How to paint a Pear in Water Colour

YouTuber, Jamie Webb, asked me to draw a pear. I decided to draw two - see the other one here:    • How to draw a pear with stipple shading   Meanwhile YouTuber, Mimorsi, asked me --- Shoo I really want to be an illustrator like you but I don't have much skill, I want you to help me "practice, practice, practice" but without copying someone else's work (your work). What I'm trying to say is that I want to know how to draw stuff by checking reference, but then give it my own twist. The bad thing is I just can't understand the basic shapes constituting my subjects, I find it difficult to get the essence of a subject to then transform it my own way. HELP PLEASE This video starts with a bit of a discussion about using reference, where to find it, how to keep yourself safe with copyright and how to adapt the images you find to your use. Hope it starts to make sense. I will go into this subject more in other videos. this is followed by quite a lengthy video of drawing and painting a pear with watercolour. I've not edited it too much because I know some people like to see the whole process and I haven't doen a video like that for a while. Enjoy with award winning illustrator, Shoo Rayner. See Shoo's books on amazon.com http://amzn.to/Jp6YEW and on amazon.co.uk http://amzn.to/J9lBvk T-Shirts http://www.shoorayner.com/TShirts Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/shoorayner Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/117947137... Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?i... Website http://www.shoorayner.com music by    / cleffernotes   I use a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3 pen and copic ciao marker pens. The paper is fairly cheap drawing cartridge or bristol paper. Find out more about me and my books at my website http://www.shoorayner.com Look me up on Amazon or in your local bookstore. I've illustrated over 200 books in my time! Enjoy!