The ability to draw opens up new spaces for your creativity, and if you want to master the technique of drawing or painting, you need to regularly train and improve your skills using the example of the most common forms in drawing. Very often, artists depict still lifes in paintings, and you can learn the technique of drawing rounded and shaded shapes with incident light on the example of grapes.
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare hard and soft pencils for drawing, a sheet of quality drawing paper, an eraser, and paper cones for shading.
Step 2
Take a pencil and draw the outline of the grape berry, respecting the proportions. The bottom of the grape should be slightly wider than the top. Draw a stalk on the berry, and then determine where the shadow falls, and sketch out a shadow that repeats the shape of the grape with the stalk. Lighten the sketch lines with a thin eraser, making the outline as light as possible, then start shading the drawing with cross-hatching.
Step 3
Lightly shade the grape, making cross-strokes, and then outline the outline and volume of the shadow with the same hatching. Determine which fragments of grapes will be the lightest, and mark on them the lighter areas with rounded strokes that will enhance the effect of the three-dimensional pattern.
Step 4
Try to achieve the smoothest transitions between light and dark shades in shading so that the drawing looks organic. With the first layer of shading in place, add additional shading perpendicular to it, making the shading more intense around the lower right side of the berry.
Step 5
Gradually intensify the shading, expanding it from a light highlight to the edges of the grape. Strive to ensure that the dark tone smoothly and imperceptibly turns into a light tone, which, in turn, turns into a highlight. Along the lower dark edge of the berry, draw a curved thin strip with an eraser to create a light reflex. Add a few shadow touches to the stem of the berry.
Step 6
Determine where the shadow will fall from the grape, sketch some straight lines to guide it, and shade the shadow, making it lighter as you move away from the berry. The closer the shadow comes to the grape, the darker it will be.
Step 7
Finish the drawing with feathering - use special tools for it or a twisted paper cone. Do not touch the drawing with your fingers; blend the transitions between hatches only with the selected tool. Leave the grape stalk rough - only the surface of the berry should become smooth and shiny.
