Today I am going to show you how to make a still life with primitive shapes (geometric shapes) including a cylinder, sphere, and cube. We are going to be using graphite pencils to draw and shade the drawing.
Here is an easy-to-follow, step by step drawing tutorial for sketching out a realistic eye and eyebrow. You can use a normal pencil, graphite drawing pencils, or even use your computer's drawing tablet. Drawing eyes is not an easy thing to do, that's why I broke down the tutorial into 33 steps.
Today I will show you how to turn a circle into a 3-dimensional sphere, ball, or orb. In order to turn a circle into a sphere, you will need to use specific shading techniques to accomplish this. In this tutorial, I use graphite pencils, H, 2B, 3B, and 4B. This lesson will help you learn how to shade a beautiful sphere.
Here is an easy-to-follow, step by step tutorial for drawing a realistic female eye. You can use a normal pencil or graphite drawing pencils. Drawing eyes is not an easy thing to do, that's why I broke down the tutorial into 27 steps
Here is a huge guide to drawing pyramids from all different angles and viewing points. I also show you how to draw a perfect pyramid, using a cube. There is also a pyramid drawn from above (aerial view) that will help you as well. I will show you what these pyramids look like with different shadows, as well as how to draw a pentagonal pyramid, with many sides.
Today I'll show you the easy way to draw cubes and boxes. It is really simple to do and one of my first cool doodles I learned how to draw as a kid. I also show you simple light source shading.
Learn how to draw realistic ears by learning how to add shadows to the right places. First we will show you how to sketch out the ear by blocking in the shapes...then we will show you how we shadow ears.
Here is a great page to come back to to reference clothing folds, wrinkles and drapery pictures. When you need to draw wrinkles or folds, it is easier to get a realistic drawing if you have something to reference.
We will show you each step to be taken in shading a cube in this tutorial, for this solid is a representative of all prisms, and, indirectly, of the cylinder. Place the cube on a sheet of light brown paper, and pin against the wall behind it a similar sheet to serve for background. Let the light fall from the right and from above the cube. The top face will be the brightest of those seen, and the darkest will necessarily be that next the cast-shadow.
Draw the cube carefully (reference this cube drawing tutorial here)and lightly in charcoal. Incorrect lines may be removed by dusting with the tinder. Do not draw with black-lead, as it is greasy, and will afterwards appear white in your shading.
In this drawing tutorial, you will learn how to add shadows and graduated shading to pyramids - both Square and Hexagonal Pyramids.
Learn how to draw boxes and cubes with these simple step by step instructions. You might think they look hard to draw, but they are quite simple to make once you know the steps. Also learn how to shade these boxes as well.
This drawing lesson will help you shade groups of objects in a still life. The techniques show here should help you with all future group object shading projects.
Shading is a tricky subject...let the follow tutorial guide you through the process of shading vases. Vases are a combination of different shapes that you might already know how to shade, such as the cylinder and the sphere.
This drawing lesson will guide you through the steps of shading a 3-dimensional pyramid. Learn how to make gradual graduation of tones to pyramids to create the illusion of depth on your 2-dimensional piece of paper.
Learn how to add shadows to 3-dimensional cylinder with the following drawing lesson
Learn how to add shadows to a sphere with the following drawing lesson found in an old textbook.
Learn how to shade and add graduated shading to a 3-dimensional prism.
Learn how to see the whites, grays, and blacks in your drawings so you can form 3-dimensional objects. Drawing the light and shadows in forms and objects is a hard thing to learn, but hopefully this tutorial will give you some methods and techniques to use in your future drawings.
We have already posted an article about shading cartoons and comics...so you can consider this part 2 of the cartoon shading tutorials. This article will discuss sketching simple objects and people in different positions in relation to a light source and how it affects the shadows and shading of that subject.
Shadows are dark tones which result from some object being in the direct path of light, while shading in a drawing represents the tones on an object that vary from dark to light according to the way the light strikes it. Though comic pictures seldom need any elaborate use of shadows, the forms of figures and objects are brought out effectively by shadows if drawn correctly.