Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a dolphin.
Let´s start by freely sketching some waves with blue color.
Imagine that you deep yourself in the blue sea, of the Caribbean.
While you draw, it is perfectly ok to feel and to dream.
With a pencil, we draw the general shape of the dolphin.
And then, we do the detail, such as the tail, the fins,
the snout and the eye.
With a light blue pencil, we may do the top of the dolphin, which
will be hit by the light.
I´ll erase some of the graphite pencils, so that this doesn´t blotch.
And with gray we shadow the darker areas.
Drawing it´s such a pleasure that I'd do it even if I had to pay to
do this job.
Good!
With a lighter gray we´ll do the lower part of the dolphin.
To render the interesting light and shadow play that sometimes
happens under the water, we may draw some gray lines,
and then some white highlights.
That looks very good!
With a well defined line, we separate what is going to be seen above water
from what is under water.
With different tones of blue,
we draw the surface.
With white we render the effect of the form of the waves
and some reflections.
We may apply several layers of blue, one on top of the other, as needed,
in order to lose the grain of the paper and therefore, making your drawing
more realistic.
With short lines and texture you may simulate, the motion of water.
I will confess something to you, I chose blue paper so it would
give me the color of the ocean and so, I would´t have to draw it.
I´m talking about the lower part.
However, now that I look at it, there is too much difference between
the tone of the wave and the tone of the paper.
So, I will have to fill it in after all.
It will be time consuming, but that´s ok because in the end,
the result will be even better, as I will add more tones.
Had I left the original color of the paper, I would have done the light beams with
a light blue or with white.
As we mentioned, you may apply layers of different blues.
This will give you a variety of hues, and it will also help you hide
the grain of the paper.
Excellent! I like how it is looking.
Let´s give it the last details, the last touches, and it´s ready!
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