Still lifes with vegetables were loved by many world-famous artists. Their canvases still adorn the walls of famous museums. Drawing a still life with vegetables is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first.
For the image of various vegetables, you will need watercolor or simple colored pencils, paper, an eraser, a mechanical pencil and a black gel pen.
Drawing a still life with a variety of vegetables can be divided into several stages:
1. Draw the outlines of vegetables. To make the composition successful, try to have one vegetable slightly overlapping the other;
2. Draw each vegetable more carefully. They can be drawn both from nature and from a photograph, or simply from memory. Vegetables are not distinguished by their intricate structure, therefore, excessive detail is not required when drawing them;
5. Start coloring the pepper with a yellow pencil without painting over the highlight on it. Those places where various irregularities pass, paint over with orange and red-brown shades;
6. Finish coloring the pepper, deepening the shades with red-brown and brown pencils;
8. Shade the radish located behind the pepper in pink;
11. Finish coloring the first cucumber and color the second, also using green, yellow and brown pencils;
12. Color the bulb with brown crayons. Leave the highlight unpainted;
Drawing with vegetables is completely ready. A similar still life can be painted with paints.
To draw such a realistic picture of a tangerine, you need a graphics tablet and, in addition, you will have to spend a "lot" of time, selecting colors and shades step by step. Therefore, if you need to draw fruits, in this case a tangerine, let's draw in stages with a simple pencil. For the last step, take your colored pencils and color in the drawing of the tangerine to make it look like a real fruit. If you need to draw several different fruits, then in addition to this lesson, there are others on the site with drawings of fruits, for example, the lesson "How to draw an apple".
1. Draw a rectangular path and subdivide it
It is important that the shape of the tangerine is proportional, not skewed, elongated or flattened. Therefore, draw a quadrangular outline with light strokes and divide it into equal segments. These lines will help you accurately draw the rounded shape of the tangerine. In addition, this drawing of a tangerine also has a broken slice.
2. Rounded outline of a tangerine
On the initial contours, make a general shape of a tangerine and draw seven equal rays from the center. But there will be eight mandarin slices, so draw another outline on the left side for the eighth slice.
3. The main contour of the tangerine
It is convenient to draw a mandarin because its contour lines are wavy. It is only important to accurately maintain the proportions of the shape so that it does not look like another fruit, such as an orange. Please note that the shape of the tangerine is slightly flattened.
4. Mandarin drawing is almost complete
If you have not yet removed the original outline markings from the drawing, now this must be done. Completely clear the picture of the tangerine from unnecessary marking and contour lines and draw a separate slice in detail.
5. Finish drawing the tangerine
Agree, it is not difficult to draw this fruit in stages. In just a few minutes, we have already come to the last stage of the drawing. You now only need to draw a few small details and veins on each slice of tangerine, and we can say that the drawing is completely completed.
6. How to color a picture with a colored pencil
Of course, drawings of fruit in black and white pencil look "not very". The color gives the fruits their distinctive feature and enhances the realism of the picture. Therefore, be sure to color the mandarin with colored pencils. Don't try to paint the mandarin with paints if you don't know how to use them, as you can ruin the whole drawing.
7. Color picture of tangerine
To make it easier for you to color, use this drawing of a tangerine, made by me on a graphics tablet, as a reference.
An apple looks "simpler" than a tangerine, but it's harder to draw. Try to draw an apple so that it is voluminous and with perfectly straight lines, and you will see for yourself.
It is not difficult to draw a banana. It is enough to make the initial markup in the form of a rectangle and divide it into two parts. The main thing is to be able to accurately choose the color of the paint.
We will do the drawing of the mushroom in stages, first with a simple pencil. In the last step, you can color the mushroom with paints or colored pencils. You can draw leaves and grass next to it to make the picture of the mushroom realistic.
Some fruits, as well as flowers, have a unique, inimitable color. And, despite the fact that often these colors are very bright, they are not annoying. Agree, you can look at roses and tangerines for days.
The pattern of a sunflower is very similar to the pattern of a camomile. However, to draw a sunflower correctly, you need to follow a few simple tips.
A drawing of a camomile, probably, will be able to draw everyone. A few petals, a stem with leaves and a picture of a camomile is ready. But for some reason, painted daisies do not always turn out the same as in nature.
Not only an adult, but also a child can easily cope with such a task as drawing fruits. After all, fruits, if compared, for example, with animals, have an extremely simple structure. The easiest way is to draw fruits from nature. But, if there are no pears, no apples, or any other fruits at home, then you can use a high-quality and as clear photo as possible. Beautiful still lifes with all kinds of fruits can be seen on the canvases of many famous painters.
Before drawing fruits, it is recommended to make sure that the following items are nearby:
1. A set of multi-colored pencils;
2. Pencil. Both mechanical and sharply sharpened simple will do;
3. Liner. It is better to use a black liner;
4. A piece of paper;
5. Elastic band or nag.
Learning how to draw fruits will be much easier if you divide this whole process into several steps:
1. Draw a horizontal line, thus marking the edge of the table on which the fruit lies. Then, without pressing too hard on the pencil, draw the outlines of each fruit, making a composition out of them. Thus, outline the contours of a banana, apple, pear, plum, and also a cherry;
2. Draw fruits with a pencil, paying more attention to details;
3. Now you know how to draw fruits with a pencil step by step. But in order for the picture to turn out colorful and juicy, it must be colored. Using a liner, carefully outline the initial sketch of the fruit;
4. With an elastic band, remove all traces of the sketch;
5. Now that you have learned how to draw fruit easily and quickly with a pencil, you can color them. Thanks to this, the drawing will look more realistic and interesting. First, color the apple, using brown scale pencils for this, with which you should paint over the stalk, as well as yellow and red-burgundy pencils with which you need to stroke the fruit itself;
6. Color the cherry branches in brown tones. Paint over the cherries themselves with pencils of red and burgundy colors;
7. Color the banana with shades of yellow and brown;
8. To color the pear, choose pencils that have yellow and green colors. And paint over her stalk with tender pencils
Many painters are interested in the question of how to draw fruits with a simple pencil. If you are one of those people, then this article will help you understand this topic. Consider all the steps on the example of drawing a still life. To work, you need to prepare a pencil, a sheet of paper, an eraser, an apple and bananas. Keep in mind that the lighting must be good as it plays an important role in rendering the color and light tones of the image.
How to draw fruits. Proportions and arrangement of the picture
So, we arrange the landscape sheet in the most convenient way and get to work.
1. With light strokes, we outline the borders in which the drawing will be located. It must be located in the center of the sheet and not move.
2. We take the average size of the fruit we want to draw and see how they will be placed on paper horizontally and vertically. In order to maintain all proportions, it is necessary to place objects at arm's length and measure their width and height, for which it is enough to use a pencil and thumb.
3. We set the boundaries of the apple, which should be located behind the bananas, and not on the same line with them, then the drawing will turn out to be more believable.
4. The next step in the algorithm for how to draw fruits is to determine how much the apple should protrude from behind the bananas. For example, this distance may be a quarter of an apple. In this case, we divide the markings of the fruit into four parts and mark the same distance from its upper border to the start of drawing bananas.
5. Determine the height of the banana relative to the apple. In this example, it is equal to two apples. We mark all the necessary boundaries.
step by step. Depicting an apple
1. This fruit strongly resembles a circle. Therefore, we must draw it within the boundaries.
2. Decide on the location of the lighting. Those parts of the fruit that are closer to the light will be lighter. Next comes a slightly darker area (midtone), then its own shadow, reflex (lighting from the surface on which the apple lies) and a drop shadow. We mark these areas with light movements in a semicircle.
3. Shade areas of the fruit with a pencil and leave a white highlight.
4. Paint over the reflex. It should be lighter than the shadow, but darker than the midtone. We do shading.
5. We finish the shape of the apple, since it cannot be absolutely round.
6. Now add a knot to it, a small hole around it and leaves. The apple is ready!
How to draw fruits. Depicting bananas
1. Draw an arcuate line curving at the bottom.
2. Draw a second line, located below the first and tapering at the end. The drawing should resemble a month lying horizontally.
4. Add another line, located between the two drawn, closer to the top, since the banana is not a strict oval shape.
6. Now you should shade the drawing, taking into account the lighting.
If necessary, draw the rest of the details: the surface of the table, a napkin, or something else. Now you know how to draw fruits with a pencil. However, you can, following the principle described above, and paint them with watercolors, then you get a more believable drawing.
Fast and easy!
When you are going to draw objects from life, it is advisable to use an odd number of them (for example, three strawberries, five trees). This creates visual interest. It is also useful to overlap objects, as in this example. Fruit is a great practice for texture painting. In this project, the smooth surface of the grape contrasts beautifully with the rough surface of the strawberry.
The color palette for this lesson is very diverse. If you do not find such a pencil in your set, replace it with a similar one.
Step 1. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
As always, first I draw a sketch with a simple pencil. 
Step 2. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
To create strawberry seeds, I covered the drawing with tracing paper and punched dots with the tip of a ballpoint pen. When I removed the tracing paper and painted over the berries with poppy red, the white dots showed through the color. Please note that I left some areas unpainted to create highlights. 
Step 3. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
In this step, I darkened the strawberries with crimson red and Tuscan red, leaving light highlights. Then I created light leaves using lime and dark leaves using grass green. Dark green I put in places of shadows. 
Step 4. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
Next, I filled in about half of the grapes with blackberry color in an uneven layer, with light and dark areas. 
Step 5. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
Next comes a layer of azure blue and feathering with the previous layer. I painted over the stem with green ocher and burnt ocher. Now let's move on to green grapes. The first coat is yellowed chartreuse and canary yellow, again with lighter areas. I also tinted the plate with cold 30% gray. 
Step 6. How to draw a fruit still life with colored pencils.
After shading the green grapes with lime and green ocher, I used a white crayon to lighten the highlights on all of the fruit. I then used black to darken the areas between and under the fruit. Finally, I used 90% French gray to darken the plate and the edge. 
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