Backgrounds for your creativity

Backgrounds for your creativity: ideas and their implementation.
Dear scrapbook paper from the store, you can easily find a replacement. Let's look at some interesting options for turning simple sheets of paper into colorful and interesting backgrounds for decorating postcards, albums, smartbooks and art books. And we need the simplest materials that everyone has on the table.
Option number 1.
What we need?
- Photo or printed picture (preferably in bright colors)
- A small piece of cardboard (6x6 cm will be enough)
- Black gel pen
- Scissors.
The first step is to make a blank template. Let's draw a seagull on a piece of cardboard. An alternative to this: print the following graphic on the printer.
Cut out a drawn / printed bird.
Then, by attaching the template to the selected photo, we outline the silhouette of the bird with a pencil. Repeat this several times until the entire image is filled with seagulls. It’s best to start with a pencil stroke to see where the birds will be located without mistaking them too far or too close.
After that, we begin to draw each gull with a gel pen.
Here is the end result. Move on.
Option number 2.
It’s even easier with it: you only need paper, a pencil and a black gel pen.
We draw feathers with a simple pencil, as in the photo. Remember: these are just sketches, pencil lines will be erased, so there is no point in carefully displaying each of them, again just outline the future location of the subject.
When done, go to the gel pen. Draw the "core" of the pen.
Then the silhouette of a pen.
Then add the transverse lines.
Fill some of them with small patterns, you can also circle the feathers with a dashed line.
Done!
Option number 3.
Again a simple set: felt-tip pens (or markers), a simple pencil and a sheet of paper.
Draw the entire sheet into small squares or a grid - as you like best. You can draw by hand.
Now work for the patient: draw and paint in these cells many small triangles.
Painstakingly, but the result is worth it!
Further.
Option number 4.
Materials:
- Watercolor
- paper
- brush
- A jar of water
- A small piece of cardboard
- Pencil and scissors.
From a cardboard we cut out a circle. No compasses, we draw everything by hand, as irregularities are only welcome. Fill the whole sheet with circles.
We turn the circles into slices of orange.
We pass to paints. Dip the brush into the water and pick up a little bit of yellow paint, so that the color is not very saturated. We paint the veins.
Then we collect bright orange paint and paint over the edible part of the fruit, leaving small gaps.
We’ll use the orange paint again, but this time it should be darker. We paint over the peel of an orange.
Here is the result.
Option number 5.
Again, you will need watercolor, paper, as well as a black pen.
This time without a template. We fill the whole sheet with pineapples in pencil.
We paint the fruit with yellow paint, the leaves with green paint, all colors are bright and saturated.
When the paint dries, circle the pineapples with a black pen and add small details.
Option number 6.
On the table should be:
- paper
- Cardboard for the template
- Stationery knife
- Purple and orange felt-tip pens
- A black pen and a simple pencil.
We make a template: draw a simplified muzzle of a fox.
Using a clerical knife, cut it out. Both parts come in handy.
Fill the whole sheet again with the selected drawing.
Using the second part of the template, we complete the work.
And the last: we draw to the pens each muzzle.
That's all! Good luck to you!