How to draw a frying pan

Drawing is more effective when it is done from a reference. This reference is the actual thing that is being drawn. Drawing can be still-life, memory and so forth but for instance, if it is memory drawing, it means that the person drawing has every detail about the form and nature of what he intends to draw. So, in any regard, to draw realistically, a person must pay attention to the details in the object he or she is drawing.

This post illustrates a few steps to easily draw a frying pan. The first thing we need is a reference which is the frying pan which has been shown below. We can proceed to study the basic shapes our object is made of.

Reference picture

Step 1

For this object, the main shapes it is made of are a circle and a rectangle, so we start off by creating the circle. This is shown below and the middle of the circle is indicated because it is needed subsequently.

Step 2

Draw a dashed line from the center of the circle to the outside. This line is the imaginary line for the handle of the pan. Since, we have in mind proportion, it is important to have these imaginary lines of our objects before we draw whatever we want to draw to ensure that the drawing is stable and does not look odd as something done by a beginner in drawing.

Step 3

Observing the handle of the pan reveals it is basically from a rectangle so we do that by creating the rectangle. The imaginary line helps to ensure that the handle is rightly placed opposite the center of the circle and makes it look proportional.

Observe the placement of the handle opposite the middle of the circle

Step 4

We now add some details to make it look real now. The handle has been manipulated and a few lines put in the circle. Once the basic structure of the frying pan is rightly established, when the details are added, everything looks on point.

The frying pan looks very flat because the drawing it is drawn from an upward view but if details of color and shadows and lighting are added, it begins to look even nicer and more real to easily identify or recognize.