Drawing Together Episode 59: Drawing a Cup
this episode is Part of the Drawing Together live video series – learn more here
Going back to still life drawing, let’s draw a peach together! Follow along using this reference image: Reference Image
We want to see your drawings! Share your finished pieces and any tips with us on this episode page.
Today, I’m working with:
- White Charcoal or Drawing Paper
- Charcoal Pencil (4B or 6B)
- Vine Charcoall
- Kneaded and Rubber Erasers
- Shading Stumps
In this session, we’ll cover:
- Drawing and sketching a Cup
- Drawing and sketching a Still Life
- Realistic shading techniques
Join artist Scott Maier, every Wednesday at 3PM EST.
Finally posting!
After three weeks off, I am back to drawing again and enjoying it. I had trouble with the perspective of the inside bowl of the cup. I am glad you are still doing the Drawing Together. Thank you!
Hi Scott. I am unable to attend the Drawing Together, but I am so happy to be able to do it in my spare time. Your approach of form over line is so helpful to me. You are a wonderful teacher; so kind and thorough.
I didn’t start following until after the first cup. Wish I had done that one for comparison. But I think I have made progress. Thanks for all the lessons
I like the cup. I keep trying my coffee cups that have eight sides giving me way more shading issues. Good practice but way harder.
May I suggest trying a drawing that has a reflective surface like a shiny tea pot? Reflections are tough.
My attempt at your mug.
It takes me a long time and multiple ellipses and then I was pretty happy. But the coffee did get cold.
The process of drawing together is giving me patience during the ugly duckling stage. Thanks Scott!
This looks great! You ask a good question about the “halo effect” I’m referring to. It’s a term I use that might be different than how other artists define it. Proko’s definition sounds like a good one! For me, I pay particular attention to edges. When working the background up to the edges of the cup, there’s a tendency to tighten up the marks, making them lighter or darker than the background leading up to the edge. This can lead to either a light or dark “halo” that can flatten he drawing. To remove the halo, I try to be sensitive to the background so that it feels as consistent as possible leading up to the edge. Does that align with your understanding?
Hello Scott, attached is Urszula’s dirty cup. While I listen to your comments I heard you saying :I want to avoid halo effect”. Was not sure what you meant. After the stream I found Proko video on the subject of Lambert Emission Law presented by Dorian Iten. He was describing two common shading mistake. One of them was not to make the dark halftones dark enough next to terminator. If the half tones next to terminator are not dark enough than that halo, or light ring, will appear. Eureka! I know what you were talking about. I was trying to avoid that mistake in my drawing. Do you think I succeeded? Your live streams are great, as is the ArtistNetwork web page.
Thank you
Both of these drawings look great!
This looks great!
This is so great to hear! Thank you for sharing your drawing as well as the experience. Your drawing looks great!
This looks great!
Nicely done!
Wonderful job!
Great job! Thanks for sharing!
This looks great!
Nice work! I love seeing your sensitivity to edges!
Here is my cup. Ebony pencil on gray sketch paper. Looks a bit grainy…maybe because I didn’t use charcoal.
March cup drawing.
This is my second time with the cup and my drawing this time, after months of Drawing Together, is much better. Still needs work, but I’ll upload my original, March drawing below this one to show the improvement! Thanks, Scott.
Kathy
I really enjoyed drawing the cup. It was deceptively challenging!
Thank you Scott, I enjoyed this session. I almost posted my beginning rough sketch rather then my final one. It had a lot more expression I thought. I photo my drawings as I go, it’s my way of stepping back from it.
My cup is really dirty, LOL!
Today, at a garden store, I noticed I saw things differently. The words,
Scott, that you use encourages. I’m learning so much! Like, hold off, form the shape with values.
It’s a challenge, a discovery, to learn how to use “the line” !!!
Today, at a garden store, I noticed I saw thing differently. The words,
Scott, that you use encourages. I’m learning so much! Like, hold off, form the shape with values.
It’s a challenge, a discovery, to learn how to use “the line” !!!
Thank you again Scott! To me this was more difficult than doing expressive eyes (which I did twice – eyes only then full face). Really enjoyed. But this makes me want to practice more since have trouble with ellipticals, i.e. tea cup and saucer. If my shading stump has way too much charcoal for what I want to do, I rub off on my sandpaper to clean some charcoal off. I also did the alpaca again. First time threw away since really bad. Now I see improvement in my drawing. Look forward to your lessons. Have a good week. Judy
Fantastic! Thank you!
Thanks again Please try to do a still life with flowers and another object. Thank you from Woodside NYC
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