Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and I'm so glad to see you again.
Today we will draw a mermaid.
We start by doing very general shapes.
As you can see, rather than doing a straight line for the whole arm,
I sometimes prefer to do the upper part of the arm and then the forearm,
in different parts, each very rounded
so it looks more loose and natural.
We are sketching so don't worry about making any mistakes... like me, look.
Everything can be corrected.
Now we do some very simplified features
We start giving more detail, and keep correcting whatever need.
This part is way too long for the arm.
It should go about here, I think.
Let's cover her with some hair just in case some grown-ups are watching,
because I don't think any kid will have any problem looking at a human figure like this,
or in this case actually, semi-human.
Once we are happy with the general shape, we can do more detail and shadow.
For this drawing I'm using two mechanical pencils with very fine leads.
One is a little bit softer, an HB for the darks
and the other one is harder, an H.
You can see the full list of materials in the information below the video.
She will be sitting on a rock and the texture of this rock, we can do it by scribbling.
We'll have a very simple background just to give some ambience of a sea, and some clouds.
We can smudge with a brush to make it softer and to give a tone.
She needs some flakes.
Let's make them shine with the eraser.
You can reinforce some shadows to get more volume
and with the kneaded eraser, pull some lights,
or if you don't have one of this, it can be done with a regular pencil eraser.
The ocean also needs some sparks.
This mermaid is turning out very sexy.
Okay, ready.
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