Drawing a vase may seem simple, but it helps you learn to convey shape, volume, perspective, and symmetry. Try drawing a vase with flowers and fruits!
Many beginning artists often practice drawing vases, because such a drawing helps to convey shape, volume, perspective, symmetry, and create chiaroscuro, that is, to practice the most necessary and important skills for further drawing. In addition, vases fit perfectly into still lifes, so the acquired skill will not be wasted.
How to draw a vase with a pencil step by step for beginners?
Drawing
- You need to start by marking the future drawing using vertical and horizontal lines. The vertical line is needed to determine the height and symmetry of the vase. The horizontal lines will define the top and bottom of the vase, as well as the extension on it.
- Next, draw the contours of the vase using straight lines.
When drawing lines, the pencil does not need to be pressed; these are temporary lines that will then be erased. - The contours will serve as limiters, within which, with the help of smooth lines, the vase is given required form. The convexity of the vase will be given by curved smooth lines extending beyond the contour.
- Now you need to pay attention to the bottom and neck of the vase. You need to draw the neck and bottom smooth lines, also going beyond the contours.
Overlaying shadow
So that the drawing has volumetric view you need to apply a shadow, that is, shade with a pencil those places that are far from the light. The more part of the vase is removed from the light, the thicker the shading of the design should be.
For beginners, you can take a vase or other vessel as a model and see how the shadow from a light source falls on it.
VIDEO: How to draw a vase?
How to draw a vase for a child?
A child may not yet have as well developed spatial imagination as an adult, so teaching him to draw a vase is, again, better by making markings and outlining the contours. You need to start drawing step by step:
- draw a vertical line, the axis from which the sides of the vase will be drawn
- draw horizontal lines, indicating the bottom, neck and widest part of the vase
- using light lines, without pressing the pencil, give the outline of the vase, drawing symmetrical lines on both sides of vertical line– axes
- draw ovals for the bottom and neck of the vase
- adjust the symmetry of the lines on both sides of the vase relative to the axis
- darken the darkened areas with shading or a thicker layer of paint and leave the areas where the light falls lighter
How to draw a vase with flowers step by step? Drawing - flowers in a vase
To draw a vase of flowers, you need to simultaneously outline the contours of both the vase and the flowers in it.
- Draw a vertical line-axis.
- Draw horizontal lines in the place where the bottom, top and expanding part of the vase are supposed to be.
- Make symmetrical contours of the vase and an oval for the bottom.
- You don’t have to draw the neck of the vase, but draw a circle above its intended location, inside which the flowers will be placed.
- As you know, flowers and bouquets are different, so you need to decide which flowers will be drawn in the vase. Perhaps they will be the same, perhaps different, and even in a composition with fern and grass. Therefore, you need to determine how many and what kind of flowers will be in the vase, and make appropriate sketches.
- The easiest way to learn to draw daisies or similar flowers with petals. Inside the circle outlined for the bouquet, place the daisies on different heights in relation to the neck of the vase.
- Make chiaroscuro to give the drawing volume.
VIDEO: How to draw a VASE WITH FLOWERS with a simple pencil?
How to draw a bowl of fruit?
First of all, you need to think about what shape the fruit bowl can be. It can be either a simple, semicircular shape, or a vase on a leg.
- In any case, first you need to draw a semicircle going down from the straight line of the horizontal axis of the future vase.
- Then, below the straight line, draw a concave line to represent the top of the vase.
- At the bottom of the vase you need to draw something like a bottom, even if you are supposed to draw it on the leg. The vase should be stable, with the center of gravity in the middle.
Fruit bowl in pencil: step 1. 
Fruit bowl in pencil: step 2. 
Fruit bowl in pencil: step 3. Now you can start sketching the fruit. As a rule, those of them that are placed in a vase have:
- round shape (apples, oranges, grapes)
- extended (bananas)
- or diamond-shaped (plums)
It is advisable to think about the arrangement of fruits in the vase so that they do not hang from its edges, perhaps so that they are located as fruits of the same variety in one place, or all the fruits interspersed.
When drawing fruit in a vase, you should take into account that only part of the fruit should be visible, since the other part may be in a recess in the vase.
VIDEO: Still life with vase and fruit
There is absolutely nothing complicated about using pastels. In many ways, you will need the same skills that were described in detail in the article on drawing an apple. In general, still life was and remains one of the most favorite genres of classical visual arts. A still life is the creation of a variety of different objects within a single composition. various items that just catch your eye. All that remains after this is to harmoniously arrange them next to each other.
And here is the still life that we will learn to draw in this lesson using pastels. As you can see, pastel is a wonderful medium with which you can achieve impressionistic images.
Pastel has always been famous for its bright and very saturated color, which is why many artists devote it Special attention. Using pastels you can achieve a wide variety of effects, such as layering colors, adding bright strokes to a painting, or blending color range using your fingers, which makes it possible to achieve a matte tone.
Pastels can be purchased in the form of regular crayons or pencils. Pastel comes in different hardnesses. IN in this case A soft variety of pastel was used to create this still life. Yellow is used as a background, on which all other colors used to draw fruit are superimposed. The paper also matches in tone overall composition. Using the sharp tip of the pastel, the contours of the fruit are outlined, which are then painted over with the flat part of the pastel.
Let's see what we need to create this still life.
- Sheet of special paper for pastels, paper color gray or beige
- A hard black pastel chalk or pastel pencil that needs to be sharpened first. You will need it to create contours.
- 12 soft pastel sticks.
So, let's start drawing a still life.
Creating a Sketch
First of all, you need to carefully study how exactly the fruits are located and understand their outlines, how they fit together. Next, take a hard black pastel and sketch out the composition with light strokes. Let the strokes be light and not strong, because this is just a sketch, it does not have to be completely accurate.
Adding a background tone
Take lemon pastel yellow color and start applying it with the side of the background on all the warm-colored fruits. In our case, this is an orange orange, a red apple, as well as a banana and a yellow pear. But we don’t touch the grapes yet. It is advisable not to go beyond the boundary of the contour and not to affect those areas that will later be used to display highlights. Use the pastel tip to create sharper yellow lines. They allow you to display the bottom curve of the banana, as well as its leg.
Once the outlines are outlined and the background color applied, it's time to move on to basic colors and glare. To mark the boundaries of the fruit, you need to use not only the flat side, but also the sharp tip of the pastel.
Orange takes shape
Using an orange pastel, you need to make several inside the orange short lines in the shape of a sickle. These lines should follow the outline of the orange. You can make lines either with the sharp end of the pastel or with its flat side. Usually, Orange color Mixes harmoniously with light warm colors, so orange will provide partial coverage of the lemon yellow background.
Green strokes for banana and pear
Now we again need both a sharp tip and side pastels having green color(khaki). Use it to add a green tint to pears and bananas. At the same time, carefully draw complex lines that should indicate the bulge of the pear in its lower area and, in fact, the stem of the banana.
Adding a Light Tone
To ensure the apple is drawn, we will need a light red pastel. The middle part of the apple needs to be painted over with even strokes, which should be repeated for the left part of the apple. Next, using a sharp tip, you need to enhance the color in the area located around the recess with the stem, and then more clearly highlight the outline of the fruit.
Let's move on to grapes
Using cherry-red pastels we will draw grapes. Using short strokes, you need to paint over the berries so that the strokes match the shape of the berries. Remember to leave empty space for future highlights.
Back to apples and oranges
Take the cherry red pastel again and apply the areas of the apple that are already covered with light red. Now, using dense strokes, you need to emphasize the shape of the apple, without affecting its middle left area. Then we take a bright orange pastel and shade the orange. When shading, also try to follow the shape of the orange.
Apply dark colors to the apple
Using the sharp tip of a dark purple pastel, you should highlight the outline of the fruit, as well as the recess in which the stalk is located. Using the side of the pastel you need to darken the red spot that is located right in the center of the apple.
Grapes take shape
Let's turn our attention to grapes. Using a dark purple pastel you need to paint over inner part each grape, which needs to be done with small and energetic strokes. At the same time, we need to emphasize the shape of the berries. Of course, don’t forget to leave areas intended for highlights unpainted.
Adding dark tones
Use yellow ocher to highlight the darkest areas of the pear and banana peel. In this case, the densest lines should pass where a slight shadow falls on the pear from the grapes. To highlight the shape of the grapes, outline the outer border of the berries using the sharp tip of a black pastel.
Glare for grapes
Now we take a white pastel and easily cover all the areas on the grapes that have remained white until now. However, some highlights need to be made clearer. To ensure that the highlights are positioned correctly, it doesn’t hurt to once again check the final result shown at the beginning of this article.
Increasing glare
We're not done with the highlights yet. On the orange you need to highlight a bright khaki spot and create a white highlight on it. Then white highlights should be made on the rest of the fruit, for which you will need the flat side of the pastel. Using the sharp end of a white pastel, you need to make a series of beveled lines in the recess with the apple handle, and then go over it with black and brown pastel. Using the same color, you need to slightly outline the borders of the apple and lightly shade the light brown spots, which should become a little darker. Now lightly rub the highlights on the grapes with your fingertip.
Finishing up the orange
It's time to deal with the orange. Using the flat side of the pastel, you need to add a few light red strokes to the orange, which will not only emphasize the shape, but also the outline of the fruit. Apply such strokes lightly, after which the red pastel should be lightly rubbed with your finger.
Adding a background and shadow
Using white pastel, you should add a few lines around the still life vertically and horizontally. The shading should not affect only those areas located to the right of the pear and to the left of the orange, since we will draw a shadow there.
To make a shadow, use the tip of a black pastel to make small strokes around the grapes, enhancing the shadow from them. Then use the flat side to add a small shadow and rub it with your finger so that it blends smoothly into the white background.
Finished still life
Well, here's what we got. Let's pay attention to some elements of the finished drawing.
A) Multi-layer color. Pastel allows you to easily apply many layers to your drawing. In this case, the light tone acts as the main one, and on it are applied dark colors, which allows you to achieve a volume effect.
B) Uniform background. The white background sets off the shapes of the fruits, painted in bright colors.
IN) blurry shadow. Due to the fact that the shadow of the fruit smoothly blends into the white background color, it looks more natural.
As you can see, there is nothing difficult in drawing a still life, and pastels are... amazing remedy, who is truly a pleasure to work with.
So, what is a still life? The first thing that comes to mind is a jug or vase, fruits, vegetables, cups, flowers, etc. In fact, a still life can contain absolutely any two or more inanimate objects, usually small in size, lying on the surface.
In this lesson I will show you how to draw a flower still life (the lesson uses a wonderful photo from Galina Chi).
Step 1. When drawing any still life, the first thing you need to do is imagine all the objects in the form of the simplest forms. In this example, the basket can be represented as a parallelogram, and the vase as a cylinder. It is very important to immediately place the objects correctly on a sheet of paper. Please note that items should stand on the table and not roll off it.
Step 2. We bend the lines to get the shape of the objects we need. Add a handle to the basket.
Step 3. Using circles and sticks we draw cherries, not forgetting that they overlap each other. Don't try to make them perfectly even.
Step 4. Designate the flowers and their centers. At this stage, you don’t have to draw the petals yet. We also add leaves.
Step 5. Draw the petals.
Step 6. We begin to shade the drawing - add a wicker texture to the basket, shade the cherries in a circle, leaving a large number of highlights to make them juicier. On right side add a strip of highlight on top of the shading. We shade flower petals and leaves from the center to the edges.
Since the light comes from the left, we add horizontal shadows to the right of the objects.
Still life is a favorite subject in art for learning and teaching drawing and painting skills. He teaches how to look at objects and see them like an artist - with a keen understanding of their contours, shapes, proportions, tone, color, textures and compositions.
This tutorial will teach you a method for creating a still life using pencil and paper. At the end of the article you can see an animated version of this lesson in our slideshow.
Steps 1 to 4: These steps demonstrate how to draw the shapes and proportions of still life objects using lines.
Steps 5 to 8: These steps show how to make a 3D still life shape using tone.
For this still life lesson you will need:
Pencil 2B
Sheet of thick A3 paper
Step 1: start drawing a still life
Technique: In any still life, you should begin to paint the objects as if they had transparent forms. The result will be something like a wire frame with visible auxiliary lines. This will help you sketch out each individual shape and its position in relation to the other shapes. It is important to mark objects easily, without pressure. This will make it easier to correct mistakes and erase all auxiliary lines.
NOTE: This is a transparent technique for drawing vertical and horizontal auxiliary lines will help you draw symmetrical ellipses and cylindrical shapes.
Step 2: Create an Interesting Composition
Technique: Before creating a still life, I advise you to become familiar with the basics of composition. It will help you to be aware of the abstract structure of a composition's arrangement: its rhythms and contrasts of line, shape, tone, color, pattern and texture.
NOTE: A transparent approach to wireframe sketching will help you create a still life from a group of objects. This makes it easier to see the shape, position and proportions of each object in relation to its neighbors.
Step 3: Removing Construction Lines
Technique: Once you are satisfied with the shape, proportions and composition of the still life, you can erase the lines with which you made the sketch. Now you are ready to work on the details of each item.
Step 4: Adding Details
Technique: Now we sketch the shapes of shadows and reflections on each object.
Note: The more carefully you do this, the easier it will be for you in the next stage of the drawing - Applying tone.
Step 5: Toning – 1
Technique: Toning our still life is structured in four stages, outlined in points 5 – 8. In this stage, some basic tones are lightly applied to each object in order to create its three-dimensional shape.
Step 6: Toning – 2
Technique: The second stage of shading focuses on the spaces between and around objects.
NOTE: The drawing of light and shadow between objects should be worked out in the same way as the drawing of the objects themselves. Shadows under and around objects help define their shapes, as do shading on their surfaces.
You can draw with gouache on paper or cardboard. An ordinary one is suitable for a still life. album sheet. As for watercolor paper, in this case it is big win does not work - gouache applied in a thick layer will still hide the texture. But if you are going to tint a sheet with watercolors, and objects, watercolor paper or paper wallpaper will be just right. You will also need brushes different types and different thicknesses, among them there should be both soft and hard. If this is your first time drawing a still life, you will also need a hard pencil. Gouache needs to be diluted to the state of liquid sour cream. Remember that a lighter tone can be achieved by adding white rather than by washing it out as with watercolor. Also have a few small jars ready to mix your paints. Of course, before creating a composition of different objects, you need to try to depict each of them separately.Sketch
The best way to learn to draw is from life. But you can also depict an imaginary still life. The main thing is that the composition is harmonious. Objects should not hang in the air, so draw a plane on which they will lie - a corner of a table, a shelf, etc. You can also add drapery. If you are planning to draw a bouquet or arrangement of fruits, appliqué made from colored paper can help. Cut out items that you would like to combine in your work. Lay them out on a sheet. Try it different variants. When you think that the items are arranged beautifully, mark the location of each element. Whether or not to make a pencil sketch is up to you. In fact, when working with gouache or watercolor, it is better to do without it. But a beginner does not always succeed in this, so carefully draw the contours of each object with a thin pencil.Method of working with gouache
The basis is color spots. Fill the contours of each object with the desired paint. It should be light enough to apply shadows later. In general, when painting with gouache it is convenient to follow the principle “from light to dark”. For example, apples can be yellow, red or green. For the first layer, choose pure colors. Having completed one outline, wait until the drawing dries before moving on to the next item. This is especially important if objects are located close to each other. Gouache dries very quickly, so the wait won't be long. Draw more small parts. This could be, for example, red stripes on a yellow apple, veins on a leaf, etc. Apply shadows. To do this, take paint of the main color, but without white. You can even add a little black or brown to it. The shadow, of course, is cast on the side of the object that is less illuminated. There should not be a sharp transition to the light part; it is better to blur the border or indicate it with a curved line. You should not outline the contours with dark paint. If the edges are uneven and you don't like it, smooth them out with the same paint you used to paint the item.Children love to draw, especially with paints. One of the most unpretentious paints for painting is gouache. Basis artistic education The child is drawing still lifes, including flowers. How to draw flowers gouache paints?
Instructions
Then proceed to the plot of the picture, which everyone draws the right colors. Apply the paint without shadows, do not forget to leave white areas. Set the color of the fruit and the jug with the glass. Blur the contrast of color and white spots slightly to soften the transitions and edges. When drawing watercolor, remember that all objects influence each other - their color seems to flow into one another. The shadows are also not black, they have absorbed the color of objects and surroundings and have their own color.
Finish some places with washes, especially where there is white color. Enhance the color of the fruit, make other modifications to the drawing with a brush watercolor paint. Draw the contours of all objects, but not sharply, but so that they merge with the neighboring ones. Put the picture aside and look at it in a few hours - you will definitely find what needs to be improved and corrected. Watercolor can be corrected at any time. After a while the eyes will rest from yours still life Ah, they will see everything in a new way.
note
As the watercolor dries, the color becomes lighter. Watercolor can be liquid or dry, both are good, but liquid in tubes dissolves better in water.
Choose special paper for watercolors - it does not pill, so the pellets will not spoil your work.
Sources:
- How to paint a still life in watercolors
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