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A magnet has two poles – north and south. If you cut a magnet in half, each piece will also have two poles: north and south. To bring the poles closer together and make the magnet attract more strongly to metal, it's bent into a horseshoe shape. In permanent magnets, the north pole is usually painted blue, and the south pole is painted red. And we're also flying through space on a giant magnet, which is why a compass works. Its needle is attracted to Earth's poles. Though opposite poles attract, so it turns out that the magnetic north pole is located in the south. And drawing it is simple. Start with the letter U. Divide it with a line in the middle. Add volume and color.

Let’s start drawing the croissant from the central part. It’s a symmetrical trapezoid with rounded edges. From the center, curved little “ears” extend to both sides, and from them — smaller “ears.” A real croissant is never perfectly symmetrical, so if the “ears” end up slightly different in shape — that’s even good.

Today we're drawing cheese. Not every cheese has holes, but it's precisely the holes that easily transform an unknown chunk of something into a chunk of cheese, so we'll draw cheese with holes. To start, we'll need a parallelogram (a skewed rectangle) with holes already made in it. On top of it we'll draw a triangle where one of the sides is rounded. All that remains is to add holes: first we'll outline those we made in the parallelogram, then add a few more in the free spaces. We can also add shadow to one of the cheese edges, and darker shadow into the holes.

A fire extinguisher consists of a body, a shut-off and start device, and a sprayer. There are different types of fire extinguishers, but what makes them recognizable is the combination of these parts. Let’s start with the body. It’s a tall cylinder, red, if you have something to paint it with. On top there’s the lever and handle of the shut-off and start device, which you need to squeeze to begin extinguishing. A tube comes out of them. On carbon dioxide extinguishers, there’s also a horn nozzle at the end.

I start drawing a basket with a small circle flattened at the bottom. Then I draw the handle around the top with a line, and the body of the basket at the bottom. To make the basket look woven, you need to shade the handle with diagonal lines and the body with horizontal ones, and then insert narrow vertical segments between the horizontal lines in a checkerboard pattern so they’re arranged roughly like bricks, only narrower.

To draw a recognizable chain, two or three links are enough, but if you wish, you can draw more. First, draw rounded rectangles a short distance from each other, then connect them on the sides with half-ovals of the same thickness. You can also add shadows and highlights.

The cloud is flat on the bottom and fluffy on top. It's quite simple to draw — just in two steps. First we draw a straight line. Then on top we add several semicircles that slightly overlap each other. You can also add a bit of shading.

To draw a bowling pin, you need to create a symmetrical silhouette and add a couple of highlights. Nothing complicated.

A puzzle piece has four sides. Each of them can be either flat, convex, or concave. There cannot be more than two flat sides, so we'll discard those right away. Pieces with two flat sides can be of three types: convex-convex, concave-convex, and concave-concave. We'll replace one of the flat sides in turn with convex and concave. This gives us six more pieces. Now for these six, we'll replace the last flat side with convex and concave. It seems pieces with all convex and all concave sides don't exist, so we'll remove those. This gives us ten. In total, I got nineteen types of pieces. Hello Stephen King. When you're drawing, note that the edges of a convex side are slightly concave, and those of a concave side are, conversely, slightly convex. This is needed so there's more room for holes inside the piece.

I have another hobby besides sketches – video games. This year I'm planning to draw a big sketch about gaming console generations. Today, as an experiment, let's draw PlayStation. Everything as usual – circles and rectangles. Sony has a recognizable shape, so it's easy to guess even without the logo and text.

Happy World Sketchnote Day! Have a nice sketches this year!

Drawing an air balloon is quite simple. An elongated circle, a knot at the bottom and a string. To add volume, you can also add highlights.

#52 A wheel is a complicated thing. There's a rim, a tire, the mount, and there may also be an inner tube inside. But at the same time it's pretty easy to draw. Start with the rim and mark the lines of the inner and outer edge on it. Then connect them with spokes and add the mounting circles in the middle. And draw the tire on the outside. You can add a tread pattern and lettering to the tire to make it look more interesting. 52 HIT C-C-COMBO!!! 🎄

Salt, like any other loose materials, looks like simple triangles in a sketch. To add volume, make the bottom line rounded. Salt comes in different sizes: from fine to very coarse. You can convey this in a sketch too. For fine salt — straight lines, for coarse — jagged ones. If you add a shadow, the shadow line will be just as uneven as the edges of the heap itself. And a few small crumbs around it will make it look more natural.

Blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility. In a blizzard, visibility is about the same as in a very thick fog because the snow above the ground creates a dense curtain, and you can’t see a damn thing. Besides, if the wind is in your face, you can’t see either because it’s very hard to open your eyes. The simplest way to depict a blizzard is to draw someone who’s standing up to it. To figure out the pose, I first drew a stick figure with a round head—just to see how he walks against the wind and how he covers his face with his hand. Then I started repeating the same figure but in more detail, starting with the legs so it’s clear he’s walking with difficulty. Next, I added a jacket and a scarf streaming in the wind, along with a hand shielding his face from the wind. Tracks from felt boots in the snow also add to the atmosphere. After the person turned out well, all that’s left is to add the wind and snowflakes.

#49 Tulle is a sheer mesh fabric. It's usually hung over windows. To draw such a fabric, draw a rectangle and hatch it horizontally and vertically. And to show that the fabric is sheer, you can put some shape behind it.

Kissel is a drink thickened with starch. You can make it from any liquid: from compote, juice, or even cocoa. But making it well is not easy. If you don’t whisk that starch smooth in cold water, your kissel won’t thicken. If you half‑mix it or leave a single lump, your kissel won’t thicken. If you let it come to a rolling boil, your kissel won’t thicken. In fact, you’re gonna have to work very hard if you want that kissel just right. Now, do you understand everything I’ve just said? ’Cause if you don’t, your kissel won’t thicken.

Pain is a complicated thing. To make life easier, let’s not consider abstract pain, like the pain of watching the latest Star Wars movies. Instead, let’s focus on a specific kind of pain — getting your finger hit with a hammer. So, after a hammer hits your finger, a lot of stuff happens. Hard to believe, because it happens very fast. It all starts with the pain being turned into an electrical signal in the finger that got whacked by the hammer. After that, the signal is sent to the spinal cord, which passes it along and, along the way, decides to yank the hand back just in case. This happens even before we notice that it hurts. Then the pain signal slowly reaches the brain, and we start to notice that it hurts. That’s when the screaming begins.

A moth looks a lot like a butterfly: a bit chubbier body, slightly smaller wings, slightly duller colors, and a bit worse PR. And in Hollow Knight, the final boss is a moth too. To draw one, start with a circle — that’s the base. From it, a triangular body goes down, a head with stylish antennas goes up, and wings stretch out to the sides.

In beans, there is nothing complicated at all. It's just a semicircle with a concave side, on which the mark of attachment to the pod is visible. And also, the pod is the green thing inside which the beans grow.

Log lies lengthwise, layered lumber, lined lavishly, looped lines linger.

The most difficult part of a deer is, of course, the antlers. The deer itself looks more like a horse, just with a head of a slightly different shape. But the antlers—they're really something! First, they have prongs that stick forward. Then long prongs that stick backward. And from these, smaller prongs stick out in different directions. I figured it out with great difficulty. Try first to sketch them with simple lines. This will make it easier to understand the form.

Drawing a bandage is very easy. It's a rectangle with rounded edges, inside which is another rectangle. A bandage is needed to cover small wounds, and therefore it has holes so that the skin underneath can breathe. To draw a bandage, you need to draw two parallel lines, connect them with arcs, add a rectangle inside, and draw a pattern of perforation dots on it.

Let's look at what a linden tree consists of. If you examine the picture, you can see the trunk. Branches extend from it, and around each branch there's a fluffy cloud of leaves. To draw a tree, you need to replicate this structure. You can practice by drawing a trunk with branches, outlining the branches with leaves, and doing this several times. Later, if you don't have time to draw and erase the trunk, you can try the following trick: start with a small stump protruding at the bottom. Then draw clusters of leaves on top as if they're surrounding branches. You don't need to draw the actual branches anymore. For aesthetic appeal, you can leave a few gaps between the clusters to make the trunk visible.

Did you also think that Ratatouille is a mouse from the cartoon? Well, no. It's a traditional vegetable dish from Provençal cuisine made with bell peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and zucchini. I can't eat that today, even though I really want to. Let's start drawing with a plate, in which we'll arrange colorful slices in a circle.