Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a water drop
in watercolor.
We begin by sketching the outline in pencil.
This to have a guide to then follow with the paint.
Let´s do the shape of a drippy drop [laughter].
The shadow will be here because let´s say that the light it´s
coming from the top right.
In the middle of the shadow let´s place a bright spot
because of the magnifying glass effect.
And here, another reflection.
As watercolor is not opaque we should save the white of the paper,
therefore with the brush we get the whole paper wet, except
for the two key spots that we were talking about.
I picked up a bigger brush to get it wet rapidly.
Otherwise it sometimes happens that by the time you get all
the way to the other side, the original spot is already dry.
We take some diluted paint that is of a purplish gray tone
for the background and also as a base for the drop.
Of course you can use any colors you like :)
Just make sure, don´t go over the reflection spots.
And remember that when watercolor dries, it lightens up a bit.
Once the paper dries, we paint the shadow on the left.
By the way at the end of the video I will show some of the works
that you have been uploading to the Fine Art-Tips mobile App.
So stay to the end!
And we paint the shadow of the drop itself, that in this case
is going to be a bit triangular because of the position
of the light.
It should be slightly darker just by the drop.
Good! And we get the paper wet again, but this time we
don´t get into the drop because we don't want
paint to get into it.
The reason we do this is to get a little more color
to the background, to get more contrast to the drop.
Any pattern on the background will be distorted by the drop
and this may look very good!
It smudges because the paper is slightly wet.
Al right! And now we do the opposite thing, we get just the water drop wet,
not the rest.
This of course to give a tone to the drop.
We continue keeping out of the spot of the reflection and also from
the bottom left of the drop as it goes very light!
We distort the mark in the background by giving it a rounded shape.
And we darken the shadow.
So that the edge of the shadow is not too sharp we give it the
paper wet slightly by it.
And once it dries we get the whole paper wet again.
I made the top right of the drop a little bit darker because the
light comes from that direction.
And in a transparent object the light goes through it
and illuminates the opposite side.
To obtain these lights I scratch the paper lightly with a firm brush.
We give it the last details… and it´s ready!
As promised we are here on the Fine Art-Tips mobile App.
We go to the Fan Art section and to the tab on the right of the most liked
in the past 30 days.
The most liked drawing is an eye beautifully made by an artist
Parveen Kumar with color pencils.
In second place we have a portrait by artist Darrel Trianni, it´s very well done!
In 3rd. place is a drawing of ¨The Rock¨ by Rich Dlin, very powerful! with the details
of the tattoos and everything.
And the 4th. most liked is a beautiful drawing by artist Julianne Farella,
it´s actually a self portrait made with walnut ink and sanguine Conté
on paper.
Reminds me of the Renassance very Leonardesque! [laughter].
Congratulations to them and to all the artists, thank you for sharing your work!
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And I will see you on Tuesday :)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo