In the real world, very few objects have actual lines defining their forms. Rather, contrasting values identify the edges of the object’s parts according to the lights and darks created by the dominant light source. This lesson focuses on values and forms rather than lines and shapes. You use squirkles to draw the wonderful bumpy texture of an avocado with shading only - no outlining.

Preview lesson D10 - Squirkling a Bumpy Texture

My triumphant tree looks better than my avocado

It helped a lot! Thank you

Prior to this lesson I could not draw an avocado, great lesson, thankyou Brenda.

Hi...

My name is Christine and I'm Korean.

I'm grade 7 in Scott Creek Middle School,

then my homeroom teacher said,

"You can see some pictures and learned somethings.

I learned some skill of the arts.

Yeah...I think it's very nice picture.

I hope I can draw like that.

Great lesson! I'm going to try that also. Sincerely JanJan

A challenging but enjoyable lesson.

Brilliant lesson! I found it to be much harder than it looks, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience! Thank you! Sylvia

I DON'T REALLY LIKE ART SO I DIDN'T REALLY ENJOY THE LESSON. (IM ONLY IN 7TH GRADE) I LIVE IN DALLAS TEXAS

this project looks worng whats the pont to this project?

Not as simple as it looks, goodness knows what I've drawn but it certanly not an avacado. Check out the gallery for a laugh

I thought this was a great lesson. I have never drawn a surface this way and found it very satisfying. I drew my avocado with black pencils on white poster board, but the digital camera photo added the color.

This was a fun and quick lesson

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oh, i dont like ;/

This wasn't easy!! Here is mine. . . not real happy but it was fun to try.

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here's my avocado. looks better from further away to me.

I agree with jpete - looks better from a distance

my version

I have tried this lesson a few times and am having a hard time with 'squirling'. Any suggestions? Help?


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This was a good lesson. I did well with it. Although I'm not sure anyone else will know it's an avocado.

I couldn't get this done very well, I will get back to it.

Okay so i thought i could never do this, it would take forever, be too hard and be boring.. but i did it anyways.. I was totally wrong! I'm so glad i did this My family is so impressed with my avocado and more impressed at the time i did it in. I'm going to be practicing this technique more. Maybe a pickle or an orange next. ^^

Thanks for this lesson.
-Heather

This was hard, still not happy with second result, might have another go another day

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For me it was a difficult lesson. I'm not sure if my avocado resembles an avocado at all. Shading was a difficult thing to do. I think I'll have to go back to this lesson couple of times more.

Toughest challenge so far, thats for sure. Great lesson.

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Boa noite,

Todas as aulas são otimas, dinamicas, o unico problema é que não leio nem falo ingles, e quando aciono o TAKE THIS LESSON ONLINE toda a aula explicativa do assunto de interesse é executado em inglês.

Mas mesmo assim parabéns

I find creating different textures one of the hardest things to do. This helped a lot though!

This was really hard, getting the texture right was overwhelming and in the end my avocado had a sort of peanut look about it!

thanks a lot, this is fun:)

Didn't like this lesson... Just made me feel frustrated..

It was a great lesson, but I think this should probably be an intermediate lesson. I did some intermediate lessons which were easier than this.