Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and AlbertoC challenged me, he said:
it seems that you always draw with expensive and sophisticated
materials, I challenge you to make a realistic drawing of a forest
in light and shadow, using ONLY a common and cheap ballpoint pen.
So, here is my weapon
a cheap and common and rather old ballpoint pen.
Challenge accepted!
Let’s begin by sketching the outline of some of the trees.
One side, and then the other one.
And then the base.
They do not need to be perfect straight lines, because the trees are not
perfectly straight.
And we outline some more trees
the ones that are far away in the back, of course are smaller.
I am pressing lightly with the pen because I want these lines to be
pretty thin.
I make a horizontal dotted guideline for the end of the ground
and now, we begin shading.
But before that, I will actually set aside some areas also with dots,
so that I don’t shade them because they will be in sunlight
and to darken further we can do lines in different directions
crosshatching
Very good!
It is actually very nice to draw with this type of pen.
I like it!
Let’s shade the other trees, also pretty dark.
Alright!
Like so…
The reason I use dotted lines as guidelines is because once I have
shaded the areas
they practically don’t show
they tend to disapear visually.
I was afraid that in this challenge, using only one common pen,
I wouldn’t be able to achieve the light and shadow, the contrast I like.
But these rollers are actually pretty friendly and sensitive.
If you press lightly, they draw lighter
than if you push them harder which will produce a darker black.
And as you see, we paint some branches.
Only on a few trees.
And since we cannot erase this kind of pen,
it was very important from the beginning to leave with the white of the paper
the areas which we wanted to be the brightest.
Let’s now draw the foliage of the background, we do this with wiggly, uneven shapes.
Sometimes darker and sometimes lighter
something like this
I will probably darken most of what you were seen
but it is best to stay a little bit lighter
and then darken
because as I was saying, you cannot go backwards.
And now the shadows on the ground it does take a lot of work.
And I want this to look uneven
so that is why I’m working like this
…in different directions and with different shapes.
And here I will also set aside
some areas, with ovals mainly, to give the effect of the light coming
through the tree foliage and hitting the ground.
I actually thought that I would tackle this challenge very rapidly,
that this drawing would take me about of one hour.
However, it did take me a lot of work.
I have been at this incredibly about 6 or 7 hours.
And I am not complaining because I enjoyed every minute,
in fact I don’t even know where the time go,
I was so into it, but you are the ones that will
decide if the challenge was accomplished.
It´s done!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo