A candle is one of the most beautiful and mysterious light sources. This ancient household item was used in fortune telling, rituals and other activities. Even now, people use candles when there is no electricity at home or when they want to have a romantic dinner at home. You can draw candles with regular colored pencils, although you can also try wax or regular pastels - this is also a good option.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, think over the general composition of the picture: the shape of the candle, the candlestick, its color, additional details (optional).
Step 2
Most often, the candle has a cylindrical shape. When it burns for a long time, its top melts, becomes uneven. Draw a pale outline with a simple pencil, then a wick, a flame. Take a real candle and light it, or search for pictures on the Internet. After all, the flame can stand upright or sway, it can be thin and elongated or small. Select a suitable flame condition.
Step 3
At the base, the candle flame should be dark (scarlet, purple, or blue). Closer to the tip, the flame brightens to almost white. It is better to start with a white pencil or crayon, adding beige (cream, wheat), yellow, then pink red and blue towards the bottom of the flame. Choose the proportions of colors at your discretion. After all, you are drawing a candle flame, not a strict cube.
Step 4
Let your strokes be light, almost airy at first. Then intensify the colors as if you were driving pencils into paper. Little secret: when lighter shades are applied over dark ones, the surface is smoothed, becomes pasty and the colors smoothly flow into one another. This is especially noticeable when drawing with pencils or crayons.
Step 5
The light from the flame diverges in all directions, forming a halo. Try to make the strokes near the edge farthest from the candle as light as possible so that they seem to dissolve in the darkness. Start with pink and / or beige tones, then intensify the effect closer to the flame with white.
Step 6
Now draw the wick with black and gray colors and continue painting the candle wax from dark to light. Although it is cylindrical in shape, it does not have shadows typical for ordinary cylindrical objects. Light falls from above. It is there that the lightest area will be located. Downward, the candle becomes darker, acquiring warmer hues. Brown and yellow ocher, light sienna, orange, wheat and white colors are quite suitable for candles.
Step 7
Draw a candlestick. A shadow falls on it from the candle itself, so that the glare of light will be barely noticeable. However, to indicate the volume, they must be applied. Start with chocolate, brown ocher and add orange, gray and ocher on top. You will need a lot of layers to give the candlestick surface density.
