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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 colorful sea turtle using
a critic Posca markers. 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 yellow, white, orange, blue, dark green, light green, light
blue, and sea 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, so I'm going to start with a white
colored pencil. What I'm going to do is mark on the black illustration
board where I want the front and the back
of the turtle to be, specifically the turtle's shell, which I'll be drawing
initially right now. I'm going in adding in the
little marks for the shell. Now in between them, I will draw a large
arc like this. And then for the
underside of the show, I'll draw another arc. Basically, what we're getting
is the shape of a football. And you notice
that on the front, bottom right, it's
a bit more rounded. Where the top arc
is a bit flatter, whereas the bottom
arc is more rounded. Next, what I'll do is draw a little curved triangle
at the back here, and this will be the
back of the shell. Next, I'll come in and
draw another line, a parallel line at
the bottom edge. In reality, this
line that I'm doing now represents the
bottom of the shell. Where is the lower line? At the very bottom is the bottom of the
body of the turtle next to come in and
drawn oval at the top, middle of the shel. Then what I'll do is square
it off a little bit, making it more like
a hexagon shape. All right, now we're going
to go from the corners of this shape up at the top and draw lines out
to the edge of the shell. Draw these curved lines as
if they were radiating out along the shell to form the divides in the
plates of the shell. Think about how they curve around the curvature
of the shell. And then we'll divide this
up into a second row. At the bottom, we'll have these narrow little
segments of the shell. And we'll do the same at the top to have
another row here. Next we'll work on the neck, and we'll draw these
two curved lines coming out of the
front of the body. This will be the neck. And then we'll
continue on drawing the head into a bit of
an oval shaped head, but not too oval, not too long. I'm trying to get
the head and neck to flow together properly now that I'll make a mark
for where I want the eye to be near the front of
the head and then I'll, and the eye is the
shape of a tear drop, a bit rounded at the bottom
and pointed at the top. And then will draw the mouth
and the beak at the front. After this, we'll draw in the little segments
of shell on the head. And we'll just draw
random shapes. Some can be long,
others can be short. And we want to work
these in around the eye. And they tend to curve
around the eye itself. And we want these segments
of shell to flow. And then we'll stop them
near the back of the head.
4. Initial Sketch - Part B: All right, continuing on, we're now going to
work on the front leg. And we're going to
start out by building what you might call a shoulder. And what this by drawing
this little hump and then drawing out the
leg or flipper itself, be sure to round off
the fin at the end. Next we'll draw the under fin that's on the other
side of the body. And this one we only
see a little bit of the lower part of it,
so we'll draw that next. We'll draw the back leg, similar to how we did. The front fin, I believe will draw the tail. Next we'll go in and add in the little scales or pieces
of shell on the fin. What I'd like to do is draw little little shapes on the fin. And they divided up that way. We do have a row
of pieces of scale on the back fin and
also on the front fin. For the front fin, what
I'll do is I'll go along the back and front edge of it and add in
these little shapes. First adding the little lines, and then connecting them with a curved line, one to the other. And then in the remaining space, I'll go in and fill it
in with the little axis. And for the fin on the
far side of the turtle, I'll just add in a little row of scales on the inside
or in other words, on the left side of the fin.
5. Coloring the Turtle's Body: All right, so we're
going to step in with a screen fossil marker and we're going to color in
the body part of the body. That is the neck parts of the head parts of the
shoulder and tail. And it may be necessary
for you to give two coats. Order to cover thoroughly and
block out the black paper. Once you've completed this step, let it thoroughly before moving on to the next step
in the next video.
6. Head Details: We're now going to come in with a green Vasco marker and we're going to color in
the little shapes on the head of the sea turtle. So we'll just color those
in nice and thoroughly. And again, you may
need to add in more than one layer so that it covers the black of the paper all the way our right. So now we'll grab
that dark blue marker and we'll add a little
mouth by adding a line. And then we'll focus again
on the shapes of the head. What I'd like you to
do is just adding a line at the bottom half of
all the shapes on the head, just as you can see me doing. Now this will give the effect of having a bit of a
shadow down there, like the pieces on the
head have a bit of an edge and are casting a shadow in
the light from the surface, coming down, pouring
through the water and hitting the tops
of the little pieces. But the lower part has a
little bit of a shadow still. All right, so now in
contrast to what we did with the blue
will now come in with orange posca and color a bit of the upper part
of the green spots. And as you can see I'm doing, I'm working orange down into the green about halfway
down each shape. Once this is tried, I'll come in with a yellow and will add just a bit of
yellow at the very top, on top of the orange
just at the edge. And this really gives the
illusion that there's light pouring down over the
head, over the sea turtle. Also with the yellow, what I'll do is adding a
little bit at the top of the eye to make it look like
it's a bit round and curved. So I'll just add a
bit with yellow. Once that has tried, I will go in with some white and add a little touch of
white over that yellow, just at the very top and I
don't want to overdo it, so I'll stop there.
7. Body and Neck Details: All right, so now
we're going to come in with an orange posca marker and we're going to add in these wrinkle marks
on the neck and body. These lines don't go all
the way up the neck, they only go up about
a fourth of the way. We don't want them to
be all the same length. I'd like you to try to have
them be different lengths. And they can also overlap
one another every so often. We'll also do this at the top
of the neck, and these two, as with the bottom lines, only go about a fourth
of the way down. And then we'll move over to
what is the shoulder and we'll track some lines that curve up and around just a bit, as you can see me doing here. We'll also do this to the back leg and we'll also draw these
little curved lines around the tail. All right, now that
the orange has tried, we're going to come
in with a dark blue, plus Barker, and
we're going to do the same thing that we
did with the orange. We don't want to cover
the orange all the way, we'll just intermingle the
blue lines in with the orange. When it comes to the
top of the neck, I'll try to add less
blue because this is a brighter area and the sun is hitting this
part of the turtle, so it'll be less dark and more in the light red. Now we're coming in
with a yellow posca, and we're going to
only add a little bit of yellow to the
top of the neck. Laying off this idea of the light hitting the
upper parts of the turtle, and therefore it's brighter. We'll also do this a bit, but not too much on
the solder and tail. Finally, we'll come in with a light greed posca marker
and what we'll do is well lighten up some of these
areas on the head and body, which are going to
be a bit brighter. So these areas of the
body and head are not receiving as much light
so as to receive the yellow, they're in between the high
light and a shadow area. So therefore we'll
use this light. And keep in mind that you
don't need to cover over the whole sea green that we added at the very beginning
of the coloring phase. We're just adding
a little bit of this light green in some areas as you can
observe me doing.
8. First Layer on Fins: All right, for this next step, we'll come in with
an orange workers so we can work on the
fins of the turtle. And right now with our orange, we're just going to
go in and outline all of the little shapes
on all of the fins. Now that this is
done, we'll use a blue and we're going to go in and color in all of the little shapes
inside of the orange. You may need to add
more than one layer depending on how well your marker covers
the paper and how much of that paper
absorbs the marker. But that's what we'll do,
we'll just fill in all of these little shapes
and then let them try.
9. Second Layer on Fins: All right, now we'll grab a light blue Pascal marker and we're going to
shade the scales. On the fencing bit, what we'll do is we'll just
go in on the upper side of each scale and add
a little bit of blue on the inside of the scale. And we'll also add a
new bit of line work on top just a bit on the
rest of the scale. And we'll do this for the main
fin and also the back fin, but we will not do
it for the little F that's on the other
side of the turtle.
10. Shell - First Layer: All right, now that we're
done with the body, we'll step in with a dark
green and we're going to start clearing in the
shell of the turtle. So what we'll do is we'll add in these lines going up and down. So as you can see
that I'm doing, we don't want to fill in
the segments all the way. Instead we want to add in these lines that loosely
fill up the segments.
11. Shell - More Layers: All right. We're going to grab our orange marker
and we're going to mark out all the divides of the plates on the
shelf of the turtle by drawing these lines
through all of them. So we'll just go
in and outline all of these lines on the shelf. Okay. Using the blue marker, we're going to work
in lines that flow up from the bottom of each
plate or in other words, from the bottom of each
fragment of the shell. And we're going to work these
lines about halfway up, and we want these lines to
blend in or in other words, flow into the green. What I'm doing is I'm
adding a nice amount of thick lines at the bottom of
the fragment of the shed. And then I work them out
a little bit and loosen the line work as I go up
higher on each fragment. Each line that you do, adding the blue does have to be or shouldn't
be the same length. You don't want them to look
like just a row of blue. You wanted to blend in and
interlock with the green. So to say, to achieve this, I'll make some of the
lines log some short. Just try to be random. All right, now that
the blue is dried, we're going to come in
with a yellow marker and we'll do the same that
we did with the blue. But this time we'll
work from the top, working our way about halfway
down with the yellow in the same exact style
and the method that we used for the blue
just a minute ago, We want this yellow
and blue to inter and connect in this middle
area of the fragment. This way it's like we have a high light area that's
growing in the sun. And the lower part is a
bit darker with the blue, with the dark blue.
12. Final Details: All right, now that we've
got the turtle coin, we're going to come in and
work on some final details. So we'll grab the
yellow posca marker and what I'm going to do is add just a bit of yellow to
the top of each little scale. On the big main fin and also the fact fin so
that we have the same high light effect at the
top and at the bottom. Similar to what we've done on the head and the main shell. So be sure not to overdo it. We don't want to cover the light blue that's already there. We'll just add enough so that we have a bit
of yellow there. And like always, if your
yellow doesn't show up enough, you might need to add
more than one layer.
13. Shading the Body with Pencil: Okay, so we're going to come
in with a prisma color, indigo blue colored
pencil number 91. And this is a really dark
blue colored pencil. And what we're going to do is just a bit of shading
here and there, especially on the little that's on the other
side of the body. Also around the lower part of
the neck and on the mouth, but also to a bit of shading on the lower part of the body. What's colored in green blue? Just there at the edge and also right at the
edge of the shell. So it has a bit of a shadow indicating a bit of an overhang. One thing I will point
out is that be sure that the acrylic marker has had plenty of time
to thoroughly try. And when using the pencil, just go over lightly, adding in soft layers, building up the layer slowly. This way you don't
scrape up the marker. No, I know. I don't know. So don't know. So don't know. So don't know. So don't know. So I don't know. So don't go. So don't don't go. So don't.
14. Shading the Shell with Pencil: We're going to continue
with our shading using our dark blue
colored pencil, the indico blue colored pencil. What we'll do now is work on shading the shell of the turtle. We want, again, like the
whole turtle, the light, to appear as if it
were coming and growing from the surface of
the water from up above. We want the top of the shell and also the top of each
segment to look brighter. And we'll also darken the little lines dividing each of the segments
of the shell. So we'll go over them
gently with our pencil. And what you see I'm
doing is I'm just building up layers a
little bit at a time. I'm also trying to get the
blue to bend with the yellow. So I'm just hitting the
edge or the lower part of the yellow streaks with a
bit of the blue pencil. And that softens that transition from dark blue to yellow. And the other thing
I'll do is I'll keep the inner segments
a bit brighter. And the outer segments towards the far left and far
right of the shell. I will darken a bit
more so that it looks like the center part or
the part closer to us. The viewer is a bit
more illuminated. So I want you to work slowly, building up soft layers
of pencil a little bit at a time so that
way you don't overdo it.
15. 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
