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1. Introduction Drawing a kingfisher: Hey guys, join the
community in here for the last week in this
series of five classes, I'm gonna teach you how to
draw a king fisher boat. And you probably know if
you've seen my app before, I love drawing a painting birds. So this is something
really special for me. This photo is
actually seen ten by one of my art class students. So yeah, it's a really
cool black and white photo of a king fisher. And I'm gonna teach you how
to draw the basic shapes, how to fill in and draw
the rest of the bird. We're going to talk
about the texture and the feathers and the tone
in all the details as well. So hopefully by the end
of the class today, you have an amazingly
detailed finished drawing of a king fisher code.
Let's get started.
2. 1. Getting Started: Let's get us sit up. So you've got a nice, nice fresh piece of
paper like this. And this is the picture that we're going to
be drawing today. Sorry. Let me just make sure
we're all focused in here. Yeah. So can good. All right. So the way it's
going to work today, guys, is we've basically, we've been practicing lots of these skills that we've been doing over the last few weeks. And so we're gonna be putting
all those 1s into practice. Now, our goal for today, our goal is to have
a really beautiful finished drawing on
that you've done. That is good enough
to be able to put in a frame and
put it on the wall. Okay. That's what
we're aiming for. I mean, I don't know
if we'll get there. We'll see what happens. But that's a goal for today. So we're going to spend
a good amount of time working on this really
nice picture here. I'm now Pintos, what are
we going to need, guys? Okay, today I'm gonna
be using a Tooby and I'm going to use
a 4D and a six B. Alright, cool, Those are
the three and I'll be using my eraser as well
as we go along. All right, cool. So we're going to start off
with our lightest pencil. So starting with that today. And let's just make sure
everything's looking good. All right. Hold on a second. All right. Nice. Good. Just checking. Everything's
recording nicely. Okay, so let's get started guys. Now, we're gonna use a
little technique here, which is similar to
what we did last week, where we use that pizza is a bit of a guide
for how to draw. Okay, so we're going to draw this picture the same size here. So if you've got a printed out, you can have a right beside
you while you're drawing. And we're going to actually
get the size of the picture by using our pencil or using our eyes to
basically work across, sorry, at someone's
unmuted for some reason. So starting off with how big is that
actually going to be? Okay, so we're gonna go from across from the top of the head. By that. I mean to the bottom there. Like that. Then you again get to choose whether you
draw the hand or not. Now the hand is a
little bit tricky. So you can, instead
of throwing a hand, you can actually draw a branch. Okay, so I'll show you
how to do that later. For now, we're just going
to focus on the bird. Do you understand? Cool. So we've done some the top and the bottom
like this across. Now we're going to actually work out the distance
by using a pizza. So I want to use my
pizza like this. And I'm going to go like this. Goes from there to there. Alright? Now if you don't
have it printed, you just kinda have to
guess the size of it.
3. 2. Drawing the basic shapes: Alright, now we're
gonna get into the light, the basic shapes. So let's have a look here. We've got like an oval
here for the heat. You guys see that? Alright. And then the body
is like an overlap, so it's kinda like
an oval but it's like on an angle like that. So really these are what
I'm using a Tooby and just doing a very lightly
because we're gonna be rubbing out these lines
before we finish. Now, what else we got here? Let's get the thing
about King fishers. They have these
massive big beaks. Did you guys know that
they hunt for fish? They dive into ponds
and they get fish. So they need a big beak. So that line of the beak there
is right, straight across. And then in the middle of this. But as the eye, the eye is about here. Is it just me or is
the intimate bed? Might be bad for you
guys? I don't know. I'm starting off with
the to-be pizza. Okay. Alright, now,
the angle of the beak, now I'm going to use
my pizza like this, so I'm gonna go Okay,
courts like that. And then it's like that. But if you if you
haven't got there, you can just like look at it and just
keeps the angle okay. The bottom as sort of curved a bit and then it goes
straight across. It's looking a bit weird,
like a penguin or something. I don't know, it looks like
a cartoon at the moment. But that's alright. Okay. Now, before we start sketching, we need to just a few cheeks and make sure that this
is looking good case. I'm going to measure this cross the body in the middle here. Oh yeah, that's
pretty good actually. And I'm going to measure
the heights there. Yeah. I might've come down a little
bit too far at the bottom, but we can fix it up later. Yeah, We've got the
angle of the tail too. So like this like that. Tell us a bit longer, isn't it? Let's just check the
length of the tail. There we go to about there. So you see how,
when the first time I drew that I didn't
get it right. And then I had to like
fix it up tickets. And then you just can fix up and then rub out the
bits that are wrong. So when we're doing a really
good quality picture, we need to spend a bit
longer on this part of it. We need to make sure
that everything is looking the right
scale, the right shape. Okay? Now I'm going to just actually, I'm going to work
on the hand later. So we'll work on the bird
and then we'll do the hand. If you want to do that later on. There's kinda like
advanced level, okay.
4. 3. Feeling in your drawing: Alright, so now we're up to
the point where we're going to start filling in or
sketching the bird. Okay, So startup
here by the heat. Yeah. And start to just sketch in the shapes so you can see
how the heat is quite flat, almost flat along the top. And it sort of stretches out
of it. And then it's quiet. It's almost flat down
that side and that sort of can mix up with the body. You guys see that your
boys are laughing. Is this is it
looking a bit silly? Okay, so that looks cool. Come down this side. It's pretty much
in line with it. The oval we did. Alright. Now we need to draw this rough
shape here for the inside, for this, these big feathers
here, these dark feathers. Okay, so just try
sketching in their shape. They're like I've done there. Just tell me if you are
having any issues or if I'm going too fast and you guys know it's complaining
about me going too fast. So that's good. Cool,
Awesome, good way. Alright, so remember
what we have to do at this stage, guys. We need to grab a rubber
a little bit faster. We need to grab that rather, and we need to rub up those. Remember those first kind of basic shapes that we drew,
those guiding shapes. Okay, so go ahead and
just rub those lines, those bits out because they
will find at the beginning. But now they're going
to get annoying. Okay. What do you reckon
is they're looking. Okay. Yeah, I think
that's looking okay. All right. So let's go. So we're still sketching guys. So do you notice
how the mouth kind of goes straight across
the middle of the mouth? Not mouth. Beak goes straight across. And then it kinda curves
down a little bit, stops just before the eye. Doesn't look like that. Alright. And then see how there's a
darker patch on the beak. Here. Net kinda curves down and it's like feathery
going around the heat. There's like a strip of white
feathers around the mic. Then it gets dark in here, but we'll do that
when we do the tRNA. Okay. Can you please slow
down a bit? Alright. What about the feet?
Good questions. Yes. You can rub out the guidelines. Yep. Okay. The feet they don't have feet. They bought clothes, but yeah. We can just lightly sketch those in the bottom
ones like here. The next one is kinda
coming up here. We'll do those in
more detail later on, but that's just a
basic thing for them. Okay. Now, it's a bit
hard to tell here, but I don't know
if you can tell. But there's like some feathers that come down on the beak here. And then you can definitely
see that white eyebrow. Can't you see this white
eyebrow thing here? Kinda comes up and it sort of flux out
like old man eyebrows. Does your dad have like old
man eyebrows like that? Big big bushy ones. Okay. So just sketch in some
of those eyebrows like that.
5. 4. Thinking about texture: Okay, Now, how does
this actually, let's just have a
think about these, these feathers and here, do you guys see how the
shape of these feathers, and it might be a
bit hard to tell, but they're kinda like
flip it over to show you. They kinda like little
overlapping scales, almost like a dragon. Maybe, maybe it's like
a dragon. You see that? So we have to try and recreate those feathers and they're
using this pattern. Okay? So we're just going to
draw some of those n Now. Now, do you notice, I don't know if you
can say about this. Feed is coming down and then it flows like down the
body like that. So we're going to try
and get them like that. Okay, so we're just
going to draw some, just really lightly
with your to-be. Draw some of these little
scaly but scaly feeders. The reason we're doing it now
is because when we do this, when we do the
shading over the top, it's going to be a little bit easier if we've
already drawn the shapes. Okay. Take your time. There's no rush. You guys just keep drawing some little scaly field is
going down the body like that. Now you can also
see some in the, in the wing here as well. Well, I can see
some in the wing, so I'm going to do a few
of them in the wing, Not too many. Cool.
6. 5. Drawing the bird's eye: We're going to say
the reflection is out to the side on the right. So basically like a little
rainbow shape like that. Okay. So I want you to draw that
shape nice and sharp. Good job is to keep the
inside of that really white. So leave that totally white. Now around, there's actually a little
ring around the eye. So let's get that in now. That's gonna be kind of a little bit lighter
than the area around it. All right, Now we're
going to fill in this eye nice and dark. Now I'm still going to
use my tube because the tube is really sharp
and if we use a six B, it will be too soft. So I want you to fill
in the inside of the eye really document don't go into that outside ring and definitely don't go
into the reflection. Hopefully you got it looking
something like that. Just realized that my
picture is looking quite dark on the screen. I wonder if I can
change that. Hold on. All right. Near them, slightly better. Still a bit hard to
see what's going on in my printed out picture. Alright, so filled in
this nice and black. Now we're going to just do some tone around
the eye as well. Just really lightly. And we're trying to leave that circle around
it, that little ring. And actually all around
that area this see how it's quite dark around the head
so we can bring it up. Just make sure you try and leave that the eyebrow that white. And there's some little
highlights underneath the eye. So we need to basically
leave some little whites. But you can see I've
already drawn in there, so I'm gonna have to
rub some of that out. Don't be afraid to rub stuff
out, guys, if you need to. Leave my highlights there. Then I'm going to add
more toner around. You move the picture
to the left a little. Do you mean this one? So a little bit tricky like that doing see the little bits
that I've lived there. You need to sort of just draw around them and then leave
the paper showing through. It's quite tricky to
do that sort of thing. But I believe in you
guys, you can do it. Alright, cool. Now, hopefully you've got the
eye looking really good and you're pretty happy with
how that's looking. So what we're gonna do,
we're just going to zoom out a bit again now.
7. 6. Adding tone to your drawing: Now we're going to sort of step, we're gonna go to the
four B pencil, alright? And I like the four because
it's nice and soft, but it's not too soft. Now we're going to
just start adding in the kind of general, general areas of tone. Alright? So I'm gonna
look at the beak here. And I'm going to stop
hitting in some tone. Now, you've, you've already
learned this with me about, remember the start
off nice and softly? If you go too dark too
soon limits gonna, um, yeah, it's gonna be
harder for you later on. Okay, so signing off
nice and lightly. And see how the top of the
beak is a little bit lighter. So we're going to leave
that a bit lighter. Keep it nice and dark around
the middle of the beak. Alright, now, I don't
know if you noticed, but see how in the
beak there's a, there's a kind of light
line all the way down. So what we have to do is
to go back to where to be. Or if you've got a sharp HB that would work well
with this as well. And you've got to make
sure you draw the line. So what you'll see is that
I've left enough space, so there's like a really light
line going down the beak. Okay. I switch back to my form. And I can keep adding in that shading on the
bottom part of the beak. Yeah. Do you see that effect? Now you guys you guys
can do some smudging. Yeah. Okay. So the trick
with this smudging, someone's got their mic on. Yeah. Make sure you keep
your mics off, guys. So just remember
that a smudge now, try not to go outside of the
beak and definitely don't smudge over the eye
because we don't want that white highlight
to get gray. Okay. But you can start to
smudge around a bit. And that's fine. We're going to add more
tone to those bits to, alright, now, the top of the heeds a bit
lighter, isn't it? Because the light is coming
from this direction up here. And so we want to leave some of that pretty
light over this side. Just a really like a one, if you remember back to
the first week, one level. But then as you come around, the head is kinda gets into
a three or four, quite dark. Just copying what you can
see on the, on the picture. And I'm going to switch
back to my tube. So there's lots of
switching between pencils because I need to get
these sharp like eyebrows. And so I want the
dark but it's going down like that into
the light bits. There we go. That's coming along Good. Okay. Back to my OB down here. See there's that whole
light patch on the right. We need to leave
that nice and light cool and give it a
good smudge as well. Who thinks they can to
try and draw the hand? You guys want to try and
draw the hand in a bit. I'll show you how to do it. But if it's too hard for you, then you can just
make up a branch, make it sitting on
a branch and said, okay, now we've got some
lovely white feathers in here. Okay, So we're gonna,
we're gonna have hardly any shading in that bit. But we have got some
dark for this coming down onto the white. So we're going to
use our pencil like this and try and get
those nice sharp. Do it like little flicks. Because that's what the field is would look like if you could see them up close,
like little flicks. And actually the back
of the head is kind of got these little
flecks as well. See how that makes it look sort of more hairy,
more, more feathery. Yeah. Co is yours looking good
guys. This is coming along. When you're again,
isn't gonna be good enough to hang on
the wall. Maybe. We'll say, we will say
wait till the end. Don't judge it just yet. Alright. So now in the
white part of the fetus, like here, you can see a few tiny little bits
of feather texture. So we're just going to
put a few little dashes and like that, not many. You see how I'm doing that? Just a few little
feathery dashes. Before we come down
to wear dark area. The wings. Cool.
8. 7. Adding tone to the wing: Alright, the heat sinks, you
are looking pretty good. I think we can, we can do
a bit more work on it, but for now, I'm pretty
happy with how it's looking. Okay. Um, Let us Let's start on the dark
part of the fetus here. Okay? So what we're
gonna do for this part is we've got quite
a sharp outline here for that part of the wing. So we're just going to
start off nice and sharp. Come down like that. And then we're going to
go to the four B pencil. And then we're going to like just basically edge
shading in here. Now. There are some little areas
that are like lysate, but I think we'll use
the rubber later on. Okay, so we're just going to add in like maybe a
three of shading. Not super dark. Just just a bit dark. So good guys, you
don't need to tell me. It just slow down. You just have to try and keep up because there's still
got a fair bet to go. So we don't want to run out
of time on this picture. Alright, now, I don't
know if you can see, but down this side of the body, this on the feathers, on the back, it's got these
kind of lines going down. Okay, so we can kind of try and pick that up when we
come down like some lines. And that's actually a
lighter bit there where it's with a sun is hitting it. So just don't color it in quite as dark. That's
all I'm saying. Okay. So that's the start
of that area. Notice how I've just done like a really rough layer of tone. So it doesn't need to be
really fancy and detailed. And don't go too dark
too soon on that part. Now we're going to use a finger. Actually. I'll just give you guys a
minute to catch up. Okay. Because I don't wanna I don't
want to annoy you too much. So I'll just give you 1 min to get up to where
I'm up to now. Yep. If you want to carry on, you
can do some of the tail. Let's just see how on
the picture it's quiet. It's not too dark,
so it's it's kinda, it's quite a light color, pretty similar to the top of the beak with the top
of the heat. Okay. All right. Okay, let's use your
finger now guys, and let's get a bit
of smudging on. So remember the smudging
just smooths out the pencil. So smooth it out nicely. And can you see how we can
just see those little, those little first field is we've done under here
those little lines. That's pretty cool actually. Now, Let's bring that
smudging down into the white part of
the, of the tummy. Just a little bit of smudging, not so much. There we go. Okay. Now what we're gonna
do is we're going to try and use a corner
of the rubber. This may work, it may not. And we'll try and draw some, backend some of
those white bits. So if you watch how I do
it, it's like a little. There we go. Yeah, it sort of shows
I pay a little curve. You need to have a
corner on your rubber. So try and choose the
nicest corner and just draw in some of
those little round. The bus. Gets a bit harder as a corner gets too rounded, it
gets a bit harder. Alright.
9. 8. Adding texture: So now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go
to my Tooby pencil. And I'm just gonna do some little feathers in
those white bits like this. Like a little fan of feathers. Let me bring you in a bit closer and I'll show you
what I'm doing here. Okay, So here we go. So in these little
feelers in here, there's some little
kind of Fannie bits. I'm just doing
some little lines. Now. I'm starting
to get into like pretty hardcore detail now guys. So if you, if you don't really
want to go this detail, that's fine. You don't have to. I'm just teaching you some
of the skills so you can use them later if
you want to go. While we're nice and zoomed in. There are some little
feeders that go on underneath here,
underneath the tummy. And they're just
like little lines. So it's just gonna be like
little way flux coming down. Not too many, just a few little ones coming down on the body. Because that area
is pretty light, so we want to keep
it really light. You rub it doesn't
have any corners. Yeah, that's what tricky. If you've got a
kneadable eraser, you can just make it really
tiny sharp point on it. Otherwise you can, here's a little trick you can do
about it does kill the rubber. You can actually use a knife
and just show here and just cut like that a little bit off. And then you get heaps a
really nice little corners. So those, those
can be quite good, but it does mean you got
to cut the cut the rubber. So you have to check with your appearance for us whether
you're allowed to do that. Alright. Okay. Let's let's stay on the, on the tummy area. And you see some of
this shading around, around this era here. We're going to try and
draw some of that. So it's just with the
to-be pencil now. And I'm just like
working a little bit of shading into
these little feelers. Quite lightly. Just like that. Yeah, see it doesn't
take much to do a just a little bit
of shading in there. Don't have to do all
of them as well. Just do a few. Okay, cool. So and we need to see how their area there's
quiet, dark, quite black. So we need to make
some of this darker. So just work back into underneath those light
bits we made like this. And just darken them up more. Now, if you're not happy with how your drawings coming along, then don't stress
about it, guys. Remember, you're just
learning how to do this. You have some options, so you could go back to it later and watch the
recording again. Or you could try again, maybe with a different picture. You could do maybe a
different bird or maybe you like preferred drawing
other things apart from birds. And that's fine. So I'm
just trying to teach you the skills you can use
by doing this example. All right, that's looking cool. Let's zoom out a
little Bye guys.
10. 9. Drawing the claws: How about we work on the clause? And then you guys can make a decision about
whether you want to draw the hand or the branch. Okay, I'll show you both. But let's work on the clause. So if we look pretty closely
at these close here, you'll see there's actually
three clause down on here. We've got one claw
coming out like that. Another one just
shorter beside it, and then another one behind it. And those claws have
these little talents, these like, uh,
quite scary looking, curved claws in that black. So you can just actually
color them in like that. And that's why it's good. That's what the
bird uses to like grab onto the branch
when it lends. Yet we'll come back to the
tail and a little bit, guys. So cool. During this course, now
with the shape of the, of the feet bits, that clause, they basically go, we do some little
lines like this. Those are called contour lines. And if you can imagine
like chickens feet, they're rich in kind of yeah, with these shapes on them.
What color are they? They're pretty dark. So we need to shade
them in a little bit. Not to not black, but just like enough that
they look nice and dark. Man, you notice this is a few little white feathers
that come down over top. So you just do a few lines
like that coming down. So what a contour
lines good question. I'll show you on the back here. So a contour line is, if you've got a
circle like this, contour lines go
round like this, they follow the shape
of the objects. You what I mean. Um, and so, um, if you're drawing a claw, light coming down like this, and then there's the big
scary talent but like that. And then you have these kind
of Betsy go up like this. And they actually,
they are actually kinda ridged so they
sort of go like this. Does that make sense? That's mostly how you draw it. Like birds, birds claws. It's pretty small
on this picture. They actually see it, but you can get what I'm talking about. Okay. And then the other the other
leg extends down a bit more. The other clause, sorry. And you can see those lines, see those lines on there. They're like kind of rounded, like this, those contour lines. Now you guys have
learned a new word. And it's been hard to see here, but the claws are kind
of curving around. So they come down,
giving back around. And then this one's
like curving around. So you're not even going
to see that cloth, that clause not they're actually just to make it a bit
easier for you guys. I think we'll just
make it like this. Okay? So one of the clauses kinda behind where we're going
to draw the branch and the other ones like they're in the photo here is
gripping onto this finger. So the closer actually curving around to the
back of the finger. Yeah. Eva. Yes,
that's right. Yep. Cool. Now, we'll give a
bit of shading onto the floor like that, but a shading because
it's quite small, you won't really
see it that much, so just shade it
pretty, pretty quickly. Okay. Before we move on to the branch, Let's just finish
off with the tail. In the rest of the bird, you're doing super well guys, doing really, really well. So try and get this
on the frame good. So the tail is pretty much
going back to Mike for VPN. So arenas, It's like
lighter on this side, darker on this side. So I'm just going
to add some tone. There we go. It's a bit darker here where
it goes underneath that, that bit of feathering there. Cool. Now you guys can just decide how much detail you
could go back and kind of keep drawing heaps more detail into the fevers
and the body and stuff. But
11. 10. Drawing the branch and hand: Okay, so now if you're going
to be drawing the branch, we're going to sort of make up, make it up a little bit now. Okay. So the branch is going
to come somewhere like this. The bottom of the
branch is going to like come down and note that
it's not right as a jar. What's the bottom of the
branch is going to be here where it lines up
with the the clause. Branches. You can draw anything
they don't have to, they don't have to look
perfect or anything. Just like two lines that
go like that. Okay? So just keep the bottom line to line up with those clause. So it looks like it's
kinda gripping onto the onto the branch.
Does that make sense? Yeah. I'll definitely show you guys how to draw the hand as well. But I just want to show, So if you're gonna do the branch, just sketched it in yourself
and then just start working into it with some like
knots and what else? Some texture and make it
darker on the bottom and lighter on the top
because that's how that branch will be toned. But if you're going
to draw the hand, then let's do that now. Okay? Um, so the hand
is like so sorry. I'm just trying to make
sure it's all in the frame. A little bit. Yeah. Alright, So the hint. So we've got to look, we're going to get the
basic shape first case. So starting off here and
then it's coming down. Now, hands up,
pretty tricky guys. So this is a little
bit harder level. Alright. So we've got our basic shape. Then we've gotta just
roughly sketching the fingers. So we've got one. Don't worry about
the details yet. The next finger comes down a little bit further
than that finger. This finger comes up there. And the last thing is just
hidden behind that finger. Oh. Then basically the wave fingers work is that you've got
different segments. So you've got like
this knuckle here. Then it comes down
to another knuckle, and then it comes down to the actual finger
in the fingernail. Okay. So you just got to
work your way along each knuckle so that
knuckles there. Then the other knuckles
hiding behind the law. Then the finger comes down. Okay. One trick is that the noch
was kinda line up along here. Okay, so see how they
go down and align. Bum, bum, bum. So we know that nickel is
going to be like that. Then the next one. And you can't even really see that. It lasts finger, but
we'll just draw it on the side. It mean. Yeah. So you've got at the end
of the faint each finger, you've got like a top, Nicole. So that one's like that. Then was like that. That was like that. Okay. Now, that is pretty there's
going to be pretty hard. So if you if you
struggle with it, don't worry, because that's
like even for adults, that would be pretty hard to do. If you want to learn
about drawing hands, then just go, go have a search
app for some tutorials. There's lots of ways you can
learn how to draw hands. I might have to do some
little classes and actually, because it is pretty fun of
when once you can do it. Oh, don't forget
about the thumb. So there's a little
thumb here, isn't there? Now we're not going
to spend ages doing the shading on the hand, but you can see how to do it. It's gonna be dark around the bottom and fade
up to a lighter tone. It's a little bit of light on the side as well because the
light's coming from here. So it's yeah, it's a
bit more complicated, but we're not going
to go on about it.
12. 11. Adding in a background: We're not going to
draw the person. You can see the shape
of the body behind. We're not gonna do that. But what I do want to do actually is just show you
a little technique for how you can make
the background look a bit more kind of
blurred out and misty. So you can you can leave
the background wife. But that's fine, totally fine. But if it's sometimes it distracts from
the actual drawing. So if we want to make it a
little bit more gray tone, I'm not sure if I
even showed you this. So you guys are spot
um, I've got to, I've got to Stephen B,
but you can actually use any kind of be pizza. And I'm going to
use my craft knife. And what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to basically hold
microphone like this. And I'm going to scrape
some of the graphite off. Okay? And what it does,
here's a secret. It creates like these bits
of dust really lightly. I guess you could
deal with a pair of scissors if you didn't
have any crop knives. All right. Once we've
got the dust on there, just kinda really
lightly smudge it in. See what happens. It kind of creates like quite an abstract bit of a
random, random next round. I'd try not to overdo this. If you do do this, don't overdo it because you don't want to get it too
dark in the background. Alright. This is really good. So if you, if you accidentally
got like smudges in the background and
you want to cover them up and make them
look more natural. This is quite a
good thing to do. So you can do this later
if you haven't got across knife or scissors
or something handy, you can actually just,
just do this bit later on. Try not to do it over top of your drawing
because we don't want to we don't want to affect
any of the light areas, especially not in the eye
because we want to keep them nice and nice and whites. All right, cool. So you can imagine this is like a forest scene behind
the bird or like it's, well, it's in someone's hand. So it's not gonna be in
nature at the moment. That's all good. Okay. All right, guys, we're
nearly finished, so I'm pretty happy
with how it's looking. I think I would finish the hand and make it
look more detailed. Now there's a couple of
things so we want to try and while we smudging
and working on it, It's really easy to fill up
all the white bits with tone. So one of the things we want
to do is at the very end, grab your rubber and look for any really light white bits. Okay, so for me, I'm going to
look at this area in here. So what I'm gonna do
is down the chest, I'm going to actually run out. Do you see how that
pops up nice and white? And this also helps us to like, helps it to stand out
against the background. Probably better to
below the blow. The bits are just
offensive, robbing it more. Okay, so I'm doing some, and I'm going to
do some more white through this area here too. Nice. And a little
bit in the eyebrow. Cool. Okay, and there's
a little bit of white going all the way down the bottom of the
beak here as well. So I'm just going to
pick that out with this. So what you can do is actually, you can actually draw
with the rubber and it creates some nice
bright highlights that, that really pop out. Then I'm just going to
finish it off with my Tooby. And I'm just going to work
down this part of the body. I'm just going to work a few
more little sharper lines. See how that makes it stand out more of that
side of the body. Just going to sharpen
my pencil a little bit. I like to sharpen
up with the knife, but you guys probably have
a pencil sharpener or harm. Nice. All right. Awesome. Doesn't work with
scissors are nice. That's alright. Can you rub
your finger on the pizza? Yeah, I guess so. I guess
you could put some pencil. My finger is already
looking pretty smudgy. Put your finger on there
and then smudge it around. I guess the thing
with the dusk is it just makes it look
a bit more random. Yeah. You could just say actually, the other way to do is just
to kind of really lightly do some shading and then
just smudge it heaps. So sort of disappears
into the background. In fact, why don't I show
you a little thing here, see how this fits really wise. If we wanted to make
it really pop out, we can add a bit more shading in the background around it. Not too much, just
some like that. Smudge it real good. Just be careful
not to smudge over this white belt we've
already rubbed down. Yeah, Nice. I mean, make it come
out the back here as well with some darker tones. So it's like a dark patch
growing right behind the bird. Well, awesome. Alright, cool guys. That's
pretty much how it's done. I hope you have enjoyed that. Now, if you guys want to be able to hang this
up on the wall, What's a good idea is just
down the bottom of your page. Just write the name of or
actually just put the date. So I'm just gonna put 2021 and then I'm going to
sign it down here. And I'm just going to assign
it like I do a fancy j. And the midst of a scribble. Men, I'm going to
write here king fisher and put that in brackets. So that's how I sign
it with the date, the name of the work, and then a little
signature down the bottom.
Joe McMenamin, Artist - Illustrator - Teacher
