Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a tiger.
We begin by marking the top and bottom of the tiger.
This, so that it doesn´t go off the paper.
And then we skecth the rib cage, although I think I should have done it a litlle bit more to the left.
Sorry, otherwise the head will end up too much to the right.
That´s better! And then a mood line which will be a midline of the body.
And an almost horizontal one for the hips.
Having this basic structure we can begin sketching the shapes of the body.
Here goes the head which is pretty square or more correctly, rectangular!
The neck, both sizes and down to the body.
The knees... Obviously the tiger is sitting and it´s viewed from behind.
And now we keep improving the shape.
I think tigers are some of the most beautiful animals on earth!
The eye goes here, the nose in the corner...
and the ears are rounded.
Once we have a decent sketchline, we begin cleanning it up.
We erase the lines that we don´t need anymore.
In this case my midline didn´t really end up in the middle of the body, but it doesn´t matter
because we erase it and we make it again.
This is a good guideline that will help us make the tiger stripes more correct.
Good!
Now I switch lead in my Tutto3 mechanical pencil for a softer one, to make this darker areas around the eye.
And also for the pupil which by the way, tigers have it rounded not narrow like other cats.
Of course seen from this angle it will look like an oval.
An interesting note about tigers is that these stripes, they actually have them on the skin
if you were to shave a tiger completly and left him with no fur, you would still see the stripes
on the skin. At least that's what I read, I actually have never tried that.
We switch to a thinner lead for the whiskers
and now to a medium one for the main fur and pressing a little bit also for some stripes.
By the way to give opportunity to more people to have a Tutto3 mechanical pencil
we extended the launch campaign for three more weeks.
So you are still on time to get one!
I will place the link in the information below the video.
We continue drawing the fur with the stripes
on the face they are thinner and smaller.
Tigers are wonderful animals!
They are apex predators, meaning they are at the top of the food chain.
No other animal hunts them
They normally feed on deer, moose, wild horses and animals like that
unlike lions, tigers like to hunt alone and not in groups.
Tigers are the biggest in the cat species and sometimes they even hunt buffalos
and black bears.
They also hunt other predators, like leopards, pythons and crocodiles.
They run really fast about up to sixtyfive killometers an hour.
And they are some of the few cats that they are really good at swimming
and diving under water.
We draw the stripes also on the tail, where they become sort of rings.
Their roar can be hear up to 3 kms away!
In spite of all this, they are an endangered species.
The main reason of this is that we have destroyed most of their habitat, and in addition he has been pouched.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, there were about 100,000 wild tigers.
today there are only about 3,500.
But it's worth mentioning that thanks to all the actions that had been taking to protect their jungles
and to punish poaching in recent years, their numbers have increased for the first time ever.
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo