You can do all these suggestions whenever you like or not at all.
Have a go at drawing anything when you’ve got a spare 5 minutes. Nobody needs to see it. It’ll take your mind off things.
If you’re not sure which direction to go in with your pen-marks here are a few different ways of drawing a cube, a sphere and a cone. There are many different ways of doing this. Persevere and you will find your style.
These are drawn on run of the mill office paper with an 02 size pen.
For the sphere I drew round a 2 pence piece with a pencil first. Just for fun have a go at drawing a circle completely freehand.
Bear in mind basic perspective. You might remember doing this at school!
By the way the bowl is just a hollow sphere cut in half.
The next one shows how an apple is basically a sphere with a stalk and a pear is a sphere merging with a cone. Looking at things this way will help you to draw them. Before you know it you’ll be drawing the entire fruit bowl.
By the way the bowl is just a hollow sphere cut in half. next one shows how an apple is basically a sphere with a stalk and a pear is a sphere merging with a cone. Looking at things this way will help you to draw them. Before you know it you’ll be drawing the entire fruit bowl.
One of my sketchers sent me these impressive drawings of his own arrangements of objects. It looks like they’re done in pencil which is a bit different to a pen, but who cares. He has used a pen and ink technique with the added advantage of being able to vary the density of his lines by applying different pressures.
A similar effect can be achieved using different thicknesses of pen. If you use fine pens for the background and work up to a thicker pen for the foreground it will help to create an illusion of depth.
Notice the interesting light source from behind the objects a bit to the left.
