Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and I am very very happy because I have my new book
in my hands! And, it is about to hit the bookstores.
You can actually order it already from Amazon.
This is the famous book [laughs].
It contains several sections, here you can see a few of the drawings in it.
First it talks about the basics of drawing, including the materials, how to use them...
…the colors and how to mix them, the shading...
it has a section of to draw a jewelry ….
… another one on metals.
Some hard surfaces… such as this one on how to draw wood.
This is the final drawing on it,
marble.. rock… crystal and glass, etcetera.
But today we are going to do one of the projects from the section on water.
Not the one on the water drop… neither the one on the dolphin under water...
… but rather this one of a still surface.
There are photos with simple instructions of every step, of every drawing and the final image.
Ok, let´s get started!
We will draw some branches reflected on a water surface.
First we sketch very lightly where the first one will go,
that´s just a a visual guide then we come back, and
press more on it, giving more color and width.
As this is a reflection on the water surface and this one has waves,
our line should in fact wavy.
And it may also be broken in some parts. It may have some
white spaces between the line or I should actually say
blue spaces, because as you can see I´m using a blue paper
to give the ambiance of the water.
As our branches are obviously upside down, as we come down,
two things will happen, one is that they may be be dividing into
more branches and the second is that they should become
thinner and thinner.
Very good!
Here we will divide it again branching off into an even thinner one,
we come back to the top and do a shorter one, and then another one
and another.
And so we continue, some will be longer, some thicker, and some darker
than others. Remember that each branch has its some character, and
its own shape. Additionally the waves create a distortion, so you
can play with all these factors.
If the lake was totally calm and flat, in theory, the reflection
would be, like on a mirror.
The more wavy the lake, the more broken and distorted should be the branches.
To the point where with big waves, there would be no more
visible reflection.
I want my woods to look thick, so I do some more….
And darken some waves, so that it doesn´t look too uniform.
With an eraser we can lighten up some parts of some branches,
so that they look also like waves.
And we reinforce with the pencil.
Here I want to make an effect as if something dropped in the water,
they will be some concentric ovals.
And up here another one, a little bit smaller.
Very good!
I like it how it is looking!
We reinforce some areas and then we give a light blue tonality,
to some parts.
This will make so that the water, will look more realistic.
This is very fun!
Drawing is so great!
Now, with a white pencil, we can highlight, some reflections.
We do the last little details… and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo