How to draw Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space

Yuri Gagarin was bit of a hero to me while I was growing up. I was only four when he became the first man in space, on April 12th 1961, but I remember the excitement of the grownups and somehow understanding it was a great event and decided, like many other boys my age, that I would be a space man when I grew up. We soon learned to call Russian Space Men Cosmonauts and the Americans, Astronauts

This led to a fascination with space and rockets, fuelled by TV programmes like Lost in Space, Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5. My favourite ice lolly was a Zoom - space rocket inspired shape - that came with space collector cards and my favourite pop record was Telstar by the Tornados.

Gagarin was an international celebrity, helped by his wide, winning smile and handsome good looks. He looked everything a hero should be.

Sadly he died in 1968 when he crashed the MIG 15 training jet that he was flying at the time. You can find out more about Yuri Gagarin at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin.

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I used a Staedtler Mars Lumograph 6B pencil. The paper is fairly cheap drawing cartridge or bristol paper.

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[ThieXs]

How do you draw a realastic nose????

[ShooRaynerDrawing]

@ThieXs they're not easy, are they? I did one on my drawstuffrealeasy channel - have a look at that :)

[Standuble]

Dude I wish I could go into space!

[ShooRaynerDrawing]

@Standuble You never know - you might one day :)

[harrypotterbest]

Hey, shoo. Can you please do an how to draw tintin?

[ShooRaynerDrawing]

@harrypotterbest Sorry, I can't do Copyright characters :(

[justinsuperstar]

I hope he said "FIRST" when he made it to space!

[ShooRaynerDrawing]

@rahillrocks1 Hope you saw Jistinsuperstar's comment above you?

[finnishzeldaman]

Mmm smells like communist space program

[harrypotterbest]

@ShooRaynerDrawing sad. at least i can try it myself :D

[ShooRaynerDrawing]

@RusMakMonkey123 Sorry! That's how we say it in England :)

[RusMakMonkey123]

lol not gonna blame him but he's not saying yuri gagarin right. oh well not a big deal..just saying