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If you like ships, you should carefully study their structure so as not to make mistakes in the drawing. So, to begin with, we will study all the main components of boats, ships and other ships.

The hull is the main part of any ship.

Beams - the width of a boat or vessel.

The mizzen mast is the nearest mast to the stern.

A bowsprit is a bar on the bow of some ships.

The balancer is a wooden plank on the bottom of the sail of the ship.

Capstan - a winch that lifts an anchor and controls everything with the main rigging of any ship.

Aft - the back of the ship.

Kiel - a beam passing in the middle of the bottom of the vessel.

Bow - the space in front of the vessel or boat.

Stern - the rear end of the ship.

Left side - the left side of the vessel (when viewed from the rear).

The right side - the right side of the vessel (when viewed from the rear).

Mast - the central wooden pole for sails.

The nose is the front end of any ship.

Planshire — a metal or wooden railing on top of a rail or ship bulwark.

Cladding is a way to build a wooden boat by overlaying slats on top of each other.

Steering wheel - a device for keeping the ship on a given course.

Spinnaker is a large front sail on a sports racing yacht.

Tiller - a handle for controlling the steering wheel of a ship.

Transom - a flat section of the stern of the boat.

Oarlock - a metal or wooden loop that holds the oars and allows them to rotate to control the boat.

In order to learn how to draw ships and boats, as with any other objects, you will need constant practice and a keen eye. But all your efforts will ultimately be rewarded when you finally get a true picture of a beautiful ship or yacht.

An ideal place to explore the structure of boats and ships is the harbor at low tide. Here you can see how the keel line of the boat connects its bow to the stern, and make sketches of yachts from different angles.

Vessels come in all shapes and sizes. Perhaps, thanks to a very simple form, this is the most grateful object for any aspiring artist, on which it is easiest to hone their skills. Traditional wooden boats are much more interesting to draw than modern ones made of fiberglass or durable plastic. Cladding is one of the classic ways to build small wooden fishing boats when each outer plank is nailed horizontally to the frame of the ship with copper nails. Each wooden plank overlaps the underlying one, creating a solid frame, which, moreover, is attractive to the artist’s eye.

Each boat in a real old harbor has a personality. Some have wider beams, everyone has a different shape and angle of the bow, some boats are pointed both from the bow and from the stern. But these differences are not always visible, in order to realize them you need to take a closer look at it from a distance, everything is close - everything, at first everything seems the same. For many decades fishing vessels were a favorite pictorial nature for artists.

There are countless plots hidden here - masts against the backdrop of the harbor’s architectural silhouettes, a number of ships of various shapes and sizes are unloaded at the pier or fishing boats against a changing sky. Today, most of the harbors are becoming less busy, but you can still see several ships, fishing boats or yachts in them. The appearance of the fishing vessel is most often traditional for each region, as well as the registration number, which shows the port of registry.

Start drawing a ship from its hull, first outline its shape. Pay attention to the characteristic details, the width of the sides, the angle of inclination of the bow of the ship to the water and to the deck. Then, draw details - wheelhouse, steering wheel, windows.

Most romantically inclined artists like sailing ships, especially sailing ships of the old days - clippers, barges, schooners, sloops and lugers. If you are lucky enough to see them somewhere, these tall ships with a long, elegant hull and tall slender masts will amaze you with their beauty. And sails filled with wind have long inspired poets and artists. In part, the natural elegance of sailing ships has been inherited by modern yachts. With a graceful streamlined body and fairly sharp nose, they are able to cut through waves at high speed.