Tutorial | How to draw a water drop on white paper with graphite pencils | Emmy Kalia

Hi guys! Just a quick tutorial so that you can practice your own shading techniques. I'm going to show you how to draw a transparent object on white paper. First I sketch the shape of the water drop with a mechanical pencil. Then I start shading with the HB with light pressure. While I shade I hold the pencil more to the back. Now let's say that the light is coming from this side. The sides will be darker because you want your water drop to look 3D. Now I blend with a blending stump. You can also use a q-tip, a soft tissue or make a blending stump yourself. I have made a video about how to make one. With the 3B I darken the sides and then I start drawing the shadow. The shadow is opposite to where the light is coming from. There will be a light reflection on the shadow because the water drop is transparent. So I draw around it where I want it to be lighter. Then I blend it together. With the pencil eraser I clean up the edges and I'm making my water drop a bit smaller here. On the opposite of where the light source is coming from will be the light reflection. So that side of the water drop will be lighter. I go over the shadow again with the 3B to darken some more and I blend again. I make sure that the water drop is white on this side so I erase again. If I don't want to erase too much of the graphite I use the kneaded eraser to pull up some of the graphite where I just want it to be a bit lighter. After blending you might smudge some graphite on the lighter parts so with the pencil eraser I just erase again. Now with the 5B I darken the shadow some more and blend away from the water drop. I lost the drop a little from all that blending so with the 3B I go over the sides of the drop. Now I darken the sides of the shadow a bit so the water drop stands out. Now I use a white acrylic marker for the highlight where the light hits the water drop. Now I'm drawing another little water drop with the same techniques. I hope this video gives you a better understanding so you can try it out for yourself now. Thank you for watching and don't forget to check out my other tutorials too.