Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto, and today we will go over the block-in technique,
and we will do this by drawing a Shar-Pei puppy.
Blocking-in maybe the best technique to begin a drawing,
especially if you are copying it from life or from
a reference picture. It consists of reducing your subject to simple shapes,
a simplified outline, it is like drawing a rough envelope where you can
fit your figure in. In fact it is also called, sometimes, the envelope technique.
Once the overall outline is done we can now block in some internal shapes,
like the ear and the legs of this puppy.
Some of the reasons why this technique is so
useful, is that you can start rapidly and easily, while giving it the overall right
proportions and placement.
It is very disheartening to begin with something
like an eye or the face, work on it for a long time to then find out that it is in
the wrong place or of the wrong proportion, and you have to erase it
having wasted so much. While with the blocking technique you ensure you have
the right proportions and the right placement right from the start!
and then it is just a matter of coming back and adding in the minor shapes
and all the detail, like all these wrinkles! these lovely puppies look like they were given
too large of flesh for their size.
OK! very good.
I'm almost done drawing all the wrinkles.
Let's go over the ear a little bit more, and then we can begin shading.
I'll try to shade it fairly rapidly like...
a little bit sketchy, let's make the eye or the eyelids rather more evident and darker
and then with the shading we can give shape, shape to each wrinkle and
feature, and to the overall volumes.
Their head is wide and squarish.
I'm using the Tutto3 mechanical pencil.
The list of materials for this drawing, is in the information below the video.
I love drawing! and drawing something as cute as this...
it's just so enjoyable!
Alright! and this lip is very "hangy,"
they are floppy and loose.
Sometimes, reference pictures don't have the best
lighting like in this case and it is worthwhile to add more contrast,
more definition, or more volume.
You should always improve them, because Art is better than a picture.
We give it the last touches, the last details and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo