A dried lotus seed pod

A study of a dried lotus seed pod with twelve recessed openings and several seeds on textured paper. Construct the funnel-shaped cup and its tilted top ellipse.

A way into the drawing

1. Establish the construction

   Construct the funnel-shaped cup and its tilted top ellipse.

2. Resolve the main structure

   Place twelve irregular seed recesses within the top plane.

3. Develop the detail

   Build the thick wrinkled rim, short stem and a few visible seeds.

4. Control the values

   Use graphite depth changes to distinguish holes from the outer cup.

A small thing to tryKeep the hole openings on the same tilted plane as the pod top.