Drawn light
How to draw a boat in 2 variants will be described in this article! The first boat equipped with a sail probably appeared in Egypt about 5,500 years ago. It was a rectangular (“straight”) sail, which was attached to a horizontal batten with its upper edge. A straight sail could be used only in a crosswind. Straight sailing armament was in the peoples of the Mediterranean: Phoenicians, Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans, similar to the Vikings and Slavs.
A sailing boat almost never goes where its bow looks; it also drifts, more or less, depending on the features of the hull and the strength of the wind. By the way, a multi-masted boat with a straight armament goes faster when the wind is not blowing strictly aft but slightly sideways because then the back boats do not cover the front boats, and the wind pressure is even on all boats.
If the wind goes farther and farther to our side, we will turn our tack more and more, and at some point, the tack will hit the batten, i.e. the luff that pulls the mast sideways and backwards, and we will not be able to turn the tack any further. If the wind goes further to the bow, the straight sails will not work. In this case, we need slant boats. In the VIII-IX centuries, such boats appeared in the Mediterranean. The inhabitants of Northern Europe called them “Latin” – just as they called the countries of Southern Europe. Such boats proved convenient for sailing at an acute angle to the wind: along winding coasts and among Mediterranean islands.
Drawing is uplifting and energizing, and drawing a boat is relaxing to the mind and body! This shape of the boat was invented during the Arab conquest of the Mediterranean. The Arabs were good enough sailors, and the Latin sail became widespread: almost all Mediterranean ships of the Middle Ages and early modern times carried almost exclusively Latin boats. It is a triangular sail on a very long batten (a straight sail of rectangular shape is set on a horizontal batten, while a Latin boat is set on an inclined batten).
What is the difference between a straight boat and a Latin boat in terms of their action? If we put the rake across the ship in a crosswind, the ship will boat forward; it is obvious. But what happens if the wind is blowing slightly sideways? We turn the batten slightly so that the boats stay perpendicular to the wind. Since the ship has an elongated hull and a rudder, it is still moving towards the bow, but it has a certain drift away from the wind (if the hull of the ship had the shape of a hemisphere, it would be sailing strictly downwind).
The Latin boats combined the advantages of a straight and a slanting sail. It could be set across the ship, and then it worked like a straight sail. You could set two Latin sails in a butterfly. If the wind came from the side, you could set the sail almost along the ship; the wind would push against it, and thanks to the hull and rudder, the total of all the vectors that affect the ship would be such that it would still move forward. The Latin sail began to be added to the straight sailing armament as early as the late fifteenth century. Sailors of the 16th century skillfully combined straight and slanted sails.
Let’s start drawing the boat immediately!
How to draw a boat easy (option 1)
Step 1
The first step is to draw two almost parallel lines
Step 2
Draw the central part of the stern of the boat
Step 3
Draw the base of the back of the boat
Step 4
Draw the base of the front
Step 5
Draw the back of the boat
Step 6
Draw the guide sail
Step 7
Draw the central lower sails and the rear flagpole!
Step 8
Draw the center middle sails
Step 9
Draw the back sail
Step 10
Create the bottom cut of our boat and the top flags
Step 11
Draw small details and water outlines
Step 12
Drawing our boat.
How to draw a boat on the water (option 2)
Step 1
Please start with the base of the ship, i.e. its deck. Draw a quadrilateral similar to a trapezoid with one side twice as big as the other. This will be the landing gear.
Step 2
Now draw the mast of our ship. To do this, you need to draw three lines: short (keel), middle and longest (masts). Don’t forget to draw crossbars on each of them.
Step 3
Now draw the contours of the sails. They have a kind of rectangular shape and those sails that go from the keel draw triangles. Do not forget that the sails are between the crossbars that we drew earlier.
Step 4
Move on to drawing the stern of the ship. Add the railing at the top of the stern and some windows to the boat itself.
Step 5
Could you return to the mast of our ship? Erase the previously drawn outlines and draw thicker lines than the preliminary ones. Add some shadows on the mast with a pencil. Don’t forget to draw the keel in the same way.
Step 6
Now, we move on to the sailboats. Those triangles that come from the keel need to be divided in half, thus getting two sails. Do this with a few more sails; it gives the effect of wind. On rectangular-shaped sails, add curves and smooth lines.
Step 7
Now, we’re going to color.
n this article! Look and draw a marvelous boat sailing on the ocean!
