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1. Welcome to Class!: Hey there, how are you? My name is Andy Von and I'm so happy that you've decided to
join me here for this class. I enjoy working with
alcohol Merkers, Pasco, Merkers colored pencils and sometimes I haven't
liked using Artery and even more such
as acrylic paint and watercolors and doing
something called mixed media. Over the past ten years
of my artist's career, I have learned and
gathered knowledge on how to draw and paint. And over the past three
years of teaching, I have learned what appeals to my students and how
they learn best. In this class, I want to help build your artistic abilities. Here's what we're going
to learn in this class. Today we will be drawing a beautiful fish from
the coral reefs. A blue hippo tang. I really like using
Posca markers because they're very
vibrant and colorful. The materials we will need for this class are covered
in the next video, and you can also find
a list of them with eggs below this video
in the about section. We're going to have a lot of fun today using vibrant colors. I invite you to check me out on Facebook and Instagram
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to feel free to share your here on skill chair. Let us all see what you've done. If you'd like to, I
would love to be able to check it out and
see what you've done. And know that your work can
be inspiring to all of us. It is now time to
start this class. Sharpen your pencils and
let the class begin.
2. Materials: This class, we will be
using postal markers, and the drawing surface we'll be using is a black
illustration board. Now there are different
types of these boards available for sale
online and at stores. I will be using a crescent
illustration board. If you have another of dark surface, that is fine. I've had students work
on story boxes and on their ipads and follow along the class using my
coloring techniques, but adapting it to their needs. I, for my part, like using these black surfaces
because they allow these acrylic
markers that are so vibrant and colorful
to really pop. I love how the colors show up so well on this dark surface. So like I mentioned, we'll
be using Posco markers. These are a critical markers. There are other brands
of acrylic markers, so whatever you have at
your disposal is fine. I enjoy using Posco
markers and I find the markers to be high
quality and in my experience, they don't tend
tickets topped up. The colors we will be
needing are the following. Sky blue, dark blue, black, white, light blue,
yellow, and light green. We will be needing a white color pencil to do the initial
sketch on the blackboard. If you're using another type
of material to draw on, such as white paper
or something, then in that case you will
use a regular pencil or pen. We will also need a dark
blue colored pencil or some of the shading, or if you don't have
that, you can also use a black or gray
colored pencil. I'm using prisma color pencils. With that, we are done
gathering our materials, so let's start with the class.
3. Initial Sketch - Part A: All right, we're going to start this class with
our white insole. And what we'll do
is we'll start on our black board and we'll
draw a nice straight line. As straight as possible. If you would like
to use a rotor, that is an option. I will mark where it
starts and stops. This line will represent the
total length of the body of the fish from the end of the tail to the
front of the head. Then what I will do is I'll add a little mark back here to indicate the length of the tail from where the
line ends on the left, that mark A sided to the right
is the length of the tail. Then we will go in on the
very back and we will add in this curve and this line will represent the
height of the tail. And then we will trawl back away towards the right to
form this triangle. Next, we will add in
these other segments below the triangle tail. These are attached to the tail itself and will be
colored in blue, while the main body of
the tail is yellow. Next we'll draw the
body of the fish. And we'll start from here. The ways up on the tail flowing
up and around this line that is the middle of the body will go away as if
we're going up a hill. And then we'll bring
this line down flowing down to the front of the fish
where the mouth will be. And we'll draw the
mouth as if it's a little eye cut into the fish. Next we'll work on the
main fin of the body. And what we'll do is
we'll start right behind the tail and draw
this little shape. And as it goes towards
the front of the fish, it gets thinner and
thinner until it vanishes and joins
into the fish's body. Next, we'll draw at the
bottom of the body, going from the bottom of the mouth back and
around towards the back. And we want to
meet the tail just below where the top of
the body joins the tail. You can actually see me referencing it off
the top of the body. Next we'll draw the lower fin, similar to how we
did the upper fin. And this one will come
forward and join the body a little bit further back on
the body than the upper find. What we do have is another
secondary little fin, right near the middle of
the body of the fish. Just a little pump down there. Nothing too major but
we'll add that in as well. I'm going to make a slight
modification on mine. I'm going to come in
here on the front, just above the mouth, and make this section of
the head a bit flatter, not quite So round hits have a distinct
look to their head. I want to get that
accurate and I want you to get that
accurate as well. That's as far as we're
getting in this first video. We'll continue and finish the initial sketch in the
next video. See you there.
4. Initial Sketch - Part B: We'll start this video
by drawing the eye, and the eye is just above the middle of the body,
right near the front. Next we will draw the side fin. And basically it's
a triangle a bit rounded on the sides but
not too complicated. Just think of a long
extended triangle. Now that the fin is done, we'll draw the shape of the black spot on the
back of the fish. And we go from the upper
part of the middle of the eye up away towards
the top of the body. And then we have
another line that comes right beside the left
part of the eye. And it goes up, away, and then it flows down
and then goes down below the middle point of
the fish's body and then flows gently back
towards the back of the fish. Next we'll draw the little oval that's right inside
that black area. So we'll just draw
this nice gentle oval. One of the last things
we'll do is to add in this little long piece right
at the end of the tail. Doesn't come to a
complete point. Instead it has this
little segment that you can see me drawing. Now. To finish up or draw the Gal in, it's right in front and below, the fish is thin, so that's just a
little curved line.
5. First Layers of Color: Okay, so now we'll start the coloring phase
of this project. So we'll come in with a sky blue marker and you might notice that I'm
using a thicker marker, not an extra fine point marker. And that is because
I do not have an extra fine point
sky blue marker. That's the explanation for that. At any rate, we'll be giving
this section of the fish two coats the spot and the body and also
a bit on the tail. One tip I'll give you is
to be sure to allow plenty of time for the paint
to try between coats. The reason is is because
if you go back and add a second coat too soon and
the paint is too sticky, it will thumb up your marker and the second coat won't
cover very well. What do you end up doing is just pushing the paint around. So that's why it's
important to let the first coat dry thoroughly. And I'd like to give it about
10 minutes or so to dry, or you could use a hair
dryer to try out faster. All right, and then
we'll come in with our yellow Posco marker and
we'll color in the tail, the middle tail section, and also the upper
part of the fin, which you will see
me in a moment. Next we'll come in with
dark blue and we'll color in the spot
section of the fish. And we'll end up giving the entire fish two
coats of marker so that it covers well and
everything is colored in.
6. Fin & Body Details - Part A: Now that we have the
initial layers colored in and they have had
time to thoroughly try, we're going to go in and start adding some of the fine details. I will start out with a
dark blue posca marker. What I will do is on the
upper fin and the lower fin, I will draw these
little lines in order to show the
spines in the fins. We'll just draw little lines
with our dark blue marker. And these thin blue
lines will extend into where the body starts
and the fin ends. Next, I will grab
my black mercer and start stipling
or in other words, adding to these dead or pots to this already dark blue
section of the fish. And so we don't want to cover
the dark blue all the way, but we do want to have
these dark dots in densely. Next we will come back with our dark blue marker
and we will add some more stiflings on the right side of this
spot on the fish, and we'll have it curve around the upper and lower side
of this oval shape. We will also add in some dark blue spots on
the front of the fish. We don't want to have this
blue as tense or thick as in other spots us. We will also add in the spines
on this lower middle fin. Next, we'll go in a little
ways above the lower fin, so you can see how there's
a bit of a light blue gap between the fins and this
area that I'm adding in blue. Now we want this to be a bit lighter and then have this
dark shadow right here. And we'll form this
shadow by adding in these little lines that are angled a bit up
towards the right.
7. Fin & Body Details - Part B: We will now go in with a light blue Posco marker and we will use this
tipling technique. Again, we will
focus right now on the back of this oval spot
on the side of the fish. And will also add it in
to a few other key areas. Such as the front of the
head, above the eye, right along that edge and in front of the little
fin in the front, and also right near the beginning of the
spot behind the fin. In other words, in front
of the light blue spot, we will continue
the stipling along the bottom under the
main black blue spot. What I want is to have
a nice tense amount of this light blue Mercer right
under the edge of that area. And then as we go down
the side of the fish, we still have some stipling, but the amount of stipling do
decreases as we go further. In other words, down towards
the bottom of the fish will also use the
light blue to wet in some light areas between the spines of dark
blue on the fin. And will eventually do this for both the lower fins
and the upper fin. I will grab the sky blue now
and add a bit of light touch on the fan just to
give it a bit of a formation I don't
want to cover at all. I just want to add a bit of a highlight area beside the yellow and
that's all I'll do.
8. Fin & Body Details - Part C: All we're coming in with
our black Posco Mercer and we're going to start by
using it to color in the eye. We will also color in the
gild by drawing a line. I will also add a
bit of an outline on the right side of the fin and do a little
bit of stippling. We will now grab the white
possum mercer and we will use it to add in a bit
of highlights on the fish. We'll start by coming right
here on the left side of this spot and stipling will bring it around the
edges a little bit. We'll also add in the stipling underneath this spot on
the lower light blue area. And similar to how we did using the light blue
marker will also do the same effect of having the white high light
stipling increase as we go down along the fish. We will also add a bit of
white along the front, upper edge of the head, right above the eye and also a little bit right
above the eye itself. We'll add a little
high light above the mouth and then just right of the fin and along the upper
side of the code. I'll also add a bit right inside the fin nearest to
the yellow so that it has a bit of a high
lighter blue area there with the white
breaking up the dark blue. I'm also going to
add in a bit of highlight right where
the fin beats the body. I just would have a bit
of a light area there. And we'll do that for the
upper F and the lower fin. We'll now grab our sky blue Mercer and we'll go
right up here where this dark blue spot
crests and we'll add in another bit of stifling
right up here, just a bit. Not too much. We don't
want to overdo it, we just to indicate a bit
of highlight in this area.
9. Tail & More Body Details: We'll come in with
our dark blue. And we're going to
add in the bit of line work on the tail section, specifically on the
blue areas of the tail. We're just adding the bit of lines there to break up the blue and these lines go up and down with the grain of the tail. Next I will grab a
plaque marker and do something similar as I did
with the blue a moment ago. But I don't want to
cover it up too much. I still want to be able
to see some of the blue. Next I will grab the dark
blue and I'm going to add an edge to the
upper end, lower fins. And were to this by just adding a line right along the edge. And then tracking that line into the blue just ever so much. After this is done, I'll grab the light blue so I can add a little high light to the eye. And we'll let that try next. We'll come in with
our white posca, then we'll add the spine in this front and the
tail in the back. So we're just adding
these nice wrong lines. Next we'll grab our light
green osco marker and we'll add this green in
between the white lines. If you look at the
reference fixture, there's a few
little green areas. This is due, I believe, to the effect of the semitransparent
fins and the blue of the fish that reflects
and combines with the yellow bit make the yellow
look a bit light green. For the back tail, we're just adding a bit of lines
at the very back. And then also in the middle
section with our light green. Next we'll grab a yellow Mercer, and we'll add these little
tips to the back of the tail. And this is where
the spine stick out a bit at the
end of the tail, or do the same thing on
the front little fin.
10. Shading & Final Edits: All right, now that
the drawing is physically done was
to do a few more edited a little bit but
right now we're going to do a bit of shading
with our Nicole, if you don't have a blue, you can always use
a gray or black en. I'll do a little bit of
shading on the front fin. Next I'll shade in
under the body, the mouth, all the way along, just above the lower fins. And we want this shating
to be very soft, very subtle, and to flow into
the upper part of the body. As you can see Mind does
so that the body has a rounded look to it and it looks more so what
newing assist? Working slowly with
different layers, adding in the layer by layer, building up my
layers a little bit at a time so as not to overdo it using the tip of my pencil, I'll add a bit of a harder line, right to where the
body and the fin join. I'll also do a bit of shading on the upper and lower fin
you already showed me. Do the shading on the lower fin. I'll now do it on the upper
fin just to subdue it a bit and have the face of the
fish stand out a bit more. Next you'll see me shading here and there with
my pencil to make the white highlights
that I added beforehand not be
quite so intense. One of the last
things I will do, please go in with my light
blue and add tips to the fins by adding little specs right at the ends of the upper
and lower blue fins. I'll also add a very
little bit of blue to the end of the tail aside
in the dark section just to give it a bit
of contrast between the black background and the black of the tail
so we can see it. Finally, I'll grab my black and do a bit of shading by
stiling at the front, lower part of the fish
just below the mouth. To conclude, I'll take my
integral blue pencil and add some wispy lines that
go from the back of the fish towards the front
on the back of the tail. And I'll also do something similar to the front
little yellow fin.
11. Thanks for Watching!: Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed this class and we're able
to learn something from it. Please feel free to post a
picture of your drawing below this class so that
all of us here on Sco chair can see what you did. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to start a discussion in the discussions
tab below this video, and I will be happy to
answer your questions. Well, if you would
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more classes. That's been it for now. I hope you have a wonderful day. See you in the next class.
Andy Villon, Fine Artist
