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Pencil Drawing: How to Draw a Mushroom Step by Step Guide

teacher avatar Amelie Braun, Artist & Cartoonist

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    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:49

    • 2.

      Primary Sketch

      6:37

    • 3.

      Details

      10:15

    • 4.

      Shading

      12:10

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Pencil drawing is one of the most basic techniques in drawing and painting. In this class, I will teach you how to design mushrooms in a simple way in three episodes. In the first episode, you will learn the basic drawing of mushrooms. In the second episode, you will learn the details of drawing mushrooms. And in the third episode, you will learn how to shade mushrooms. I hope this class is useful for you and helps you to improve your pencil drawing technique.

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Amelie Braun

Artist & Cartoonist

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Hello, I'm Amelie.

I started drawing with a pencil when I was sixteen, initially focusing on pencil drawing classes. During these early years, I developed a strong foundation in portrait drawing, figure drawing, and facial features design. I also honed my skills in working with colored pencils, ink pens, and watercolors. These diverse experiences have given me a comprehensive understanding of various techniques and styles.

As my interest grew, I discovered a passion for character design and animation, which led me to pursue professional character design classes. My university education in the field of animation further deepened my expertise. At the age of twenty-four, I began teaching character drawing with a pencil, combining my knowledge of traditional drawing techniques... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hello everyone. In this course I will teach you to sketching of mushrooms with pencil in three simple and easy steps and phases. Just need a pencil and eraser, a paper. In the first step we have to primary sketch of the mushrooms. In the second one, we create the mushrooms details. And in the third step, we will teach you how to shade the mushrooms. I hope you will enjoy this course. 2. Primary Sketch: Hello to all of my dearest friends. I'm back again with another tutorial session for you. In this session we are going to create kind of a mushroom together and we wanted to see how it's done. All right, First of all, I'll start with the general shape for my mushroom. So basically I'm creating a direction line for the mushroom that I want to create. For starters. And this would be the biggest mushroom that we're going to create. Then I will also create several more, smaller mushrooms comparing to this one and comparing to the direction line that I've created at first. I would also create another mushroom. On this side on this area, a small one, which is actually the smallest one. Okay. I'm going to create my shapes on these direction lines for my mushroom. First of all, create a general shape for my mushrooms cap. This would be an oval for the whole actually. The cap like this. I will create its cap on top of it, on top of this oval. Therefore, it would be complete, looks like this. Right now we're just creating general shapes. And later, I'm going to add the details to the work index. Two steps. We have our mushrooms cap. We are going to work on this inner part of our oval. And we will create the stem of our mushroom. Actually, the rest of the body of the mushroom. Just create a general shape going down. Something that you should pay attention to in creating this part is the A's that it's thinner at the top. And when it comes down to the bottom, it will be thicker and wider, Just as you can see here. And then I'll create the other mushroom. For the other mushroom. Again, we're going to do the same. You will create an oval at first. Some of it will actually be placed behind first mushroom. If you pay attention. I'll complete my mushrooms cap like this. Then I will create the rest of my mushroom in this way. And I'll bring it down just like that. For our third mushroom, which is the smallest one. I'm going to make it a little bit more distant from the other ones. I'll create a little bit further from the other two. So it would be just different than I completed scab as well as I did for the rest of them. Then I'll create the rest of my mushroom at the top it would be thinner and as I come down, I will make it thicker and wider. Alright, now that I've created general shapes for my mushrooms, I will create a line just for the background, actually for the ground in the background of my mushrooms. And I would also add some grass around my mushrooms just to make it more attractive and more accurate. I would also create several grass over here in front of our mushrooms just to show that they are more random. And this would be the ground of our work. Just to complete the background, more and more. I'm going to determine the lines a little bit more. And then I can step into next parts and next phase. Okay? For the tip of our bodies, for the two Pi of our mushrooms will create the shape that we want. And as we come down, I'm going to create a shape like this. These shapes are all asymmetrical and I'm just creating some lines kind of randomly for this upper part of the mushrooms. Because the upper part and the lower part have different shapes. Because bit of our mushroom has gone behind this. I will create it as much as we can see. Now in next step, I will add the details. 3. Details: Hello, My dearest friends. Alright. Now we are going to add the details to our mushrooms. In this step. For adding the details, I will edit the general shape of my mushroom and little. I mean, I have to make the tip of our cap more around give it a special shape. I mean to 12 hour cap should have a special shape. Then we are going to shape this lower area like that. We'll complete it like this. All right? Now that this area is more complete and shaped, we are going to consider this line for this inner part of our mushroom, and we're actually going to separate it from our main part of the mushroom. Basically we are giving some dimension to our cap. On the top of the cap. I'm going to create some designs and patterns looking like this. As you can see, I'm just creating some spots and some patterns on my mushroom. Just like that. And very randomly, we are going to use these circles and shapes and patterns. You should be careful that whenever you want to create the edges of the work, you should create your patterns. We'd considering that your shape is going toward other side of the cap, so it would be half, it wouldn't be complete. You should do that on all the edges. Comparing to the fact that these parts are turned interested, you can actually create your work as much as they can be seen. Now for this inner part of my mushroom, I'm going to create several lines like this. You should consider that these are the inner lines, all of our mushroom. We are creating some curved lines from the center of our work inside of the mushroom. I would also create some more lines from the round of the edge of this inner part of the mushroom. And I bring it toward the center. And we are just doing, I'm creating these lines randomly and we're doing use any specific pattern for it. Then I'll continue bringing these lines down. Try to do the same for the other parts of my mushroom. I'll complete this lower area. Then I'll complete its body. It's a stem this way and I move down until, I move down until I get to the ground. I'm going to work on the other mushroom, which is, which has a medium-size. Again, I start from the tip of the cap of my mushroom. I complete the shapes and forms a little like this. As you can clearly see it. Then for this inner part, I would complete my shapes here. I mean, from this spot which is in the back of our mushroom. I'll start, I'll continue the risks of it over here and in here I'll make a turn and I'll separate this inner part from the outer part of the CCAP as much as we can see it and it's not behind the other mushroom. Pay attention to that as well. I'm going to create the shapes and patterns which I want for my mushroom on. It's like that. Just be careful that. When you are working on these patterns, you should create very differently and very randomly. Because this way your work would look much more better. Try to not use a very similar pattern for all of them. Now I'm actually going to complete these lines from this area, actually for this area inside of the mushroom. And then I create some random lines going down. Then I'm going to work on the rest of my mushroom and completed in this way. Now I want to work on the third mushroom, and I'll do exactly the same as I did for my previous mushrooms. The procedure is exactly the same as I did for the other two. I'll start from the tip of my cap. I'll complete it in the shape that I wanted to be. Then for this lower part of my mushroom, I will complete its shape. And for this part, for this inner area, I'm going to turn and I will go toward inside. Then I will create a patterns on, on my mushrooms cap. This way. Then it will create this inner part of the mushroom. And I would create several lines over here inside of this mushroom as well. Again, I say these lines should be created very randomly without any special order. Then for this area, for the body of my mushroom, for the rest of my mushroom, I'll just continue this. And then I'll complete the grass growing around them. Just as easy as this your mushrooms are made. All right. This is our detailing phase. Now I'm going to erase all the extra lines and all the guidelines. So in next step, I can add some shadings in my work. First of all, I'm going to erase this extra lines and obviously the guidelines. Therefore, I can move on to next level, to the next sip that I can add some shadings and some colors. I mean, not colors. It would be in black and white, but I'm going to add some shadings to these mushrooms. I will erase all these extra lines. All the lines which were in our primary sketch. You would also have to erase all the lies which you feel during the shading will make some problems for you. You should erase all of those lines. As you can see, I'm just erasing all these guidelines. And just like that, I will erase all this extra lines, especially the line which is which we've created at first, which is our direction line. For our mushrooms. Do not forget to erase that. We have to also erase this lines into back which can be seen definitely. Alright. I've erased all the extra lines and the next step, I'm going to shade these details. 4. Shading: Hello My dearest friends and welcome back to all of you. Now in the third step of my work, in the third phase, I'm going to add some shadings to my mushrooms to make them more interesting. As usual, I start from the tip of mushrooms cap. And then from the tip, I will shade downward. I will add my shadings downward. Considering the direction and the angle of my mushrooms is standing. I'm just going to shade this outer part of my mushrooms and not the ones which are inside of the mushrooms. I'm shading the caps of my mushroom here. As you can see. I'm doing it from top to bottom. You're adding these shadings from top to bottom. Just like that. I will shade all around my mushrooms cap, except this inner part of my mushrooms gap. We've done it. I will bold some lines which I've created inside of my mushrooms. I go over them to make them darker in Boulder. Then in the center, I will create some more shadings just in order to show the depth of this area only in the center. I will add some more shadings and darkness only in center, not anywhere else. I will add some more darkness and this upper part of my mushrooms body. And then for this area, again, I'll go over the lines to separate this upper part of the mushroom from its lower part. And then below these lines, I will add some more shading. I will have some shadings over here on the tip of our stem, on the tip of our mushrooms buddy over here. It shouldn't be too much or too less. And you have to continue the same way for this area as well. With this way, I just apply some shadings to this area. Therefore, this lower part of our stem, for the lower part of our mushrooms body, which is also taller and longer. I'm going to create a shape over here like this. We're going to do this in the shading phase because the rest of the phase, the rest of the phases, these lines would TE and they will not get mixed up with our work. In our shading phase. I'm going to add these lines. But if you're going to create these slides lighter, you can add this in your previous phase and your previous steps as well. But if you think that erasing these lines will make your work to look messy, do this work and add these lines in your shading phase because it says a small volume. Now I'm going to start the next mushroom. I'm going to start from my mushrooms cap again. I will shade it like this. I start from the top to the bottom and I will add the shadings in the direction and the angle of my mushroom. Because it's important as well. Then I will shade all around my mushrooms cap except the inner part of it, as I said before. Now for inside of Vine washroom, exactly like the previous mushroom. I will build these lines inside of it. I'll go over them to make them darker. And in the central of these lines, I will add a little shading, a little darkness to say. Then will shape this area which connects the stem to the cap. I'll make it darker. And then from one side, I come down and I shade. Again, I emphasize that you should create the shadings considering to the direction of your mushrooms. And you should also consider an imaginary light source for your work. So you would know where it should be lighter and varied, should be darker. I'm just going to add these parts as much as I can see from behind. And I'll add it to my work. Now, I'm going to work on my last mushroom. And from the top, I come to the bottom again as usual, I'll add my words shading. I would also be careful that I wouldn't go inside of the patterns that I've created on my mushrooms cap because I should not go into them or shape them in any way. Not advance. Covered are mushrooms cap. We are going to work inside of the mushroom. And we're going to do exactly the same as we did for the other two mushrooms. For the previous ones, we will add some shadings in the center of the lines over here inside of our mushrooms cap. I'll shade this lower area. I'll add some shadings. Then I'll consider some shapes for this bottom part of our mushroom. Like that in these areas, I would also add some shadings here. And then I want to also shade the grass a little over here. As you can see. And I will just bold these patterns on my mushrooms calves because I want them to be seen in this shavings and these contrasts. I'm going to go around these patterns. These circles are semi-circles because I want them to be separated from this plain background and they can be seen at, actually, I'll go all over and all around all of these patterns just to make them more clear. They would be separated from the shadings. Now I will darken around my work and then I will finish my whole work. Because I want you to see the difference between the parts that we have shaded and the parts which we didn't have. I'm just doing this for you so you would see and feel the difference. You shave these shapes, you're actually giving more life to them. And obviously more dimension if you shape them, right? As I told you, I will do the same for the smallest one. Again, I say the procedure is completely the same. This, these are our three cute, beautiful mushrooms that we've completed them. This was our last phase. Now, I can also work on this background line and shaded a little bit more because I'm going too wide it the shape of our mushrooms can show themselves even better than they are. And I'm going to shade these areas a little bit holding the pencil like this in our hands, we can add to these shadings are little. They won't be too much or they won't be two little, too less. So we can make these shadings more visible, more clear. And at the same time, the shadings would be more faded into our work. It would blend into our whole work. So I worked with look more interesting and more attractive. So you can use this method for blending in your shadings into your work. As you can see, my work would look much more, better right now. Or you can do it by hatching. Depends on you, but I think this way can be easier and better for your whole work. Wherever we can see less shadings, has less darkness. We can just go over them a little bit more. To add some darkness. This kind of shading. At the end of your work. I say at the end of your work because you've already worked on your hatches and your work is shaped.