Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw this dove of peace digitally.
We will use the program Procreate but you can follow along with any digital program, really.
Let's create a screen-sized document,
pick a blue, we make a horizon line
which optimizes if we hold the tip of the pencil down
and actually, I want a more intense blue,
one that looks more like the flag of the Ukraine,
and we drop it on that space for the sky.
I don't want it totally flat so with a soft airbrush and a lighter blue,
we create some thin clouds.
What I'm trying to do here is to create an NFT, that is a non-fungible token,
a piece of art on the blockchain in order to help a little the people in need in the Ukraine.
As we know there are civilians dead, injured and many homeless...
at the time I am recording this about 1.5 million citizens have left the Ukraine and are now refugees in the surrounding countries,
a lot of people need help, so I will auction this NFT and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian red cross.
I will post the receipt on my Twitter account so you can verify this.
I personally have several dear friends in the Ukraine and by the way I also have good friends in Russia,
who are extremely saddened and distressed because of the situation.
This is not a political video, I just want to help these people in suddenly need and I hope you can help too in any way you can,
thank you in advance!
The link for this artwork is in the description below the video.
To draw this golden field, I chose the paper daisy brush which is within the organic menu,
of course we keep in mind the colors of the Ukraine's flag.
And I want to give a texture to the sky, with a slightly darker hue.
Good! now to draw the dove it is easier for me to visualize it over a flat color,
so we will use this lighter blue and we can draw with white.
I'm using the hard blend brush, which is my favorite for painting in general with this program.
We began with the head and body, then the wings and now the tail.
I will color first the areas in shade, and then we will add the lights.
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The dove will be pretty much back lit, so it will have a lot of light on the edges
especially the top edge, while the inner parts will be in shade.
The thin feathers that are at the bottom
both on the wings and tail, will be very light because they are pretty transparent.
Let's see how it looks now against the background,
Alright! but the yellow is so strong that it takes away from the dove,
so we make it less intense by lowering the opacity of that layer.
I flip around the image to see it from a different angle and catch mistakes.
I want to make the feathers of the wings longer, so that they look thicker.
We can draw a guiding line on a new layer, so that afterwards we will be able to easily erase it
And now we extend the tips of the feathers to it.
Good! I will crop it a little bit, so that the ground is about one third of the image
and now I will upload the photo to my iPad to an app called Motionleap,
to create a nice effect on the background!
And if you got all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
please in the comments write the secret code:
"Let's help"
and please do help, in one way or another...
thank you!
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visit or share this NFT with the link below
and I will see you with more creations, on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo