How to Draw a Gingerbread House
In this lesson, I suggest you learn how to draw a gingerbread house. This lesson will be very unusual and exciting for each of you.
So, I have prepared for you a wonderful drawing lesson in which I will tell and show you how to draw a gingerbread house step by step. This tutorial is sure to cheer you up and get you in the festive Christmas spirit. After all, it is with Christmas that we most often associate a gingerbread house.
This tutorial will be quite simple, as I created it specifically for beginner artists and kids. By learning how to draw a gingerbread house with this tutorial, you will be able to decorate a holiday card with this image, draw a still life with this dessert, and depict it as the main subject of your drawing.
Surely each of you has ever seen a gingerbread house. The gingerbread house is a house-shaped confection made from sweet dough and decorated with icing. Usually, various patterns, as well as the outlines of windows, doors and roof topography, are painted on gingerbread cookies in the shape of houses using a special sugar glaze.
Also, gingerbread houses are typically decorated with confectionery sprinkles, marmalade, marshmallows, caramel candies, various dyes are used to create multicolored glaze. Gingerbread houses come in different sizes, they can have different patterns. Typically, it is customary to bake gingerbread houses with the whole family on Christmas Eve, and then treat their friends and acquaintances, congratulating them on the New Year and Christmas.
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 35 minutes
How to Draw a Gingerbread House
- Draw the outlines of the roof of the house.
To complete this step, you need to draw a long, curved line, as shown in the picture.
- Add outlines to the bottom of the gingerbread house.
Connect the two ends of the previously drawn line by adding another curved line.
- Depict the pipe on the gingerbread house.
At the top of the drawn roof of the house, draw the pipe using a curved line and circles.
- Start drawing decorative elements.
At the top of the roof of the gingerbread house, draw shapes using wavy lines.
- Finish drawing the outline of the roof.
Below the previously drawn shapes, draw another shape using wavy lines.
- Add the decorative elements and the door.
Draw curved lines and one circle inside the previously drawn outline of the gingerbread house.
- Draw the windows of the gingerbread house.
To represent the windows, draw eight circles on the sides of the gingerbread house as shown.
- Sketch out the window to the top of the gingerbread house.
Depict another window on the roof of the gingerbread house using curved lines.
- Color the drawing.
To color the gingerbread house, use different shades of beige and pink.
For your convenience, I have prepared a PDF file that contains all the useful information from this lesson, as well as additional practice materials that will help you develop your artistic abilities. You can download this file right now, so you don’t lose it in the future, and return to this tutorial even without an internet connection.
