Using a sharp 2b pencil or mechanical pencil trace the outline of the marble.
Marbles color pencil.
Learn how to draw a realistic marble with prismacolor premiere colored pencils in this colored pencil lesson.
You need to trace the outline and all of the details such as different colors highlights and shadows.
For an added challenge work in a colored medium like colored pencils.
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I suggest working on toned gray paper if you go this route so that the colors will instantly contrast with the background.
The featured video is excerpts of an hour long colored pencil tutorial on drawing marbles.
This drawing art lesson shows you how to draw photorealism in colored pencil.
Look at my tracing below to see how much detail i traced.
With the circle defined we ll lightly define the shapes of color within the marble as well as the shapes of highlight and shadow with contour lines.