Summary: When drawing a pine cone, first outline the general shape of it, add in the diamond-shaped tips of the prongs, and shade each prong to add texture. Sketch out a drawing of a pine cone that looks three-dimensional with creative tips from a professional artist in this free video on drawing.
Ralph Papa, a native New Yorker, began sketching and painting as a child growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and he exhibited regularly in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. In the...read more
"Hello there, I am Ralph Papa from papagallery.com, and today we are learning how to draw. In this clip I am going to show you how to draw a pine cone. We are going to start off just with a shape of the pine cone something like that. And the bottom of the pine cone is a little flatter with a little texture like this. And pine cones it is almost little wood slats, little wood chips, and they come out from the bottom. And the bottom of it here they might show up as small here, and then up near the top we will them like this. And it is just a matter of building textures, and little shapes like this. Almost diamond shapes, and I am just going to draw some of these diamond shapes in, sort of scatter them. And they are just like little diamond shapes, and I am alternating them in the hollow spots of the ones I did above. So we will have these diamond shapes like this, and I am just going to make a bunch of them here. Recognizing you can always add more later on, and then I am going to sort of flatten them out as they get lower. Because based on the perspective that I am using I am seeing them flattened out over here. Now the trick here to make it look like a pine cone I am going to give it some dimension where these little slats are coming into the pine cone just like this. They are little pieces of wood, and they are all emulating out from the center of the pine cone. So in each corner of these pine cones is where I am grabbing these little vertical lines coming down. Now once you get here you don't really start to see those lines they are sort of blending in, and I am just going to put some texture here just suggesting that these are almost straight on for you. Now I am going to shade in one side of the wood pieces here just to give it that texture that a pine cone would show up as. And then you might even see some leaves off of the bottom of the pine cone like that. Take my finger and I can give it a little bit of dimension. This has been Ralph Papa, and thank you for watching."
eHow Article: How to Draw a Pine Cone
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