Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a reflection of a drinking leopard.
Let´s begin by sketching the snout.
I’m using a mechanical pencil with a 0.7 HB lead.
The tongue... and now we can start with the reflection of the water.
The leopard in the reflection will have more or less the same shape,
except upside down, that´s the fun part.
The eye would go about here.
Ok, good!
I love drawing!
Let´s do the shape a little bit better and in more detail.
We are ready to start shading.
The nose goes very dark and then it has some little
close spots over here.
Now I switch to a 0.35 mm 2H lead which is thinner
and harder for the fur in this area.
On the upper part of the nose the hairs are so short
that we can represent them with dots.
Now let´s shade the tongue
as it is wet, we will have reflections
now I will do a nice trick [laughs]
with an old pen with no ink I will indent the paper,
to create a sort of channel for the whiskers
so that when we go over with the pencil… they appear.
For this I use a lead holder with a very soft 4B lead.
Let´s shade the reflections.
The movement of the water would produce circles which from this angle
would look like ovals.
Something like that and where the water is still
we may have a very good image reflected.
So let´s draw with more accuracy here.
But it is good to blur it a little bit, don´t do sharp lines.
This is really fun!
With a soft brush, you can smudge the graphite.
This smoothens and also gives a tone, and with the kneaded eraser
or a regular eraser, pull some lights.
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo