Colourful Birds with Ink Pencils and White Pen

1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Phoebe. I'm a hobby artist from the UK. Today I'm going to take you through one technique for drawing birds with ink pencils. We'll start off with an introduction to ink pencils, and then together we'll work on a project to draw a chaffinch bird. I will take you through the whole process, breaking it down into easy stages from creating the drawing to bringing it to life with water, and then finally adding detail with white pen. I love the effect of using the white pen with draw remitting pencils. I think it creates a real impact in your finished drawing. You don't need any experience before taking this class. You can be a complete beginner, or you could just be looking for a new technique to use with your ink pencils or watercolor pencils. I started using ink pencils when I was working away from home a lot, and I couldn't take my whole art supplies with me every time I went. Now that I figured out a technique that I enjoy using, I thought it would be a good time to share it with you. I'll also take you through some of my sketchpad so you can see some of the other types of drawings that you can create using them and give you a bit of an idea of things that you can do going forwards from this lesson. I can't wait to see what you create. 2. Materials: These are the art supplies that you'll need to take this class. So to start with we got my paper pad. I use a mixed media on a user weight 250 GSM, which is the same as a 169 pounds. Because you will be applying water on top of pencils you will need a slightly thick paper like this, 250 GSM. But you won't be applying as much water as if you were doing a painting, so you don't need really thick water color paper. But this is the paper that I use anyway, 250. Then we've got our ink pencils, I use a brand called downwind ink tents. That's what the upside of tin looks like. If you only got watercolors, you can still follow along with this class. The main difference between the ink pencils and watercolor pencils is the ink pencils are color fast. Once you've applied water to it and allowed it to dry, if you reapply water to it, the color will stay in place. Whereas with watercolor pencil, every time you add water to it, it will reactivate the color, so that's the main difference. I've drawn a picture of the same bird with watercolor pencil so that you can look at that and see the difference and see what your bird might look like if you fold on both codons. Next we've got our pencil for doing the outline. I've just got a HB pencil, you can use any pencil, whatever you're comfortable with doing outline. An razor if I make mistakes, and I've got paint brush. This paint brush is going to built in water reservoir. That just means that there's always a clean supply water to the bristles, but you can use any brush that you've got and sources for applying water once we finish our drawing. I've got a pot with water in for cleaning the brush, and then a paper towel just for drawing the brush-off after I've cleaned it. Then I've got a gel pen, and this is just nothing special, just an ordinary white gel pen for applying final detail at the end. 3. Choosing the Subject: This afternoon I'm going to talk to you about achieving the subjects that we're going to draw. What reference picture you're going to use and what would make a god picture using this technique. To start with, when it comes to choosing a reference picture it's always ideal and better if you're using green photographs or something that you're drawing from life yourself. But of course that's not always possible. The internet or books, magazines, really great source pictures, Pinterest, Instagram, just doing a Google search. If we're doing just some sketches for ourselves, practice, that's fine but if you're going to use the picture later on or upload it on the social media. You do have to be careful if we've used somebody else's photograph. Whenever I put pictures drawings onto Instagram, I will always credit the reference photo. Today we're going to use a website called an Unsplash.com. This is a website which is full of royalty-free photographs. The photographers who've uploaded them have already given permission for you to use the photograph however you want. It is a really great source of reference material. Now I'm just going to take you through a couple of my sketchpads and look through some of the pictures that I've done. Some of them who have worked really well and some of them haven't worked so well as well. With this technique, it works really nicely if you're drawing pictures that have lots of different color variations in. With these blue tips, so are different colors. Then it shows through when you put the white on, it really creates a nice effect. It doesn't just have to be colorful birds or colorful or doesn't even have to be just birds. This picture I've done here, this is a picture of a hare. In real life the hare has fur, is pretty much all of the same color but in this drawing, because of the shading, I've used different colors, there's porches of blue this porches of a purply brown, sandy brown. Then that shows through the ink and I think it creates a really nice effect. That's not intense pencils at the bottom. This bird that I have done here, you can see that actually isn't that much color variation, but I've been able to use the white pen to create this detailing over the top. Sometimes pictures just work and sometimes they don't. I've got this picture of some woodpeckers. Now, it's not a terrible picture, but for me the subject hasn't really worked for this style because it's just large blocks of black, large blocks of the same color. There's not really much opportunity to use the white on the black to bring out so it just hasn't worked well. This one is a picture of an owl. Again, it's got all of these different colors in which has worked really nicely. I made a bit of an error with this one when I put black pen over the top, which actually has detracted from the picture, but you've got to experiment. Again, more blue tips. These are from photographs I took in the garden. Photographs I took we really out of focus. But it doesn't matter if you're taking pictures to draw. It doesn't really matter if you're taking them on a low quality camera or they're out of focus. You're just using them as a reference. It doesn't have to be a professional photograph. This is one I really like, but it almost doesn't follow the pattern of what I was saying before about having lots of different colors. But what we do have some quiet, subtle shades of blue and the under side of the bird, which allows the white to really show up and creates a nice details. I hope that's given you a few ideas of what you can use this technique for going forward once you finish this class. 4. Practicing with Ink Pencils: Before we get into drawing the bird itself, we're just going to practice with the pencils a little bit. I'm going to show you a few things. If you draw two boxes in pencil quite lightly, same we're going to do a pencil outline with the bird when we come to draw the bird, so it's quite similar. We've got two boxes and I just want to show you I'm blocking them in color, in two different ways to do that. I'm going to use my dark blue color for this. To start with, I'm just going to fill this whole box in. First thing that you'll notice is that it doesn't really look very blue when you put the pencil down. Just fill that whole box. When you add the water, it will really transform the color and it will go blue. But as you're drawing it, it actually looks a bit black. With this other one, we're just going to put a pencil line around the edge. Let me get my brush, and I'm just going to start to color it in so you can see how much it changes color as soon as you add the water. I'm just blocking this in, and you can still see some of the pencil lines behind, which adds a bit of a grainy texture, which is quite good for feathers. Also you can add texture yourself by the way you put the water, if you keep working it, the more you work it, the more you'll get rid of those pencil lines, but sometimes it's quite difficult to get rid of them. We've just created this dark blue box. I'm going to wash my brush, tap it of from there, and now we're going to look at this box here. If you just apply water and allow that color to bleed into the square and then push it into the middle, you can see we've got a much lighter blue here. If you want that dark effect around the edges, hoarse is quite good way of adding shade. Now we've got a smooth consistent light blue there without any pencil markings on whatsoever. Sometimes when you're doing your drawings, you might actually not put color all the way into the shapes where you want the color to be in the end, you might actually end up putting it around the edge like this, and then when you apply the water, you fill it in. It's something to keep in mind when you're applying the color and during the drawing as to where exactly you're putting the pencil and what affects you ought to have. Next, I'm just going to show you two things. I going to draw two lines. We'll put some ink. I'm using the blue again, down like that, then I'm going to do the line like that. I've pressed quite hard just so you can see. I want you to try pushing the brush onto the ink and then bringing it down so you can see the effect that creates. Your drawing the color down. Now with this one, start on the white and push up. This is useful for if you don't want too much of the color to come down. I've actually applied quite a lot of water there. You can see you're pulling the pigment around with the water. You're positioning it where you want it to go. With this one, you you can push it up and you can create that line. We have a bit of a pale color underneath. It's just two different ways of approaching where you're bringing the water from into the ink. Now, we're just going to practice drawing a beak and we're going to apply this to drawing our beak. If you are drawing a small bird, like a bluethroat or something like that, I would always draw the beak in the same way. Draw the triangle another line in. This is the top, I'll put a tiny one thin line on the top. Then I would fill in the bottom half like that. You can see that one done there, and then I would start on the paper like we did with this one, and push up, ops, let me clean the brush, and then I would go down into that bottom bit. You can see you've created a bit of shading. It looks a bit like a beak. But we're drawing a [inaudible] , that's a different type shaped of beak. This is the beak that we will do in your final drawing. It's got a bit of a curve to it. It's a big fat beak. Then it's got this curved shape like that. You can see it's two curved lines and then the bottom is curved the same way as the top. I want this bottom section to be darker than this top section. I'm still using my blue, I'll put a blue line along the beak, a bit along the bottom, and I will put a bit along the top, and then I will put a very light amount on the bottom one as well. Again, starting in the top one, we want a bit of a line around it because it creates an illusion of a shadow. Then bring it down to there, so now that's the top. Moving into the bottom, and we want this line to bleed in to the bottom. It looks like the lights on top and then the shadow is coming down. There you go. That's the beak. You've already mastered the beak before you've even gone to the drawing. Coming up in the next class, we'll create a color swatch with our pencils. 5. Making a Colour Swatch: Now we'll use the same bit of paper and we turn over, and we'll do a color chart. What I have, I've done this. I did this when I first got my 10 of pencils, and I keep it in my tin wool time so that every time I do a drawing, even though I am familiar with the colors I've used a lot, I still have a, that next and so just I can refer to it. Because as you will see, the colors look quite different when they've got the water on, to when you put them on the pencil. The way I do it, is if you press quite hard and then you press quite lightly, with the color, then take your brush and a little bit of water just onto the bottom half of it. Draw out so you can see what it looks like as a pencil, or what it looks like when there is a lot of pencil, and what it looks like when you've just drawn the color. I find that a really useful way of doing it. We would go through all of the colors in your ten just so you can see what they look like, and the differences between them. Now you've got your color chart and you can use that every time you use these pencils. As you can see, before you add the water, particularly these colors aren't dark and really look quite similar, so you have to be careful when you're doing the drawing that you've actually got the color that you want in your hand is really useful just so you can keep referring to it as you do your drawing and seeing actually what colors you are placing down. Some of them are very bright, so the yellow one in particular, you're only need to add a rely little bit and you get this extremely bright color ink pencils or color fast. If I was to go over any of these with water now let's get back to the top one because that should be nice and dry. You see, whilst them might be a little bit of color warm, the color bleed out, but that's then now that ink is dried to the set on the page. Whereas if you did that with watercolor as soon as you reapply the water, it would all just mixed back up into color again. That's the big difference between using the ink pencils and watercolor pencils. Now that you've got this, we can move on to doing our back drawing. 6. Drawing the Outline: Now we're just going to start drawing our outline. So for this, all we need is paper. This is just from my sketchpad. I've just taken it out. Normal pencil, whatever pencil you want to use, an eraser just in case we make any mistakes. The outline is important to spend a little bit of time on this, getting it right because it will set how your whole drawing is going to look. We're not necessarily going for something which is completely photo-realistic. If your bird isn't exactly how it looks in photograph, then it doesn't matter too much. If you are really struggling with the outline, don't worry about it. As long as a bird has got a beak, an eye, and some legs, it's still a very recognizable shape, so you'll just have a slightly more cartoony looking bird and that will be fine. Its beak only goes into the head two and a bit times. So we know we've got it right. His eye is level. Center of the eye is level at this point here, and doesn't go too far into the head. There is quite a lot of space behind the eye. I have tucked that not too far away. Getting the eye in the right places is something that really does make quite a big difference to the way the bird looks. If the eyes in really the wrong places, you might just look a little bit strange. Then if you look at the photograph, where the front of the eye is to just hold your pencil down like that and you can see that's where the bottom of his leg starts, just in line with the eye. That's quite good reference to use. I am just marking some of these key bits here, just to give us a bit of a guide when we start and also, it's quite useful. It helps to show you that you have put things in the right place if it all fits the way it should. A bit [inaudible] around there. That's out outline. 7. Adding the Colour: I have put down all the colors that I'm going to use just so that you can see. We start with black, and I'm going to start with the eye. What I'll do is like we did in our practice, I'll go round the edge first. Then start to color it in and I'll leave a little gap at the top, a little space for the highlight. I'll make sure go around the edge quite hard. Now just because I've got the black in my hand, I'm just going to do this little section up here which is quiet dark on the bird so I'll just pop that in there, now we'll the beak. This beak on this bird is quite light. So I'm going to use my my darkest blue, which is my deep indigo. So that's this color. I'm going to put a line where the peak is in the middle, like we did in our practice, on the bottom, and a little bit on the top. It's going to put a little bit more around there as well. Now we didn't want his beak to actually look blue. So I'm going to put another bit of this brown. It's called bark in my set, but it's a bit of a purple-brown, but I'm just going to put a little bit of that in there as well to have that slight difference in color. I'm going to move on to this section here. So I'm using my dark blue again, and I'm just going to fill in. Now remember, we can move the ink around on the page bit once we put water on. The marks that we make with the pencil will show you through a little bit as well. So make sure that you're doing them in the same direction that feathers will be going in so that we get that texture when we apply the water. Just filling that in short little strokes. Actually I'm going to go over the edge of my outline slightly because I think that I made it slightly too small. We want to add a little bit of shading in there as well. So I'm going to go back to my dark brown. Just add some little bits of coloring. Doesn't matter exactly where. It's just so that it has a bit of interest when you come to at the water. Now I'm using baked earth, which is this orange brown color. We'll start to fill in around the face, around the edge of the beak. Now when we do around the eye, we'll leave a little gap on the paper. So you're not coloring all the way up to the black. That will enable you to create a bit of a rim around the eye when you come to the water. So again, we're following the direction of the feathers and the feathers are coming outwards from his eyes. So we're changing the direction that we're applying the color as we move around and down. Any patches like this where my pencil is right now, which is quite light. We don't need to worry too much about leaving it light because we will be adding white on with the pen afterwards. So any areas like that that require highlighting, don't need to worry about too much. Now I'm going to carry on and cover this whole area. Then we will go back and add some extra colors into it to create the shaping in the shading. Also just a bit more of an interesting effect rather than it all being one color. So once I have blocked this bin out with orange, we will do that. We are still carrying on with that feather direction. Notice that my strokes have got a bit bigger here because the feathers around just tell me all bigger. So you don't need to use such small strokes as you did before. When we get down to this section, at the bottom, all birds, most birds will have a bit where the feathers meet. So I always make sure that I put that in, so leave a little bit paler there. I'll make the directions of the pencil marks show that bit where the feathers are meeting and that will make your bird just look a little bit more realistic. Even if he's got a really round body and it's not particularly realistic shape, if you include that bit in, it will make the bird look more realistic. Could have that been in there? Tiny bit on there. You were to little bit around the top of his foot. So now I'm going to use a combination of the dark brown and blue just to create some shading. So I think that the dark blue creates a really interesting effects. It's a very useful color to use for shadow. With this bird, obviously we've got some blue sections on it as well. So you've got to mix the colors, make it obvious that this is shadow and not the blue part of the bird. But when you add the water, they will all emerge. Sometimes it's actually quite difficult to see what you've put down. Whether you've pressed hard enough, whether you put enough ink on or not, enough pencil until you add the water and you see then it comes to life. When you use a bit more brown around the eye. So he has got quite a dark patch on his face. We want to put that in to make it make it work. Then this whole area down here where we were applying some patches of blue. It looks nice when you add the water if its got some splotchy elements to it. Because you would then define the shape and the texture using the white pen. So having splotches around just adds a nice effect. So there for a picture. At the end of it, if you think, oh, I didn't put enough color on. Once you've added the water, you can always go back and put some more pencil afterwards. Now we're going to look at is a bit of wing here and a little bit of brown there. I'm actually going to go back and use my black. We're using the button now, just to add a bit of definition to these black areas is of the wing. Now on here we've got some pure white patches, but we don't want to leave those as purely white on the paper because when we come to add the white pen, we're going to want to have something for that pen to show up again. So I will always either use blue or brown to do that. This one I'm going to put a little bit of brown, so just a little bit in the white sections. Then when we put the water on, it will be very pale color. I'm going to use a little bit of this grungy dot cooking green. Just around here as well, a little bit up here, then round here as we come to his tail, it's a green, yellow color. Back to the black just for this part of the tail. Pressing quite hard because you want quite a lot of the black to come off. We want this to look quite dark and contrast. You get back to my baked earth that we used here just to add a little bit extra to the wings, I think I missed a bit out when I was doing earlier. I'm going to go back to my dark brown to just lightly fill in these white areas like we did with the wing. Again, just enough something for the white pen to contrast on later. Then I'm going to use a really tiny amount of yellow. The yellow comes up really bright so you don't need to put much down, and it become quite difficult, I was going to put a couple bits of his body as well. Be quite difficult to see exactly where you put the yellow. I'm going to put a little bit just to run the front of his beak. When you're applying the pencil, you think you haven't put very much on. But actually when you apply, the water it really comes to life. If you're using watercolor pencils at this point, the colors will be much more obvious as you apply them with a pencil. The final thing we're going to do is just the feet. So I'm going to do the feet, a combination of this, pink and blue. So I'm just going to do a one line down. You don't need to really color it a lot, you just using one line. When you add the water, it will create a differentiating effect. So just one line down the front of the foot where it's lightest. Then we'll go back to our dark blue and put another line down the other side of the leg. Then just add a little bit underneath the bits where it's going to be shadow. That should be enough when you come to up water will turn into interpret ability legs. So that is the collision version. Now at this stage, it be great if you could take a photograph of it so that when you come throughout the water, you can really see the difference between the pencil and the water version. So you take a picture then you can include that in your projects when you're uploading it, that would be great. 8. Applying the Water: Now we're going to put a color in. I always start with the eye. The reason why I start with the eye is because once I wetted it and the color is dried, it's fast and I don't want any of the black from the eye bleeding out into the rest of the picture when I do the bit around it. Start with the outside and then work my way in. Now just wipe the end of the brush so it's not quite so dirty, and push up into that. I usually actually do coloring. It's just now light, but it's not an empty space. Now we'll move on to the beak. So like we did in our practice, we start from the white and move into the edge. Soften the paper that is and you can see it. Then we'll just move along the middle of the beak. Every time you have a little bit too much color on your brush, just wipe it off on the paper towel. Now I'm using this bush that has the built-in reservoir. All that means is this is a fresh supply of water going to the brush but if you have a normal one then you just keep dipping it into water and that's fine as well. I've actually straightened his mouth out a little bit so he doesn't look quite grumpy, but that was an accident, so it's a little bit more of a curve, there we go. Now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to work my way away from the beak, so I don't want any of his feathers colors to bleach into the beak. In fact I think I need to push his beak in a little further. I'm not moving towards the beak, I'm moving away from the beak, the feathers. I'm going to go around this top bit. Don't want that black to spread too far, going to keep moving my brush, cleaning my brush, and the same radius between the pencil that I'm using short little strokes, because the way the water goes on will affect the texture and I want it to look like he's got little fluffy feathers. As you can see, some of the pencil marks still showing through and that makes a really nice feathery texture. Now we're going through it in sections like this so we're doing this blue bit first, because as we looked at with our practice, if you start moving into the orange and then you leave and then you come back to it sometimes you can see a bit of an edge that you might not have wanted to appear. Just where it's dried and then you've re-wetted it again and you started to move ink around. We'll go into this blue section and then we'll go back up to the top of his head. Now as we go around the eye, we won't go all the way up to the edge to start with. We will just try and blend into this blue bit of it. Clean the brush. You do need to be careful sometimes, if you overwork it, you can actually start to remove more of the color than you're now pushing down. You go all the way around the eye like this, and then we will go back and apply water on that white edge and it should just still have enough color so that it puts a bit of color in there. But you can just see the edge of where you'd paint it around, so now it looks like he's got a bit of a rim. It's quite subtle, and we will add a bit to it with the highlights anyway, with the white pen at the end. Keep moving down and you can really see that yellow where we put it just a tiny little bit of yellow is really bright and showing through. I am going to keep working down now. We're not going to go into his wing. We're just working down his front. As we get into this front section, the feather is going to be bigger. I've changed the way that I'm applying the water now, I'm using a bit of a circular motion with my brush rather than the little dashes I had used before, so I want to create a slightly different texture and a different effect. Got a really fluffy looking tummy and that's what we want. Big, fluffy looking feathers and you can just keep pushing the ink around to create the shape and the texture that you want. She seems to be a little bit dry, my brush. It's not, is it? Get that edge to blend just a little bit but not too much. Keep doing this circular motions so that you get these really nice shapes and color differences. Work your way from the edge in. We want to be careful that we would still keep this V-shape at the front that we put in our pencil. We want to work from the area where there is less ink into the pencil there where there is more just so that we don't accidentally cover it up. I want to slightly change the direction of my circles, so try and keep that shape. You can see some of the pencil marks still there, so that's nice. That's what we want around the edge of the wing, but don't touch the wing yet because we don't want to waken up that ink. As soon as you put the water on you waken it up and then once it's dry, then it's dried like that. His little leg. There we go, so he's spongy look to him, but that's good. That's what we want, so that when we apply the detailed texture with jell pen at the end there's something quite interesting behind the pen. I'm going to backup to this wing. Don't forget the light bits we're going to add the gel pen too anyway. In this section with the black, it's quite defined, but we can push it up a bit, create a little feather and the texture is like that. This section is where the white's going to go so we don't need the black to read into it too much. I'll just close this black in. You don't want to overwork the black too much because you will start to lift the pigment off the paper, just as you would with if you were doing a watercolor painting or something like that. You can remove a bit of the paint with a paint brush. Sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes it's a bad thing. We've just arrived at the tail and you can see that yellow coming through. You don't want to smear around too much because you don't want it all just blend into one grungy color. You want to be able to see the different areas. So now I'm just going to keep on coloring in this bit here. For cleaning the brush and doing this white section. So again, this color here is just to provide a contrast for when we put the white pen on afterwards. Now I'm going to move on to his legs, so this is the last little bit. When we do the legs, we're not trying to mix the colors together too much because we want that different state for the shade. Although I have made his legs quite bright, so we might need to cover them a little with the white pen. His legs are not like a really key feature of the picture, so you don't really want them to stand out too much. You want to still be able to see where you laid the pencil down, so it's got those lines to it, the feet always draw themselves really. But they are quite bright so we will have to dull them down with the white pen and when we come to that. There you have it. That is the water applied to your bird. Again, I think it'd be really nice if you took a picture at this stage and then you can see the difference once you've added gel pen. Particularly if you're feeling you're quite happy with this picture and you're a bit nervous about applying to gel pen because you don't want to ruin it. If you've taken a picture of it already, you've got a copy of it and now we can just go crazy with the gel pen. So that's what we'll do on the next session. 9. Creating Detail with White Pen: Now we've let it dry and we're ready to apply the white pen. Before we do that though, we're just going to go around the edge with an eraser and make sure that there are no pencil marks showing. Just to tidy it up a little bit clean it up. Now we can apply our white pen. I'm going to start, at this point here. I always actually do just a little test to make sure that it's coming up. I'm just going to start down here, because actually I find that the stomach is easier bit to start on. Rather than going straight for the eye and just get used to using the pen and the ink flowing in it. What we're doing here is, we're not going for complete photorealism this is just adding texture. Whilst we can use the pen for highlights, we're also putting white in areas where in the reference photo there isn't any white or light shining. Because we're just using this to add some interesting feather patterns. You can use this as well for any furry animals as well. It just doesn't have to be birds, but it works really nicely with these fluffy bits. I am just going to keep it quite free, I don't do them too deliberately. I'm doing this same kind of pattern all the way down and making sure that they're following where I want the feathers to look like they are going. You see sometimes more ink comes out of it than other points, but that will just add to the picture. As we come down to this bit, this is where the feathers come in. I don't want it to be too exaggerated. But it just creates a nice bit, that sort of shows there. You know what a bit looks like. I'll keep going down like this, I'd like to make a bit of a fluffy bit around the top of the feet as well. Because that's usually quite fluffy there, on top of the legs even. Now, I'm going to go and work my way back up to the head and unlike before we're going to use much smaller strokes up here. I'm going to start up here, and it will show up a lot more on the dark colors. Right at the top there, you don't really want too much and then you'll start slightly longer ones as you come further down. You want some to come off the edge a bit as well, and we drew them in some little lines like that, because it's kind of how we use in the picture. It will just show that, we put a bit of texture like that. Then really little as you get closer to his eye up in here I'll make it round, just quite small streaks. Now, you don't always have to use any on the beak, but I think I will on this one because I've done the beak a little bit dark. Put some highlight up here. If you put some down and you think I should do it like that, this ink, as you can see my finger, it rubs off quite easily. It is quite forgiving. Just put a little highlight on there and put a little bit just under there. [inaudible] Now, we'll move background to the wing and here we are adding white in an area where there is highlights. This section that we colored in before, we want a bit of a line coming on there. Then we will just draw over it, so that you can still see between them. You can see a lined texture that looks like it's feathers. I'll put a couple of long ones there. Although there's no highlight on this black section, I will just put some on. Because I want that effect on my picture. Then there is a white bit here, we'll put that in as a stripe highlight. You see if you keep going over it, sometimes the pen just pulls ink back off again. Here you want it to look like there's some feathers just crossing over, fluffing over that area, we'll do that as well. Now as we get down to here, we'll do the same with this one. That's a feather that's not kind of shape. Now on the tail, we're just going to do a couple of lines. Not too many. Sometimes the ink doesn't come out as well as you'd like. I'll just put a couple of round ones there as well and one line. Some ink seems to have gone onto the nib. Couple of lines down there just to give that texture and interest. Then the only bit we've got left, we've got the eye and the legs still to do. On the legs, I'm going to draw a line all the way down and I'm just going to dub it a little with my finger to fade it. Because like I said, the legs are not really a key feature there, we don't want to highlight them too much. I'll put some little spots on there, it looks like he's got the little wrinkles, and then I'll do the same, on the other leg. Just tap it a little with your finger, pink did come out very bright and then put the little spots on there. Now he's gone. Some interesting feet, but then they are not the main feature of the picture. Then the final bit we'll do, is we'll go back to the eye. What I like quite often to do, is put a little highlight underneath and then I will just tap it a little bit if it's gone on too bright. With this bird, if he's got some little white spots. I'll put those in as well, because they are quite nice actually like that. Then I will just add tiny highlight to his eye. One more thing I wanted to show you actually, and I forgot to mention earlier on, if you do make a mistake with the white and you really hate it and you want to get rid of it, this pan is water-soluble so you can go over it with water. I'll try bit up here so you can see. You can just get rid of it like that. The problem with doing that though, is that it sort of dulls the color underneath, because it basically creates a kind of gray wash over the top. You don't want to do that too much, but if you really want to get rid of that bit, then you can. Then I will just have to wait for that to dry, and then I'll put those lines back on and that is your completed drawing. 10. Final Thoughts: Thank you for joining me on this class. I hope you really enjoyed it. I can't wait to see what you produce. So don't forget to upload your projects into the project area. If you have any questions or anything wasn't clear, and just put it into the discussion area, and I will be happy to answer any questions that you have.