How to Draw a Heart in Pencil: Easy Drawing Techniques for Children

At first glance, it may seem that drawing a heart is not too difficult and it can be drawn quickly and easily. But it is worth trying to draw it without useful tips, by hand, it will turn out not quite even and does not look as presentable as, for example, on valentines or cute pictures about love.

What you need for work

Stationery, which will be useful in drawing, is not tricky:

Paper or a notebook.
A simple pencil.
Eraser.
Paints, felt-tip pens, colored pencils, crayons.

Drawing techniques

It turns out that you can depict a beautiful heart in a variety of ways: with lines, on the cells, using geometric shapes.

A heart in a cell

The easiest, most likely, way to draw a heart will be the drawing on the cells. Let's understand step by step how to draw a heart on the cells.

For creativity takes a notebook sheet in a cell.
It is necessary to outline the left arch of the heart. It looks like a large comma without a seal in the center, pointing in the opposite direction.
Next, calculate the height and width of the heart half in cells to draw a symmetrical arc on the opposite side.
Picture the same arc, focusing on the number of cells on the right side.
When there are already two arcs, trace their contours more clearly and the heart is ready, accurate and symmetrical.
If desired color it in pink or red.

Now you know how you can quickly draw a nice and even heart.

A bear with a heart

Often the process of drawing hearts is associated with a beautiful holiday - Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day. Therefore, it will be useful to know how to draw a bear with a heart:

Initially, you must outline a circle - the future head of the bear.
Next, indicate the same semicircles on the left and right of the circle ears teddy bear.
Then just the same geometric shapes to depict the face - the eyes indicate the two small circles,
Nose in the center of a stretched out horizontally oval, which then need to shade.
From the nose on the left and right at the bottom of the circle to indicate a semi-oval.
Half-arc and a vertical line in contact with the arc, indicate the bear's mouth.
Arcs on the left and right of the head of the bear draw shoulders.
From the arcs at equal distances from each other and on the same line place ovals - these are the bear's feet.
Below you need to draw the bottom paws with ovals. The feet are two ovals at the same distance from each other, similar to the upper legs.
The heart is drawn between the two upper legs, you can use the method with the cells, so that it turns out even. But for this you need to initially take a notebook sheet.
Small details are added. The eyes are shaded or filled with a dark color, leaving the light pupils. In the ears, you can draw more arcs, to give them some volume. The nose is shaded with a pencil and painted with dark paint.

Next, you can paint the bear cub and the heart in any colors you like. But the classic version is brown or gray, and the heart, of course, in red or pink.

Perhaps someone will find this option too childish, and will want to represent a heart with the fingers of your hands to express your love and gratitude to your loved one.

A heart made of folded fingers

Let's proceed step by step and find out how to draw a heart out of fingers. It is too difficult to do, if you do everything step by step, then doing this drawing will bring you only pleasure:

Start drawing the shape of the two hands facing each other. They should resemble two wide mittens.
Draw the details, first the upper fingers, which are slightly bent and touching each other. They will mark the wide sides of the heart. It is better to have a realistic picture or photo of the hands at hand, so that the silhouette of the hands will be as similar as possible.
Gently draw the thumbs, which should touch, as well as the index fingers. This is the bottom pointed part of the heart. Draw the contours of the inner part of the palm. Back fingers also need to outline, so that the palms did not turn out flat.
Outline the details of the hands: small creases, nails, some shadows for volume.
As a result, the fingers of the palms should be folded in the shape of a heart.

Such an image can be drawn on a homemade valentine. The person to whom you present such a gift will be very pleased.

Geometric-rectified heart

You can also draw a romantic heart with the help of geometric shapes. It will be very even and not expensive in time.

So, how do you draw a perfect heart?

First, you draw two equal circles that intersect with each other. They must be in a straight line.
If you find it difficult to draw circles without any devices, you can resort to the help of a compass or circle something round. But it's better to try it yourself. Draw a small place of intersection.
At the intersection in the center draw a vertical straight line.
In the center of both circles a straight horizontal line is drawn, which forms an intersection with the line in the center.
The horizontal line is in contact with the circles at the edges. From this point you need to draw two lines to a vertical line. Point of convergence choose yourself, the lower point of convergence, the more elongated will be a heart. It turns out the triangle of lines.
Now you can trace the shape of the heart. Next, you need to vividly trace the contour of the heart, which you see. Eraser erase all unnecessary elements.
Give any color to the heart or outline a bright, bold outline of the silhouette. The heart is ready!

Leisure activities for kids

Now you know a few different ways to depict romantic hearts in different ways. You can use these skills in drawing cards, decorating your home, and depicting different patterns with hearts.

You can give any color to the hearts, different paints and materials, even plasticine, if you make a craft with children. For them, this kind of leisure will bring benefits and knowledge that will remain in the memory for a long time, because these ways are very simple and fast.

All the more so, it's a great way to learn geometric shapes. The brightness of the colors that can be used to depict hearts will bring children into excitement and will cause a riotous interest to paint the drawing themselves, so this option of activity with children is very fun and useful.