- Good morning everyone.
I'm Natacha Bustos, illustrator of Moongirl and Devil Dinosaur
and I'm going to draw Ironheart for you.
Well, the basic tools we need
are our hands, obviously, a pencil,
an eraser and some markers.
These are the pens that I have been
using for many years after
trying several brands.
And they are my favorites.
These don't have to be the ones you use to draw,
so don't make your lives too complicated
by looking for materials, but the important thing
is to start drawing.
And, well, to draw Ironheart, we started
with her basic structure.
I usually try to fit her sketch.
I start with the head, for which I make a ball.
For the neck, I make a stick.
I make a an S so that she has a bit of curve where the thick part of the body
will go.
The shoulders.
The arms.
And that's it.
No, just kidding.
It doesn't end here.
Well, as you can see, it's a very basic drawing,
but for me it's useful to be able to
define the figure little by little.
Let's give the body more three-dimensionality.
Here, for example, is where the chest can go.
The arm.
Then I'm going to do the elbow ball.
The same with the neck.
And Ironheart's head, I'm going to make it a little bigger
because she's a teenager and I don't want
her to have too many adult
proportions.
And, well, while we're still around
I'm going to try to define her hair a little bit.
Ironheart's hair is like this, curly.
Which is quite intuitive when drawing it.
A nose.
I make a triangle.
The eyes.
Eyebrows that have determination.
And maybe we see the pencil like this, we see that we have fit the
head and we see that, well, I see the body as
being too small, right?
It has kind of come out very, very small.
Well, that's okay.
Let's erase it.
Let's lower our shoulders a little.
I think it's very Frankenstein-like, isn't it?
But this is what it's all about, fitting in.
And that's it.
Well, now we're going to work on some armor.
Quite a particular kind of armor.
It's the third armor that Ironheart has.
Very cool.
I try a little to work on the central
part of the armor which has a special shape as well.
A "V" in the torso makes a shape around here.
And then another one follows.
It goes with the center, the chest.
And then there's a little curve here to fit it.
Some parts are made of armor that converge in the center.
Here is the heart of Ironheart, which gives her
the name, which is like two segments.
I draw it like this.
And here is a little line that is the outline of all this
armor, which we will define
much better when we color it.
We are missing here the characteristic
Ironheart shoulder pads.
Pretty curious about drawing, right?
I think it's easy if you make a curve, you think
it's a round shape.
It's a curve and you try to play a little with the shape of the shoulder.
Don't touch the chest assembly, but go around it.
And then go back to the arm.
Yes, now.
It can be a little more, it's a little more pointed.
Here, this shape of the armor is more rounded, following
the line of the shoulder pad.
The arm protrudes a little because it is a little
thicker, giving the sensation that it is an armor, which is not
attached to the body completely.
Here we had to finish this part, the arm.
Characteristic lines you have here as 3, right?
And here also another 3.
As you can see, it's a bit of a dirty pencil, but it's okay, huh?
Then this is erased, it gets better at tinting.
You will see.
It has a very characteristic line around
the shoulder pad, of Riri.
And now let's get ready to ink.
We park a little pencil and eraser and we're going to start with the face.
I'm trying to start from top to bottom so
that when I start inking, well, it doesn't stain.
You know, maybe I work and then I go up,
with my own arm I go staining
everything and it's not really good, right?
So, nothing.
Without fear, we start with the hair.
I need--
I do a little bit of improvisation here, huh?
Much more ink to the ear.
I try to simplify the shape of the ear a lot,
I don't need to see a real ear.
The shape of your face.
The shape of your nose too.
The eyes.
One of my favorite parts to draw.
I think that looking at the eyes you can recognize
an illustrator very easily.
I try to define first the bigger parts of the design
and then go to the details.
Well, more or less it is the most important elements
we have in the drawing, the shoulder pads, the arm box
and the chest box.
And now we're going to work a little bit on those details
with these two lines that come out of the neck
to the central part of the suit.
This one can be inked, dyed black already.
I have decided to leave a blank space so
that you can see a little reflection.
Here with a softer, finer line,
we are missing it here.
Well, as you see, I have finished the most important
parts of the inking.
I try to define all the parts of the figure.
It's very dirty now.
But the ones that are in black, I have decided to add them
after erasing, right?
So I'm going to erase.
Before erasing, I have waited for the ink
to dry properly so that we do not stain the paper.
We still have to fill in black.
We finish the hair.
And we still have to stain this part of the armor with black.
I don't know, but for me inking is the most relaxing part
of the drawing process.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake here.
Then you can correct it with something better, with
a white ink pen, right?
I think that's how we have basic drawing, right?
I think we can add some finishing touches with this pen
that has a caliber of 0.05.
I'm trying to add some details to make it
more natural, some loose hair.
Well, this is the final result.
I hope you liked my process,
my drawing of Ironheart.
I hope those of you who are fond of drawing
because you have learned some basic ideas,
or what you liked is simply watching this video,
well, that you enjoyed it.
See you later.