Drawing and Painting - Fantasy Creatures - Classic ones and invented

1. Introduction: Welcome back to another I paint Peter's class. Today we're going to explore a painting and drawing, fantasy folklore, imagining creatures from your imagination. And I'm just going to take you through the basics of drawing. The basic fundamental skills that you need to practice and get real courageous and comfortable with. So you can draw any type. Imagine fantasy character out there from some of the classics to what I love to do, which is invent them and draw them myself. And a lot of that has to do with what I will lay out in the drawing. Introduced to you, the Drawing Fundamentals. Certain basic things that you need to incorporate into your drawings, right? To make objects that make up I called Creature Features, makes up the ears and the eyes and snouts, horns and the halos and noses and ears and all the features that, you know, when you put them together, they form into either a classic mythological fantasy, fantasy creature or some type of recognizable creature that you come out of your imagination, that you put parts together that might not, might recognize some of the animals are insects and bugs are like this one I'm working on right now, which is basically a unicorn snail in his way or some type of combination. But I always work in the strong tradition at Disney Company set, which is appeal and storytelling. So I bring images to life, It's a lesion of life. Then the final video in this class, I will take you through my commentary of how I bring it to Canvas like this and put it in some type of composition, which this one right here is the high ego, which is the night prayed, and 100 demons from Yochai mythology and Japanese mythology. And there's some classic what are known as Yochai creatures in here, but there are also ones I invented. And I'll go into the process of how I got it from that drawing stage. Using all the drawing fundamentals to make my characters and get the pill I want all the way to the point where they're all drawn onto this canvas. And then I use acrylics to render on out. And this piece right here is wonderful because I rendered it and it's all original art and I sold it. And customers very, very happy with it and thought it was a beautiful painting. It mainly features a classic Yochai, you okay, Japanese folklore creatures and inspire the Pokemon and Studio Ghibli. And you get all kinds of modern day video games and ventures with characters and creatures. And Yochai roughly means strain spirit in English. But I like to just call them full-color fantasy characters and creatures that I rendered from my imagination. I'll go through the process of how I do use a little reference, but I don't draw directly from the reference. And what I employing the fundamentals to make sure that you can invent an imagined incredible characters and creatures in this fantasy world and from your imagination. So I will see over in the next video, get out your ballpoint pen. That's my preferred tool of mass creation, creativity and art instrument to draw with and sketch with. And I will bring you through all the fundamentals to start doing your own imaginative and fantasy creature, classic or imagined, invented. And then we'll see you over in video 34, quick rundown of my rendering in acrylics and bringing it onto campus. 2. Drawing Exercise: What's happening, folks? And this is the drawing exercise. This is where basically guide you through the fundamentals and the base level of things that you need to get real courageous in have lot of confidence. And of course how you get there's a lot of practice. So I'm just going to give you the intro thing to do. Basic exercise you should be doing before you start to draw, especially if you're going to draw things that you've never drawn before and you don't really know what you're doing. And you have that voice in your head says you can't draw that. Basically. What I want you to do is draw basic shapes and get real comfortable at drawing them all different ways. Unique ways you do things, right? And basic shapes or the triangle, the circle and the square. And each time you draw it, tried to get it perfect. Don't try to spend so much time on one of the shapes that you just draw it over and over again. Just keep drawing them every time. Be more conscious of getting it more exact and they don't have to be completely exact. But the number one rule I always follow is you got to like the shapes. You got to be. I draw those shapes, triangles, circles and squares and then combine the shapes. And I show a little example right there of start to make a little cat head and show you a very plainly and Rod how all the shapes make up the body and the snout and the nose, and the circles and triangles and squares. Now the other thing that leads into the base fundamentals to start drawing your own imaginative fantasy creature is parallel lives, and I always create a spell that world. But parallel lines. Not only just parallel lines, parallel lines that make these basic shapes. And so you can see how doing a lot of letters also is a great practice, but just doing the basic shapes, the triangle, the circle and the square root in parallel shape, outline. And then of course combined with shapes like I've shown them out there. And you can see it starts to make objects from the real-world and it'll start to make what I call creature features. And the last part is to make shapes of the Creature Features. And so I'm showing really raw simple examples. One's an ear, that could be cat's ear, how you make the little parallel lines shapes. And then the snout square and a circle and a triangle and paralyzed shape and then eyes. You can combine all different ways of combining all those sheets together, squares and circles and triangles. And then think of shapes like the crack that think from shapes that make up the creatures. Definitely don't think of them. Think from start to see how you like cats being gone. And always reference at this point, you can take a break and go referenced some of your grade, your favorite artists and look at how they draw the shapes of the Creature Features. And so this is really up to you and this is where your imagination comes in. Of course, the base fundamentals are drawing those shapes, the circle, square and triangle over and over until you can have a mastery of it. Then it's all about using those shapes to make all the different features of the creature, animal, or character you're going to do. Or if you're going to combine different animals together and get a fantastical fantasy creature. And here's Dragos, or what I like to draw a top SU taught seizure the Yochai and Trotsky's underwater serpents. You'll see how I'm employing all the shapes again. And there's the famous parallel lines that I'm pointing right there to make the neck right and the circles ahead. I use part of a square type shapes and make it snap. And then I use a square to make his nose. And half circles and ovals for the eyes. And then of course the horns are triangles, all parallel lines, everything I'm drawn in parallel lines. And key the parallel lines is practicing so you can get pretty much not exact but proportionate length between when you do the parallel lines, the proportion between which is called the ratio. And you can see after I've sketched in and know where my animal parts and my creature or fantasy creature parts go in. Then I just add detail, you see starts to come alive. And then it has a lot of originality, like it has quote unquote style in the way I draw things. And this is a row, Coca-Cola or QB girl. And it's basically from Japanese mythology. And this is a Yochai, and it's basically modeled after the ancient mythology of the snake woman with the long neck. But you can see how I started with base construction of the face shapes again. And then just start putting the features and use the crosshair from the famous Disney placement to make sure that the eyes, nose, and mouth and right place. Because he is more of a humanoid type character. And then I just add details and you can see how basically everything starts coming together. Now, the last thing I want to show is just a little bit of construction. So if you lay down some lines that kind of visualize the structure of the body, of the skeleton. And I always use circles right at the joints. And you can cheat a little. I don't put it in all the proper NAD, be enough to make an imaginative characters. I could tell a story with it and it's a believable that you actually can meet this little guy, right? And so you see how my skeleton totally helps me know the forms and the proportions and the shapes and where everything's put it. And there's my little cat bear. He kinda looks like a bear too. I can make it more like a cat if I emphasized his Creature Feature more. Then here's the example of a quick way to just do some fantasy anatomy. You don't have to get a completely right foot. You have to get it to the point where you're pleased the way it looks. And I showed you how to use a little bit of construction. And it's not set in stone. And that's why I love using the ballpoint pen because it's a lot like a pencil. You see I have a lot of what are called suggesting lines. But it makes the painting John come alive. And there we are in design section. Just a little bit of a review. Basic shapes, combine the shapes, parallel shapes and make shapes. The Creature Features and then figure out how you draw the creature features, right? And then use a lot of construction and structure lines and shapes underneath by using those basic shapes and start to draw your fantasy creature characters. So I'll see you over in the last video where you're going to see how all these little base fundamentals put together goes into a finalized and refining the characters and creatures for this nice painting. See you there. 3. Painting onto Canvas: Whatsapp, new folks, welcome to the final video in this painting, drawing fantasy characters and creatures from your imagination, classic ones you invent. And this is one of my favorite, favorite Yochai to draw. And I'm totally developed my own way of drawing them to tell us the stories of the great water serpents of the Eastern folklore, which are known as Topsy. And the creature features on this one is basically tattoos are kinda formed by a dog, right? In some type of a serpent. And of course, the snake realm of things, wreck reptile things aquatic because they are in the water and they have those sales and fins on them so they can sail through the sky and due to the water and a lot of towns through this one. But once again, go back to the drawing. Listen, I'm using a lot of the parallel lines, the basic shapes to form this whole creature and then the details come in, but all the way down to the teeth are triangles and combining shapes. What I showed you in the drawing too, There's a lot of combining shapes in the top Xu. One of the most challenging things about a tattoo is there's not really a real reference of how the anatomy and the arms and legs. And so if you see a lot of drawings of like Eastern dragons are taught to use, sometimes the legs and arms get a little confusing. I think it's a lifelong study for me to figure that one out. That's why when you tinker a little bit, so you do a lot, you apply a lot of the fundamentals of the drawing I was showing you. But then you can spend a lot of time on the image, searching on the web and look up absolutely realistic are really advanced painters and drawers, dragons and fantasy creatures and look at all the different features and how they draw them, then I would spend a lot of time not really copying them, are even having them up just more from your mind and start to draw the creature features all over your sketch book and figure out how the best way you can represent them. And they all made of this basic shape. So always remember that it's just the basic shape. Now, I have a classic Yochai and rendering here, right? Which is basically a kid Zuni, which is that the fox with many, many tails. And I have them kinda like a fan and a little fan and dance and love because they're all marching in the parade. But once again, even if you look at a lot of these things, they are those basic shapes again. And basically you apply that when you start painting too, because you're drawing could be very clean and have really great details and everything but pain is a whole nother world because sometimes getting those really small details, especially when you're using real thick paint. I'm using heavy body acrylics. Lot of times I use just the basic the basics, the basics Liquitex. The basic Liquitex. I always like to experiment with some of the more high-end acrylics. But my go-to is the basic acrylic says great colors and they're basically student grade, but I find they're very durable and very industrious. And I just called me and will last a long, long time. Because remember that the base of acrylic polymer, which is plastic base. So it's plastic paint. It's good for the modern law. But I'm rendering more of the classic Yochai. And you can see this one is Japanese guitar that came to life. And once again, if you really break it down, it's just like the whole neck is a bunch of squares all smashed together. The one at the key, place to place for the tuning keys is all just an extended square, little bit of rounded edges. So once again, you can always break down all of these fantastical characters and creatures into the basic shapes and the more comfortable and confidence do you have a combining shapes and start to look at certain things. Shapes also giving appeal because people are very used to the shape language of the world. And like I said, part of class exercise could be doing a lot of that shape and John exercise, but a lot of observation in the world. Breakdown like Look, even dawn search engine and look I draft or some type of animals that you'd like and see where all the different shapes are employed and combined together to make up the picture of that animal. One thing I consider on the painting tip side is when I'm drawing a lot of these. I know I'm going to use a lot of rich colors. So really draw with a lot of awareness that I made big, bold, really nice shapes out of those three shapes in the universe. And I could already start to really start to visualize because I'm painting so long, but that part, I'm going to put a really nice cool blend. So you can look on this whirlpool, kudo cubic girl part of the appeal I did like I drew a real simple one in the drawing axes. By this one, I wanted to play with a little bit of angles and see if you could play the lesion and do the coin lean over neck. And then you can see your whole kimono. I'm really demonstrated when I'm telling like when you draw, draw a really big beautiful shapes. And then you can see how I started to mix all different kinds of colors and her kimono and it looks really appealing. Drawing a Aqaba Yochai that is part turtles. So this one is not fully standing up. And combine some kinda cool things and elements that come from iStore warlike. On the top there's a little satellite dish. Make the kapa high-tech. But that's another great example. The shell is very appeasing shape that is pretty much a half circle. And then you look at even the shapes of the satellite dish, and it's basically a sideways circle. So one of the most powerful things you can draw after the triangle square, circle is ovals. And ovals are everywhere. And firstly, ovals combined with squares. So this is a really enjoyable process because this is kind of a cleaner method of painting where it is very, I wanted to show this one in the drawing inches times T because the same principle goes into painting when you're painting a specific characters or creatures, right? It's all that shape language is really allowing me to render it. So like right here, I could worry about rendering his face and all the details. Make sure as I was there and everything but you saw I use I'm using a burnt sienna yellow ocher, golden type paint and orangey golden type paint. And basically you saw with the head, I saved the details for later. And that's where you kinda gotta think from inside your head and draw those details in your, in your minds so they don't get lost. And then try to block in as much of the shapes. And it goes back once again to the shapes and universities square the circle and the triangle and finding ways to combine them. And when it gets into painting shadows and acrylics and oils, the more shape language you use there, the more appealing it is two. So if you notice like if it were circled but then in its shadow they may get a long stretched out. So there'll be a circle starting to combine with an oval. And then if it has a sharp edge of the way the light is hitting, it might combine a square. But yeah, this is why I really picked this drawing for this class. Because when it transfers in painting, you can see everything I'm doing is all shape-based and really rooted and grounded in the circle, square and the triangle. You can see a lot of the features on a lot of these creatures can be intimidating like I did what's called the hall. Your car at the top right there, which is basically a Phoenix, but it's a Phoenix that can birthed out of any element on that to fire. And yeah, it takes a little more disciplined to draw those wings because wings are certain things that you gotta nail or you gotta get certain proportions, everything right? Otherwise it looks kinda strange. But that also is art. If you're doing any type of expressive, are really going to show what you do. Then you can draw them wings wherever you want. And then it goes right back to that base principle. If you look at the wings there, all those combined sheets again, they have a lot, a little bit of triangle, I'm a little bit square. And actually a little bit of curve, circle shape. The creature to the left of where I'm painting right now you can see it's a tiger, a cat, and has all musical instruments. So that's the same thing with they're really finding, looking at observing the world and how you render it. It's simple as using all the universal sheets and parallel line to pull it all together. So thank you for taking the time. Lots of course, go out and skits and jaw I included in the exercise, just kinda my little sketches so you can see the assembly and inspiring. So of course, give feedback, share the courses with everyone. And thank you for attending and Watson, blessings and have a wonderful peaceful, credible. In the rest of your day.