How Do You Draw A Still Life With Colored Conte Crayons?
Drawing still life can result in decorative, pleasing artworks that do qualify as fine art. Creating your original still life with objects that are easy to draw and rendering them in colored Conte crayon will let you take as long as you need to get the shadows, colors, highlights and composition right. Arrange your still life either next to a sunny window or under a lamp that’s off to one side. Put the plain colored tablecloth on the surface you’re using (it can be a white sheet, it’s there to eliminate having to draw woodgrain and other details) and set out your fruits, vegetables and other objects. Directional lighting makes interesting shadows, and these help your drawing look more three-dimensional. So make sure the light is coming from above and to one side or the other when you set up your models. What makes some shadows interesting and others not? Shadows of glass bottles and jars have interesting little highlights inside them where the light gets focused as if by a lens, those
