A diversity of colours, shapes and textures helps make a still life vegetable portrait more interesting. We suggest purchasing a variety of potatoes for your drawing. While you can make a potato drawing using the common Yukon Gold or Russet varieties, it’s fun to eat and sketch eye-catching purple potatoes or pink potatoes. They come in many sizes, shapes and colours. It is said there are more than 4,000 varieties of native potatoes, mostly found in the Andes.
In 1536, the Spanish conquered Peru, discovered the culinary versatility of the potato, and sailed bags of them back to Europe. The Inca in Peru were the first to cultivate potatoes between 8,000 to 5,000 BC. At my favourite farmers market in Toronto there is an urban farmer who grows beautiful heritage varieties. One of the best ways to become an expert on how to draw potatoes is by visiting your local farmers market. Toronto illustrator Mark Scheibmayr shares tips on how to draw potatoes. Creating illustrations of everyday things around your home, like a potato, with an Apple Pencil on iPad Pro, allows for new and advantageous ways of creating layers, texture, and dimension, and is also really quite fun. If you are new to digital drawing I am sure you’ll be amazed, both by how easy it is to pick it up, and by the new range of drawing potential it provides. Over the last few years the digital medium has become an important drawing tool for me and a integral part of my illustration process overall. I’m a Toronto illustrator who specializes in book illustration, portraiture, editorial illustration and exhibition design.
Procreate Tutorial: The Benefits of iPad Pro.You’ve Completed our Realistic Potato Drawing Tutorial!.How to Draw Potatoes Step Six: Final Details.Potato Drawing Step Five: Highlights and Lowlights.How to Draw Potatoes Step Four: Underlying Gradients.How to Draw Potatoes Step Three: Blocking Out your Shapes.
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