1. The chin is poorly developed, and unlike teens and adults, it cannot reach the level of the upper lip.
2. The eyes appear large because of a fully formed iris. Other parts of the face are not formed. In the future, adolescents will grow all the segments of the face and the eyes will no longer be large.
3. The eyebrows are as close to the nose as possible, as the face itself is small and there is simply nowhere for them to be positioned.

The face of a teenager is drawn in much the same way as the face of an adult. The difference between teenagers and adults lies in the lack of maturity of the former. Teenagers have residual anatomical details in the face from infants, but it is more mature and formed.

• Peculiarities of the body structure

Few people know the characteristic features of the child's calf. And they must be taken into account when creating a drawing of an infant. Here are examples of the main ones:

1. A large head on the background of a small body.
2. Absence of a clearly pronounced neck. Elongated "swan" neck appears only in adolescence.
3. The torso is disproportionate to the body of an adult.
4. Short legs.

If you are familiar with these tips, it will be easy for you to draw a full-length baby.

Drawing a sitting baby.

For this kind of creation, you need to remember again about anatomy. It is obligatory to know the peculiarities of babies and their sitting position. Let's look at how you can draw an infant in a sitting position:

1. Let's start drawing with a sketch of the torso in medium-hard pencil. The head is slightly tilted downward. The hands should lie on the floor - they serve as a support for our baby.
2. Try to outline the silhouette, to highlight clearly the torso, head, arms and legs. Sketch eyes, lips and nose, draw ears.
3. Draw fingers and toes, remove unnecessary lines, trying to correct anything that can be corrected.
4. We complete our drawing with the eyes, lips and nose. We erase unnecessary lines, outline the contours with a soft pencil, hatch the body and face. For shading, use soft pencil 2B. If you wish, you can choose a softer pencil.

Portrait of a child

If you ask artists what is the hardest thing to draw, most will answer without hesitation: "Portrait!" And that's all for a reason. Here, as in the previous drawings, it is necessary to take into account all the anatomical features of an infant, teenager, adult or elderly person.

Only this time it is necessary to do it especially precisely. But do not worry, we will try to help you easily and simply, step by step to convey information about the construction of the portrait of a child.

P.S. Before reading any further text, I advise you to go back above and remember about the anatomy of the baby's face. Here Let's look at the portrait of a baby in profile:

So how do you draw baby portraits with a pencil? I offer you an algorithm, qualitatively performing which you will be able to perform the drawing at a high level:

1. At the very beginning it is necessary to divide a square on the sheet, which we will then divide into 4 equal sections. In the lower right square we shall draw a circle - these are the contours of our kid's face
2. Let's depict in this circle the shape of the face together with the lips, nose and chin. With the help of curved lines in the remaining sections of the square, finish drawing the child's head, thus completing our sketch.
3. Draw the details of the child, clearly highlighting the eyes, ear, nose and mouth, not forgetting about the anatomical features.
4. We get rid of unnecessary lines with the eraser, remove the square and the circle in one of its sections. At this stage, we try to correct the details and get closer to the original.
5. We shade the child's face, in order to give volume to our creation. We shade the eyes, nose and mouth, shade the pupil (this is the darkest part of the face in any portrait) and make a flare on it with an eraser.
6. We are trying to make the face darker with a soft pencil, we are trying to shade the ear with the help of medium-hard (HB) and soft (B2 and above) pencils, we are doing the same with the hair and making it in the form of curved lines.
7. Compare with the original, trying to achieve perfection in shading and shading.
8. Show your painting to all your family, relatives and friends, post your painting on Internet forums. If you are considering drawing as your main or additional source of income, sell your picture over the Internet on all kinds of sites.

In this article we have tried to show you different variants of baby pictures and have given you some tips as a beginner (we are sure that most of the people reading this are just beginning their journey as artists).

We believe that you will definitely succeed in drawing both a baby in a diaper and the most difficult one presented - a portrait of a baby. We wish you good luck in your difficult, thorny path!

Pictures of baby drawings in pencil