How to Build a Still Life Drawing

Video Transcript

"Now that we have our composition we're going to go ahead and if you see anything that you want to change, now is the time to do it. But I'm happy with this composition so basically I'm just going to take the black pencil and in areas that I see that are going to be dark or are really light. The really light ones I'm just going to brush over them really lightly. Just going to come in here. There's a really strong glare on this side of the seal so I might just come in here like this. Do this. And then once I have the area that I know I want to be super light then I can go right next to it and get it a little bit darker. Because usually where there's a highlight, right next to it is a darker area of shading. Okay, so I'm going to come in here and I'm actually going to change the shape of the seal a little bit. Like that. And if it's a big area you can do wider strokes with the pencil. And I'm just going to build this up because once I get to the really darkest shade of this it's hard to go back to a lighter color so that's why I want to build up and that's building softly."