Little Artist Series: How to Paint a Tiger using Acrylics

1. Introduction to Painting Tiger in Acrylics: Hi, everyone. Welcome to this exciting class called Painting a Tiger in Acyls. My name is Teacher Esau, and I am very thrilled to be here to guide you and your child on this exciting journey. Do you find cylics a little bit daunting to start with? Is your child feeling really bored with color pencils? Are you looking for a more engaging activity to do with your child? Home. So, you have come to the right place. In this class, I will teach your child how to paint a magnificent tiger using acrylics. The projects are actually broken down into small digestible parts for you to follow a log. In Part one, we'll learn about sketching. How do we sketch a complex shape, like a tiger, using basic shapes. Part two, we're going to learn how to block in our artwork, going to dive into a starter techniques in the acrylp to help build up that painting. In Part three, we're going to learn about texture of leaves. I a tiger stays in the jungle, and we're going to paint the jungle and we'll learn how to paint the forest effortlessly. Yes. So that we can create a very large background for our tiger. In Part four, we're going to learn about texture of the three bugs in the forest, we have three, so we have three bugs. We will learn how to stimulate the texture of three bugs using acrylic paints and it's really fun. This will add another layer of realism for our painting and another layer of fun. In Part five, we'll learn how to form a tiger, and here we will see how simple strokes can bring our tiger to life. Creating its form and its structure. In the last part, Part six, we will learn about shadows. We'll learn the classical technique of glazing. I know it sounds like a lot. It sounds really professional, but I assure you, it's a really simple technique, very useful. We're going to use that to add shadows to our tiger and this will help us build up the three dimensional form of our tiger. Along the way, we will also learn about how to deal with our inner critique. When we paint, we're very vulnerable, we tend to think, Oh, something doesn't look good. Maybe your child wants to give up. I'm here to help you turn those doubt photots, whether it's yours or your children's into positive creativity. Because all these inner critiques thoughts, the way we talk to ourselves is not going to disappear. So I want to empower our children to learn how to sit with those thoughts and still be able to produce. So why should you take this class? Because it's very structured and very simple. It is done in step by step easy to follow video shot. This is perfect if you're a busy parent and you can't finish an artwork with your child in a single city because you don't have to. You just have to finish one video clip, one short part. The first part, you can do sketching with your kid today. The next day, you can do blocking in. So you don't have to finish everything all at one go. You're not required to. This will make it a stress free experience for you and your child. This class is actually designed for children that are age five and above. So as long as your child can hold a paintbrush, be able to manage the pressure and not the first, then I think good to go. In fact, this class is not just for children, it's for adults too. If you are keen and up for the challenge, set up a separate paint station for yourself and paint together with your child side by side, both of you watching the video and painting together. I highly encourage parents to paint alongside your own children and make your own version of the tiger. As adults, we also have ats when we engage in creative activity and how do we work through it. Be a role model for our children. So start gathering your supplies, get comfortable, and let's embark on this creative journey together. Wait to see all the amazing tigers that you and your child will create. 2. Acrylic Tiger Materials and Supplies: Welcome to the material section. Now, you notice that when I use acylate pain as a material, my material and supplies video will be very similar. Because with acclic pain is really a standard set of material. Nonetheless, if this is the first time that watching my video, good for you because once you know your Acyl supply material once, you don't have to watch it many times over. Usually, even if there's a new material, it's just going to be one or two, you know, a very simple addition. But the basic set of materials are really all these core players here. Now, as you guys are using these materials with your children, I would say that we're not looking at, you know, investing in very, very expensive material. Acylic pain is a little bit more expensive than color pencils and crayons for sure. But I really, really like them. It's one of my essential materials. Working with children and adults, is really one of my favorite materials when I work with children, I consider it my essential materials because acylate pain is so forgiving. And the results that it used is so professional. The finishing and the vibrancy of the color, it is uncomparable. I really cannot get the same results with watercolor with poster paints or crayons and color pencil. The ease of application and how it, you know, it's so simple to use. It's really a huge benefit for introducing children to it because they feel really accomplished, they feel like, how, I'm using an adult material as well. Okay. So I think it's really great for the children's psychology is really great because of the finishing, the finished works looks fantastic. The only thing is, of course, it needs a little bit more management because it is a wet medium. We need water, and, you know, there's some mass, and you can't leave your child or children with it alone without supervision. So this is the material that requires supervision. And at the beginning, even squeezing the pain, actions like that require us to be there and physically do it for our children because um, you know, a 5-year-old or a 6-year-old will not know how much pressure to apply to squeeze out the pain. But over time, it is possible to train them to do that. And in my studio, or when I work with children, I have managed to do that, but it is over time, and you have to be working with your children to do this, if that's something that you want to work towards, that's something that you desire. For me, I like it because it gives them a lot of autonomy over time. So by 6-year-old 7-year-old, their physical grip strength would be strong enough to control how much pain to squeeze on the palette, and it's not just about the physical strength, it is also about, you know, pallet management, where to put the paints on the pallet and all that. Also washing brushes and, you know, all that stuff. In terms of the technical aspect, there is a learning curve, but once you get past the learning curve, the results will be two, three fold. It's really worth the effort to learn this medium properly. Yeah. So if you're interested in something like that, please let me know, you know, when you submit your class project that you want me to touch on how do we train children to do this. Within the class itself, I will not be talking in depth with how to teach our children to manage the pain. Rather I'm going into the project detail straightaway, how do we paint that? What are we doing? Okay. So anyway, that's quite a long introduction about materials, but let me go into the materials direct. So obviously, we need acylate paints and There are many, many grade of accurate paints. I usually use a student grade accate paints and you can see I buy something that is of a bigger size. There are stuff, you know, there are brands that are really tiny and even smaller than this. I don't recommend those. They're not my favorite because they run out really fast. With children, I like to work bigger in terms of canvas size as well. So I recommend the investment, I think it's worth it to buy a student grade series of your pain. In this case, you can see this is the brand that I use. Now you may not have this brand available in your place. Another brand that I like to use is this brand. These are the two brands that I have available where I stay and I know they are quite trustworthy and I've been using them. And you can see this is like one litter. So I use a lot of pain when I work with children and I work them quite frequently. So that's why I have invested in a bottle. So for you guys at home, you may not be working so often. So something like this size would be great. This is 120 ML. Okay. So I think something like that is really great, and you can invest in the primary colors, like white, black. Okay, those are nutris, not primary, white and black. But anyway, the primaries are red, blue, and yellow, and if you can afford it, throw in your orange, green, and browns, then you're pretty much set. Okay, you're good to go. So accurate paints and you can see acylate pains, this is the kind of opening we have, and if you do not use it often enough, this pain will dry. Okay. I recommend once you use it, go ahead and start, you know, using it regularly and more often. Acry pain is actually kind of like acylate pain dries permanent. When you're using it, you can dilute it with water, but once it's dry, the effect is permanent. It looks really good. Um, most of them dry mat, but depending on the formulation, the brand you buy, sometimes they dry a little bit shiny as well. Once they're dry, you cannot remove it. Any furniture that you have, any, you know, shirts that you wear, if you paint it or on If you get accurate paints on them, likely, they don't come off easily. So I recommend you protecting your table surface. So for me, I got something like a keyboard mats that I roll out when I do my artwork. I used to wrap my paper with plastics as well so that's something you can do. I don't use newspapers because they tend to get a little bit dirty. I don't like the feeling and the sensation of that. Yeah. So plastic wraps or some kind of laptop cover or cardboard. That works well as well. Okay. So yeah, acuit paint diluted with water. That's how we use it. Oftentimes when I just take it out of the tube, I don't dilute water. So we also need a palette. I have this, you know, like, a commercial palette. You don't need a commercial palette. For the longest time, I've I've just been using, like a acrylic plate, and I wrap it up with any plastics. So I've seen people wrap, you know, their plates up with aluminum foil. I've seen people use paper plates, some people even use reusable takeout boxes, my requirement is that it needs to have some surface, enough flat surface for color mixing. That's why you see at the center. These are all the places where I mix my paints. On the side, this is actually where I squeeze my paint. And the interesting thing is, accurate paint is a kind of plastic, right. So if you see Now, the surface that we use must be non porous, meaning it doesn't absorb water. So it doesn't work if I try and squeeze pain and hold it on paper, for example, because the paper will suck away all the water content on of my accurate pain and my paints will dry much much faster. So I don't want that. So Just find you know, non porous surface, it can be ceramic plate, you know, a metal plate, ya, any plastic surface. So this is really addictive after a while. After I use it I can clean it. If it's thick enough, I can peel off everything. Uh, so if you want, you can get a commercial palette, I. There are plenty of DIY solutions around as well. So that's palette. And then we have the surface to work on. So I worked on paper in my demonstration. Okay. And this is Acic pad. So what's the difference, you know, what kind of paper do you get if you want to use Accu is very versatile, you can paint on cardboard, you can paint on any kind of paper that is thick enough. So mine is 300 SM. So if you want to use paper, you have to use something that is at least 150 above. So printer paper will not work because it's too in. We are still using water, you know, sometimes to dilute the paint a little bit. So your paper get wet, it needs to be able to hold the paper, it needs to be thick enough. So if you buy acrate pad, that's a safe pad. If it doesn't say accurate pad, but the thickness is thick enough, that will work as well. If you want to do recycling, use cardboards. I have painted on cardboards. The effects are really good. The only thing is cardboard, usually it's brown. So you might find that with children, D with a brown base can be a little bit challenging because you don't have the white base. Like some colors if they apply too thinly, you may see the brown coming through, so that can be a little bit challenging. So with children, I like to start with white base. Sometimes I'm lucky I get white cardboard. Yeah. In fact, even this, you see the back. This is actually a cardboard. I can paint on it as well, but I might not use it for my children as is. If I use it with my studio kids. What I do is I actually paint over a white layer of paint. A bit extra, but I like for them to be able to see how the colors are turning out on the paper. And size wise, I recommend bigger sizes. Definitely bigger than A four. So this is bigger than A four. So let me show you what a A four piece of paper looks like. This is like a A four size. This is slightly bigger. In fact, when I work with my children, I like to work with A three sizes, if I can. It's bigger. Maybe it feels more scary for you. But why I choose a bigger size is because when they're painting, some of the brushes cannot do so much detail. And for young children, their fine motor skills are not there yet, and we don't want them to be trying to make very thin lines too fast, especially for a 5-year-old. They may not be able to manage. So if you give them a bigger piece of paper, even a thicker line will work. So We are making the art easier for the children to attempt. If you're using paper, you might have to tape it down because your paper will be moving. If you're not using paper, if you're not using paper, then you can use Canvas or canvas board. These are great. They come all prime and they've got a nice thickness and you can use it straight away. It's really solid. Okay. Next, we will need a water container. It container with three columns so that you can you have more water to wash your brushes with. And in terms of washing brushes, I usually also teach my children how to do that. Okay? So if you find this challenging, let me know in your class project upload that this is something that you want me to touch on. Then we have cloth to dry the brushes, and then lastly, we have the brushes. So brushes wise, I use synthetic brushes, so you can see these are some flats, are some rounds. And it's quite important to have some brushes that are slightly bigger in size. So you can see this is like maybe two CM in terms of the width. This allows the children to paint bigger area more efficiently. You don't want them to be using something like this to try and paint the whole the whole surface that's inefficient and crazy. So this is still manageable. If you can, you can even get something bigger. Depending on what they're painting, for example, if they're painting backgrounds, you want them to choose a bigger brush because it's more efficient. And then if you're painting around the tiger or painting, small details like the stripes, then they can switch to a smaller brush. Typically, I have three different sizes. Over here, you only see two. So I'll have a big medium sm, big, medium small. So three different sizes of the brushes. Yeah, I think that's about it. If you have all these materials gathered, I think you're good to go. 3. Acrylic Tiger Part 1 Sketch: You ready? We are going to be painting a tiger. Except, you're not going to be using any pencils to do drawing the tiger. We're going to go ahead and paint the tiger on directly. We are going to see the tiger as ships. Different kinds of shapes. All right. So let's get started. Things first, I'm just going to do a really light sketch of where I think the tiger is going to be and how big the tiger is going to be. Okay. So you can pick any color you like. Maybe something on the lighter side, a lighter color. I'm thinking I'm just going to pick brown. I'm just going to put some brown. I'm leaving some space here because I'm going to have some white orange and probably some greens as well and dark colors for the background. Get a watery mix. So something watery. And I'm going to envision where the tiger is. We are going to represent the tiger in terms of shapes. You're not going to go into detail oops. Don't worry about that. It can easily be painted over because this is acrylic. All right. So maybe the tiger's face look like like a maybe. So how big do you think it is it this big? Too big, right. So let's say something like that. Now, if you find it's too big or too small, you can always go ahead and draw over again. It's okay. There's no mistake here because with acylate, you can always paint over again. Then below the tiger, that looks like a triangle shape. Don't you agree? So I'm going to do a triangle shape. Head. Maybe a little bit big. We have a triangle here. Now what else? I have a body behind, right. The circle behind. And then his tighs also look like it's a triangle. Maybe something like that. You see a tiger is a two triangle. And then he's got his two paws here. All right. And then what he is sitting on on a really big trunk. Right? Hold on a second. I'm just going to mine. Tiger ears too. All right. 4. Acrylic Tiger Part 2 Blocking in Colours: I'm getting my biggest brush, and I'm going to go ahead to start putting in the colors I see. If it's darker, I can play around and mix it. Don't worry. If it goes inside the line at fix that later. Oh. It's darker. You can add in darker tones as well. See how I'm trying different colors and see what it does to the green. So don't be afraid to play around and have different greens being mixed up here. Except. The only thing is I am only working with the dark colors first. Let me get the dark green. Okay. So now I've gotten the dark color. I'm going to go for my tree trunk, and I'm going to make my tree trunk dark brown. So this is not really dark enough. I'm going to try adding in some blue. So that makes it. Yes, it does. Okay. Notice how I'm starting with all the darker colors. Good. We are basically just laying in a base color for it. We can always build it up again. Meaning get more colors on top later. I'm going to block in my tiger. So I'm changing to a smaller brush. Look at the tiger. I got some light brown. Looks a little bit orange. It it and see if that's the color I like. Doesn't have to be exactly that clothed. You want something closer to the color. We're going to work. So we've got this. Don't worry. Get that. That's a tail there. Brown and the face know what? I'm going to just go ahead and do everything in the brown or the orange of the tiers. Just to block in the color because I know you need a base color in there. The whole cavas paints. Here. We missed out some parts and worry. Later we can go back in and paint it. Now we have the painting all blocked out. What we are going to do is we're going to dry our works before we continue. Now, I'm going to ask you, what do you think of the artwork right now? Does it look good? No. It looks like a mess. Oh, no. If it looked like a mess, does it mean we keep up? Do we take this painting? No, right? I noticed a lot of my students like to look at the painting, and when they see that the painting doesn't look good, they get angry, they get frustrated, and they want to stop. So I want you guys to look carefully at Teacher socks painting right now. It does not look pretty at all. Because the painting is not complete yet. Okay. When we are doing a painting using Acic paint, it goes on layer by layer, by layer, by layer. It is not going to look pretty at the first round and it's okay. We can continue working on it. Don't let what you see right now deter you from going on. Understand that this is just the first layer, the first layer. Usually, the first layer may look messy. You can't see details. It just looks like blocks of color, which is why we call this blocking out the color. We just paint the Canvas into different blocks of color. In this step, there is no pretty things for you. Don't try and make it pretty. Don't look out for pretty things. Because it's not going to look pretty. Just going to look blockish, and we can still continue working on it. 5. Acrylic Tiger Part 3: Texture (Leaves) : Now, we are back to our painting. Now what we're going to do is we're going to add a little bit of texture on the background and I can see that I didn't do a very good job. There were some holes outside of the painting. That's fine. I get to work on it again. So this time round, I'm just going to touch up some of these areas that I missed out. Going to touch up some of these areas that I may have missed out. Maybe there's some holes I haven't noticed. Okay. Just go ahead and touch them up. Now that I'm done, I'm going to paint in some of the areas that I see lighter colors. So I just pick up a lighter green paint and I start adding some texture to it because it's a lot of leaves behind, right? Okay. And notice how I am leaving the paint on making different kinds of marks because that's the forest behind him. Different kind of marks using your brush. Once we're done, we'll dry it. Again. A Did you notice that when the paint is wet, it looks very bright and when it dries, it looks much darker. That is something that happens with equate pain, especially if you actually water down the paint. Make sure you use the paint fresh without adding water because if you add water, it's going to disappear onto the dark background. Great. Now we'll go on to the next layer, we're going to go even lighter. If you want to change the type of brush you're using, you can. Again, we're going to create texture on top of it. But this time around, I'm paying attention to where on the reference picture, are there more light leaves? It looks like there's some color leaves here. So I can use a big brush and make small lines. Use a big brush to make big lines. Okay. Explore, turn your brush, play around with it, see what kind of bx you can make. Doesn't always have to look the same. Because it's nature, all the leaves are going to look different. Doesn't matter if it overlaps with the layers below. Great. Now we're going to try it. Now we're going to make the green lighter. This light green, I want to make it lighter. Instead of adding white, I'm going to add usually when I want to get my greens, I yell. I'm going to use even smaller brush this time. Pick up the pain and beside. And this time now, have one more yellow in it. Go for smaller leaves. You can see the leaves are getting smaller insights. Well, I mean, even lighter, I can also use yellow shade of way on the canvas. Fantastic. Now, I'm done with the background. 6. Acrylic Tiger Part 4: Textures (Bark): Now I'm down in the background. I'm going to work with the tree trunk. So what I'm going to do with the tree trunk. I'm going to get a medium brush and I'm going to prepare another brush with the back of it. See this back of this brush. So I leave this brush on the side ready to use. It's all clean. What it. I'm going to show you how we create the texture on the tree trunk. Because you can see a lot of texture on the tree trunk, like, it's really rough, there from lines over there, right? So's zoom in. Okay, so this is what we're going to do. We're going to pick up a lighter color. All right. And paints over the tree trunk. Can you see how I lay on the paints quite thick? Next, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the back of my brush to scrape out the texture I see on the tree trunk. Okay. You can use the back of your brush, you can use a pencil. You can s of your pen. To create texture that you would like. So you can also lay in different kinds of brown. Only thing is you need to make sure that you do this before the pain dries up. So if you prefer it in, you can also as long as it's wet. The thing about in pain is it's going to dry out faster. So you have to move a little bit faster. Okay. So look at the reference picture and you can see the are different on your trunk. See how here I can't make any any texture anymore because it's dry. And that's the texture. But that's done. 7. Acrylic Tiger Part 5: Defining the Tiger: Now that we're done with the tree trunk, we are going to go ahead and work on our tiger. So it's a small brush, I'm going to put in the places where I think I see white color. So can see some white over here. Where the eyes are and around the face. This is the nose under the nose where the mouth face. This may look really funny at the beginning. Don't worry about that. Putting in colors. Now he looks like a old grandpa, there. And then on his front, we can see there's a lot of whites over here, and then some ons and legs. In the front of his chest. Se some white. Again, remember what we talked about. Maybe the artwork still looks really funny. Still doesn't look like a tiger yet. It's okay. Because you are working in layers for the tiger. The white. Remember, anytime we don't like something easily paint it. Goods. So we have some of the whites. Now, what we can do to help us out is to start putting in some of the blacks. But before we do that, before we do that, let's dry it. You want to make sure that the white is completely dry. If not, when we add the black, it's going to turn gray. You're going to have a gray stripe tiger. What we're going to do is we're going to go slow and work out what's inside the tigers face. Because right now we are really confused, I can tell. Let's go let's go with the ice first. And the ice goes down to the nose. Doesn't matter if it's not exactly the same. Okay. You try your best because we are using a pin brush directly. We using a pain brush to draw directly. So this is actually pretty advanced, right? Okay. And then we have the mouth. Let's put in the mouth. Okay. What else is. And then he has a lot of strips at the top. You put in some of the stripes. Maybe I cannot make everything exactly. That's fine. Some black on his ear. Let me get that this one also. What else can I see? Little bit of fibs. Let's got some Oh, Can you see the moment I add in some of these stripes. The tiger starts to appear. It doesn't matter how just now. It looks really funny. But when I put in the stripe, what do you notice about the tiger, it magically appears, right? We try our best to stick with the painting instead of thinking, Oh, it looks terrible. A. Stick with the painting. Focus on the process. We don't need it to be perfect the first time round. Looks like we have a of fur here. And he's got stripes here. Where else does he have stripes? Oh, he has stripes here. Isn't he stripes here. Where el does he have strikes here too. He looks like he has some stripes here. Where else does he have stripes here? A over here. He's got some stripes on the side too. I can't see where the paws are. So I'm going to use my black to kind of fit out the paws. What about the other one. Where else does he have stripes? Oh, this is his leg. See. You see just now what looks really funny, once we put the stripe on It's not weird anymore. It actually looks beautiful. There's stripes here and they're actually in stripes. This one is a long strike. There's a strike from the bottom up going to the skin. Great. Now, there's a back leg here, so I'm just going to paint out the back leg. And on the backs a few more stripes. Let's see. On the back leg. Let's see different kind of stripes too. Pay attention to where the stripes are pointing to. We are they going. They're not always horizontal. They're not always straight. Sometimes they are curved. Sometimes they are curved. Sometimes they are curved. Sometimes they're sh. O here, there's a lot. Lots of stripes, and they're very skinny over there. It's great. Then the stripes down to the tail. Okay. Can you see now our tiger has appeared? All right. Beautiful, isn't it? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to dry it because I still want to add a little bit of color into the eye. The tiger eyes is not white. He doesn't have white eyeballs, okay? That's that. And 8. Acrylic Tiger Part 6: Adding Shadows: Okay, great now they will dry. We want to add in some of the detail color and maybe some shadows. First things first. The tiger eye is not white. So we're just going to add in a little bit of yellow in those eyeballs. White one. The second one is remember we saw that the tree trunk is not always the same brown. Some parts of it are darker. Spot which part is darker. Oh, yes, somewhere here. So how we're going to add in the darker color is we are going to paint it on, but in a either very watery or very little paint. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to I'm going to use this brush, and I'm going to mix a of a darker orange or brown. A darker one. What I'm going to do is I'm going to just brush it here. Oh, this is really dark. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add water to it. I'm going to add water, a very watery brown underneath O the places that I think looks dark. So watery paint. Over different places. Now, there are also some shadow on the tiger. Can you spot that? Where is the tiger's face darker? Here, right. Underneath the next. I'm going to pick up the watery paint and just spread them over the places that I think looks darker. Be the tiger leave in the wild. It's not going to be clean and all showered, right? It's a. Okay for your tiger to be a little bit dirty and messy on face as well. All right. That's good. Over here on the face, I'm going to use a smaller brush just to add in some darker colors. So to du. Dark. It's going to blend it out, pick up orange and mix with the little bit of brown. I can see he's got some darker colors there. So it's okay if you think that some of the colors, you still want to adjust on your tiger. If you think this tiger is too orange. I want a little bit more brown tiger and pick up the pain and put in the colors where I want it. I think this part is lighter. So I want to put in something more. We else is the tiger lighter brown here on the ears. Maybe on the forehead. Don't be afraid to add in. Because there is no mistakes in acrylic paint. You can always paint over, like I am painting over right Now. I am putting in more colors that I see on my tiger. I think that the color I use just now, I don't like it can always adjust it. It makes our tiger so much more interesting. Last. I'm going to pick up a little bit of we and ship it outside. Give it a little bit of around the face of the tiger. Fry and if I want some biscuits, I can. Want to it. Little bit of furry around the face. See how I'm holding the brush, not very, very close, further so I can pull very thin lines. Someone the ears to, I can see. Notice how much fun I'm having with the paint. I'm not afraid at all. I am not afraid of making mistake because I can always go back and add another color on top of it. I just need to dry my work if I want to do that. There's no way we can make mistakes with accate pain. How fun is that? A little white spot in the eye cannot really tell. Okay? Beautiful and the tiger is done. Let me remove the tapes. And there you go, your Tiger painting. We can sign your name, too. Okay? I almost forgot about that. That's my si picture. Tiger in the hot Jungle. I hope you enjoyed this one. No. 9. Acrylic Tiger Project Debrief: Hi, everyone. Congratulations on completing the Athletic Tiger painting. I'm so proud of each and every one of you for your dedication and your creativity throughout this journey. So let's take a moment to reflect on what we've done so far. Over the past lessons we've done sketching, we learn how to break down complex shapes into basic shapes. Which really gives us a strong foundation for our tiger painting, right? Knowing where to paint what. So remember, every artwork starts with a good foundation. So sketching, drawing, is an important skill. The next part, we explore the block in technique where we actually lay down base colors to build up our painting. This technique helps us set the stage for a more detailed work so that we're not painting on just white paper instead of painting or layering the next color onto a colored background already. And the third step is the third and the fourth step is actually texture, which is the leaves and the bk. So this is really fun, right? There's no wrong answer say. And step four, forming the tiger. In this step, we learned that simple line, simple strokes can help us create the structure and the form of a tiger, we don't have to draw the whole outline of things. It's a new way of drawing and painting and that how small actions can actually lead to beautiful beautiful results. So the last step, which is that five, adding the shadow, we learn the classical glazing technique. It sounds like a big word, but actually it's really simple after I broke it down to you, right? Okay. So this step really help our tiger pop and become three dimensional. Okay. So T throughout this project, we didn't just develop our technical skills. We also learn how to embrace our inner creativity and our inner critique. So a lot of times, we will hear some not so pleasant things in our brain, and we don't have to listen to them, can tell them, it's okay. It's okay. Let me hang in there. This is just the first layer. We will get through this. All right. Every brush stroke that we make is a step towards improving our art and gaining confidence. Now, I encourage you to share your finished artwork in the class project folder. Now, your submissions are not just a testament to your hard work, but also a source of inspiration for all your fellow classmates. Don't forget to leave a review and let me know what you enjoyed the most and what you would like to see more in future Skillshare classes. Your feedback is very, very important and extremely valuable because it helps to keep these classes alive and available on Skillshare. It will also help me decide what kind of content to create for you guys more moving forward. If you're open, please do share your artwork on social media and Technique on Instagram at ESO. I'd love to see your beautiful creations and celebrate your progress with you.