We'll now focus on how to draw water drops.
I will show you the beginning stages and techniques of drawing a water drop.
Truly, you could spend hours perfecting a drawing of a water drop or anything
else, but the most important thing is how to get started.
Always very important to just relax, to find a comfortable place to sit, turn on
some music, and approach your drawing with the goal of really having fun
and expressing yourself; having a way to really authentically express yourself.
I typically tend to look at something, rather than pull something from
my imagination, that way I have a base for my drawing.
I'm going to just choose one water drop.
Water drops obviously come in every shape and every size.
What I'm going to do first is sketch the shape of the water drop.
Typically, any water drop is going to be either a circle or an oval, so you
might even practice drawing a circle or drawing an oval.
Then within that circle and oval, for lack of better words,
there are almost squiggly lines.
Instead of a perfect circle, maybe it comes down a little bit or comes up a
little bit higher.
The goal is to not focus on the whole shape at once.
Break it apart, and take a little bit at a time.
All a drawing is, is a little line connected to another little line,
connected to another little line.
Everybody can do this, and everybody can do that.
If you can do those 2 things, you can draw.
I'm going to focus on the shape of my water drop.
It's a curved line, connected to another curved line, connected
to another curved line, connected to another slightly curved line,
another curved line, another curved line, and that's it.
What I'm going to start to do is think about the shading.
The shading will allow the water drop to feel 3-dimensional.
I'm going to do the shading and sketching with a variety of different
pencils.
Some of the pencils are lighter, and some of the pencils are
darker.
I'm going to start, actually, by looking both outside of the water
drop and inside of the water drop for the darkest areas.
I'm using a 6B pencil.
A 6B allows us to get very dark lines.
I'm just going to move around inside the water drop
and outside the water drop, and shade in.
All I'm doing is with the tip of the pencil I'm doing this type
of motion.
It's just back-and-forth, back-and-forth.
Then I do it on top of, so it's layers of back-and-forth, and
then sometimes it's smaller.
If I press harder, it's darker.
If I barely press, it's much lighter.
Right now, I'm pressing fairly hard.
I really want a nice dark line.
Now I'm going to look in the water drop itself, and look at the different
shapes.
There are so many different shapes of color right inside the water
drop.
I'm going to look inside the water drop and find, what is the darkest
area of this water drop?
What is the lightest area?
Maybe what is the medium-toned area?
I'm going to sketch in this darker area.
I can start to go in the direction of the water drop.
Instead of just the back-and-forth line, it can be a curved line.
That will show the motion and the direction of the water drop.
As I'm drawing, I'm not so concerned with, "This drawing has to be
perfect."
I'm not concerned with, "Oh, no.
It doesn't look like the perfect water drop yet."
I know that if I continue to practice these techniques,
and I spend the time, that it will continue to evolve.
Most importantly, I'm relaxing, I'm enjoying this experience,
and I'm allowing the drawing experience to really nurture me creatively.
If that's happening, then I'm succeeding already.
Certain areas are darker.
Certain areas are lighter.
I'm now going to grab another pencil; this is a 2B pencil.
It's not as dark as the pencil I was just using.
There are some areas, it still has shading, but it's just not
as dark.
Instead of using the tip, now I'm using the side of the pencil.
I'm holding it . . . the end of the pencil is really in the middle of the
palm of my hand.
Then I'm folding my hand over so that my pointer finger is
on the pencil, and I'm grasping it with my thumb.
Just very quickly finding the different movements of the water drop,
and how the water is moving.
I'm going to use my finger, and I'm going to shade the pencil together.
All I'm doing is making a circular motion and
pressing down right on the paper and the pencil, and all of these colors start
to move together and blend together.
I'm now going to take my eraser, because within the water drop
there's always a very light area.
I'm going to take my eraser, and I'm going to erase right into my drawing.
I'm literally drawing now with the eraser.
I want to just bring those highlights out.
When you draw, the eraser itself is a drawing tool.
One thing that makes a water drop feel like a water drop is what's around it.
We'll quickly sketch in, or shade in, some of the areas around the water drop.
We can come back into the water drop to find the shapes of all the
different shading a little bit more; always looking for shapes, always,
always looking for the shapes of the lights, the lightest areas, the
darkest areas, and the shape of that which you're drawing.
One thing also is when you're drawing a water drop, there
are always all these different curves, it's almost like the letter 'S'.
You want to find all of those interesting curves, and really bring that
out in your shading.
This is just the beginning stages of your water drop.
Typically when you create a water drop, there could be another
drop and a couple of drops in the same area.
These are the beginning stages.
If I were to continue this, I would continue finding the lighter areas,
I would continue finding the darker areas, bringing in more shading, making
changes, and most importantly, relaxing and expressing my own
creativity.