Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw an armadillo.
This was a petition from Martina Rodríguez.
We begin by sketching an oval, pretty flat at the bottom.
Let's make a line indicating the ground,
and then draw the head,
which is similar to a cone, little bit squashed [laughter]
like so.
Then they have bands in the armor
to make it so they can fold,
some more than others
as they are currently 21 different species
of it,
different variations,
several of them in danger extinction.
They have short legs but they can move quickly.
Armadillo means: "Little armored ones,"
in Spanish.
Let's draw the hind legs and then the bands.
The armor is made like of a bony substance
with a scaly skin on top,
I mean covered it.
They have a sort of helmet on this top area,
of the head
and large ears.
With little eyes, like so.
And they have the nose down here.
The head is pretty slender for this type armadillo,
which is the one with nine bands
on the armor.
The helmet or the hard part on top of the head has something that resembles scales.
While this lower part has soft skin and a little bit of fur.
As you saw, we began shading.
I'm using an HB lead,
that is medium hardness.
The tail also has armor,
it is made out of small hard sections.
I knew that armadillo's had a protective armor on top,
but I had never really seen how it works
but it is pretty amazing, especially for the 3-band armadillo,
which when in danger jumps and transforms into a perfect sealed ball.
I will switch the lead in my Tutto3 mechanical pencil,
for a softer one...
a 2B
so as be able to achieve the darks,
for the dark shadows.
Armadillo's live only in the America's,
originally only in South America,
but now they live also in Central and the southern part of North America.
They look a bit like rodents,
but they are not.
They eat ants and other small creatures with no bones.
They have powerful claws
which they use to dig their burrows.
They have something like scales on the legs as well.
The nine-banded armadillo it's noted for its movement through water
which he can do in 2 ways:
he can walk underwater for short distances
and he can hold the breath for up to 6 minutes,
and to cross longer distances,
he is capable of increasing his floating abilities,
by swallowing air inflating his stomach
and intestins.
Mmm, pretty amazing!
And if you made it all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
Please in the comments write me the secret code:
"The friendly armadillo"
And it's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo