Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial.
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw something simple
and different, but very fun!
and that’s a sword in 3D.
First we fold the sheet in half, it doesn’t need to be exact.
We extend it, and then draw a vertical line,
just as a guideline.
Like so.
Then a tilted line that goes from the fold line at the middle
of the page and almost gets to the vertical pencil line, then a parallel line
considering that this will be of the width of the sword.
Then we repeat the same but in a reversed angle, and I´ll use
the ruler as a square to draw a short perpendicular line for the guard,
that is the part that protects the hand.
Good!
And then the handle … at the end.
We round it a little bit, and then the sharp point at the oposite end.
And a line, not at the middle but a little bit to the right, along the blade.
And then the shadow, from one end to the other one.
Once we look at it from the correct angle, the sword will look straight, I hope [laughter].
We clean up the drawing and I use a broom so as to not get the oil of the fingers
on the paper.
With my mechanical pencil or a regular pencil, I draw the shadow,
it's a little bit darker closer to both ends
and slightly lighter in the middle.
Ok, good!
Now let’s check it out, let´s check how are we doing
in regards to the 3D effect.
We fold the page at 90 degrees and find the angle from where
the sword looks straight.
It looks fairly ok I think, except for the guard which looks as if it were tilting
toward the left.
Let’s fix that!
Let’s see, it should have been more like this.
Like almost parallel to the folding line.
Let’s see how it looks now from the perspective.
Yes, that’s better!
Much better!
So now let’s erase the prior one
and draw the new guard in this new format.
which looks totally wrong from this angle [laughter]
Now let’s use a dark blue color pencil to do the shading.
The list of materials is in the description below the video.
The side on the left will be in shade
lightly so, and since we are drawing on gray paper,
we can give it some shinning lights with the white.
On the right side of the blade has a light tone
and then some lights sparks here and there.
And I will delineate it a little bit better.
Let’s check it again to see how it is looking now…
we fold it up... and find the right angle for it
here… yeah it is looking much better!
I think.
We could increase the highlights a little bit more and blur the shadow
so let’s go on with the white…
here, here and here.
And I delineate the handle, why not
adding a little bit of brown
and some texture to it.
We even out the shadow
and smudge it, and its ready!
Please let me know what do you think of this effect.
And whether you would like more of this kind, in 3D.
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And I will see you on Tuesday :)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo