Fruit Drawings

     We spent quite a while drawing fruit in art class, and by the time we had finished, I had decided I would much rather eat an apple than draw one.
    
     We started out by drawing a still life of whole red apples, green apples cut in half and cut oranges in pencil, without color.  This was the first time I had ever drawn fruit, and for me it was much more challenging than it looked.  Besides drawing the right shape of the fruit, you also had to have the right shading in the right places.  This was the most challenging part for me, and I wasn't very good at it.  I'm hoping that I can improve my shading with practice, and I'm sure that there will be plenty of projects in the future that will require shading.
    
     After we completed our black and white drawings, we moved on to colored drawings of apples.  We had to draw a whole red apple and half of a green apple.  Although my red apple turned out more like a tomato, I was pretty happy with my green apple.  Since it was much more flat than a whole apple, I had an easier time drawing it.  Also coloring it was simpler, because the mixture of colors in the white insides of the apple weren't nearly as intricate as the greens, reds, oranges and yellows of the whole apple.  I drew my apples on a background of yellow, orange, and red, and the page is now sitting in my folder, waiting to be bound into the book.