Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a snow leopard.
We begin by loosely sketching a circle
like this…
Then we draw an axis, for the eyes and a vertical guideline for
the middle of the face.
Like so…
I will actually change it slightly.
Like this.
More of a horizontal plane.
All the way down here where it touches the circle, we
draw the tip of the nose with an upside down triangle,
and underneath, the mouth and side of the snout.
And then we come up a long the nose, which guides us to the upper
part of the eyes.
With a kneaded eraser, I lighten up the lines, a little bit
I make a correction because this should be curving a little bit more.
And here should be the center of the nose, the center of the mouth,
and the center of the lower jaw.
Let´s draw the lips and the eyes.
Normally we should be able to see practically all the lower part of the
circle of the iris, that´s the color part of the eye, while the upper part is
partially covered.
I made the sketch line with a mechanical pencil, and now for the shading
I will use a hard charcoal pencil.
This is obviously for the darks.
Later, I will also use a white pastel,
and I am drawing on a light gray paper.
The list of materials is in the information below the video.
Around the eyes is very dark.
And they do have a lot of spots,
which on the head, are small.
Their ears have a shape like this,
and their pupils, in the eyes are almost round, although
if you look at them closely they have a slight diamond shape.
But seen from a distance they look round so I will draw them this way.
And let´s delineate the eyes a little bit better, especially to even them out
because they look a little bit different.
When making the black spots, I don´t do them solidly, but rather with
a series of parallel lines, with the black pencil, so as to leave, little
blank spaces in between that will look like lighter hair.
Good!
And as I´m drawing on the gray paper, I can use white on it
to give a nice effect.
As I mentioned to you earlier.
With this we draw the white fur and reflections on the eyes, as
well as the whiskers.
I uploaded a long and in detail version of this tutorial.
to my Patreon account, the link is in the information below the video.
Snow leopards are gorgeous!
I think they are truly, some of the most beautiful animals on earth.
They are smaller than most of other big cats, and they have a long and thick fur.
Their tail is very long and fluffy, and when they sleep sometimes
they use it as a blanket, throwing it over their face and part of their body.
And that is because they live in very cold places!
Unfortunately, they are often been hunted to sale their nice fur.
They are only about 4,000 of them left,
but they are lucky that there are some organizations that protect them.
I like it how he is looking.
Very good!
¡Excelente!
It´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo