Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a seahorse, mandala style
with this beautiful Montegrappa fountain pen.
Let's begin by making the head,
the head of the horse
the top, the bottom and the snout.
They have a pretty funny snout sticking out.
This is not going to be too realistic, obviously
so I'll exaggerate a little bit some of the parts,
some of the features, to make it more picturesque.
Since I am drawing directly with ink and I cannot erase, sometimes I like to mark the outline
with dots, to see if the proportions and everything seems correct
and then I'll go over with the line.
Maybe making some adjustments and corrections,
but the dots will not show very much afterwards.
Seahorses are obviously a very unique species...
that looks almost magical
like out of a fantasy tale.
One of their unique characteristics is that they swim
vertically, unlike practically any other fish.
Let's draw the eye and we can add
some little ornaments on the top, which are not realistic.
And now let's do the design...
I will be adding patterns, as I go
a little bit in a random way, but also a bit
following the shapes.
Seahorses are poor swimmers,
in fact often they anchor themselves
by grabbing a seaweed with with the tail.
and they stay there, rather than moving around too much.
But when they do decide to move around and swim
they propel themselves with the large fin that is on their back,
and they steer the direction
with a very small and sometimes hard to see fin, behind the eyes.
Another interesting characteristic is that they can grow appendages
like horny things out of bone, and then they can reabsorb them
depending on the habitat.
In order to hunt and eat they camouflage themselves and wait for the prey to get close by.
They eat things like little shrimp and they attack
when they are within striking distance.
By the way the list of materials that I am using is in the description below the video.
Let's add some seaweed,
in case this horse wants to anchor himself.
I find drawing mandalas very relaxing!
once you drew the outline, it is just like a doodling
it's very peaceful!
If you made it all the way to this point, I would like to know about it!
please write me in the comments the secret code: ¨a seahorse with style¨ [Laughter].
Another interesting feature of these creatures, is that rather than having a full skeleton and ribs,
they have a structure and protective armor outside
made of bone.
Ok, very good! ¡excelente!
It's ready!
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on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo