Drawing Water By Pencil

 ... It's not as complicated as it seems. Water is constantly moving, changing light reflections from the surface every moment. That was the reason why I took the photos - the ones I've gradually use as pattern. Drawing water requires skill in shading and to blur graphite.

Today, I drew the water tap, of which I slightly left water flowing, I took a picture of the tap and began to shade, here's my process:

      

final version:

Indeed, I have to add more pictures which are little bit older but still looks good. Here are my eperiments how to draw water flowing into a glass.

this one is close-up view on water drop hitting the water surface causing "splash cup" and drops.

sea water..

melting ice with quaterfoil inside..

Today I gathered a few sample images. One portrait is a graphite pencil cartoon, it was no problem. I used traditional tools, pencil hardness HB, "blur tool" and rubber. Usually when I draw the eye I do not forget for coal. It delivers a true black color of lens. Why use charcoal? Graphite pencil, leaving a trail of shiny, while the charcoal (charcoal) does not reflect light but absorbs. Chemical consistence of graphite and charcoal is different. Maybe I will show some examples later...

Now some images

I have to admit that quality of my drawings depends on original pattern. Here is example of black eyle lenses drawn by charcoal pencil.

I got the opportunity to draw a portrait in colour. At first I was concerned about the availability of the material in the stores. I bought a small set of colour tones - they were pretty basic colors - Brown, yellow and red. I have to confess that I did not expect such a positive result. a combination of these colors with white pencil completed the right tone.

As always, I used sheet of paper of 60x50 cm size with hard texture on it, this is called "China white" less white than "ice white" paper. Watch results... 

Skin color was real challenge for me. It takes time to find out how to combine brown and red pencil.

I think, not bad at first time :), but next portrait must be placed upon softer texture. It will allow more details what is leading as to better result.