Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a Dragon,
Chinese style.
We will use a ¨bamboo brush¨ that you can hold with 3 fingers like this.
Or with 4 if you want some more tight control.
And we will use red Chinese ink.
For a more fluid movement, hold the brush from the back
and try to make the strokes, all the way from your shoulder.
We begin by sketching the general shape of the Dragon.
This video has been sped up, but take your time…
You may do this line, slowly.
As they say in the Far East, feel how the energy flows.
Good!
We do the head of the dragon which will have the mouth open.
I will do some teeth, and some hairy things [laughter].
And a crest that flows toward the back.
The eye… and after this we can begin filling in, with the red.
But leaving some little lines and dots, blank.
We also leave the eye white.
I have been just been in South Korea and a Buddhist artist taught me
how one should fill the harmony.
The harmony of the dragon in this case or the harmony of your drawing.
And the harmony of the universe.
Good!
And we add some long whiskers over here…
… to give it character.
The more I learned things and good techniques, the more
I like drawing!
And the truth is that I feel attracted to the East and its philosophy.
And do you like it?
I`d love to know in these videos comments.
We paint some scales for the Dragon.
I was told that this fantastical animal, is a symbol of the Emperor.
Only the Emperor could use the symbol of the Dragon, on his shield
and things like that.
As you see I do the scales, all along the body…
… we finish them all through the tail.
And now I will go over and make thicker, the outline.
As this brush is tapered, been very fine at the tip and wider
on the back, depending on how you use it,
and how much you press it
you can make lines from really thin
to pretty thick.
In fact I am doing all this painting
with a single brush.
The hand will be here.
But first I will do a little bit wider this crest or hair
that the Dragons have over here.
And I´ll make the head a little bit thicker.
And we come back to the hand with its four fingers and one on the back.
Good!
I like Dragons!
The other paw will be here.
The ferocious claws [laughter].
The hind paws will be one here…
… and one over here.
Good!
On the tip of the tail, we will do a sort of flame.
As we mentioned the Dragon represents the emperor, as well the prosperity
and power of a nation.
It`s the symbol of ¨Yang¨
That is the Universe, life, existence and growth.
I place a dot in the middle of each scale with a little patience.
Good!
I think this painting is in harmony
… so we do the last details…
I write my signature in Korean
it says Leo…
… and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo