My art. red currants with color pencils. Step-by-step.

Today I want to invite you to draw currants with me.

These berries are small (easy to draw), transparent (interesting to draw) and bright (look spectacular), so our picture should turn out quite beautiful. Here it is:

We draw with colored pencils. Although the principle is the same for any material. Therefore, if someone does not like or does not want to draw with pencils, you can try to repeat the same with paints.

Step-by-step drawing process
Everything begins, as usual, with a pencil sketch. Where our berries will be located, how many will be, what is more, and what is less, which is closer, and what's next - everything is decided at this stage.

Next, choose the main color. This is the color of the berries in the shade and not in the light, the middle color.
I have it red. Places where the berries are covered with glare, I leave white.

Next, we turn to the study of each berry.

We determine for each berry a turn (where there will be in the future black spouts for berries) and shadow areas. We make the shadow parts more saturated in color.

I changed the lighting a little to better show the shades in the photos.

The currant berries are transparent, and we need to show this. I take an orange (or red warm) pencil and make the inside of the berries orange.

After that I take the dark red (cold) and make contrasting shadows, strengthen the color on the shadows of the berries. Be sure to add some of the shadow in the shape of the circle of the berry and the bottom of the shape.

With a red pencil, a faint mascara, I make a glare on the surface of the table.

Warm gray and brown I add shadows under berries. White tint glare.

Now draw a wand. On the illuminated parts, I leave it buffy, add thickness and make the shadow part dark green with brown.

I add black noses of berries and the picture immediately becomes lively and realistic.

Thats it!

I hope you like it!