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Summary: To draw fruit, use two half circles for a banana, draw small circles right against each other for a bunch of grapes, draw a nearly perfect circle for an orange and create the irregular circle shape of an apple. Sketch out fruit, adding shadows and texture for a realistic look, with creative tips from a professional illustrator in this free video on drawing.
Joel Hickerson has illustrated more than 50 books, including "The Complete (Rugby) Referee" and "I Can Draw Foods I Like to Eat." Hickerson has acted on the PBS children’s series...read more
"Joel Hickerson, Grindog.com. Today we're going to learn how to draw fruit. OK, let's start with a real simple one, maybe the banana. It's just pretty much, two half circles. One, two. And cap off the end with a little, almost like a square. And then you do some half circles in the middle. These can be lighter. Then you kind of shade one side, and follow these half circle lines a little bit. Going to give the bruising that comes with some of these bananas. And then you go back and you accentuate the outline. You can even shade the bottom a little bit more, to give it a little bit of weight. OK. So, that's our banana. And another easy one would be grapes. Now grapes, I usually start with about four, right next to each other. Four circles. And then in between those circles, I create another circles, until we go down to one. And then I might add a couple at the top. Throw a stem out there, a leaf maybe. And very important, is like, a little tendril, that always seem to accompany the grape. OK. And then you can come in, if you want it a little more complicated, and shade just one side. Pick yourself a light source, and just shade one side of these grapes. OK? That's a grape. An orange, very simple. It's the closest thing to a circle we have in the fruit kingdom. You have there. And then maybe, because of the texture of the orange, you come back and just do a couple of squiggly lines again. You have a light source here, a couple of squiggly lines on the side of the circle that the light isn't hitting. And then you shade the bottom half, to kind of give it a little bit of weight. OK, and then you can put a little stem out the top, and a leaf. Alright, maybe two. Whatever balances it out. OK, next would be an apple, which isn't a circle. It actually starts, and goes straight, and is like circular at the top, straight sides almost. OK. Have this, and it has a stem coming out. Maybe a leaf. Erase some of the inside of that leaf. Kind of have a color to it. I usually shade the bottom again, to kind of give it something to sit on. You can even, give it a little bit of a shadow down there. Alright. Now that's four. And then if you want to draw a quick pear. It's almost like drawing a bell, the Liberty Bell. OK. And that's how you draw fruit."
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