All children love to draw and often ask their parents what is best for them to draw. Creativity develops children's imagination and helps to explore the world Therefore, it is important to respond to such requests and help the baby. Moreover, the choice is great and diverse, although most of all little artists love to draw cartoon characters, even if they do not quite get it right.

To suggest a pirate, it is enough to break the picture into its component parts and learn how to draw them step by step. Or try to make a drawing yourself, enjoy the creative process and have fun with your child. Usually the process brings no less satisfaction than the result.

The better to draw

When choosing tools for a future children's masterpiece, it is better to opt for colored pencils. All children love to draw with them, and the more colors and shades in the palette, the brighter the children's imagination manifests itself. To help the child, you can draw a pirate with a pencil, and let him decorate.

Draw with a simple pencil or a pen the child will be uncomfortable, at least until a certain age. It's not as fun as It also raises doubts about how to draw a pirate with felt-tip pens. After all, any line will remain on paper forever, and the child may be nervous because he did not turn out the way he wanted.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing a pirate

Despite the fact that the finished drawings of sea robbers look bright and difficult, it is not difficult to draw a pirate in stages. To do this, you can follow the step-by-step instructions:

1. It's better to start with a hat. Simple arcs inside which you can draw a skull.
2. Eyes and a beard are attached to the cap. One eye should be covered with a black bandage.
3. Next, you need to depict the nose and mustache. The pirate will be scary and terrible.
4. After that, you need to draw the ears and teeth. For greater intimidation, one tooth can be depicted as knocked out.
5. When the pirate's head is ready, you can proceed to the body. First draw the sleeves. Instead of one hand - a hook, in the other - a pirate saber.
6. After that, the torso must be extended to the bottom, draw a caftan, buttons and a belt.
7. Complete the drawing of the pirate with the foot and crutch.

The result is a strict but rather cute sea robber that will amuse every child. Having decorated the first one, you can explain to the kid how to draw a pirate on his own, and help him in this process.

What else to draw

In addition to the pirate, you can draw a lot of things in the same subject. Only some ships impress with their diversity, especially since the complexity of the drawing can be selected depending on the age of the child and his skills as an artist. Pirates come in different genders, so even girls will be interested in drawing something unusual and colorful.

By drawing a ship, pirates and the island where they buried the treasure, you can come up with a whole story of their adventures. The child will be interested. And in the process of drawing to develop communication skills, fine motor skills and color perception.

What to do with drawings

It is not enough to teach a child how to draw a pirate, you also need to decide what to do with the many creative masterpieces that he will create daily. There are not so few options:

• make a frame and hang the picture on the wall;
• create a pirate exhibition of works, including many drawings;
• give the resulting masterpiece to grandparents;
• make a pirate postcard and present it to your friends.

An older child can try to come up with a story himself, write it on sheets and accompany it with his own drawings. Such a mini-book about pirates will become the real pride of the little creator and his parents.

Which of the boys did not read books about these fearless sea robbers in childhood. "Treasure Island" and "The Adventures of Ben Gan", "Odyssey of Captain Blood" and "Heir from Calcutta", "Black Corsair" and "Black Swan".

We imagined ourselves at the helm of a caravel or a brigantine, sailing on adventures and treasure hunts. We ran as fast as we could to watch movies about pirates, and then played in the yards on imaginary ships with sabers roughly cut from a suitable branch or board.

Let's remember the most famous fictional and real pirates

The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word pirate is, of course, John Silver

"Ham", "Long John", "One-Legged". Despite his cruelty, he always aroused sympathy in me.

John Silver has a prosthetic leg in place of his left leg, which he lost in battle. He often has his parrot named "Captain Flint" on his shoulder. The parrot can speak, most often he shouts out "Piastres, piastres, piastres!"

"Some were afraid of Pugh, others - Flint. And Flint himself was afraid of me"

Only Silver's popularity can be argued with Jack Sparrow(and modern children even bypass it)

A colorful, mannered pirate captain. The protagonist series of films "Pirates" caribbean”, brilliantly played by Johnny Depp.

Henry Morgan

Real-life English navigator, pirate, privateer, later planter and vice-governor on the island of Jamaica. 90% of Captain Blood's adventures are written off straight from his biography

Captain Peter Blood

Former doctor, victim of circumstances, Irish by birth, one of the most successful pirates in the Caribbean. The hero of pirate novels by Rafael Sabatini and many films

Edward Teach

"Blackbeard". Considered by many to be the toughest pirate of all time. Teach served as a prototype for the image of Captain Flint in R. Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island"

William Kidd

An illustrious British privateer whose treasures are sought to this day. William Kidd's actual exploits as a privateer and pirate were noticeably inferior to the glory of other pirates of the time, but thanks to the efforts of writers who discovered an interest in the adventures of a terrible robber, Captain William Kidd became one of the most famous pirates in history.

James Hook

Better known as Captain Hook, calls himself Jez Hook - the character of the book "Peter Pan" by J. Barry, the captain of the pirates from the island of Netine will be, the eternal enemy of Peter Pan

Captain Flint

Fictional captain of the Walrus pirate ship from the novel Treasure Island. Ronald Frederick Delderfield, in his novel The Adventures of Ben Gunn, gives a more detailed description of Flint than Stevenson. After reading this novel, you can find out the character of this character, his life story, and also where the Walrus came from.

Since the conversation turned to Silver and Flint, let's mention two more very charismatic pirates from their company

Billy Bones

Bones was the navigator on Captain Flint's ship. Along with the "lanky" John Silver, he was one of the close associates of the leader. According to the memoirs of Silver and other pirates, he was distinguished by cruelty: "Billy was hard on hand and quick to punish ...". His favorite saying was "the dead don't bite". After the death of Flint, he took possession of the map of Treasure Island, becoming a target for the rest of the pirates.

Blind Pew

One of the brightest characters in Treasure Island. Even blind, he led a pirate gang and was not afraid to come with a black mark to Billy Bones

Francis Drake

English navigator, corsair, vice admiral. First Englishman to circumnavigate the world. An active participant in the defeat of the Spanish fleet (Invincible Armada) in the Battle of Gravelines, thanks to the skillful actions of Drake, the British managed to gain an advantage over the superior firepower of the enemy forces. He became famous for unprecedented cruelty and incredible luck.

Surcouf

A pirate baron in the truest sense of the word, the owner of a fleet of 19 ships, who received the title of baron personally from Napoleon for his success as a corsair. The French even have good tradition name ships after this pirate

Madame Wong

Well, I decided to finish the theme of pirates with one of Bulychev's most popular characters - space pirates

Veselchak U and Rats

The first appearance of the Rat and Veselchak U is in 1974 in the story "Alice's Journey"

They gained the greatest popularity after the release of the TV movie "Guest from the Future" where the role of the Rat was played by actor Mikhail Kononov, the role of Veselchak U - Vyacheslav Innocent

Of course, these are not all famous pirates. If you want to add to this list, I will only be happy.

Arrrr, land rats. I can't set foot on earth and sand, the sea - that's life, that's freedom. Treasures, eternal drunken swimming, racketeering and blackmail, big guns and. Rum, rum, rum. Oh yes, kids, now you will find out. Do you know what is more beautiful than open space, hidden treasures, harsh everyday life on deck and a bottle of rum? Piracy dates back to the time when people realized that the sea is not a bad way to travel. Minus - nowhere to dump. Plus - sirens, huge ferocious squids. In general, it's not boring. But there are always people who think What? - and they will sink the ship, taking with them everything that is luminous and golden. And women. And alcohol. And when you're doing something exciting, you need to name it. This is where the concept of piracy comes in.

But this was not enough. We need symbolism, something that distinguishes pirates from ordinary mortals. This is how the Jolly Roger appeared - a skull with knuckles on the canvas. If suddenly, quite imperceptibly and quietly, a boat sailed up to you with a flag depicting an hourglass - this meant very interesting thing. It said: We do not take prisoners for ransom. Will die. Everyone will die, that is.

Now closer to the water. There are a few things that you terrestrial people might know, but it's useless, since you don't know everything correctly. Listen here:

• If you think that all pirates were one-eyed because they wear blindfolds, you are ignorant, monsieur. All because there was no electricity, there was only water all around, and the hold was as dark as a night in Uganda. For this, one eye sees in the dark, the other in the light of God's day. Simple and brilliant.
• If you think pirate earrings are all the rage, you're twice as ignorant, señor. The life of a pirate is hard, you can die at any second, and who will arrange the funeral? Who will invite classmates and former lovers to the rest of the soul? None. And who will pay? But this issue was resolved in this way - the earrings were expensive, and their price was quite enough to bury the pirate with honors. Or to feed one African tribe for a week.
• Well, if you think that software piracy is when someone surfs the Internet on their modem and steals files, then forgive me, of course. And although modern piracy is not so seaworthy and johohoshno, it brings no less hemorrhoids to ordinary people. And in their native Russia, almost everyone uses the product of the separation of pirate organizations.

But don't think pirates still exist. Have you heard of ship hijackings? Pirates have not disappeared anywhere, as long as there are maps of undiscovered treasures. And you try your luck and draw a pirate girl. Let's try. Take a chance.

How to draw a pirate with a pencil step by step

Step one. Yes, the girl is a pirate. And there have been. With sticks we draw such a little man with a saber and a hat. We skip some sticks, girl, after all. Step two. The stereotype says that pirate girls were like modern models Victoria Secret, which means that her figure is still the same. With contours we draw beautiful shapes, long legs and a large saber. And a feather on a hat, of course. Step three. We remove unnecessary lines, putties, contours. We leave a beautiful body to be torn to pieces by a pencil. A little fluff on the trousers, ribbons on the hat, various lotions, and so on, as you can see. Step four. More, more goodies! We'll fix the belt there, more trinkets in the chest, belt, wrists. Pirates liked to carry all the loot, whatever it was. Stylish, promising, extravagant. Step five. Let's try to make a beautiful face. Well, and most importantly - Roger on the hat. Now it is clear that this is a pirate. You can also take a look here, I highly recommend trying it.