COLOURED PENCIL LESSON: Draw This Realistic Fried Egg

Here's how to draw a realistic-looking fried egg and eggshell with coloured pencils. This is a full step-by-step coloured pencil tutorial designed for you to follow along with, that will take you from blank piece of paper to finished artwork!
MATERIALS YOU'LL NEED
- A set of coloured pencils. I use a set of 36 by Faber-Castell Polychomos.
- Grey paper. I use Strathmore grey drawing paper. - A sharpener, and eraser.
- I also use a white pen for some finishing touches (such as a Posca marker) or you could use white acrylic/gouache and a small brush).
REFERENCE PHOTOS
Egg photo: art-tutor.s3.a...
Eggshell photo: art-tutor.s3.a...
My finished artwork: art-tutor.s3.a...
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[@PhilDaviesArtist]

If you're still having issues downloading the reference photos, please let me know below. The bug before should be fixed now.

[@ComingWithTheClouds]

Fixed for me at least. Thank you.

[@billbucktube]

Eggs-cellent way to shell out the instruction.

[@PhilDaviesArtist]

Haha that cracked me up

[@pesto12601]

Wow!

[@smoothsketch]

same thing I wanted to comment!

[@lindabyrne3353]

Looks great. A list of the actual colour of pencil used upfront would be really useful, especially if colour matching, but thanks for sharing your tutorial.

[@valeriegehling4358]

Hi, just followed your instructions & after 2 days have completed with your super teaching the egg & shell. Thanks very well taught.

[@faithpurkis7663]

Phil, your teaching is so good. I had limited colour pencils and I am so pleased with my result. I learnt a lot from this session alone. Thank you.

[@WolfmanWoody]

I don't normally like still-life works and much prefer animals/birds, but I do appreciate what you do. I also don't have any coloured pencils except pastel pencils so not sure if I will try this with them. However, it's always interesting watching you work the different shading etc. Thank you.

[@WolfmanWoody]

UPDATE - I bought some cheap Faber-Castell Eco pencils from a charity shop for a ridiculous price of £2,50. I have done the pear now, three times, and they turned out OK, apart from one on Ingres paper that leaves lines cutting through the pear. Full of confidence then I had a go at this and a bit of a disaster. My egg shell was too dark and the egg itself wasn't as tasty looking. I wonder again if it was the paper, Strathmore 400 grey mixed media. I had to press on quite heavily to get the white to work at all. It doesn't look too bad, I guess, but not happy with it. It has convinced me to get some decent pencils now though, maybe Prismacolor or FBs, not sure yet.

[@petervalcanas4219]

Thanks for fixing the download. I need to give this a shot.

[@manthasagittarius1]

I agree with you about using a paper with some color to it. White isn't interesting, or its harsh sometimes. I wonder what you think of a warmer tone than grey for some work, like a light tan or ivory, parchment looking? Sometimes I like the more creamy look. Does grey give some better advantage than those?

[@petervalcanas4219]

I downloaded the reference photos but couldn't open them. This looks great by the way.

[@aleidadiaz2261]

What kind of paper are you using?

[@Wat10153]

I am also having problems with the reference photos. I have tried downloading on my iPhone, and by using the Firefox, Chrome, and Edge browsers as well as Instagram. I just get the 'photo currently unsupported' message. I seems there is an issue with the original files. Many thanks though Phil for the excellent tutorial.

[@fredkrol932]

I too, am having the same problem with the egg and the eggshell. I can’t save the jpg, nor open in in Instagram.

[@cjwadeevans]

I seem to be having problems accessing the reference pics.

[@nakamichi680zx]

Hi Phil! Since the links are not working, I wanted to offer this: I have these fried egg references from the ArtTutor that I can send you so you can correct the links there. OK?

[@oliviakappel3582]

Can not open Jpeg file

[@yvonnejensen8343]

The download links does not work!

[@sandravisser871]

The downloads are not working. Error message. Sorry, Photos can't open this file because the format is currently unsupported or the file is corrupted. I also tried photoshop and the pictures show as blank.

[@c1nbr4d]

The files act like they’re downloading and I get a file but it’s blank and zero

[@c1nbr4d]

Zero kb

[@c1nbr4d]

There’s no subscribe button.