My colored pencils art of apple

steemergy (52)in #diy • 7 years ago (edited)

How i make an apple using colored pencils in 8x11sized paper. With photo tutorials below. This day i will show you how to draw and blend color shadows and highlights, i will start off showing the basic drawing first then on my next post after this i will move to more realistic drawing and shading techniques. Lets start to draw an apple with the follpwing ease simple step by step guide..

Use te basic shape off an apple, draw the outline with a leeter m at bottom of the subject. Then draw a curved line on the top of the apple. Draw a lima been 2 inward slanted lines towards the curved line...

Draw some easy basic step that makes up the apple leaf. Then draw an actual leaf shape..

If you might want to add a highlight that looks like a capital D, i used colored pencils on this project, if you wamt your drawing more realistic you might try to use oils pastels or watercolor on this., i pit some yellow and oranges down on the apple..

At this stage we were going add red to the aplle, green to the leaf and brown on its stem...

We were going to add darker color of red in the aplle and darker green and brown on the leaf and stem...

Keep brushing darker color on the edges of the apple and also add some white colors as highlights...

Finished the drawing,, smudge all the color since i used colored its hard enough to do it. But if you used oil pencils its smooth to make the lokks more realistic add some darker color, i used light to dark violets to add more vibrant. Lught green lines on its leaves erase all the pencils lines, i didnt because i used colored pencils on the firat step, but yiu should...