The hardest part of drawing a glass of water that has water being poured into it is just the general shape of the glass. Once you get the general shape down, the rest is easy.

Start by laying out your drawing on your paper and making sure you have the basic outline on paper. It's ok if you make a mistake, just have your eraser ready in case. I use a gummy type eraser and good quality of paper. This way you can erase as many times as needed to make sure you get the shapes correct.

After you get the general outline finished you need to begin shading somewhere. In this drawing it was easier to start at the top. Just begin darkening your lines and it will start to transform. Don't push too hard with the pencil, you can always go back and darken it up. It's much easier to darken then to try and erase lines that are too dark.

After you get the darkest areas of the water outlined you can begin to move down the rest of the drawing and start filling in the details of the glass.

This is where the drawing is beginning to take shape. remember that water is clear and the only colors are the edges of the bubbles and shadows, so take a close look at the reference photo. Only add lines where you see them. You might have several areas that don't have any lines at all.

Watch what happens to the stream of water as it bottoms out in the glass. It now swirls around causing more bubbles and this is where the darker shadows are occurring.

I always enjoy making the shadows look real. Begin shading in the dark areas and then compare it to the photo. After I get most of the darker values where I want them, I grab my tortillion, or blending stump. A tortillion looks like a pencil but is just tightly rolled up piece of paper. You can use this to smooth out your pencil marks and make it blend together. It's my favorite tool in drawing.

As you move down the glass and start working on the stem, you can focus on making this area darker where the darker values are located. If you get this right, the glass will begin to look real. This is where it really becomes fun. I wanted to make it look like the glass was sitting on a glass table top so you can see the reflection of the stem sitting on the table. The reference photo was the same way.

Once you are finished with the drawing, clean up your edges with the eraser and put a finish spray of clear cote to protect your drawing from smudging.

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