Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will do a watercolor painting
of a ballerina, a little surrealistic.
We begin by sketching the mood line or the action line of the pose.
In this case these lines go through the arms and legs… and the body of course.
Here we make an oval for the head.
We place the hairline, the eyes, the nose and the mouth.
And we begin drawing the thickness and the shapes.
Everything very simplified,
of course.
For the hands for example we only do the general shape
with no detail, for now.
Her left leg will come down here and will be bent,
but this should be a little bit longer
in fact I will make a correction moving the left side of the back
a little bit to the right
to create more movement.
That´s better!
We adapt the legs to this new position
and do the detail.
Here we draw a flamingo!
Just like the one we sketched last week.
With its long neck and legs
… and here another one
and the body for another one right here.
I want this to have the neck stretched
and all of them, of course are looking toward the girl.
Here will be one, behind the one we have done...
… but with the neck, not so close to the other one.
That´s better!
And a last one with the back toward to us.
We give a better shape to the leg, and the knee and to theother leg.
Basically, drawing some curves.
Good!
We sketch a horizon line, and then, we flip the paper around
so that this is more comfortable for us.
And we get the upper part wet.
Well the upper part once we flip it back to the position, you get me.
And we apply the paint.
Of course I respected and didn´t get wet the figure.
Good!
Now that it dried completely, we do the shadows.
With a cold gray, a blueish gray.
To the arms, body, the face, gown and the legs.
And also to the flamingos!
We paint in gray as I said the parts that will be in shade.
By the way, I will upload a long version of this video, with a lot
more detail, to my Patreon account in case you are interested.
The link is in the information below this video.
I gave to the skin a light ochre tone, to the dress a light blue
and let´s give a pink to the flamingos!
For all of this I prepared the pigment with a lot of water, so it would be pretty transparent.
I don´t want too intense colors in this painting.
With the paper wet I gave some color to the background and
now I intensify some shadows to give more volume to the figures.
As you know in the watercolor technique it is better to start light and then darken.
Because it is hard to lighten or erase.
If you have to do that get all the area wet and lightly
rub with a brush, or a sponge.
Off camera I cut a mask for each figure using tracing paper
now I submerge an old toothbrush and paint and scratch the hair
with my finger to spatter little drops all over. I remove the tracing
paper which protected the figures.
I think this gives a nice feeling to the background.
We do some waves and reflections.
¡Excelente!
I intensify the dark and medium tones of the flamingos…
…and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo