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Basic shapes. Cylinder.
Author Elena Perelman
It's a common practice to start drawing with splitting the objects into basic shapes. Today we are focused on drawing a cylinder - the most common shape.
In general, every lightened cylinder consists of several zones:
highlight - the white spot from the direct light
light - lightened area
shadow or mid-tone - the area between the light and core shadow
core shadow - the darkest area
cast shadow - the fallen shadow
Use 2H or H pencil for contours and HB, B, 2B ... 4B pencils for shading
Start your drawing with the axis, or center line. |
Draw 2 lines for cylider edges - they are at the same distance from the cetral line. |
Draw 2 ovals: one for the top and another for a bottom. Make sure the bottom oval is bigger that the top one. |
Erase lines you don't need and leave just contour lines. |
If source of light is in the top left corner shades will be like that: mid-tone, light, mid-tone, shadow, mid-tone and reflection. | |
