Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a vampire bat.
I know this is a little bit early for Halloween but what happens is that
in the next four weeks I will be promoting, my new book that is
finally going to come out! :)
But for today, let´s draw the bat.
We mark the size we want, and then with loose strokes,
we sketch the general shape of the body … then the wings … and some of the
internal structure… the ears and the face.
Which will be more or less square.
The arms will be on the sides.
As you can see, I´m drawing with a white pencil, on black paper.
He will have the snout open because he is going to be ferocious [laughs].
We drew the fangs, the eyes, and begin to bring light to the drawing.
I didn´t say ¨shade¨ the drawing because we are actually drawing
in negative. Adding the lights.
Here will go the other arm, and I erase this part, because
I want to do it more rounded.
Like so.
The wings looks somehow like an umbrella.
We make it a little bit thiner because we don´t want it to look chubby.
And then we begin making the fur.
We accomplish this by making small lines.
Like this…
Of course we press more with the pencil where we want it to look lighter.
We make the legs... we refine the line, and we make more
detail and texture to then shade, or give light! [laughs].
We continue on the other side.
I really hope tonight, nobody has nightmares because of my
drawing [laughs].
We draw this in a more or less uniform way.
Although as I want to show some curves or waving, we give more
light to some areas, for example close to the little bones.
There are other areas as you see, that I leave, practically with no pencil marks,
so that they look as if there were in shadow.
Up to now, I have been using a white pencil called ¨Col-Erase¨
which has the advantage that it can be erased
and also smudged.
In fact here I will smudge, and erase.
However, it doesn´t draw very intensely so now I switch
to this other one, which cannot be erased very easily, but that
I will use to reinforce the areas, that I want to highlight.
For example, here on the border, and up here.
Very good!
This side is the one that will be receiving the most light.. like this.
To reinforce some shadows, we can use the eraser.
I will love it if you let me know in the comments what do you think about it!
We do the last details, extend this part of the wing...
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo