How To Draw An Apple With Colored Pencils

Red apple drawing

A colored pencil stride-past-step showing a cerise apple, ideal for beginners, using just vii shades. This tutorial was drawn with Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils, but if you don't have them, use pencils you accept - just compare the colors and choose similar :)

Progresso colors used:

three Titanium White
ten Carmine Ruddy
11 Natural Siena
12 Ivory Black
16 Bordeaux Reddish
23 Dark Brown
170 Pyrrole Ruddy

Optionally: Derwent Cartoon Chinese White, kneadable eraser

Colors used and photo of Progresso pencils

Newspaper:
Strathmore Toned Gray, I used size approx. 8 x ten cm (3 x 4 in) - you can use something a bit bigger if you desire

Reference photograph: pixabay

So let's kickoff!

1. The outlines - I did them with Carmine Cherry-red, Bordeaux Carmine and Night Brown. Look at the step 1 scan and draw carefully a rounded shape of an apple. Don't press the atomic number 82 too difficult to the surface so that y'all can easily erase eventual mistakes.

Step 1: outlines

two. Mark shades - with Dark Brown and Bordeaux Red on the apple tree. Give them a smudgy look as in the fastened drawing.

Step 2: adding base color

3. Add together more shades - darkening our apple with Ivory Black and Dark Brown. The lesser of the apple tree is in the shadow so it should be the darkest part.

Step 3: darkening base colors

4. Use Pyrrole Red to marker lighter parts of the fruit. Leave some spaces uncovered - we will add together there some white color later.

Step 4: adding bright red layer

5. At present take white pencil and draw the shiny parts. Add together some white here and there over previosuly created dark layers so that our apple tree volition exist more diverse in colors and with that more than interesting.

Step 5: adding the shiny parts with white pencil