Penguins in Antarctica, children's drawings. How to draw a penguin: interesting facts, stages

  • 30.08.2019

" article Antarctica - beautiful photos. Where we bring to your attention the most diverse species of Antarctica.

Antarctica - beautiful photos for your attention. By the way, as a child I had a problem - the names Arctic and Antarctica were confused. To figure it out, I had to remember that anti-Arctida is on the opposite side of Arctida, that is, the Arctic. That is, Antarctica is the south pole of the Earth.

Antarctica (Greek ἀνταρκτικός - the opposite of the Arctic) is a continent located in the very south of the Earth, the center of Antarctica approximately coincides with the south geographic pole. Antarctica is washed by the waters of the Southern Ocean.

Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth; the average height of the continent's surface above sea level is more than 2000 m, and in the center of the continent it reaches 4000 meters.

B O Most of this height is made up of the permanent ice cover of the continent, under which the continental relief is hidden and only 0.3% (about 40 thousand km²) of its area is free from ice - mainly in West Antarctica and the Transantarctic Mountains: islands, sections of the coast, etc. n. “dry valleys” and individual ridges and mountain peaks (nunataks) rising above the icy surface.

The Transantarctic Mountains, crossing almost the entire continent, divide Antarctica into two parts:

  • West Antarctica and
  • East Antarctica,

having different origins and geological structures.

On east there is a high (highest elevation of the ice surface ~4100 m above sea level) ice-covered plateau. The western part consists of a group of mountainous islands connected by ice. The Antarctic Andes are located on the Pacific coast. The Antarctic Peninsula is an extension of the South American Andes, which stretch in the direction south pole slightly evading it into the western sector.

IN Western Antarctica is located and deepest depression continent - the Bentley depression, probably of rift origin. The depth of the ice-filled Bentley Trench reaches 2555 m below sea level.

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest on our planet and is approximately 10 times larger in area than the next largest, the Greenland Ice Sheet. It contains ~30 million km³ of ice, that is, 90% of all land ice. Due to the severity of the ice, as geophysics studies show, the continent subsided by an average of 0.5 km, as evidenced by its relatively deep shelf.

The ice sheet has a dome shape with increasing surface steepness towards the coast, where it is framed in many places by ice shelves. The average thickness of the ice layer is 2500-2800 m, reaching a maximum value in some areas of East Antarctica - 4800 m.

Antarctica has an extremely harsh cold climate. In East Antarctica, at the Soviet Antarctic station Vostok, on July 21, 1983, the lowest air temperature on Earth in the entire history of meteorological measurements was recorded: 89.2 degrees below zero.

Due to the fact that not only the average annual temperature, but also in most areas even summer temperatures in Antarctica do not exceed zero degrees, precipitation there falls only in the form of snow (rain is an extremely rare occurrence). However, there are lakes in Antarctica, and in summer time and rivers. The rivers are fed by glaciers.

Thanks to intense solar radiation, due to the exceptional transparency of the air, the melting of glaciers occurs even at slightly negative air temperatures.

On the surface of the glacier, often at a considerable distance from the coast, streams of melt water form. The most intense melting occurs near oases, next to rocky soil heated in the sun. Open channels usually end before reaching the sea or lake, and the watercourse makes its way further under the ice or in the thickness of the glacier, like underground rivers in karst areas.

Antarctica is truly a beautiful place. It's just very cold.



On New Year You can draw not only Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, but also Arctic seabirds - penguins. Let's add some New Year's attributes to make the drawing smell of holiday. Our guide will show you how to draw a penguin with a pencil easily and beautifully. new lesson.

Necessary materials:
- paper;
- colored pencils in bright colors;
- eraser and pencil with medium hardness.




Stages of drawing a penguin with pencils

1. Draw the figure of an Arctic bird in the form of two circles. They will be basic in drawing the torso and head.




2. At the bottom we draw small legs, but on the sides of the body near the head there will be wings.




3. We begin to draw the inner contour of the head and body, which will separate the black part of the coat color from the white. We connect the wings with the general outline.




4. At this stage, we will add New Year's elements to the drawing - a hat in the form of a cap with a fur insert and a bubo, a long scarf around the neck and a small wrapped gift.




5. Draw the outline of the scarf and New Year’s hat. We make the bubo and fur insert fluffy using lines.




6. Add color to the scarf by drawing small circles over the entire surface. Also at this stage you should take time to draw the eyes and beak.




7. Now you can clarify the outer contour of the entire drawing and draw beautiful patterns around the penguin.




8. The penguin is black and white. Its back and wings are black. Therefore, to draw them we use charcoal soft pencil, which will easily lie on the necessary areas of paper.




9. Now we use a red pencil in the New Year’s drawing, with which we paint over the hat and bow with a ribbon on the gift. We then create volume using a darker red tone.




10. Paint the penguin’s paws and beak bright yellow. Then we use a light green tint to color the scarf and some areas of the wrapping paper on the gift. But for volume and saturation we use dark green color. We also color the remaining places on the gift for the penguin with a yellow pencil.




11. Using a blue pencil, create a delicate shade on the white areas of the penguin’s tummy and face. We will also grab the fur areas of the hat. Then we will draw the eyes and the outline of the entire image so that New Year's drawing with a penguin stood out on the white paper.




This is how we get a drawing of a penguin for the New Year, which is made on plain white paper. However, he can decorate any corner of the room by inserting a picture into a frame. Beautiful? And agree, it’s quite easy!





Master class on drawing “Little Penguin”

Sarsembina Laura Kairbulatovna, student of GUSOSH No. 1, Pavlodar region, Pavlodar
The master class is intended for children up to school age and elementary school students.

Goals: Instill love for fine arts, develop Creative skills, imagination, imagination, observation, improve drawing skills with colored pencils.
Required materials and tools:
- A sheet or album for drawing.
- A simple pencil,
- Colour pencils,
- Eraser, pencil sharpener and eraser.

I'm an Antarctic child
I'm a fluffy little penguin
I happened to be born
A flightless bird
Not across the sky, but like an arrow
We fly underwater!
Don't look how awkward it is
We are hobbling on dry land.
But then, we playfully down the hill
We can go icy.
Frost and blizzard are not scary,
We keep each other warm.
Let's stand in a tight crowd
We will protect the children from the snowstorm.
The most important among the ice floes
Emperor penguin.

Step-by-step work process

1. Prepare required material, for our creativity.



2. Draw the offices of our little penguin (it looks like a figure eight, you can draw a small circle and a large one under it and simply erase the line of their connection).


3. Draw two apron legs (resemble elongated straight leaves), and hind legs (resemble an oval).


4. We draw arcs from the hind legs, this will be the tummy of our little penguin.
5. Draw the eyes, beak and eyebrows (this is up to everyone’s imagination). It turned out so funny and funny for me.


6. Let's get started interesting points, take colored pencils and color our work (as you like)


7. Done! Here we have such a funny little piggy.

Thank you for your attention,!
Good luck to everyone in your endeavors. Creativity is an integral part of our lives.

The Emperor Penguin is an amazingly beautiful bird that lives in Antarctica. Drawing a penguin is quite easy and fun, because the drawing turns out very cute. The drawing is especially beautiful Emperor penguin, because it has an unusual combination of bright yellow and black plumage, and the penguin in your picture will look very elegant.
You can also learn how to draw cartoon children's drawings of a penguin from the cartoon "Madagascar" using this lesson. You just need to slightly change the penguin’s “face”, make it more emotional and expressive. Although draw a penguin It’s not difficult, it’s better to draw a penguin in stages, first with a simple pencil, and then lightly color it with paints or colored pencils.

1. Drawing of a penguin. General outline

What's the easiest way draw a penguin? Of course, using simple initial contours, then only adding more and more details to them. To make the drawing symmetrical, draw the first step as accurately as possible, namely an oval for the body and a circle for the head. The oval of the penguin's body should be approximately four times the diameter of the head circumference.

2. Contours of beak, paws and wings

First draw the outline of the penguin's beak. This is the most difficult step, try to make it proportional to the body so that the beak does not turn out to be huge or very small in the future. At the bottom of the body, mark where the paws will be located. Again, make sure that they are not offset from the center. The wings are also quite easy to draw, only the left wing of the penguin should be extended slightly forward.

3. General outline of the shape of the torso and head

Continue drawing the outline of the beak, outlining the oval and you will get the body of the penguin. After this, draw the preliminary shape of the wings. Please note that the right wing is positioned edgewise in relation to the viewer. Remove unnecessary ones contour lines and you will see how penguin drawing began to “emerge.”

4. How to draw penguin paws

Drawing a penguin's eye is very simple. This is where you begin this stage. After this, you need to draw the paws in more detail. The lower feet (flippers) are more like the webbed feet of a goose, but of course much larger.

5. Finish drawing the penguin

At this stage, the drawing of the penguin only needs to be slightly corrected, and if everything turns out smoothly and accurately, then you know how to draw well. But in any case, at this step you can still correct the drawing. At the next step we will color the picture, and then it will be difficult to correct.

6. Plumage coloring

It is not necessary to color the penguin drawing with paints. Shade the plumage with a simple pencil, and only some areas of the Emperor Penguin can be colored with yellow colored pencil. This effect will further decorate the picture and make it more realistic. Moreover, if you add surrounding landscape or draw his baby next to him, then your drawing will be a real picture.


In this lesson you will be able to draw a beautiful Macaw parrot step by step.


The toucan is similar to the Emperor penguin in that it has bright yellow plumage. They are also united by the fact that the penguin and toucan are birds.


The drawing of the duck was made on a graphics tablet, but it can be used for drawing with a simple pencil.

Drawing “Travel to Antarctica. Penguins” by Kristina Pastukhova, 7 years old. Teacher Temnova: E.S.

Continuation of the story “The Great Journey: History and Drawings.”

Many thanks to the island for its hospitality, and it’s time for us to hit the road.

As soon as the ball had time to rise to the required height, it was immediately picked up by a powerful stream of air and carried somewhere.

He carried further and further balloon from a tiny island in the ocean. And then, a dazzling sparkling point appeared on the horizon. Then it began to gradually grow and our travelers finally saw a huge island covered with sparkling ice. Who is that waving to us?

Are they really penguins?

To work you will need:

  • watercolor paper (A3 format),
  • gouache,
  • dry pastel (or colored pencils),
  • markers,
  • brush,
  • cotton pads.

1. With a simple pencil Let's mark the horizon line. Here we have huge ice floes - mountains.

2. Color the sky using dry pastels (or colored pencils) and a cotton pad. First, plan the blue pastel (blue pencil) and rub it with a disk.

3. You can leave it like that. And we wanted to draw the Northern Lights. We also crumble lilac and yellow pastels. Grind it. Blow off the remaining colored crumbs.

4. We outline the outlines of ice floes and mountains with a blue felt-tip pen.

Drawing Antarctica - step 1

5. With a brush dipped in clean water, blur the mark from the felt-tip pen. We make sure that the paint does not fall on the sky, but is inside the ice floes.

This is how we got it.

Drawing Antarctica - step 2

6. Now it’s up to the inhabitants of Antarctica – the penguins. The first one will be swimming in an ice hole, so we paint only the palm, without the fingers.

7. Making a print.

Drawing Antarctica - step 3

8. The second penguin will stand upright. We paint the entire palm.

9. Making a print.

Drawing Antarctica - step 4

10. We need to finish drawing the second wing. Apply paint to the thumb.

11. Using a felt-tip pen, draw the outlines of the ice hole. We finish drawing the wings of another penguin.

Drawing Antarctica - step 5

12. You need to draw the penguin’s legs. Apply orange gouache to the upper phalanges of the index fingers.

13. Making prints.

Drawing Antarctica - step 6

14. Using a brush, using the dipping method, we draw the beaks.

Drawing Antarctica - step 7

15. We also blur the outlines of the ice hole clean water. Like this.

Drawing Antarctica - step 8

16. In the ice hole, use a felt-tip pen to draw circles on the water and blur them with a brush.

Drawing Antarctica - step 9

17. We drew the eyes of the penguins and admire them. It's kind of empty.

Drawing Antarctica - step 10

18. Of course, the landscape of Antarctica does not suffer from great diversity, but something can be done. Let's add cracks in the ice floes and blur them.

Drawing Antarctica - step 11

19. Tint the ice a little to tone down the whiteness. Using a stationery knife, cut the dry pastel (or colored pencil) and rub it lightly across the ice floe.

Drawing Antarctica - step 12

Ready! Welcome to visit the penguins!

“Penguins” - drawing by Kristina Pastukhova, 7 years old

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