Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a labrador dog.
We begin by marking the top and bottom of the drawing…
so that we don´t end up, we have the dog off the paper [laughter].
Then we do a circle for the head that will be one fourth of the total
size, of the total height.
And we draw the overall silhouette.
A simplified silhouette like an envelop of the body.
We mark the second and third quarters of the size of the head
and draw an oval which will get to that third point… and then
the front legs.
Like this.
This is the basic structure obviously, this dog will be sitting.
Now we can begin drawing more detail.
We describe the silhouette of the head a little bit better,
with the ears, across as guidelines
the nose and hanging lips.
We mark the eyes of the horizontal line and then draw them.
The labrador is one of the most popular breeds of dogs.
And that is because they are very intelligent, high spirited and
loyal companions. They are easy going and they love to play
especially in the water! [laughter]
I erase the nose as it should be a little bit bigger
and slightly to the side, to the right since the whole head is just slightly turned.
We refine the line, correcting the shape a little bit and draw the legs with more detail.
And we clean up the drawing with the eraser.
Good!
And the tail.
It´s a happy tail and a happy dog [laughter].
I erase the ear that is in our right to make it a little bit bigger.
By the way I will upload a long version of this tutorial to my Patreon account.
And let´s refine the line and the detail.
I have been doing the sketch with pencil so that I can do any corrections as needed.
Now with the eraser, I lighten up the line a little bit, and I will go over it with a pen.
It´s a beautiful Kaweco Pen.
We outline the eyes and make a tiny circle that we will leave white for the reflection
of the eyes.
And we do the shading with short parallel strokes, that we cross as needed,
to make them darker.
That´s hatching and crosshatching.
Let´s draw a rose since labradors are always so eager to please their masters.
The area under the head, since it is in shadow, will be darker.
This one is a nice and fancy pen, but it is after all a ball pen…
and you can achieve the same result with a regular ballpoint.
Although this one fills, so nice!
I´m trying to create the light and shadow with the area between the legs,
much darker for example
and showing some of the muscles
and skin folds.
Under the ears, should also be a dark shadow.
And let´s draw the petals of the rose.
Good!
The list of materials is in the description under the video.
We are almost there, I just want to add some last shading to make it more realistic!
Showing some of the folds of the skin
because of the anatomy.
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo