Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a black widow.
We begin by sketching the abdomen. We do this with an oval.
we draw lightly at first and try to do it loosely,
just for practice [laughter]
then we draw a half an oval, which is for the thorax and head
which they have it to get together in one piece.
And now we can draw the legs, remember they have eight legs
four on each side.
I’m doing the sketch with a Col-Erase pencil, a blue one.
I use this pencil because I can erase it if I need to, to make any corrections
then I will go over it the regular color pencils, which are more intense.
I will move the position of this one.
Very good! once the main sketch is done, I grab the black of the
Prismacolor Premier, and go over the line, then I will fill it in but not completely,
I will leave three dots on top, because they will be red.
And then some space on this side to make some lighter reflections.
Black widows are pretty calm insects and do not attack humans unless they are
in extreme danger
like if you step on them, or something like that.
Only the female venom is powerful and dangerous, but even then
it is not as dangerous as people usually think.
For example, I found on Wikipedia that each year about 2,200 people
are bitten in the U.S. but almost all of those are
what they call dry-bites which have no poison or very little and therefore they requiere
no medical treatment. Only about 12 bites a year, are considered serious, but no deaths
have been reported in 100 years.
Anyhow, don’t get close to them just in case, they can be pretty painful.
Alright and we add some tone to the lighter areas to the reflections
and we fill in the red dots
nicely.
Males can have more than one dot and they have it on the upper side
females usually have one red or orange dot on the under side, or they may have two, or zero dots.
And we are drawing the shadow, which helps a lot with the 3D effect.
So, this is a male black widow. Or should we say a black widower? [laughter].
Their name comes, as you probably know, because the female can eat the male
after mating, but this actually usually happens when they are in captivity, like in laboratories.
By the way, I will draw a piece of paper to
increase the 3D effect, and then I will use graphite
powder to rapidly tone the background.
But they are not that stupid, the male usually selects a female mate that
has already eaten, so that won’t be eaten
themselves.
And I apply the powder with a chamois. I use a scrap piece of paper
as a masking device
so that it doesn’t get to the areas that I want to keep clean.
With the kneaded eraser I took off any marks that went further, and then
with white pencil I can do some reflections.
We give it the last touches and its ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo