Pencil Peppers

Peppers are always a pleasingly graphic subject, and these ones are no exception - I liked them so much I thought I'd do three versions, and here's the first, in coloured pencil. The yellow one is quite flat, the green one is a bit better, but a glance are the red one and you get the shiny feel very well.

Red Onion

The pencil onion at the top here is much better than the other drawings in this series in my opinion - much closer to the object itself and much more rounded. The hightlight showed up really well on the skin of the onion, so I made it as white as I could. The pen one on the left is too pale, and the pastel too bright - but great colour, all the same! You might get away with the pastel in context, but here it looks a little flat and I don't think you can see what it is very well.

Three Onions

Three different materials again, and here's the next in the series - an onion. My grey felt tip was running out a bit, wasn't it? Still, the highlights are better and the colours are closer together than with the apples.

Shells

Here are some quick drawings of a green stone and some shells. The yellow/brown shells on the left are ok... but pastel is no good for small drawings of complex shell patterns - mark my words.

Pale stone

Here's one of my first attempts at the three different techniques on one page - what a disaster! The stone itself was very pale - but the drawings fail to capture the shape of it completely... it's smooth and rounded, and slightly longer than it is wide off to the top right corner. But it's certainly not what I intended!

Three Apples

Here are three apples I drew recently. The top one is coloured pencil, the left one is felt tip pen, and the one on the right is pastel. I took a chance and drew them all on one page! The shadows aren't too consistent with each other, but the apples are lovely together. The colours are even more vivid in real life.

Old Apples

Here's a couple of old apple drawings - a good example of me trying to use pastels like pencils!
As I'm starting on natural subjects, I thought I'd do some nice, bright, graphic drawings of fruit and veg.