There you go. We have drawn the entire body of the lemon successfully. However, a piece of art is never complete without colors. Let’s showcase the true beauty of our art by immersing it in the magic of colors.
Draw a lemon under 10 minutes step by step guide
Did you know that lemons were extremely rare in medieval times? So, wealthy Victorian families used to grow lemon trees in their homes to showcase their prestige. Used by humans for more than 1,000 years, lemons are rich sources of Vitamin C and have countless benefits like reducing inflammation, controlling weight, preventing kidney stones, and so many more.
Have you ever heard the phrase: When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade? Truth be told, we can do so much more with lemons.
These tropical citrus fruits are used to make mouth-watering food items like pies, Bhelpuri, lemon tarts, Chiffon cakes, lemon cheesecakes, etc. By sprinkling lemon juice on food, it becomes much more delicious and digestive than before.
To learn about more delicacies involving lemon, be sure to read the article published by BBC Good Food.
Additionally, lemons are used to make refreshing beverages like lemonade, lemon tea, honey and lemon drink, ginger juice, etc. Also, to add more flavor to a glass of Coca-Cola, bartenders often add a slice of lemon to it.
Learn more about refresing lemon drinks from the blog post written by Yummly.
It might sound strange but lemons have been of utmost importance in the world of art for a long time. A few such paintings can be traced back to the 15 century. There have been many artists who have included these citrus fruits in their paintings. However, the Dutch painters of the 17th century glorified and normalized their use as potential art subjects.
Lemons became essential components in still-life Dutch paintings. The artworks of Pieter Claesz and Willem Claesz Elder are praiseworthy in this genre. The duo often depicted lemons onto pewter platters along with other items such as glassware, oysters, and empty background.
The high involvement of lemons in the Dutch paintings can be attributed to the fruit’s bright yellow color which provided a good contrast to darker items such as cutlery. It has also been theorized that painting a peeled lemon offered painters a great opportunity to show their artistic skills to their viewers.
Now that we have glanced over the significance of lemons in art, it’s time to unleash our creativity. Through this blog post, we are going to learn how to draw a lemon in 6 easy steps.
Materials required
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following items within reach:
2) Pen or marker
3) A sheet of paper
4) Coloring items such as crayons, markers, pencil colors, etc.
Now, without any further ado, let’s begin!
The first step in designing our lemon sketch is to draw an ellipse. By tilting this shape to a little left or right, we can add a better visual appeal to our art. Remember to draw this shape in the middle of your drawing sheet so that the drawing looks neat and organized.
Step 2
Now, draw a cute little curve at the top of the ellipse. This curve represents the bump present on the lemon. Once done, we will repeat the above process. We will be adding another bump to the ellipse. However, the curve should be drawn at the bottom of the shape this time.
To make a realistic lemon drawing, it’s necessary to erase the ellipse’s boundary from the areas that connect to the two bumps of the lemon. (Refer to the above image to clear any doubts)
Lemon Drawing
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Today, drawing123.com will show you how to draw a simple Lemon
Step 1:
First, you draw an ellipse to shape the lemon
Step 2:
You draw two small shapes at the top and bottom of the lemon
Step 3:
Erase the excess to make the lemon look more beautiful
Step 4:
Next, you draw the stalk for the fruit
Step 5:
Next, you draw a leaf for the fruit
Step 6:
You draw one more leaf
Step 7:
Finally, draw the stalks for the leaves to complete the picture
Step 8:
Don’t forget to color the picture
How to draw a simple lemon for kids
Step 1:
First, you draw an oval
Step 2:
Next, you draw the curve below the oval
Step 3:
Next, you draw a lemon shape as shown
Step 4:
Please draw lemon leaves
Step 5:
You draw lemon slices as shown in the steps
Step 6:
Finally, color to make the picture more vivid
Hopefully, through this simple tutorial on drawing lemon for kids, it will help you have a beautiful picture
Materials
- Acrylic Paint
- Canvas (I use a 12 x 16 for the demonstration)
- Paint Brushes
- Pencil
- Three Different Size Circles To Trace
Colors
- Bright Aqua Green (background color can also be customized)
- Primary Red
- Cadmium Orange Hue
- Primary Yellow
- Brilliant Yellow Green
- Green Deep Permanent
- Titanium White
Brushes
- 12 Bright
- 3/4 Wash
- 4 Round
- 2 Round Or Smaller (e.x. 1 round, 0 round)
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Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Fruit
Color Palette
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Video
1. Trace Circles & Half Circles
I located three different size circles for this composition. Think small for a lime, medium for a lemon and orange and large for a grapefruit.
Simply trace them in various locations on your canvas.
A few circles overlap each other.
To do a half circle, simply trace half the circle and then use a ruler to draw the straight edge.
Keep an eraser handy! You might want to play around with the spacing and location of your circles until you get a composition you like.
It also looks interesting with a few circles going off the edge. I did a total of 10 slices. You can do more or less! You are also welcome to copy the way I did my circle placements.
2. Paint the background
For this step, use both your 3/4 wash and 12 bright. Use the wash brush for large areas and use the 12 bright to cut in around the slices and in small areas.
I chose to paint the background bright aqua green mixed with a little white. However, there are so many other fun colors you can do for the background. Just chose a color that is not the same as any of the fruits.
I loaded my brush in the bright aqua green and a little bit of white.
Paint up and down strokes throughout. As an alternative, you can have your strokes curve and contour around the slices.
Get as close to the circle edges as possible. If you accidentally paint inside the circle, that is fine. It can be touched up later!
3. Paint the rind
Next grab your #4 round brush and load your palette in: deep green, primary red, cad orange hue and primary yellow. You may also need a little white.
I started with the orange slices (and grapefruit). Simply outline the circle with a semi-thick line.
If you want some “color variation” in your rind, you can “double load” your brush in white and the color of the rind.
When you outline the half slices, make sure you do not paint on the straight line. Only outline the curves.
For the yellow, I recommend mixing a little bit of white into it because yellow is a very “translucent” color. Your yellow will show up better this way.
Also, if your rinds look like there is still some turquoise background color showing through, you can always add a second coat later on in the painting.
4. Paint the inside pulp
I used a 12 bright and a 4 round for this. For the grapefruit, I did primary red dipped in a tiny bit of white. When you do your strokes, start in the center and stroke towards the rind (outwards).
Try to leave a tiny gap between the rind and the flesh. But if you don’t leave a gap, that’s fine because the inner part of the circles will be painted white later.
Go around the circle until the entire fruit is filled. The white streaks you see in my grapefruit are because I loaded a tiny bit of titanium white onto the brush along with the primary red.
I changed one of my side lemons to an orange color so it could be a grapefruit because I loved how this color looked!
Repeat this step for all the fruits. Use your #4 round brush for the smaller fruits because they are smaller shapes but do the same technique.
For the lemon, I did yellow with a little bit of white. For the oranges, I did cad orange hue with a little bit of white. Just make sure you do your strokes going in a starburst/ radial formation.
For the limes, I used brilliant yellow green. Remember to start in the middle of your circle and do a starburst formation.
For the half slices paint the flesh color all the way to the straight edge. I love how that round brush worked for the lime half slice!
5. Paint the “Pith”
This is the white part just under the rind. To do this, use your 4 round brush and paint an outline of the white just under the colored rind.
Then, make a dot in the center of the circle. This will help with dividing the slices up.
Using the 4 round brush, paint loose lines to divide the slices up into different sections (like slicing a pizza!).
Then at the corner of each of the slices, round it inwards.
Round each of the corners for each of the sections. Then make the center circle slightly larger.
Then repeat these steps for each of the slices!
Because some of my triangular flesh shapes looked kind of funky after I rounded the corners, I went back and did touch ups with the flesh colors. You want your triangular shapes to be rounded at the base with the corners rounded as well (almost like a teardrop shape). However, each one doesn’t have to be identical.
6. Paint the juice sacks/ pulp highlight
This was such a fun part! Use a smaller round brush. I used a #2 round in this set. Load it in just titanium white and paint long, sort of uneven lines. Stagger them and make them different lengths. These are very loose lines! Think citrus texture!
The direction of this should go in the direction of each of the slices. Some of the “juice sack highlights” were also painted as little tiny dots.
Repeat this technique for each of the citrus slices.
If you want to do some variety of color with these white lines, you can load your brush in a color. For example, for the limes, I loaded my brush with a little bit of dark green. You can see a few darker green lines in the flesh.
7. Paint white dots/ bubbles
I did clusters of white dots in areas around the background. I also overlapped some of the dots on the rinds of the fruit.
8. Some final steps!
I did one more orange in that blank space at the bottom of the painting. If you wanted to add more fruit slices too, simply draw them and then paint it white first. Follow the same steps you did to paint the other citrus slices.
