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1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need for This Course: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'd like to introduce
you to this course. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting course that was designed
especially for kids. Students do not need to have any drawing or
painting experience. To be successful in this course. I will guide students
step-by-step through all the steps they need to take to create wonderful artwork. In this course, we will create artwork inspired by
the summer season. I'm excited to teach you
how to draw and paint. A surfing lion, a big fish, swimming lemur, and
a crab on the beach. Let's talk about the supplies in the materials that you will
need for this entire course. The first thing
that you'll need is a piece of watercolor paper. For each of your projects. You will need a set of watercolor paints and a cup
or a bowl with clean water. You will need a paintbrush. I like to use this
size paintbrush, but just use what you
have available to you. You will need either
a black crayon or a black oil pastel. Either one will work great. You will also need a paper towel for each
of your projects. So go ahead and gather all of those supplies and materials. And let's get started
on our first project.
2. Let's Draw and Paint a Swimming Lemur!: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'd like to introduce
you to this project. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project. And today we will be creating
this cute swimming lemur. So I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a piece of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. You will need a cup or a
bowl with clean water and a black crayon or a black oil
pastel and a paper towel. So go ahead and gather all of those supplies and materials. And I'll see you back
here in the next video. In this step, we're going
to draw our design. So let's get started. Go ahead and pick up your black crayon or
your black oil pastel. I'm going to use oil pastel. You'll want to start at the
top of your piece of paper, coming down about
three or four inches, that would be about five
or six centimeters. We're going to make a
circle about this size. If yours is a little bit larger
or smaller, that's okay. Now next to this circle coming
down just a little bit, you're going to make
another circle. There'll be pretty
close to each other. These are going to be
the eyes for our lemur. If your circles are not exactly the same size
like mine, that's okay. That actually makes the
cartoon even more endearing. So let's put some circles, some dots inside those
initial circles. Sure, they're around
the same size. The next thing that we're
going to do is draw a line above these circles. So it's going to be a
slanted line like this. That's going to be the top
of our mask for our lemur. Now we're going to go back to this side of our line
and we're going to make a curve line going around
the eye like this. And then we're going
to do the same thing on the other side. Now we're going to connect
these two sides of our lines with a curved line that goes
up and then comes back down. This is going to be our mask. Now let's go back up to the
top of our piece of paper, right above this
line right here. And we're going to
make a curve line. Then we're going to make
another line that goes from this angle to this angle. And it's going to be a
curved line like this. This is going to be the
top of our lemurs head. Now let's make some ears. We're going to make them
coming out here in this area. My ears are going to go off
of the piece of paper because I put my leavers head
pretty close to the top. So just do the
best that you can. You may or may not have your ears going off of
your piece of paper. Now let's come down to
this area right here. We're going to put the
nose and the mouth. So let's make a curved
line like this. Inside of this curve line. Let's make a triangle. Let's fill that in with our
black oil pastel or crayon. Then let's make a small dot
that's going to be the mouth. It's almost like a
surprise. Look, right? Alright, so now we need to make the bottom part of our
lemurs head and face. We're going to start
about right here. And we're going to make a
curve line coming around. Just like that. Now what we're going to do is
create the body for lemur. And it's going to
be slanted like this because when
you're swimming, Usually you don't swim
straight up and down. Your body is not straight up and down when
you're swimming. It's to the side a little bit. So that's what
we're going to do. We're going to make a
curved line and it's going to be pretty long curve line, coming down, going over
and coming back up. Remember this is a cartoon, so it's not realistic. Now that we have our
body for our lemur, let's make some arms. So a line coming down
and going back in. And same thing on this
side, coming down. And then going back in. It looks like he's looking at
something, right? Alright. Now I'm going to make some legs down here
at the bottom. As you can see, I do not have a lot of space down
here, but that's okay. My legs are just going to go
off of the piece of paper. No problem. I'm going to start
my legs about right here and go off of
that piece of paper. And then same thing
on this side, but I have a little
bit more room. So I'll just make
my lake like this. Kinda like he's
swimming to the side. Alright, now we need to make that special tail
that lemurs have. So you can either make your tail on the left hand side
or the right-hand side. Decide which side you'd
like to make your tail on based on where
you want it to be, but also how much
space do you have? As you can see, I don't have
as much space over here, so I'm going to make
my tail over here. So my tail is going to
come out like this. Jump over my arm. I'm going to make my
tail pretty long, come down, long and
thin like that. Then lemurs have
stripes on their tail, so I'm going to make some
stripes. There we go. Now at this point,
you can create a design on the swim
suit of your lemur. And I think I'm just going
to make some stripes. So you can make
whatever you'd like. You can make heart, so
you can make stars, you can make circles or squares. It's up to you. I'm going to just
make some stripes, so I'm going to
make those curved. I'm going slowly and carefully, so I do my best work. Now that we have
our lemur drawing, Let's add some designs
to the background. You can add whatever you'd
like to the background. You can add bubbles, you can add small fish. You can add other
different types of fish. You can add some seaweed
or different corals. It's up to you as to
what you'd like to add. I think I'm going to
add some small fish. And the way that I
like to make fish, I like to make them very simple. So I like to make
a straight line and then a curved line
that looks like this. That's my favorite
kind of fish to make. So if you'd like to use
this type of a fish, you can go ahead and do that. I'm just going to put these
fish around my lemur. But you can choose any
design that you like. Alrighty friends. I think I'm pretty
happy with the number of fish that I added
to my background. Go ahead and finish up whatever you'd like to
put into your background. And the next thing that we're going to do is we are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design. If your fingers get
a little bit messy with your oil
pastels, That's okay. That happens all
the time because oil pastels are very soft
and they're very messy. That's part of the fun. So I just take my handy-dandy paper towel
and I wipe my fingers off. If all of it doesn't
come off, That's okay. No problem. Alright, so I will see
you in the next video. In this step we are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is we're going to prepare our
watercolor paints. And we're going to
add a drop or two of water into each pan of paint. And what that will do is it will soften up our
paints a little bit. It will dissolve our paints, and that will make our
paints easier for us to use. So I am going to take
a moment to do that. Now that our paints
or softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So we know that lemurs are gray and white and
they have yellow eyes. So we're going to want
to make sure that our lemurs have yellow eyes and we are going to paint the lemurs body and
face gray and white. As for the mask that the lemur is wearing
in the swimsuit, you get to choose those colors. Think about the colors that you think would look
the best on that. The background and
the fish or whatever else that you chose to draw
on your piece of paper, you get to decide the
colors for those as well. So let's start because we
have yellow for our eyes. Let's start by painting
our eyes yellow. I'm using a nice
strong yellow because I want my eyes to
really stand out. So I'm using a lot of paint
and a little bit of water. If you'd like your eyes to
be a little bit lighter, then you would use
more water and less paint. There we go. Now I think for my mask, I'm going to paint my mask red. Maybe not a really
strong red letter red. That's a little bit lighter. So I'm going to go
ahead and do that. And then I'm also going to paint the stripes on my
swimsuit, on my lamer. I'm going to paint that, read those stripes red as well. Now that I'm finished
painting the eyes, the mask, and the swim suit, I'm going to go ahead and
paint the lemur gray. And then I'm going to leave
some of the areas white. I'm not going to use
paint on those areas. So to make the color gray, I'm going to make
sure that I have quite a bit of water
on my paintbrush. I'm going to dip it
into the black paint. And then I'm going to add
even more water because I want my paint to be
not really dark black. I'd like it to be
more of a gray color. I'm going to add quite
a bit of water there. These are the areas that I'm
going to paint with gray. I'm going to paint
the ears gray. I'm going to paint the
top of the head gray. I'm going to paint
this nose area gray. I'm going to paint the arms
gray and the legs gray. And for the tail, I'm going to alternate gray
and white for the stripes. Okay. So you can go
ahead and watch me. I'm going to really
go slowly and carefully and take my time
so I can do my best work. Already friends, I'm finished
using my gray on my lemur. And as you can see, the lemurs completely
finished with the paint. I did leave some
areas white and I wanted to do that because
lemurs are gray and white. So when we come back, we will start painting
the background. In this step, we're going to paint the background
of our design. So let's get started. As you can see, I have
some fish and then I have a lot of space that
I'm going to be painting. Your Art Workers going to
look different from mine. You get to use the colors that you'd like
for your artwork. You might have bubbles, you might have starfish. You might have different things in your background than I do. So you just paint the colors that you'd
like to paint with. And I will do the same. I think I'm going to
paint my fish orange, and I'm going to paint
my background blue. I'm going to use this
lighter blue right here. So I'm going to
start with my fish, and it's a small space. So I am going to take my time. I might use some lighter orange. I might use some darker orange. I'm not quite sure. I'm
just going to see how I feel as I am painting. All right, friends. I'm
finished painting my design. I'm really happy with the
way that it turned out. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
3. Let's Draw and Paint a Big Fish!: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'm excited about sharing
this project with you. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project, and it is a big
fish in the ocean. So I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a piece of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. You will also need a horrible
with clean water and a black crayon or a black oil
pastel and a paper towel. Go ahead and gather all of
those supplies and materials. And I'll see you back
here in the next video. In this step, we're going
to draw our fish design. So let's get started. What we're going to do
is we're going to draw our fish design in the
middle right here. And little fish, little tiny fish are
so cute, aren't they? But what we're going to
do is we're going to make our fish fill up
almost this whole, entire space, right
here in the middle. Okay? So we want it to be a really big fish for this
space on our piece of paper. All right, keep that in mind. Alright, so go ahead and pick up either your crayon
or your oil pastel. I'm going to use my oil pastel. And coming in from
the right side about an inch in about
two centimeters, make a really small dot. Make a really small dot. Let me see. I want to make
sure that you can see that. There we go. We don't want to make a
big dot, just a small one. That's going to be
a guide for us. Alright, starting at r dot, what we're going to
do is we're going to make a curve line in. And then we're going to go up and come around
and then come down. Alright. So let me
show you that again. Starting at your door, you're going to go
a little ways in. You're going to come up, come around with a curved
line, and then stop. Alright. You might
be pretty close to the edge of your piece
of paper like I am. And that's okay. Alright, now let's
come back to that dot. And we're going to come in a little bit like we did
with the other line. And then come down, go slowly and carefully, comma around, and then meet
up with that first line. Like that. If your shape is not exactly the same as my
shape, that's okay. That's actually a good thing. We want your fish to look
different from mine. Okay? So now there's the
body of our fish. Now we're going
to make the tail, and my tail is going to go
off of the piece of paper. So you can make
any type of tail, but you want, I'm going to
make a curved tail like this. And I might even make it come
in right here. Like that. If you'd like to add a little
bit of detail to your tail, go ahead and do that. Alright, the next thing
that we're going to do is we're going to
make a top fin. So coming out from the top a little bit forward to the right, we're going to make a
curve line coming up. And then we're going to make
a curve line coming back in. All right, now let's make
a thin on the bottom. So curved line. And then a curve line. If you'd like to
make a design on either the top fin or
the bottom fin or both. Go ahead and do that. I'm going to make some stripes. That just adds a little
bit more detail. And then I'll add
some stripes down here as well, just some lines. Okay, Now let's go to the
inside of our fish design. And if you'd like to add a
smile, go ahead and do that. I think I'm going to add
my smile right here. That just starts at that, at that dot that
I made initially. And then I'm going to make
a circle for the eye. Then inside that circle, I'm going to make
a smaller circle. And I'm going to fill that in that shape in with
my oil pastel. You can feel yours in with your oil pastel or your
crayon if you'd like. Now I'm going to come here into the middle and I'm
going to make a siphon. So I'm going to make my site
fan like this, a curve line. It's almost like a backward C. Then I'm going to make
just some little lines, curved lines coming
out from that C. Then if there's anything else that you'd like to add on the inside of your fish. This is where you
can get creative. You can make some circles, you can make some triangles, different types of lines. You can make some hearts. It's up to you. I'm just going to make some more lines that
look like this. Like big long triangles. Like to match those ones. In my top fin. There we go. Remember you can
use the whole space if you'd like to
add your designs. Now let's create a
background for our design. I think I might put a few
bubbles up here at the top. I just make some circles. And then inside those circles at the top I make another
little circle. I think I might just make three little bubbles
for my fish. Then down here at the bottom, let's create a design. Maybe some rocks and some
seaweed and some sand. If you'd like to make some
shells or a snail down there, you can go ahead and do that. I'm going to show you how
to make some seaweed. I'm going to make
some rocks first. So some ovals. Inside the ovals, I'm going to just
put a curve line. And then I'm just going to make some curved lines coming
up from those rocks. They're going to be flowy, not going to be straight, they're going to be
little bit curved. Let's see, maybe one right here. Fill up that space. And then down here, over on this side, I think what I'll do is
I'll make a little shell. So I'll make a straight line. Then two lines coming
in diagonally. Then zigzag like that. Then I'll add some sand. So I'll just make some
sand coming across. Remember, sand is
not super straight, so we don't want a
super straight line. Then you can add some little dots that
can represent the sand. Now if there's
anything else you'd like to add to your design, you can go ahead and
do that right now. I'm happy with my design, so I think I'm going
to stop right there. But if there is anything
else that you'd like to add, you can go ahead and do that. So when we come back, we will start painting
our fish design. In this step, we are going
to paint our designs. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we're going to add a drop or two of water to
each pan of paint. And what that will do is it
will soften up the paints. They are easier for us to use. So I always suggest to students
that they go ahead and do that because it makes getting the paint out of your
palate a lot easier. Now that our paints
or softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So you could to paint your design any colors
that you'd like. I'm going to show you
how I paint my design. But that doesn't mean
that you need to use exactly the same colors. I know for sure that
I am going to paint my background blue because I'd like it to
represent the ocean. And I'm going to paint
this area down here brown, like a really light brown. So that would be more of a tan color that will
represent the ocean. Then for my seaweed, I think I'll use green. And then for my actual fish, I haven't decided between
red or pink or orange. I'm thinking maybe
pink, pink, and orange. So you get to decide the
colors that you choose. And I'm going to decide
on using the color pink. So I'm going to start here. Well, that's that's a
really dark pink, right? If you'd like to
lighten up your color, like I think I'm going to do. I'm just going to add more water and that will
lighten up the color. So I'm going to go ahead
and speed up this video. I'm going to paint the fish and the seaweed and
a little shell. Alrighty friends, I'm back. And I'm really happy with
the way that my fish looks. What I wanted to show you is one thing about these
little rocks here. I'm going to paint those gray. So I'm going to take
a small amount of black paint and I'm going to
add quite a bit of water. And that will make a gray
color, a light gray. So if you'd like
to ever make gray, you just use a small amount of black and you add
quite a bit of water. So when we come back, we will be painting
the background. In this step, we are going
to paint our background. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is paint our sand down
here at the bottom. I am going to use a brown for my sand and I'm going
to add just a little bit of brown paint and quite a
bit of water because I want this color to be very
light like a sand colored. The color of sand is
usually not always, but usually pretty light. So I want to make
sure that that's pretty a pretty
light color brown. So I'm going to go ahead
and paint that brown. Now that I have my sand painted, I'm going to go ahead and
move on to the water. So I'm going to
just use my blue. I'm going to paint slowly and carefully so I can
do my best work. I want it to be a
little bit lighter, so I'm going to add a
little bit more water. I'll speed up this
video and you can watch me paint my water. Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting
my fish design. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
4. Let's Draw and Paint a Crab on the Beach!: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'm excited about sharing
this project with you. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project, and it is a little red crab
and a pink bird on the beach. I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a piece of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. You will also need a
cup or a bowl with clean water and a black
crayon or a black oil pastel. And you will also
need a paper towel. So go ahead and gather all of
the supplies and materials. And I'll see you back
here in the next video. In this step, we are going
to draw our designs. So let's get started. The first thing
that we're going to do is we're going to pick up our oil pastel or our crayon. I'm going to use a
black oil pastel. And what we're going
to do is go pretty close to the bottom of
our piece of paper, but not all the
way to the bottom. Okay. So about right here, which is pretty
close to the bottom, but not touching the bottom. I'm going to make a shape
that looks like this. It's going to be
an upside down U. Then I'm going to come around
and close it up like this. If your shape doesn't look exactly like mine, That's okay. We're just making a little crab. So they come in different
shapes and in different sizes. Now that we have our
main shape for our crap, Let's give him some legs. So we're going to
put his legs down towards the bottom and we're
going to give him six legs. So let's make some curved lines going out and then
coming back in. That's one leg. Then I come out and
then I come back in. Then I come down and
then I come back up. And then the same thing
on the other side. So come down, come back up. Come down, come back up. I'm down and come back up. And then we're going
to put some clause here closer to the
top on the sides. So for the clause we're going
to make some simple clause. So those are just going
to be the letter U. It's going to be touching. That means shape. Then we're going to make a V. That closes up that shape. Let me show you again. So we have the
letter you touching this main shape and
then a letter V inside. And it's going to
connect those two lines. Remember, this is
a cartoon crops, so it's not going to
look very realistic. Now let's make some
eyes for our crowd. So let's just make two
lines coming straight up. And then at the top
of those lines, let's put a circle. And then inside those
circles, Let's put adopt. It looks funny. Alright, now you get
to choose the type of smile that you'd
like for your crap. I'm just going to have a really large smile, large and deep. If you want to close
up your smile, you can do that as well. You can give him a
tongue or some teeth. It's completely up to you. This is your artwork so you
get to do what you'd like. Now we have a little bit
of space right here. Let's make a palm tree. We're going to start
about right here. And we're not going all
the way to the bottom, but we're going to
go about right here. And we're going to make a curve line about
like that long. Then we're going to
make another curve line that runs right along
this first curve line. So another curved line. And then we're going to stop. Now we're going to
make some palm fronds. So we're going to make
a curve line coming out and then a curved
line coming back in. And then we're going to do
that all the way around. And then inside of
those palm fronds, we can add a little
bit of detail. If you have the room. Then if you'd like to
add some coconuts, you can go ahead and
do that as well. When I'm making a palm tree, I like to add a little bit
of detail onto the trunk. So I'm going to
make a zigzag line going all the way down. If there's a different type of a line that you'd like to use. You can go ahead and do that. Here we go. Now, if you have any
room here at the top, you can either put
some clouds or a bird. You can make a bird maybe sitting on your palm
tree if you'd like, or you can put a son. I think I'm going to put a bird. So I'm going to make my
bird facing this way. I'm going to come
around like this. Then I'll make a beak and an I, and then some legs that are
standing on the palm tree. Oh, I need to give them
a little wing so he can fly. There we go. So you can make anything that
you'd like inside the sky. Now that we have
our main design, let's add a little bit of
sand down here at the bottom. So our tree and our crab
have something to stand on. So I'm just going to make a
line that looks like this. It's not going to
be super straight because it's going to be sand. I'm not sure if you've
ever seen sand before, but sand isn't a straight line. Now, the next thing
that we can do is add a little bit of
detail to our sand. If you want to add
maybe a shell, I'll add a little shell here. I'd like to just make
a swirl like this. And then a diagonal
line, a diagonal line, and then hook those two
together, those two lines. And then I'm just going
to make some little dots. And that's going to
represent the sand. Now if there's
anything else you'd like to add to your design, now's the time to do it
before we start adding paint. If you have some oil pastel
on your hand like I do, you can go go ahead and use your handy-dandy
paper towel and get that black oil pastel off of
your fingers if you'd like. It might not come all the
way off and that's okay. This is art. And sometimes you get messy in art while you're creating art. So when we come back
in the next step, we will start adding some
watercolor paint to our design. In this step, we
are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we're going to add a drop or two of water to each
of our pans of paint. And what this will do is it will soften our paint
just a little bit, and that will make it
easier for us to use. So I always encourage
students who are about to use watercolor paints to add one or two drops to those paints because it makes
it a lot easier to use, makes the paint a
lot easier to use. Alrighty, Now that our
paint is softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. Your design might not look
exactly like mine design, and that's a good thing. We want your design to look like your design because you are a
different person than I am. You are different person from the neighbor
sitting next to you. We want your artwork
to look like yours. That's the cool thing
about being a human, is that we are all different in our artwork will
all be different. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to offer some suggestions for the
colors that you can use. There are the suggestions
that I'm going to offer that I'm going
to use myself. However, you get to choose the colors that you
would like to use. Okay? The suggestions that
I'm going to tell you about are just suggestions. That means you can use them
but you don't have to. Alright? So down here at the bottom, I'm going to make a
very light brown and it's going to be a tan color. I'm going to add a
lot of water into my brown and it's going
to be a very light brown. I'd like to have a red crap. I'm not sure about this
cute shell here yet. I haven't decided on that. Brown trunk for my palm tree, green leaves, brown coconuts, and a blue sky. I'm not sure about. The bird may be pink
or yellow or orange. I'm not quite sure yet. So what I'm going
to do is I'm going to just start with the, with the crab and the tree and the bird and the
shell. For this step. Then in the next video we will be painting the background. So I'm going to start
here with my crab. And as I said, I'm going to paint my crab red. And I'm going to try to
stay inside those lines. But I am going to
understand that sometimes watercolor paint loves
to just move around. So if that happens, that's okay. I'm just going to say, Oh, well, I'm going
to paint this in. I'm not going to
paint in eyeballs, so I want them to stay white so that they pop out
from the background. I did go outside that
line a little bit. Go. Alright, I think what I'm going to do is I'm
going to speed up this video. You can watch me get some ideas. And I'll see you back
here in just a minute. Alrighty friends. I'm back and I'm finished
painting my crab, my bird, my tree, and my shell. When we come back
in the next step, we will be adding some watercolor paints
to our background. So I'll see you back
here in the next video. In this step, we
are going to add some watercolor paints
to our background. So let's get started. So for the sand, I was mentioning
that I am going to use a very light brown. So I'm going to add a little
bit of brown to one of my wells and I'm
going to add a lot of water because I want
the brown to be really, really light, like sand color. So I don't know if you've
ever seen sand in real life, but it's like a very light tan. Sometimes it's pretty white,
sometimes it's black. Even the sand on my artwork
is going to be a light tan. I'm going to go ahead and
do that, paint that sand. Now that I'm finished
painting my sand, I'm going to go ahead and use my blue to start painting the sky. And as I said before, I'm going to try to
stay inside the lines. Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting
the background and my artwork
turned out awesome. I'm really happy with it. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
5. Let's Draw and Paint a Surfing Lion!: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day today. I'm excited about sharing
this project with you. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project. And today we are going to be
creating this surfing lion. So I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a piece of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. I like to use this
size paintbrush, but you can just use what
you have available to you. You will need a cup or a
bowl with clean water. You will need a black oil pastel or a black crayon
and paper towel. So go ahead and gather all of those supplies
and materials. And I'll see you back
here in the next video. In this step, we are going
to draw our designs. So let's get started. The first thing
that we're going to do is we're going to pick up our oil pastel or a CRAN. And we're going to focus on the right hand side of
our piece of paper. This is where we're
going to draw our lion. So what we're going to do is go towards the top of
our piece of paper, but not touching the top. And we're going to make a medium-sized circle
about this thick. Don't worry if your
circle is not perfect, it takes a lot of practice
to make a circle. Now that you have your circle, Let's put some ears on
the top of our circle. Then let's make a
larger circle going around that initial
circle and the ears. If you do touch the side of your piece of paper or
you go off the edge. That's okay, don't
worry about it. Now let's make some features on the inside of our
face for our lion. So we're going to
make a straight line. Then we're going to make
two lines coming down. This is going to be the
nose, it's a triangle. And then we're going
to fill that in with our black oil
pastel or crayon. Then we're going to
make a line coming down and a little smile. Now let's create a
little bit of detail inside of the face features. We're going to make a
curve line coming from the bottom part of our ear
to the angle of our nose. And same thing on
the other side. Then let's add some eyes. I'm going to add
some rounded eyes. You can add any type of
lie that you'd like. I like to make my eyes
roughly the same size. So it might take up
some back-and-forth to make exactly the
same size eyes. I just do the best that I can. Now let's add a little bit
of detail to our main. Can just be some straight
lines coming out. Alright, now that we have the
head and face of our lion, what we're going to
do is make his body. And because this
is a cartoon lion, It's not going to
be very realistic. The body of our lion
might be a little bit larger or a little bit
smaller than the head. So make a curve line
in a curve line. Then we're going to make
two lines coming in. Then we're going to
make an upside down U. These are going to be the
shorts down here at the bottom. So let's make a curve
line cross the tummy. And then let's make some
lines coming out of the bottom and then add
some feet. There we go. We will be adding the arms
and the hands and the tail. In just a moment, Let's turn our attention to the left side of
our piece of paper. And this is where we're
going to make our surfboard. Surfboard can be tall or short. It can be thin or thicker. It's up to you as to what
your surf board looks like. I'm going to just
give you an example of a surf board that
I like to make, but you can certainly choose your own type of
surfboard, right? I'm going to come up here, I'm looking at this
space right here. So this is the space that I
have to fit my surfboard. So I'm going to go about in
the middle and make a dog. Now from this dot, I'm going to make a curved
line coming down this way, and another curved line
coming down this way. We don't have that
much space here. So I'm going to
be pretty careful with the edge when
I get to this edge. And if I go off the paper
a little bit, that's okay. I'm not going to worry
about it too much. I have a curved line here
and a curve line here, and I'm not going to close
them up at the bottom. The reason why is
because I want to have a line like this. It's going to be
sitting in the sand. Now I'm going to
make a little bit of detail on my surfboard, so I'm going to make a thin. Then what you can
do is you can add some different designs
to your surfboard. You can add flowers, you can add waves, you can add stars, anything that you'd like. I think what I'm going
to do is I'm just going to add a stripe. Jump over that fin. Stripe like that. You can certainly add more detail to your surf
board if you'd like. Now that we have our surfboard, now we can make the
hands of our lion. So I'm just going to
have the arms come out. So it's almost like the lion is holding up
the surf board right? There we go. And then another
arm and hand over here. This is going to be more down. Then I'd like to
put a little tail. So I think I'll make the tail
over on this side, come up, jump over that arm, then come back down, and then add a little
teardrop shape to the end. So that's going to be my tail. Now I'd like to add
a little bit of detail down here at the bottom. I would like to add
some sand and maybe even some waves behind the
lion and the surf board. So make some sand, make a line here. Lines here. There's not super
straight lines or they may be a little
bit of waves. Then I think what I'm going
to do down here is I'm going to make some shells. I like to make shells like this. So basically you make a spiral and then coming out
from the spiral you made two diagonal lines
and then you close up. Then maybe I'll make a
little starfish here. So two lines coming down. Let me, let me show
you that again. This is an upside down V. Then two lines
coming out to viz. And then two V's coming in. Like this, upside-down V sideways V into regular
views to the side. I'm wondering what
I can do over here. I think I'm just going
to make, you know, those rocks that are super
smooth on the beach. That's what I'm going
to make over here. Now for the rest of this space, I'm just going to make
some little dots. These dots represent
the grains of sand. I think the last thing
that I'll do is I'll add a little sun in the sky. So I'm going to make a
circle, small circle. And then I'm going
to make some rays. Those are just going to be some curved lines that are connected together to go all the
way around that circle. Already friends, if there are any other details that you'd
like to add to your design. For example, if you would
like to add some detail to the shorts of your lion or something else to
the sky or to the sand, or even to the surfboard. Go ahead and do that now before we start painting
in the next step, what we will be
doing is we will be applying some watercolor
paints to our design. In this step, we
are going to apply some watercolor
paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we're going to add a drop or two to our paints, to each pan of paint. And what this will do is it will soften our pizza little bit. That way our paints are
much easier for us to use. So I would suggest that you
take the time to do that. It doesn't take
very long at all. Just about a minute. Alright, now that our
paints or softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So here we have a little lion who's about to go for
a surf in the water. And what I'm going to do is suggest some colors
that you can use. But because this
is your artwork, you get to use the
colors that you'd like. Let me tell you about the colors that I'm
going to choose. For this little lion. I am going to choose some
brown and some orange. The trunks. I'm not sure. Maybe read this sand, brown, different colors for
my details down here. The surfboard. I haven't decided on that yet. Blue sky and yellow
sun and blue waves. What I'm going to do
first is I'm just going to paint the lion, the sun, the surfboard, and the details at the bottom. Okay. I know already that
I'd like my lion to be brown with an orange main. So I'm going to make
up some brown here. I put a little bit of brown paint to one of my
wells and I add some water. And that's the perfect
color in my opinion. So I'm going to try to
stay in psi those lines. But I know that if
I go outside of the lines a little bit,
That's no problem. That's what watercolor
paint loves to do. Sometimes it likes
to spread around. So you can go ahead and
watch me paint the lion, the surf board in the details. And I will be back
in just a moment. Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting my
lion and the details. And I think it looks
really, really great. What I'm going to do next, and the next step is I am
going to paint the background. So I will see you back
here in the next video. In this step we're going
to paint the background. So let's get started. As I mentioned before, I'm going to paint my
sky blue, my water blue. And I'm also going
to create a really, really light brown, a
tan color for my sand. Alright, and I'm going
to do that by placing a tiny amount of brown paint in one of my wells
and adding mostly water. And that will create a
really, really light brown. So I'm going to go ahead and paint the background
and you can watch me. I'll speed up this video. So it will look like
I'm speed painting, but I'm not really
speed painting. I'm taking my time because
it's really important to me that I do my best work. Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting my design and I'm really happy with it. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I had a lot of fun teaching you. I will see you next time.
6. Thank You for Enrolling in This Course!: Thank you for enrolling
in this course. And if you enjoyed this course, please consider leaving
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Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
