Candy Cane Pictures to Draw
Step by Step 3D Candy Cane Drawing Tutorial
The holidays are just around the corner and it's time to start thinking about holiday art projects. Today we are going to learn how to draw a candy cane using oil pastels on black paper.
The colors of the oil pastels look so bright and bold on the black paper. And there are many color combinations that can be used. You can use real candy canes as inspiration for your colors.
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Art Supplies
Black construction paper
Oil pastels
Candy cane template
Pencil
Contour Lines In Art
What are contour lines in art? This refers to the outline of a form or object. Contour lines are also the interior structure of an object or form.
When making our candy cane drawings, we will use interior contour lines to help make our drawing look 3 dimensional. These are also called cross-contour lines, but that is a bit more advanced than we want to get into today.
For the sake of keeping things simple today and geared towards beginner artists, we will just call both contour lines.
How to Draw a Candy Cane Step by Step
Begin by drawing your candy cane shape or use the candy cane template. You can use a regular pencil to do this.
Next draw the interior contour lines that will represent the stripes on your candy cane. You want these lines to curve, like mine do.
You also need to draw a line right through the center of your candy cane to indicate where the highlight will be drawn.
Using a white oil pastel, draw a line using a back and forth motion where your center highlight line is. Do this for the entire length of your candy cane.
Using Color Theory in Christmas Art
Now you need to choose your colors. You can pick just about any color combination for your candy cane drawing.
However, sticking with two alternating colors is probably best. You could use two warm colors, like orange and pink. Or maybe pick a couple of cool colors to use instead.
These colors are some of the basic principles of color theory. This is how we determine if a set of colors would go together harmoniously.
Since this is a Christmas art project you could use red and green, which are complimentary colors. But since holiday art is supposed to be fun, don't feel like you have to use color theory in your candy cane drawing.
Shading with Oil Pastels
For this example I'm going to use red for one of my colors. We want to do shading with our oil pastels to show a transition of color. So for the red sections you'll need to use pink along with the red pastel.
Begin by adding the pink next to both sides of your white. Overlap your pink and white slightly to blend the colors together.
You also want to curve your strokes of color to follow your interior contour lines of your candy cane drawing.
Next to the pink, add red to fill in the remaining area of that section. Again, overlapping the two colors.
Repeat this process for every other section of your candy cane.
Next move onto your second color for your candy cane. I decided to use pink. Since pink is already the lighter color, you need to blend the white and pink together a bit more next to your white highlight.
This will create a lighter pink color so you can still have a transition of colors.
Then use pink to fill in the rest of the area at the outside edge of your section.
Repeat that process for the rest of your sections of your candy cane.
How to Draw a Candy Cane Step by Step with Pictures
That's it. Your candy cane drawing is all done. By using contour lines and by shading oil pastels, you can create a 3D drawing to show form.
You can use different color combinations to create a variety of Christmas art projects with candy canes.
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