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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 vibrant and colorful
glowing macaw in flight using posca markers. I really like using posca Mers 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 pigs 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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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
to 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: Alright, we'll
start this drawing IV Macau by grabbing a
white colored pencil, and I'm not going to narrate
every detail that I draw, simply follow along and
do as I do in the video. What I will say is
that I recommend, and you will see me drawing
very lightly at first. So when I'm trying to find
the shape or line I want, instead of drawing a hard line, that may be hard
to erase later on. I instead go in with
very soft lines, and I slowly build
up my shape or line. Then once I have the object or animal drawn with
the soft lines, then I go in with harder lines
and find the edges more. By using soft swarthy motions, it's like I'm hunting or trying to find the
correct shape. Also another reason for
using soft easy to erase lines is because when you draw a part of the animal
or object first, it may appear well drawn. But then when you get
the rest of it drawn in, you then notice what you drew at the beginning needs to be bigger or smaller or be
adjusted in some way. That's why it's good to
be what to race lines. And another thing is that
by using loose lines, it helps the overall drawing look more dynamic
and loose and free. And you may see me
here and there racing, and there's nothing bad
with having to eras. It's all part of the process.
4. Base Layers of Posca Marker: Alright. In this video, we're going to start with the initial base
layers of poscummrker. And I'll grab a light blue, and we're going to color in all of the bird with light blue, except for the beak
and the area around the eye and the underside
of the upper wing. So everything except those areas will be with a light
blue poscummrker. One thing I would advise and
you will be able to see me doing this is once
you color in an area, don't go rubbing over
it over and over. Just lay the color
down well enough, and then only once it
is thoroughly dry, come back over adding a
second layer if necessary. If you throw and color over the same area that you
just added paint to, it will come up the marker and make everything look messy. A long story short, color in an area. Let it dry and then add a
second layer if necessary. Of
5. Dark Red: Okay, so now for
the next layers, we'll start out with a dark red, and we'll first color
this area on what would be the area around
the head and neck. And we want the lines on this part and the rest of
the bird that will color in. We want to have
lines coming from the area around
the eye and beak. So as if they were
starting there, we are not going to
start the lines there, but it's as if
they started there like rays of the
sun radiating out. This area around the neck and
head will do a bit thicker, and then the rest of
the lines will be a bit looser and not so compact. They will also be longer extending to the
end of the wings, and the tail area will have
them spreading outward, fanning out with the fanning
out of the tail feathers.
6. Red, Orange & Yellows: We'll start with a
red posca marker, and we're going to again work from the front near the beak and I going backwards with
these loose red lines, and we'll do this
on the front near the hood area or around
the neck and head, and we'll also add this
red on the upper wing. He Next, we'll grab an orange and
add it to the upper part of the head and also the lower
part of this hood area, and then add it along the leading edge of the
wing on top of the rid. Next, we'll grab a yellow, and we will add it over the same area that
we added the orange, keeping in mind
not to cover over the orange all the
way with these lines. And on the leading
edge of the wing, we will not take the all the
way to the end of the wing. Instead we stop about halfway. You did. Alright, we'll grab a
straw yellow and go over the upper area of the yellow
that we previously added, adding in just a bit to give it a bit of a glow
right near the edge of the head and neck. So
7. Wing Colors: Alright, we'll start out with some light green
and add it at the very back of the hood area
at the back of the neck, and we'll just have it going down a little ways
along the back. And were to extend these lines over the
yellow ever so much. Next, we'll grab an orange and we'll have this orange
going over the green. It loose, not overing
it all the way, and then we'll drag
it down owing towards the end of the wing along the
leading edge of the wing. Well, in this remaining
area of the wing? Which is the main
part of the wing. We'll go in with
an emerald green and track down these
long feathery lines. Next, we'll grab a dark blue
and cover the same area that we covered the emerald ring
with in the same manner. Next, we use a light blue, and we do the same
thing that we did with the emerald green and blue, except that towards
the lower half of the wing longways we'll use longer lines that are
also a bit thicker. Next, we'll grab black and working from the back
end of the wing, we'll go forward or towards the head with these
lines trying to divide these feathers up into individual feathers
that separate a bit on the back of the wing. O. I could even go in with blue and individualize some
of the feathers up detailing them ever so much. Finally, I'll wrap my yellow
again and add it a bit along the leading
edge of the wing, getting the sicker up
towards the upper part of the wing right
before it meets what we would call the shoulder area. And I also drag it out
into the blue a bit, letting it blend with the blue to have this
yellowy blue green.
8. Tail Colors: Alright. In this segment, we'll work on the tail of the macaw and we'll
grab a blue marker, and we'll go along the
left and right side of the upper area of the tail, having these feathers fan out away from the
middle of the tail, leaving the area along the
middle without any blue. Next, we'll add a
layer of light blue or what we just added
with the regular blue. Now we'll grab a black
and we'll go in with it, adding in a few lines of
black over this blue area, having it be a bit more
concentrated right near the wing. Finally, we'll grab
a red and go along the middle of the tail
on top of the maroon, adding in some
nice red feathers. And you'll notice that eventually I'll drag
a few of these out into the tail part that
feathers out or spreads out. Next, we'll go over the red with a layer of orange, focusing this color
more on the lower half, more than on the upper half. Now that the orange has dried, we'll go in with the yellow, adding it to the inch of some of these feathers and
extending down, having it be thicker at
the end of the tail.
9. Under Side of Wing: Alright, we'll grab
a blue marker, and we'll do a few edits to begin with on the
end of the wing, and I'll add a thin line along the upper edge of the wing
first with regular blue. And once that is dry, I'll add in some light blue. Okay, so now we'll work on
the underside of the wing, and we'll grab a brown, and this is the darker brown. And we'll add in
these loose lines a loose layer of brown on
top of the regular brown. And I'm tracking
these strokes from the upperside of the
wing right below the leading edge
of the wing going down towards the end
of the feathers. Next, we'll grab the dark red. We'll go along the
upside of each feather, adding a bit of brightness
to this underside. In along the end of the
feathers that stick out and add a quick feathery
line very loose and soft, dragging it up into
the wing just a bit. Next, we'll end with a black and we'll be adding more
of this black right below the leading edge
of the wing to have a nice deep shadow and
extending some of this flack along what would be the
underside or our right side of each feather. Oh
10. Beak: In this video, we'll be
working on the beak. We'll start by coloring
it in with white. We'll color in the
peak and eye area. We'll be using black brown, some blue and straw yellow
for some of the details. The lower beak will
be a bit in shadow, and we'll be using a bit of brown and blue to achieve that. We'll also use some
black or the shadows, and I'll use yellow to
add a bit of highlight and color along the
leading edge of the beak. So so so
11. Shadows & Highlights: To wrap up the straw, we'll grab our
dark brown marker, and we'll be adding
some shadows to the underpar of the neck area, or in other words, the chest, adding in some loose lines. We'll also do this
along the upper side of the upper wing and along
the edges of the tail, but only a little bit. To conclude, I'll grab the straw yellow and add just a dash of this color to the
tips of the feathers on the upper wing. E
12. 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
