Drawing Still Life Tutorial, Match

August 10th, 2011

Still Life Tutorial, Match

Now we will learning about, how to draw realistic thing, or it ussualy called a still life drawing. this tutorial ahould be help you so much, read, and do the steps.
Step 1 For this still life tutorial I chose to draw a zippo lighter. I have drawn them quite a few times in the past but I always enjoy them. The first step was getting an outline. I also marked off where some highlights will be.

Step 2 began drawing from left to right, top to bottom. Working this way, I never have to rest my hand on a finished part of a drawing. be carefully drew around the highlights with a mechanical 3B.

Step 3 continued on drawing the flint and starting the metal. noticed some highlights around the holes in the metal so drew around them. When drawing highlights, compare them to eachother to make sure they are pure white. You will find that some highlights are not pure white.

Step 4 came across a brilliant highlight in the metal and when comparing to other light parts, saw that the holes in the metal should be lightly shaded. This made the highlight stand out more too.

Step 5 The top of the lighter was done at this point. compared tones to eachother and tweaked parts that needed lightening or darkening.

Step 6 It was time to move onto the bottom part of the lighter. started this off by laying down some B graphite. The zippo had alot of scratches in it that wanted to show so started making little random highlights all over. There was another highlight on the left side so drew around it

Step 7 The bottom part of the zippo is lighter on the left side and darker on the right so began laying down some 3B on the right side and blending it into the left. did not use blending stumps for this though. Blending stumps would give too smooth of an effect so just used some good old fashioned cross hatching here. There were some highlights in the darker/right side also but not as bright as on the left so pulled those out with an eraser.

Step 8 worked on the scratches on the lighter for quite a while until liked how they looked. made sure to really look close at my reference to see how they actually appeared. There was some indirect light on the right side of the zippo so rendered it lighter.