Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and because you asked for it I will draw a little mouse.
Let's begin sketching the overall shape of the head,
which is a bit like a cone
with the thin snout and a rounded part on the back
and of course it doesn't have an angle so we round the tip.
The body will be almost like a circle, very easy!
now let's mark the position of the legs
one, two and three that will be visible, a guideline for the eyes and the big ears,
the eyes from this angle have a similar shape to the head, like a rounded cone.
Let's erase the guidelines that we don't need anymore...
such as these ones. I'm using a kneaded eraser but a regular eraser would work
for this as well.
To do the sketch I used a 0.5 millimeter HB lead
which is medium softness, now I switch to a thicker and softer one
a 2B for the darks. With this we draw the eye, leaving a small reflection
to give some ¨life-ness¨ to that little rodent face [laughter].
The other eye, and now I switch to a smaller and harder lead for the fur.
We do it with very tiny straight lines, leaving a little bit of white in between
so as to give precisely the illusion of the fur, and we continue in this fashion.
In looking for a nice mouse story to tell you, I came across
the origin of the Chinese Zodiac, it turns out the Jade Emperor who
was the ruler of all gods in Chinese mythology, organized a race
and the twelve animals that crossed the finish line first, would make it into the Zodiac.
The rat and the cat were best friends at that time, believe it or not.
Ok this story is about a rat not a mouse but it's ok. So the rat and the cat made a plan
together, to ride on top of the ox across the river because they knew
the ox was strong and very used to swimming, and therefore he certainly would arrive
in first place. So at the start of the race they both jumped on, but at some
point when they were crossing the river the rat abruptly jumped forward and with
this movement the cat fell into the water, he screamed but by then the ox
and the rat were too far away to do anything. They arrived to the shore, the big ox
stepped out of the water and was about to cross the finish line first, when the
rat jumped crossing the line first! So that's how the rat is the first animal
in the Chinese Zodiac and that also explains why now cats hate rats
and dislike water.
It's done!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo