H and B pencils. I enjoyed drawing the bananas so I was tempted by this apple...It's a custard apple from Egypt but I Googled it and found there are many types and they are grown all over the world. I loved all the shapes and they way they all connect but once I had done the outline and begun shading, the novelty wore off fast! The problem was that it has no shine so I couldn't exploit that, and in the creases, where there might be shadows to exaggerate, it was a lighter colour (the valleys are cream coloured and the ridges green). So I did what I'm best at and kept doing a little bit here and there and putting off finishing the thing. It all got a bit overworked in the end!
By the time I did finish it, it was too ripe to eat so I bought another to try and I won't be eating or drawing any more custard apples. They taste like a cross between a mango and a bar of soap! But then, I'm not really a fan of fruit, unless like raspberries, they are buried under a mound of sugar, cream and meringues!
Oh, and by the way, one member of my family who hasn't said this before said 'what on earth are you drawing that for?' So that's all of them now!
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Very nice! I do like custard apples - which are called 'Sita's fruit' in India - but they must be good and ripe. Just had one a couple of days ago. It's a daunting fruit to draw, and you've done it so well.
I've never heard of these, fascinating! Now about that soap taste--Ivory or Dial?
It IS interesting to clarify ever more finely why we draw--but for observers (non-artists), the objection really seems to be about the time drawing takes when *they* think we should be doing something else.
Maybe ignoring others' "shoulds" for our own artistic passion is the hardest part of doing art!
Hee hee, I'd never heard of a custard apple before, and if I ever see one, I'll be sure to take a wide berth! They don't sound very nice to draw or to eat, but I loved looking at your drawing. As for the offspring (bless them)- couldn't you show your appreciation of their input by giving them something really special for tea - like custard apples?!
Very nice drawing - interesting fruit.
My grandma grew custard apples and I thought I hated them (they didn't look too good so I never tried them!). Then we were on holidays at Port Douglas and fell in love with a fruit called soursop. What was it? Another version of custard apples!
And soursop milkshakes...heaven!!!
Jilly in Australia
I think your drawing is fabulous Felicity. You've done an excellent job with the shading and managed to capture that knobbly texture so well. I like the taste of custard apple, but find them too messy and fiddly to eat. Great drawing subjects though!
Wow, this is great! And you have indroduced me to a new kind of apple.
Thanks for sharing
Good drawing. I have never heard of these before. Your blog is always so interesting - educational & fun read for me!
Thanks very much everyone - it's always lovely to get feedback (especially the complimentary type!!) I've learned some more about custard apples too!
Felicity, I never heard of custard apples or saw anything like them! It looks like it was a challenge to draw, but you did it beautifully!
This and the bananas are great drawings. I'd love to know what size your drawings are - the scans can mislead us into imagining quite the wrong size of original
I just discovered your blog. Your work is lovely and such fun to look at!
We discovered custard apples in Ecuador--called chirimoya in Spanish. We stopped at a roadside stand and the woman there picked out nice ripe ones. We stood at the side of the road and ate them, spitting the big seeds into the grass, then she brought us a basin of water and paper towels to clean up before we headed on down the road! I thought they were delicious and such an interesting looking fruit. Maybe yours wasn't quite ripe--should be very juicy and squishy and sweet.But you captured the look beautifully.
Like Jilly, we fell in love with custard apples in far north Queenslanf, Aus, year ago when we bought a house there which had a custard apple tree in the garden. To us the fruit had the texture of stewed apple over or mixed in with vanilla custard. Gorgeous over icecream. Under our tender loving care the garden was rejevenated, and one year a custard apple was produced that was larger than a human head - we have pics to prove it!
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