How Do You Shade A Flower Rose When Drawing With A Graphite Pencil?
There are different ways to shade a drawing of a rose with a graphite pencil. Your method should relate to your personal style, the context of the rose within the picture, and the more general context of the drawing itself. For example, a rose drawn in a comic strip will usually be treated very differently than a rose on a greeting card. Assuming you are drawing from a live subject or a photograph, study the subject before proceeding. Presumably, you’ve drawn the outline of the rose already and are now ready to shade the rose. Where does the light fall? Where are the colors the richest? Where are the shadows? With your sharpened pencil, make a few practice marks on a piece of paper. Hold the pencil on its side so that you are marking the paper not with the tip but with the side of the lead. Beginning with the shadowed, darkest areas of the flower, shade the petals with the side of the pencil lead. Make the shadows light at first–much more light than they will eventually appear. Assume
