To draw a hand-painted painting, you need to go through several steps such as drawing line outlines, laying out colors, shading, etc. Let’s take a cartoon lemon as an example to talk about the steps of drawing a hand-painted painting. Tools/Materials

Paper, pencils, colored pens 01

Prepare paper, pencils and various colored pens. 02

When drawing by hand, draw the big part first, so draw the rough outline of the lemon first and make it an oval with slightly pointed ends.

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Then draw the details. First draw the leaves and petioles on the lemon head, then draw the thin arms and legs, as well as the hands and feet. Draw the right hand like a thumb up, and match it with Arms and legs, cartoon effect is better. 04

Draw two triangular eyebrows, round eyes and eyeballs, and a crescent-shaped mouth on the head. Just finished drawing simple lines. 05

Let’s start painting. When painting, paint the colors from light to dark. First, use yellow to spread the color, and paint the head and limbs. 06

For the details, use green to paint the leaves and petioles, and use brown to paint the eyebrows and eyes.

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Then paint the pupils with the darkest black. 08

Finally, use orange to paint the shadows on the body and limbs of the lemon. Assume that the light comes from the upper left, and paint the orange shadow on the lower right side of the body. At this point, the hand-painting steps are finished.