You can easily find a replacement for expensive scrap paper from the store. Let's look at some interesting options for turning simple sheets of paper into colorful and interesting backgrounds for decorating postcards, albums, smashbooks and art books. And we will need the simplest materials that are on everyone’s table.
Option #1.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/917-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
What do we need?
- Photograph or printed picture (preferably in light colors)
- A small piece of cardboard (6x6 cm will be enough)
- Black gel pen
- Scissors.
![What do we need](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/911-chto-nam-nuzhno.jpg)
First of all, we'll make a template. Draw a seagull on a piece of cardboard. An alternative to this: print the picture below on a printer.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/912-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
![make a blank template](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/913-sdelaem-shablon-zagotovku.jpg)
Cut out the drawn/printed bird.
![Cut out the drawn bird](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/914-vyrezaem-narisovannuyu-pticu.jpg)
Then, 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 outline to mark out where the birds will be placed without accidentally placing them too far or too close.
![by posting them](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/915-razmestiv-ih.jpg)
After this, we begin to draw each seagull with a gel pen.
![let's start drawing](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/916-nachinaem-prorisovyvat.jpg)
This is what ends up happening. Go ahead.
Option #2.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/923-risuem-perya.jpg)
It’s even easier: you only need paper, a pencil and a black gel pen.
![All you need is paper](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/918-nuzhny-lish-bumaga.jpg)
Using a simple pencil we draw feathers, as in the photo. Remember: these are just sketches, pencil lines will be erased, so there is no point in carefully drawing out each of them, again, just outline the future location of the subject.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/919-risuem-perya.jpg)
When you're done, move on to the gel pen. Draw the “shaft” of the feather.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/920-risuem-perya.jpg)
Then the silhouette of a feather.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/921-risuem-perya.jpg)
Then add cross lines.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/922-risuem-perya.jpg)
Fill some of them with small patterns, you can also outline the feathers with a dotted line.
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/923-risuem-perya.jpg)
Ready!
![draw feathers](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/924-risuem-perya.jpg)
Option #3.
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/930-risuem-fon.jpg)
Again, a simple set: felt-tip pens (or markers), a simple pencil and a sheet of paper.
![Simple set again](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/925-vnov-prostoy-nabor.jpg)
Draw the entire sheet into small squares or a grid - whichever you prefer. You can also draw by hand.
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/926-risuem-fon.jpg)
Now the job is for the patient ones: draw and paint a lot of small triangles in these cells.
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/927-risuem-fon.jpg)
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/928-risuem-fon.jpg)
It's painstaking, but the result is worth it!
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/929-risuem-fon.jpg)
![draw the background](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/930-risuem-fon.jpg)
Further.
Option number 4.
![draw an orange](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/938-risuem-apelsin.jpg)
Materials:
- Watercolor
- Paper
- Brush
- Jar of water
- A small piece of cardboard
- Pencil and scissors.
![paints and paper](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/931-kraski-i-bumaga.jpg)
Cut out a circle from cardboard. No compasses, we draw everything by hand, as unevenness is welcome. Fill the entire sheet with circles.
![draw circles](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/932-risuem-krugi.jpg)
Turn the circles into orange slices.
![draw circles](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/933-risuem-krugi.jpg)
![draw circles](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/934-risuem-krugi.jpg)
Let's move on to paints. Dip the brush into water and pick up just a little yellow paint so that the color is not very saturated. We paint over the veins.
![draw an orange](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/935-risuem-apelsin.jpg)
Then we take bright orange paint and paint over the edible part of the fruit, leaving small gaps.
![draw an orange](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/936-risuem-apelsin.jpg)
Let's use orange paint again, but this time it should be darker. Use it to paint over the orange peel.
![draw an orange](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/937-risuem-apelsin.jpg)
Here is the result.
![draw an orange](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/938-risuem-apelsin.jpg)
Option #5.
![draw pineapples](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/942-risuem-ananasy.jpg)
Again, you will need watercolors, paper, and a black pen.
This time we will do without a template. Fill the entire sheet with pineapples drawn in pencil.
![draw pineapples](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/939-risuem-ananasy.jpg)
We paint the fruit with yellow paint, the leaves with green paint, all colors are bright and saturated.
![draw pineapples](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/940-risuem-ananasy.jpg)
![draw pineapples](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/941-risuem-ananasy.jpg)
Once the paint is dry, use a black pen to outline the pineapples and add small details.
![draw pineapples](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/942-risuem-ananasy.jpg)
Option number 6.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/950-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
On the table should be:
- Paper
- Cardboard for template
- Stationery knife
- Purple and orange markers
- Black pen and simple pencil.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/943-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
We make a template: draw a simplified face of a fox.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/944-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
Using a stationery knife, cut it out. Both parts will be useful.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/945-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
Fill the entire sheet again with the selected pattern.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/946-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/947-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
Using the second part of the template, we complete the work.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/948-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/949-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
And the last thing: we draw each face with the hands.
![Backgrounds for your creativity](https://i.washerhouse.com/images/12/950-fony-dlya-vashego-tvorchestva.jpg)
That's all! Good luck to you!