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1. Welcome to Class!: Hey there, how are you? My name is Andy One, and I'm so happy that you've decided to join me
here for this class. I enjoy working with
alcohol markers, Posca markers and
colored pencils. And sometimes I haven't like using all three
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
gather knowledge on how to draw and paint. 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. We will be drawing a bird,
specifically a pelican. This class is designed
to be easy to sit down, grab your graphite pencil, your sketch pad, and
just draw along with me. I don't want you to think
too hard about this. Just relax, follow what I say, and you'll have a
simple drawing of a Pelican in under 25 minutes. The paper and pencil that
you use really don't matter. It's up to you what
you use just to use whatever you feel
comfortable with and whatever you
like to draw with. If you prefer to draw
with a pin, that's fine. In this class, I will be doing
a little bit of erasing. Whatever works for you is great. I will display the reference
image on the screen. So you can see that up
there beside the drawing. You can also download the
reference image as well as my scan of my drawing in the
class project resources tab. In the coming weeks, I
will have more classes drawing birds and in the
future, other animals. So stay tuned to see
what I upload next. There's a list down
below this video with all the details and full description of
what you might need. I also invite you to
please when you're done with labor review and be sure to share your work here
on skill share so that all of us can see and
check out what you have done. If you have any
questions at all, please don't hesitate
to ask me and I or someone else will
be sure to help you out. One final thing is that
I'd like you to feel free to check me
out on Instagram. My page is Andy's attitude
and you can see my work. What I do on a daily basis. It is now time to
start this class. So sharpen your pencil
and let the class begin.
2. Initial Sketch: All right, so we're going
to draw our first bird. And we will begin by
drawing a Pelican. I took this picture
in Florida, in Tampa. So we'll begin by drawing
the body of this bird. When drawing animals, whether it be birds or cats or even people, I like to figure out what's the overall flow of this animal? What's the movement
in the overall body? In other words,
what's the gesture? And this should only take maybe 30 seconds to figure
out real quick. What I'll do is I'll go in here, start mapping out the beak. This is all I want
to begin with. And then I get the head, comes back forward, and then we have the
body down in here. What this allows me to do is establish the size the animal, where it basically sits in
space on my piece of paper. At this point I might
want to say, hey, I need to make this bigger or
I need to make it smaller. And I should do this before going in and adding
more details. And before getting carried away, I'll add a little indication
for the wing down here that spent
and also the legs. We may modify it
going down the road. We make it bigger or smaller. We will see how things proceed. So similar to what we did in the warm up video where you
saw me throwing on my ipad, I will now go in and start throwing the body of the bird that kind of
resembles a barrel. Most birds, whether it be
pelicans or flamingos, parakeets, their body is very similar to the
shape of an egg. So think of an egg or a barrel, like we saw in that example
in the previous video. So we'll go from there. You may notice that I'm
not adding one solid line. I'm adding lots of
little gradual lines. This allows me to
modify and make my line or shape
bigger or smaller, and adjusted size
whenever I want, instead of just drawing
a long random line. And it's recommended to add these little constructive
lines, so to speak. And we're not adding in
too much of a hard line. We're working softly and just
easing into our drawing, trying to find, think
of this as trying to find the shape
of your animal. Trying to carve it out
out of a piece of marble. Trying to find that
body inside of the. Marble inside of the clay. All right. So that's my body
that I'm happy with you. I was able to adjust
the size back here. I raised a little bit of it, made it a bit smaller. Also, if I were to
try to find the axis of this overall angle that
this body is going in, the length wise, I put my
pencil here in the middle. It's pointed up. If you were to put your pencil through this shape wrong ways, you can see this overall
angle that the shape is going and you can compare
this to how it is in the photo that
you were working from. All right, we will
proceed with the neck, kind of swoops back again. We're adding
these gradual lines. The body basically
flows off of the neck, and in this case, this to the Spelican has
a very long neck. Other birds have very short
necks or no necks at all. They do have a neck but
it's almost hidden. It's basically the body going from the body to the
head very abruptly, and then right in here is
where we have the peak. If we look at the shape, we get this nice
curve right in here. Try to notice the overall
shape that we're working in. Maybe you notice that
there's something that looks like a box or something
that looks like a, or maybe a horse shoe. Try to think of simple
familiar shapes that you have in your house
or wherever you live. Try to think of those
simple familiar shapes and then apply them to
whatever you're drawing. Looking at the photo, if we look at where the
end of the beak. If we were to draw a line over to the left from
the end of the beak, I'm trying to find
where does it end? Does it end if we
draw a line below the body here or
below the neck line, basically what I see in the photo is that
it ends down here, right here in the body area. The top of the beak is basically a continuation of
the top of the head, so the top of the head
continues to flow down here. You have a bit more skin flowing to the bottom of
the baker right in here.
3. Adding Details: I'll add in a few details here. For the very top of
the beak, up here, what I picture right here
is looking at the photo, I see a few little triangles. So I'll simply draw those in rather. Then I will draw the
middle of the beak. It comes right through these two triangles and
goes all the way down. I believe the bottom
begins a little bit before the top beds, So well there. Okay. Before we had
any more details, we'll go down and
work on the and feet. So what I see when I look
at the weighing down here is basically the body continues to curve
gently down and around. Adding it curves back a bit more and that kind of comes into this body here. There's a little segment right in here that
comes forward. It's very hard to
see right in there. And there's a little part
of the wing right in here. And then we have a few feathers
that straight down here. Okay, we got that
far for the feet. What I'm going to do
is come down here and draw a simple shape
of this piece of wood. Nothing too complicated. Just a simple box right in here to indicate that there's a
platform it's sitting on. All right, and so we're
drawing the legs. Now we do notice that
I'm going to follow these lines that I drew at
the beginning as guides. I'll just use them as like a center column and go around adding the
shape of the legs. We see there's a bulge here. Then it gets thinner. I'm like I said, using these as an access
or a center column, and then basically our
foot is like a triangle. Composed of other triangles. So what I see is I see
a triangle here and a triangle here composing
the webbed feet. And here we can see this one overlaps
this one right here. All right, and the
final thing we'll do is we'll add the eye detail. So we'll go in it right near
these two little triangles. Here we go a little
ways up the head. Add in a simple circle, and I'm going to make
necessary around the eye. I may go and extend this part of the
wing where the wing connects to the body
just a little bit. This is where the wing right here connects to the body and it comes out and the
wing bend right here. I think of the
wing as two parts, the main inner part and
then the outer part. When it spreads out unbend.
4. A bit of Shading: All right. To have gone in and erased some of the
initial line work I did when I added in the gesture or the initial
framework of the drawing. What I will do to conclude this Vatican is going
with a five pencil. I'm just adding a bit
of shading ever so much just to give it a bit
of a three dimensional look. I will re draw some of the lines that I erased
a bit of a while ago. We're going to go in now and
add just a bit of shading, a bit of three dimensionality to this basic sphere of the body. And just a bit of shadows over here underneath
where the wing is, where the lakes are. Down in here we notice we have a bit
of shadow red in here. This is a bit of
a Ford white part red in here on this
fleshy part of the beak. Okay, so there is our Pelican, our first drawing that
we've done of a bird. Again, just to review, thinking of the body as an egg or a football.
Very simple shape. And then we started
out by drawing in the basic curve of the body
and then adding onto that, adding very simple shapes
that are familiar to us. And building on that.
5. 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
like to support me, please check out my website at www.andartitude.com
And feel free to visit me on Instagram and
Facebook where you can see daily updates of my artwork
at Andy's attitude. Stick around here on
Skillshare and follow me because in the coming weeks I will be uploading
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
