Drawing Fairies

Is my Fairy sitting in a flower, climbing in a tree or possibly sitting on a teacup?

The possibilities are endless.

Everything in the world could have fascination for a fairy, so they might be there.

Want to draw fairies like these?

Click images to find out how...

Free Lesson Begins

Most fairies are very tiny and live among the flowers, or any small item. How about learning how to draw a flower.

Sometimes I will show them sitting on a mushroom...

or walking among long tall stalks of grass, etc.

Any item that shows their size will help create the illusion of a tiny world. Fairies are tiny little people, and learning to draw figures can help with your fairy drawing.

After all, perhaps it is a world we overlook?

Maybe if we look closer we will see them!

One of the first things we think about when we imagine fairies are wings.

The first group of pictures I want you to try and draw are wings.

Let's start with them.

Butterfly Wings

Practice with the shape.

Remember that you are Drawing Fairies and that any shape you can imagine would work - why not?

Next are the Petal Shaped Wings.

Petal Wings

Bat Wings

Angel Wings

We can play with combinations of these shapes and you can create many new ones when Drawing Fairies.

Once we have mastered drawing wing shapes, let's tackle some figures that are in a little more flexible positions than the ones in my Drawing Figures section.

In order to really master Drawing Fairies you should go and practice a human figure.

Here I am presenting a couple of figures in different positions.

Sitting Figure

Give these some practice and we will move on.

Standing Figure

Climbing Figure

I have some fairly simple ideas here!

Once we have drawn a figure and added wings, we can put it all together with some lovely hair.

Fairy Hair

are some funny ears or strange hats.

You can experiment all you want, because fairies are a bit like elves, and they will wear anything on their heads to make a hat!

Hats or Ears

I'm going to choose the sitting fairy above, and I will first sketch in some wings.

Think about the position of the wings and if you aren't sure, wait till further on in the drawing.

Sometimes when I'm not sure of something in a drawing I wait and let the picture show me what it should look like.

I know that sounds strange, but we have a very smart subconscious mind that is always working once you have decided on something.

It will start to give you the answer...

Enough! If it sounds a little spiritual you are right.

Now, you can see how I seemed to have added only one wing, well... I'm thinking

Next let's add some hair - my favorite part.

Didn't choose something too fancy here, but...

next let's move onto clothes, and if you are interested in designing clothes check out my Fairy Paper Dolls section.

One of my paper dolls is an Adventuress, kind of Goth and Medieval.

Speaking of Medieval, that's what I'm going to put on our sitting fairy - a Medieval Costume.

Well, not bad!

What do you think? Have you been experimenting?

Feel free to check out my Fairies to Color page, and get some more ideas.

The most important thing is to have fun, and...

let your imagination go wild.

Continue Your Drawing Adventure

Once you have a person drawn, why not consider adding another creature to your fairy art? For a real fairy tale I would add a Dragon Drawing, or put your great fairy with, or on a horse.

All of drawing should be a blast, so relax and create a great fairy and dragon picture.

Add Some Color

Remember to study color, and how to build your fairy drawing, here is a link to my Color Wheel.

Here is a page that step by step shows how to build the color, and teaches How To Color.

Keep in mind that there are no rules about color, although there are general ideas that you can experiment with, really in art, there are no rules.

Enjoy.



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