1.
Using a pencil, LIGHTLY draw a large circle on the
watercolor paper, slightly off center to the left.
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2.
Add 2 triangular points onto the circle as shown.
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3.
Draw the diagonal line for the opening in the shell.
Follow the
contour with your eye and draw slowly!
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4.
Erase the parts of the circle that are no longer needed.
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5.
Now REDRAW the outline of the whole shell. Carefully
follow the contour of the shell with your eye as
your pencil moves along. Erase the old lines.
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6.
LIGHTLY draw 2 diagonal lines at the top of the shell
as shown. Use these lines as a guide as you draw the
bumps at the crown of the shell. Erase the diagonal
lines when you are done.
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7.
Using a yellow watercolor pencil,
shade in the area shown.
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8.
Wet your brush and blend the yellow. Allow to dry completely.
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9.
Using a red (or red-orange) pencil, shade in the center
of the yellow part, as shown.
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10.
Blend with a wet brush.
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11.
With the same red (or red-orange) pencil, carefully
draw and
color in the shadows all over the shell. Look at your photo reference!
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12.
Brush these shadows with a wet
brush. Allow to dry completely.
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13.
Using a blue pencil, shade in some of the shadows,
using your photo reference as a guide. Do NOT
brush these.
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14.
Deepen the shadows some more
with a brown pencil. Color behind the
bumps with the brown. Do NOT brush these.
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15.
Color with a blue pencil around the shell as shown.
Color hard when NEAR the shell and softer as you get
away from it.
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16.
Brush the blue with a wet brush and blend it out into
the white. Allow to dry.
(You
may wish to trim the paper to center the shell, as
I did.)
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What
better way to beat the winter blues than by drawing a sunny
sea shell to remind you of warmer