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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 have decided to join me
here for this class. I enjoy working with
alcohol markers, pascamrkers and colored pencils. And sometimes I even like
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 colorful and beautiful lizard using vibrant Posca merkers. I really like using
posca merkers because they are 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
at Andy's Artitude. You sure to also follow
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something in the class, I would be more than happy
to answer your questions. So just post your questions
in the discussions tab. I also invite you
to feel free to share your on Skillshare. 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. I also wanted to
announce that I'm now offering one
on one sessions. In other words,
private art classes. Via Zoom video call. These are live classes with me, and we can draw animals, landscapes, portraits, work on something that
you want to improve on. These can be ongoing
or just one off. I offer different
lengths of classes from 45 minutes to
an hour and a half. So feel free to check this
out on my class profile. I would love to be able
to meet with you and chat and create some
awesome artwork together. It is now time to
start this class. So sharpen your pencils
and let the class begin.
2. Materials: This class, we will be
drawing using Pasco 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 rowery boxes and on their iPads and follow along the class using my
altering 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 out the colors show up so well on this dark surface. Like I mentioned, we'll
be using Bosco markers. These are acrylic markers. There are other brands
of acrylic markers. So whatever you have at
your disposal is fine. I enjoy using Posca markers, and I find the markers
will be high quality. And in my experience, they don't tend
to get topped up. Here you can see the
colors laid out, as well as a written
list of which color, I have also included a
screenshot of the colors you need in the project's
description tab below the video. We will also be needing a
white colored 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 then in that case, you will use a regular
pencil or pen. I'm using prisma color pencils. With that, we are done
gathering our materials. So let's start with the class.
3. Initial Sketch: All right. Welcome to
the initial sketch. We'll start out by
drawing the animal. This sketch will be very simple. We'll do a basic outline of all of the parts that we
will be drawing today. So the head, the eye, mouth, body, the beard,
leg, and so forth. We'll also draw a
tragged line right under the lizard to represent the
rock that it is sitting on. You don't need to add
too many details because we will be covering over most
of this with our marker. Try to keep your
rinds very fluid, very flowy, very smooth. Try to draw along,
soft flowing gestures. That way we achieve more of a dynamic and alive
look to drawing. You will see me doing
flicks of my wrist with my pencil at times taking
these nice flowing lines. And that's what I
encourage you to do in order to have a
dynamic drawing. If you would like to download
the scan of my drawing, it is available under
the projects and resources tab to both
you and download.
4. Coloring the Head: To start off, we'll grab a light blue pascamer and
we'll start at the front of the nose right above
the mouth and drag these lines going back and
towards the back of the head. We're not coloring in
all the way solid color. We're adding these loose lines, having them flow back. We'll leave some black
caps here and there. Eventually, all this black
will get colored in. We'll also color
underneath the mouth in the same style curving down and around towards
the back of the head. Next, we'll grab an
emerald green marker, and we'll colour in the same way as we did with the light blue, but this time over
the light blue and only the area
above the mouth. Next, we'll grab a regular blue, the darker of the blue markers, and we'll start at the front
just under the mouth at the front of the
head and drag lines going towards the
back of the head. Be sure to have
these lines curve a bit as if they're
curving around the head. We'll also add a bit
of blue just above where the mouth is near
the back of the head. Alright, now we'll grab
a yellow pasca marker, and we'll start at the front of the head right above the mouth, and we'll work in the super area dragging our lines towards
the back of the head, and we'll stop
right where we meet the dark bloom about
three quarters of the way to the
back of the head. Now that the yellow
has had time to try, we grab a straw yellow and track these lines from the front of the head about halfway back, we go above and below the eye. While the straw
yellow is drying, I'll grab a black and add
a layer over the blue on the lower half of
the jaw fairly thickly, but not covering all the
way and will have it diminish as we go higher
on this jaw section. But we also use the black to add in the line of the mouth. Next, we'll grab an orange and we'll work to the right
and below the eye, adding in a bit of orange lines going back towards
the back of the head. We'll let the orange
dry for a minute, and then we'll grab a red
and add it in the same area, maybe not so much as we
did with the orange, but just enough to have
this red on that area. Alright, I'll grab a white, and we're going to add in
the brightest highlight on the head, and it'll be on the front
part of the head, again, dragging back a little ways, coming almost to where we meet the eye and a little
bit above it. I will grab a light
blue and add a line under the mouth line
and will also drag down into the shadow of black and dark
blue so that these colors mix and the
transition is a bit softer. Finally, I grab my regular
yellow again and add it in this area where the yellow
and white markers meet, adding it over that area, and thereby blending the
colors somewhat so that the change from white to
yellow isn't quite so abrupt.
5. Eye: In this video, we'll work on the eye and surrounding area. We'll start off with a blue, and we'll color in the
outer ring around the eye. Next, we'll grab an
orange and we'll color it right inside
the eye or the Iris. In the meantime, we're
allowing the blue to dry. Now that we've let the
blue and orange dry, we'll grab a green and
throw another ring around orange in between
the orange and blue. Next to using a black okldeg pupil and also outline the iris and the green ring and
adding some eyed folds. If you have a very thin
black post marker, that would be best for
getting these thin lines. If not, the normal
fine tip is fine. Finally, once all
this has dried, we'll grab a white and we'll add a highlight reflection on the
upper left side of the eye, giving us that idea of light
coming from the left side and bouncing off of the head
and the eye of the lizard.
6. Body: Okay, we'll start
the coloring of the body by grabbing a
light blue posca mercer, and we'll start at the back of the head along what
would be the neck, and we'll track our lines back going towards the back
of the animal, again, having these lines flow
and be a little bit loose in the same manner
that we colored the head. Next, we'll grab
our blue mercer, and we'll start at the
bottom of the body, and we'll add in our loose lines flowing towards the back again. And we'll take these lines about three quarters of the
way to the top of the body, ramblin will fade
them out by adding looser and looser amounts of
lines as we get higher up. This is the beginning
of the shadow. And We're going to let that blue try and we'll
grab an emerald green marker, and we'll lay this color
over the upper area. The lighter area we
have a highlight, and we'll try to blend this in with the dark blue marker by adding a few loose lines intermingling with
the darker blue. The Next, we'll grab our black marker, and we want to have this merkt be very thick at the bottom, although not covering
the blue all the way, and then we'll have
it gradually fade out as we go higher in
the darker blue area, ending this black
all the way when we get to where the
emerald green starts. Finally, we'll grab a
white poster marker, and we want to add it fairly thickly at the very
top and have it gradually fade out as we go down on the emerald
green further down, although we do not want to cover the emerald
green all the way, we want to have a
transition going from dark to light to
lighter to lightest.
7. Crest & Beard Spines: All right. In this video, we'll work on the
spines that are on the crest and the
beard of the lizard. So we'll start out
with a dark red, and we'll color these
spines in all the way, and then we'll let that
player try thoroughly. Next, we'll grab the
red fossa mercer, and we'll color a
very flowy line with a quick flick of
the wrist and mercer. And we want these
lines to be towards the front or left
side of each spine, remembering that the light in our scene is coming from
the left hand side. Um Next, we'll grab an orange, and except for the
first spine on the top, all of the rest of
the spines we'll color in with orange
from the top, going down about halfway, and we'll do this for
the beard, as well. But for that, we'll do it from the bottom going up halfway. Next, we have a
yellow and add it in a similar area as we
did with the orange, dragging down the spine on the top and dragging up
or the bottom spines. Now, we'll grab a straw yellow, and we'll go at the very tip of each spine and add a
little bit of this colour, dragging it into the yellow. To finish these spines, we'll grab a black posca mercer, and we'll go to the base
of the spines closer to the head or the lower
bear spines or closer to the body and head for the spines along the
back or crest and trawlines going down and fading out as we get
about halfway up, closer to where
the orange starts. This helps us conceal the edge where the orange
and the edow stop and helps it blend with the dark red and have a gradual
transition or gradient.
8. Arm: In this video, we'll
color in the leg. We'll start out with
a light blue marker and color it in
with our line work. Les to cut in the lower half of the legs and the toes with blue. Now we'll go on the upper
part of the arm and color it in with white
with our loose slides, blending it in with
the dark blue, and we'll do the
same with the toes. Next, we'll grab a black and
go over the dark blue area and also a little
bit on top of the white trying to blend
these colors together. I'll leave a light
blue edge along the very bottom of the arm
but also do this on the toes. Next, we'll use a yellow and we'll loosely
go over the white, adding in this bright color. We don't need to add too
much of this color just a bit to turn this area
slightly yellow. Next, we'll wrap up the leg, wrapping an orange and very loosely going over all
of it with it except for the very bottom where there's a slightly light blue edge. Oh.
9. Ground: Alright, we'll quickly wrap up this drawing by
drawing in the ground. And we want this to
be subtle and not distract from the main
focus of the drawing, which is the head of the lizard. So what we'll do is we'll do it like it's reflecting light. So we'll grab a
blue posca mercer, and add in these wispy lines
that for the most part, go from right to left, and we'll do these loose lines, aminishing them as we go down towards the
bottom of the page. Next, we'll be adding
dark red, red, and then orange, adding less
and less of each color, not covering over every
color all the way, but for the most part, layering each one on top
of the previous one. So with that we get this orange
glowing light reflection. I'll mainly color it
in on the left side, right near the foot and arm of the lizard and less towards
the right side of the ground.
10. Thanks for Watching!: Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you
enjoyed this class and were 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 Skillshare 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. If you would like to support me, please check out my website. At www.andartitod.com, and feel free to visit me
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in the coming weeks, I will be uploading
more classes. That's it for now. I hope
you have a wonderful day. See you in the next class.
Andy Villon, Fine Artist
