People who love to add a cute factor to their doodles should look forward to this drawing, made by Learn step by step’s channel.
How to Draw a Coffee Mug (Cup Sketch Beginning Drawings
Learn how to draw a coffee mug (cup sketch) beginning drawings in this simple step-by-step art tutorial. In this art lesson, sketch an easy coffee mug and shade it in with a pencil.
In this online art school, draw a coffee mug or coffee cup quickly from start to finish along with the video tutorial. College art classes often spend many hours studying and drawing coffee mugs and other still lives.
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Learning how to draw a coffee mug is great practice in using your drawing skills and art techniques. Learning the basics of how to draw a cup can also be transferred over to creating more advanced drawings and artwork.
I encourage you to take the time to really learn the skills to see and draw a coffee mug correctly.
Don’t be surprised if your drawing is not perfect at first. Mine certainly wasn’t (I practiced drawing a mug about 20 times for this video!) Just keep practicing.
Materials
The materials that you need for this lesson include:
- Paper (Drawing paper is best but you can use whatever you have available. I am using a 5.5 x 8.5-inch spiral-bound sketchbook with 60 lb paper)
- Pencil – use a soft pencil for the shading (I am using a 7B) or just use whatever pencil you have
- Eraser – white vinyl or kneaded (a new eraser with sharp corners will work the best, or a kneaded eraser that you can mold into a sharp edge to just erase the areas that you want)
- Brush – 2-inch chip brush for brushing away eraser dust, optional
Art Lesson
- Draw an oval for the top and the bottom of the mug. The bottom oval will be slightly smaller (unless your mug has straight sides then the ovals will be the same size).
- Connect the edges of the ovals with a slightly curved line. If you are drawing your own mug or cup that has straight or differently shaped sides then draw what you see.
- Mark where the handle will go. Draw in the inside and outside curves of the handle of the mug.
- Erase the top part of the bottom oval. It is on the other side of the mug so we actually don’t see it. When learning how to draw it is important to draw it in any way to align the drawing correctly.
- Shade the mug in. starting with lighter shading and making it darker as you go along. The darkest areas are the middle front, the inside (it gets darker as it goes down into the mug), and the left side.
- Lightly draw in the shadows that the mug is casting and lightly shade them in. There is one in front of the mug and one to the right.
- While shading, try to make the transitions from light to dark very even and gradual.
- Leave the lightest areas white with no shading at all.
- Blend the shading together with your finger to soften the value.
- Go over the dark areas again to add more contrast to your drawing.
- Finally, go back in with your eraser and erase any highlighted areas to make them white. Clean up the drawing and ears any lines that you don’t need.
Materials for Cups of Coffee Drawings
Perhaps you haven’t had your cup of coffee yet and need to wake up your half-asleep brain. These basic coffee drawings will help you warm up.
1. Do You Take Sugar or Cream?
Do you take sugar and cream in your coffee? I respect anyone who drinks coffee unadulterated.
Just like how omitting milk and sweetener allows for the aromatic notes to be discerned more accurately, including any other unnecessary details to Hello Artsy‘s coffee drawing would muddle its simplicity.
2. Latte Art
We eat with our mouths as much as we eat with our eyes. Seeing golden crispy skin on a fried chicken is enough to make a vegan salivate, for example.
Looking at latte art evokes a similar instinct of anticipation—of thinking about the complex and diverse aroma of the coffee beans with which your espresso-based drink has been brewed.
Let’s appreciate the craft of our local barista with Drawing Howtos‘s drawing.
3. Red Mug
There are a variety of mugs and cups that fulfill different purposes. But everyone has a favorite mug that they drink their coffee from.
My favorite one is the stainless steel mug that keeps my beverage as hot or cold for as long as possible.
To draw a simple mug, simply follow Art Projects For Kids‘s red mug on a red saucer drawing, which you can color to your liking.
4. Simple Cup of Coffee
My ideal cup of coffee is when it’s still hot enough to scald when taking in a mouthful but not too hot to be able to take a couple of slurps.
That’s how I imagine How To Draw For Kids‘s still steaming hot coffee to be.
5. I
You don’t have to tell me you love coffee—the fact that you’re trying to learn how to draw a cup says enough.
But if you really want to announce your strong feelings about this beverage, then by all means, follow this drawing found on drawstuffrealeasy’s channel—where you’ll find a coffee mug that reads, “I
6. Coffee To Go
Some coffee enthusiasts might find paper cups ruining the flavor of their coffee. Others might bring their own mug to lessen waste.
For our drawing purposes, the vessel doesn’t really matter—as long as we’re able to practice our skills!
So far, we’ve featured coffee in ceramic mugs, but this drawing by santhoshi fine art’s channel will hand you coffee in a paper cup.
7 Realistic Cups of Coffee for Sleepy Artists
Now that you’ve practiced with the basic cups (and you’ve probably had your caffeine dose), it’s time to move on to more complex sketches.
7. Know Your Beans
Drawing with a permanent marker from the outset can be quite challenging; a simple mistake is difficult to erase.
That’s why on Articco Drawing, they start with a pencil when drawing their cup of coffee.
The artist also sprinkled some beans on the saucer, telling us, “it’s freshly ground!”
8. Coffee in a Tea Cup
Coffee lovers, particularly the obsessed ones, will tell you one thing: exact measurements matter—whether it’s the grind size of the beans or the grams of coffee grounds per cup.
For those who love to adhere to precise dimensions in their art, 1 Medias Drawing’s channel has a video tutorial of a tea cup, using a ruler for total accuracy.
9. More Black (and White) Coffee
While precision is needed in many art styles, drawing freehand without the aid of any measuring tools is a great way to enhance skills.
That’s exactly what US Arts & Edits’ channel provides us with—simple freehand.
Through this tutorial, your shading skills will be enhanced.
10. Cup of Coffee on a Saucer
As a beginner, one shouldn’t concern themselves with different types of pencils, like soft, black, hard black, firm, and whatnot.
While that can certainly elevate your craft at higher levels, focusing on practicing skills is more important than having an array of pencils.
Circle Line Art School can teach you the technique you’ve been looking for.
11. Draw a Cup of Joe with Charcoal
Some video tutorials only show a simple visual of what needs to be drawn.
That’s certainly not the case with Leila Ataya – Artist’s video tutorial, which includes a detailed commentary and basic questions that need to be asked on proportions, depth, and shading.
12. Coffee and Two Cubes of Sugar
When coffee is brewed it starts bubbling—the more of it the fresher the roast.
We can clearly see that PKB ART’s coffee is somewhat fresh. The bubbling effect is probably the hardest aspect of this drawing, who includes a couple of sugar cubes on the side.
13. Starbucks Cup
Introduce me to somebody who hasn’t heard of Starbucks Coffee. I’ll introduce them to this drawing by UltimateArtistT, and even bring them a cup from the ubiquitous shop!
The challenge in this sketch is drawing the logo.
3 Arabica and Robusta Beans Drawings
Ask me to identify between the Arabica and Robusta varieties of coffee beans. I probably can’t.
Thankfully there are experts for that. Also, we also don’t have to look very far for coffee bean drawings.
14. Light Roast Coffee Beans
Control the color of your roast by looking at this drawing tutorial by Drawing For All.
They added minimal shading to this drawing, allowing you to determine how light or dark you want your coffee to be.
15. Coffee Beans with Colored Pencils
Coffee is green in color before it is roasted. That has certainly been taken into account when CanDo made this drawing tutorial of coffee beans.
Different shades of brown have been employed in this sketch, and even a slight hint of green is noticeable—the remains of the pre-roasted bean.
16. Dark Roast Coffee Beans
This coffee bean drawing by SNA Arts looks so realistic you could almost grab it and put it in a coffee grinder.
The level of detail poured into this coffee bean sketch is incredible. There’s plenty to be learned from this painting, from lighting to depth to perspective.
How to draw pictures on coffee
If you are a coffee lover and you usually prepare them at home with foam, you may be interested to know that you can give them a personalized touch. In this article we will show you how you can draw with the foam on the coffee or make latte art and get a very aesthetic touch.
What is art latte?
The art latte or latte art is a trend that emerged a few years ago, and that still remains as something completely normal. This trend consists of preparing coffee with drawings in the foam or milk cream, achieving figures in the coffee and making the experience of consuming this type of beverage much more attractive.
A fundamental aspect to achieve drawings in the coffee is to achieve a much denser and firmer texture in the milk. However, the way in which the foam is poured over the milk will also play a fundamental role.
How to make drawings or figures in coffee
In order to draw figures in coffee, it is recommended that you choose coffee with milk, cappuccino or latte macchiato, since they generally have more milk and are usually consumed in larger cups, so it will be easier to obtain figures in the coffee.
Step 1: Prepare coffee
First of all you must prepare coffee, the star ingredient. Do it as you would normally do it.
Step 2: Prepare textured milk
This step will vary depending on the utensils that you have at your disposal, in case you have a traditional coffee maker you will have to texturize the milk, on the other hand, if you have a professional coffee maker or one specialized in more sophisticated coffees, you will only have to press the button that it has to froth the milk.
In the case that you must manually texturize the milk because you have a traditional coffee maker, we recommend that you use fresh whole milk that is very cold. The milk should be poured into a metal jug, so that the froth can be formed. With the help of a milk froth mixer you should increase the density and creaminess of the milk to achieve a good result.
Another option that you can use to texturize the milk is to heat it until it reaches a temperature of 140 degrees and froth this milk by introducing it into an airtight jar and shaking it until you get a dense foam.
Step 3: Elimination of air bubbles
In order to obtain an extremely creamy foam it is recommended that, once we have the texturized milk, we give a sharp blow against the table and then turn the contents in circles, so that the air bubbles are lost. This movement must be continuous to achieve a good result.
Step 4: Drawing
Finally we have arrived at the desired moment to make drawings in the coffee with milk. To do this you must incorporate the milk that you have prepared, through a small zigzag movement, along the edge of the cup. When you see that the milk remains in the center of the cup (moment called “free pouring”), appearing a circle of white milk over the color of the coffee, you should change the type of movement.
The next movement you have to do consists of short and tilted strokes that allow you to draw everything you want to draw: flowers, hearts, faces, etc. However, if you have a bad hand you can also use stencils to make this work easier.
Once you have the drawing you want, there is only one thing left to do: Enjoy!
