Drawing vegetables and fruits is a great opportunity to learn how to draw simple and complex shapes and objects, to understand how shadows lie, how to correct a picture and complement it. Plum is a simple object in shape that does not have small parts and many bends.
Drawing - start with simple shapes
To learn how to draw fruits and vegetables, it’s enough to understand by using what simple forms you can achieve the most approximate sketch of the desired subject. Of course, this will not be immediately a gorgeous picture that has many details, shadows and has a 3D effect. But it’s best to start with simple elements.
Perhaps it is worthwhile to make out on a concrete example for clarity of the picture.
How to draw a plum with a pencil
There are many drawing techniques. So, let’s say, it has long been known that drawing is easiest to do in stages. Then, firstly, it will be possible to constantly correct flaws. Secondly, this is a great opportunity to see how the fruit that it was decided to draw is obtained from a simple form.
Let's consider in more detail how to draw a plum in stages.
As mentioned above, we start with simple forms. Plum most often resembles an oval, even closer to the shape of an egg, with one end slightly rounded and pointed at the other. But there are round fruits.
In the middle, you need to draw a dividing line (since a real plum, although a whole fruit, but along this line it can be divided into two parts)
The last step is to draw a ponytail, which plum clings to a twig.
In addition, you can add elements such as leaves or a worm, and color the fruit with colorful pencils.
How to draw a plum in watercolor
It seems that paints are much more difficult to paint than pencils; in fact, this is not so. After all, drawing in watercolor, you can just as easily divide the creation of the picture into several stages.
The first of which will be the drawing of the main elements in pencil.
The second step will be to circle the already final shape of the sketch with a felt-tip pen to highlight lines thicker or thinner and to indicate the color palette in the figure.
And the last step will be the watercolor painting of the drawing using the shadow effect, which can be achieved with different shades of the same color.
Drawing with watercolor paints has a smoother outline, allows you to change the color tone and thereby adjust the image.
For drawing fruits, vegetables and berries, it is best to choose the simplest objects in order to visually learn to understand what simple form can bring to the desired result. This includes plum, peach, cherry plum, cherry, potato. Cucumber, strawberries and raspberries have finer details, which complicates the drawing process a little.