How to draw space
How to draw space
How to Draw Space and Planets
Learn how to draw a great looking Space and Planets with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial. You can now easily create a beautiful Space and Planets drawing.
«Space, the final frontier. »
— Star Trek
Space exploration has long been of interest to both the scientific and science fiction communities. Since ancient times, astronomers have looked to the heavens and tried to understand their observations.
During the 1600s, Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope, which allowed scientists to get their first up-close glimpses of what lay among the stars.
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Science fiction added imaginative aspects to space exploration, namely that of people traveling long distances across the universe. Since the 1960s, space-themed television shows and movies, including Star Trek and Star Wars have been extremely popular.
Would you like to draw outer space, complete with galaxies and planets? This easy, step-by-step astronomical drawing tutorial is here to help. All you will need is a pencil, an eraser, and a sheet of paper. You may also wish to color your finished drawing.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Earth, Moon, and Galaxy.
Step by Step Instructions for Drawing Space and Planets
1. Begin by drawing a circle. This will form your first planet.
2. Draw an oval passing through the planet. Then, draw a smaller oval inside the first. This will form the planet’s rings, like those of Saturn.
3. Erase the guide lines from the planet’s rings.
4. Draw a second circle. This will form a second planet.
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How to Draw a Space Shuttle
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6. Draw a series of curved lines of different lengths emerging from a central point in the shape of a spiral. Add dots as well. This forms a spiral galaxy.
7. Use a series of overlapping curved lines to draw a rounded shape. This will form an irregular planet or moon.
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How to Draw a UFO
How to Draw a Galaxy
How to Draw an Astronaut
8. Detail the moon with spiral shapes, curved lines, and dots.
9. Draw an oval. Then, draw curved lines in a circle around it. This forms another spiral galaxy. Then, draw a sky full of five-pointed stars.
Color Your Space and Planets Drawing
Color the universe you’ve just created. The background of such a starry sky is typically dark, in blue or black. The planets, stars, and galaxies can display a range of stunning colors.
Need more space? Check out our manmade objects drawing guides, where you’ll find more cool tech like a jet plane, a UFO, and a robot. Then, set the scene with galaxies, the planet earth, and the moon. You can even populate your drawing with slimey aliens!
For more great Drawing Ideas tutorials, see the 100 Easy and Fun Drawing Ideas post.
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J. Logan Carey
Outer space in illustrations is full of stars, planets, galaxies, moons, asteroids, spaceships, wormholes, and the occasional elder god on his way to work. So I’ve gathered a variety of tutorials and tips for drawing everything cosmic for this post.
Don’t worry about the specific app or medium used to create these drawings. Observe and learn the technique and you can recreate it on anything. Watching a tutorial about an app you don’t have? You can probably find an equivalent brush in whatever you’re using. Same goes for digitally emulating traditional art mediums. Whatever app you’re in, chances are, there’s a brush for that. The technique and philosophy behind any piece of art is universal and translating it with your chosen tool is what makes your art yours.
Delta Cancri 4, the fourth planet in orbit around the double star known as Delta Cancri in the constellation of Cancer from Zodiac. Done in Procreate.
A dead astronaut splash page I did in Autodesk Sketchbook that will appear in the Cancer chapter of Zodiac.
Video Tutorials
I’ve combed the internet to find some of the most useful video tutorials out there on creating space artwork. The mediums are different, but all could be adapted to your own needs and tools.
James Julier uses Procreate to show us how to easily create a random field of stars and some glowing galaxies and nebulae.
James Julier uses Procreate to show us how to easily create a field of stars and a glowy galaxy.
How to draw the planets of the solar system (+ coloring)
The space attracts not only scientists. It is an eternal theme for drawing. We can’t see everything with our own eyes, of course. But photos and videos which were taken by the astronauts defies our imagination.
We’ll try to depict the space in our instruction. This lesson is simple, but it will help a child to understand the location of each planet.
Main circle
Draw a large circle on the right side of the sheet first. If you don’t have a compass, you can circle a round object.
Orbits
Draw the planets’ orbits from the center, which are at the same distance from each other.
Central part
The circles become gradually bigger. They will not fully fit, of course, that’s why draw the semi-circles.
Planets’ orbits never intersect, otherwise they will collide to each other.
Finish the orbits’ drawing
The entire sheet of paper should be covered with the semi-circles. We know only nine planets. But what if the far away orbits have also celestial bodies that move in the most distant orbits.
Make the central circle a little bit less and circle it with the help of the thick line to let the Sun stand out in the background of another orbits.
Mercury, Venus and Earth
Now we start drawing the planets. You should arrange them in a certain order. Every planet has its own orbit. The Mercury goes near the Sun, the Venus is on the second orbit behind the Mercury, the third planet is the Earth.
Mars, Saturn and Neptune
The Mars is near the Earth. It’s a little bit smaller than the Earth. Leave the fifth orbit vacant. The following circles are the Saturn and the Neptune. These celestial bodies are called the planets-giants because they are ten times bigger than the Earth.
Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto
Another planet is between the Saturn and the Neptune – it’s the Uranus. Draw it from the side in order the images can’t be in touch.
The biggest planet of the Solar system is the Jupiter. That’s why we’ll draw it aside, away from the other planets. Add the smallest celestial body on the ninth orbit – it’s the Pluto.
Saturn’s rings
The Saturn is known for its rings which are around it. Draw a few ovals in the center of the planet. Draw rays of different sizes which go from the Sun.
Planets’ surfaces
The surface of each planet is not the same. Even the Sun has different shades and black spots. Draw the surface with the help of the circles and the semicircles on each planet.
Draw a fog on the Jupiter’s surface. There are often the sandstorms on this planet and it’s covered with clouds.
The last details are the concentric circles on the Sun. Draw the shadow on some planets, separating it with the help of the semi-circle. You can also draw the Earth’s satellite near it – the Moon.
Coloring
The space is dark blue. The Sun is yellow, the Mercury is grey, the Venus and the Jupiter are brown. The Earth is green-blue. The Mars is red, the Neptune is green, The Saturn is of a sand color and its rings are white or light blue because they are icy. The Uranus is blue and the Neptune is grey-black. You can also add other details: stars, comets and asteroids.
We have another interesting offer for you except drawing – color the space online. Be sure, it is a very interesting activity!
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I congratulate all on the greatest event in history! Today, on the 6 th of August 2012, mars rover Curiosity landed near the Martian crater Gale.
Where are we from? Why are we the way we are? People never stop in their development. Human abilities become more and more perfect each day. Though we live not too long, but with the help of modern technologies our kids develop so fast, that a modern child seems to be a scientist in comparison to people who lived 200 years ago.
You don’t believe me? I will prove it. In this very moment you, my dear friends, are at your computers looking for drawing lessons, aren’t you? But to find them you use much knowledge and skills that ancient people didn’t possess, such as:
Are you still not sure? You possess more knowledge than advanced programmers 30 years ago. Try to explain your grandpa how to Google or that you can easily walk across any city in the world with the help of Google maps!
So, who are we? Why can’t our cat type though he lives together with us? We are different. Perhaps from another planet! No one can answer those questions for sure. So people started to explore space. They are sure they will find the answer there! Good luck to them!
How to draw a space step by step
Step 1. We draw rounded planet shape and the contours of the landscape.
Step 2. In the foreground we draw 2 cosmonauts.
Step 3. Now we do hatching.
Step 4. We draw the stars in the sky. We show several craters of the moon.
Perhaps the scientists will manage to find life on the moon and soon we will be able to fly to Mars as it was shown in 5 th element.
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How to Draw a Perspective Landscape
How to Draw a Perspective Landscape
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Learning how to draw perspective is one of those art techniques that gets kids to sit up and take notice. Part of the excitement is realizing that art has rules. Kids are aware of the basic meaning of perspective, but when you actually show them what the vanishing point is and how it relates to the size of objects, its truly an aha moment. That’s why I created this perspective landscape to help implement the understanding of perspective.
DRAWING A DESERT PERSPECTIVE LANDSCAPE
For this perspective lesson I thought it would be interesting to have a different view point. Instead of placing the vanishing point on the (horizontal) horizon line like the lesson referenced above, I placed it off to the edge of one side of the paper. It is still located on the horizon line, just not in the middle of the paper.
These amazing desert perspective landscapes took my 5th grade students between 3-5, 45-minutes sessions to finish.
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