Let's Draw a Pelican with Alcohol Markers!

1. Welcome to Class!: Hey there, how are you? My name is Andy Von and I'm so happy that you've decided to join me here for this class. I enjoy working with alcohol merkers, posca, merkers, colored pencils, and sometimes I haven't using all three and even more, such as acrylic paint and watercolors and doing something called mixed media. Over the past ten years of my artist's career, I have learned and gather knowledge on how to draw and paint. Over the past three years of teaching, I have learned what appeals to my students and how they learn best. In this class, I want to help build your artistic abilities. Here's what we're going to learn in this class. We will be coloring any pelican sketch that we drew in the previous class if you would like to check out that class. The link is below this video. For my materials, I will be using Ju Hu alcohol markers. If you have another brand such as copa markers, that is fine to use. I just find that Uu worked best for me. I will be working on the Strathmore Bristol Board paper which is great for adding marker two. I will also be using a black colored pencil and a white colored pencil. And the brand I'm using is prisma color. But any brand is fine. I invite you to follow me here on Skillshare so that you see whenever I posted a class. And also don't forget to follow me on Instagram and Facebook there. I post daily updates of my artwork. And when you're done with this class, I would love to hear your feedback. Please leave a review and also feel free to share your work that you've done. So that all of us here on Skillshare can appreciate your work. It is now time to start this class. So sharpen your pencils and let the class begin. 2. Initial Marker Layer: To begin, we will be working with three gray marker of various shades. I will be starting with the lightest one. It almost looks white, but in reality it is slightly gray. Using the reference photo, I'm going to start by shading in the body. What I'm doing is starting in the shadow areas, working the spray in, working from the edge, going out, pushing my marker out. I'm going to go along the edge of the neck. You can see it's changing just ever so much. I'm building up my layers of gray now. I don't want to overdo the marker I think too much because it's very hard to remove the color once it's laid down on the paper. I'm glancing at my photo of the Pelican and seeing where I need to add in Cray. I'm going to leave a bit of a highlight light area along the back edge here and also along the back of the third back. Okay, so I will go in now with a slightly darker gray and start mixing this in, adding it into some of the deeper shadows. I'm folding marker out towards the lighter area trying to get to blend in. What I'll also do a bit of blending is I will take the lighter one that I used for the initial layer. Before this tries I will blend in the P rubbing over some of this lights right in are between where they emerge like that. I'll go back and at some more of the trucker gray and then come back with my light blend. No, no, don't know. So no, no. So don't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm back with some more of this cre building shadow right along the neck and blending it as well, adding in some more shadow with the darker ray here. Again, blending it out. 3. More Marker Layers: All right. I'll add in some feathers, the darker ray using the very tip when just very quickly add in a few feathers rather on ear like that flowing down the back of the bird. And then before they try to open the end a bit, I'll do that a bit more. Right along here. And I'll stop with that and land again. I'll leave this area right in the center, right along here. I will leave a light with no feathers. I'll add a few feathers down along this bottom edge of the neck and tummy. All right, I'll go in with my darkest gray now and also the lightest gray that I chose. And I will start adding more shadows, deepening some of the darkest ones. 4. Coloring the Beak and Legs: Okay. So, I've chosen two yellows, a light one and a slightly Barker one. This one, to add in the fat and current feet, I will start out with the light one. I'll just and all peak area and also the sale section around the eye. Now, I will come in with my slightly darker yellow and covered along the edges working out from there, adding in the little bit yellow. I'm guiding myself with the picture following where the darker yellow is coming along, this bottom edge right in here. I'm also up in here near the top. And I will come down here and add it to the left side, right along to add a bit of a darker area on the left side of the set. All right. Using a flak marker vocal in and had a little spec for the eye. That's good right there. I also had a little ut up here. I believe this is the nostril. 5. Feather Details: All right. The following is just for fun. You don't have to do this, but I'm going to just add a bit of texture, a bit more shading. First what I'll do is I'll take a white colored pencil. I'm going to go over some of this just a little bit. I still wanted to show up, but just blend it in. We're also going to go over some of the white console from the beginning, from when we sketched this bird. Ok, so by adding this white colored pencil, we were able to bring back some of the milkiness of the white. We still have the shadows and some of the distinctive line work that we did, the edge, and some of the feather work that we added. So I'll come in now with a black colored pencil sharp. Just had a few feathers in here. Very fine. I don't want to overdo it. They need to curve with the weighing or when we do on the body, they need to curve and flow with the body with the black. What we were able to do is just adding a few loose feathers because we wanted to look real plastic, like a mannequin. We added then these feathers to indicate a few loose and flowing feathers. And this adds to the realism. I also added some down here near the leg, around the legs here. I extended some of these and added around the neck and on the back and wing over here. 6. Coloring the Stump: All right, now we will come in with a light brown marker and a dark brown to add in the stump down here. So I will go over the whole thing with this light brown. Then for the dark brown, what I will do is I will come in on the left side. Similarly, we have a shadow on the left side of our bird. Especially down in here under the wing, under the body. So I'm going to mimic this shadow effect on the lower left side of the stump at the end of it, down here. All right, so I'll come in down with a little bit of white and just adding a slight highlighter on the side to indicate a light area. Blend it in with some of my dark shadow in here. All right, so that's what we have for these stump. 7. Background - Ocean: All right, so what you just saw, Me too, was added in the horizon line, right along the eye line of my bird. What's going to happen is that the ocean will be down here and the sky will be above that line, this ocean down here. This appears sky. So I've chosen this light blue for my sky. It is a very pale and light sky blue. I'm not going to cover Roland. I want to have an idea that there are some clouds up here. So I'll just go along and add a bit of these wispy lines going from left to right. One thing I will point out that I'm doing is I'm trying to use the edge of my murcer, not the point. I'm trying to get nice thick lines and marks with my edge of my Murcer. Okay, that's good for my sky. I will now come in with a darker blue. This is not the one in my collection, but it is fairly dark. And I'm going to color in the water in a similar fashion to how I color in the sky going from left to right. Using the long white edge of my marker, we're going to come in with this other blue. This one is a bit more turquoise, slightly green ever so much. And we're going to use it and we're going to fill in the rest of these white areas along in the water. All of this white, we're going to fill in with this turquoise blue. All right, now that we've added in the marker base, we're going to return with a white colored. What we'll do is we'll work on the water adding in a layer of this. We just to lighten it, lighten the water up ever so much and give it slightly that we see send. And this was will help blend some of our colors together. In fact, they won't actually blend the marker, but the white will make it a bit softer and make the colors a tight and blue blend in a little bit. 8. Background - Waves: In this last segment, what we will do is we will add small waves to the ocean. I will do this by using a black colored pencil. I want you to be sure to make the waves that are further away smaller as they are further off in the distance. As you get found closer to the foreground, try to make them larger and more spread out. We can also have these waves overlap one another, and we can also use these black wavelines to accentuate the different shades of blues that we already laid in. I want you to understand that we're not trying to create a totally realistic looking wave, but what we are doing is simply trying to give the impression or the idea that there are waves and an ocean in the background. We want the main focus of our viewer to be on the Pelican and not the background. The background should just to complement the pelican and not distract from it. 9. Thanks for Watching!: Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed this class and we're able to learn something from it. Please feel free to post a picture of your drawing below this class so that all of us here on Sco chair can see what you did. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to start a discussion in the discussions tab below this video, and I will be happy to answer your questions. Well, if you would like to support me, please check out my website at www.andsartitude.com And feel free to visit me on Instagram and Facebook where you can see daily updates of my artwork at andsartitude Stick around here on Skillshare and follow me, because in the coming weeks I will be uploading more classes. That's been it for now. I hope you have a wonderful day. See you in the next class.