How to draw An Apple

How to draw An Apple

What you need

• Drawing paper Cartridge or sketch paper with a little tooth.
• Blue pencil A light blue col-erase pencil, or a very light HB.
• Graphite pencils HB and 2B; a 4B or 6B for the darkest darks.
• Kneaded eraser Press and lift; pinch it to a point for highlights.
• Sharpener A sharp point makes cleaner hatching.

Step by step

1. 
   01

   Placement

   A sphere and its axis

   A circle for the sphere inside the apple, and an axis through it from stem to base: this apple leans a little right.

2. 
   02

   Construction

   Shoulders and the stem dip

   Push the sphere into an apple: fuller at the shoulders, narrower toward the base, and an ellipse for the stem dip.

3. 
   03

   Construction

   Stem, contour, lift the blue

   Draw the stem rising from the floor of the dip. Commit the contour: soft in the light, firm in shadow. Lift the blue.

4. 
   04

   Light and shadow

   Local value, then the core

   An apple is not white. Tone all of it but the highlight, then build the core shadow just in from the lower right edge.

5. 
   05

   Light and shadow

   Streaks that follow the form

   Now curved streaks, running from the stem down round the form to the base: closer and darker in the shadow.

6. 
   06

   Light and shadow

   The dip and the stem

   Shade the dip darker on its left wall, which faces away from the window. Tone the stem and its soft shadow.

7. 
   07

   Light and shadow

   The cast shadow

   Hatch the cast shadow to the right on the table. It is darkest where the apple sits and softens as it goes.

8. 
   08

   Finishing touches

   Last darks and the highlight

   Deepen the core and the occlusion with a soft pencil. Then pinch the eraser and lift one crisp highlight in the upper left.