![]() ![]() Using the shading tip burn a dark shadow along the outside of the bottom of the water droplet. This helps emphasize the light spot and provides a little buffer around the spot. If you like, you can also burn a line around the charcoal highlight. I burned my line a medium-light tan color. Using the writing tip, burn the water droplet outline you drew in pencil. Charcoal resists heat and that helps prevent the wood from browning up if you should accidentally burn over the spot. Is this step absolutely necessary? No, but I find it helps make sure I leave the entry point un-burned by providing two things: 1) a visual marker, 2) heat resistance. In my example, the sun is above and to the left of the water droplet, so my mark is on the upper left side of the drop. This represents the point of light entry into the water droplet. Use a WHITE charcoal pencil to draw a little dot where the sun is angled. If you look at the feature photo at the top of this blog you will see that I have many different shaped water droplets, and I doubt there is one that is even close to being perfectly round. The water droplet does not need to be perfectly round. Using a graphite pencil lightly draw in a water droplet or two onto the piece of wood. Each step I will show what I’m doing, but the photo will also have the completed first droplet above the one I’m demonstrating. This oops is going to allow me to try something a little new with this tutorial. I forgot to stop and take pictures between each step when I created the first water droplet. Reader submitted art at the bottom of the blog. You can watch a timelapse YouTube video of this artwork being created. My goal is to pass this knowledge on to you hopefully as well as I was taught, so that it is easy to learn. ![]() My mother-in-law, who was a phenomenal oil painter, showed me how to create water droplets and I was amazed at how easy they were. Water droplets can add a lot of visual interest to your artwork and don’t take a lot of time to create. In this blog tutorial I’m going to show you how easy it is to create a water droplet or, if you prefer, a rain drop.
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