Even if you don't go to art school or painting classes, you can learn how to hold a brush in your hands and handle paints skillfully. Wildlife sketches can help you develop the skills you need. Choose almost any species of fauna as objects. For example, you can make the hero of the portrait a lynx.
It is necessary
- - Paper;
- - pencil;
- - eraser;
- - watercolor;
- - brushes;
- - palette.
Instructions
Step 1
Take a sheet of A3 watercolor paper. Place it vertically. With a pencil, divide the space of the sheet in half - with the vertical and horizontal axes. They will help maintain proportions in the drawing.
Step 2
Thus, the sheet was divided into 4 identical rectangles. Make a pencil sketch of the drawing in them. The horizontal axis of division falls on the line of the animal's eyes, the vertical one passes through its ear. To correctly build the rest of the lynx face, calculate the proportional relationship between them. As a unit of measurement, you can take the width of the lynx's eye. The distance between the eyes of an animal is equal to one such unit of measurement. Three units will fit from the eye to the border of the upper jaw, the height of the lower jaw is equal to one eye width.
Step 3
Draw thin lines for the shape of the lynx's ears. Please note that according to the laws of perspective, the tip of the ear in the background will be slightly higher in the figure. Position the corner of the lynx's mouth at approximately the same level as the tip of the ear.
Step 4
Mark the brightest stripes on the animal's skin. Check their shape and position with the original - mistakes at this stage will create the illusion of an irregular shape of the entire head.
Step 5
Color the drawing with watercolors. Use a wide brush to fill with the foreground color. Apply a mixture of light brown and brick all over the face, except for the lower jaw and under the eyes. Use the same color around the ears and nose with added ocher. Paint the tip of the nose dark brown with the addition of red. For the eye, mix thick ocher with a drop of green.
Step 6
Use a thinner brush to paint small spots and lines into the coat. Add shadows on the side of the nose, on the cheekbones and at the base of the ear. Apply ocher and light brown spots to the white coat, adding blue to the shaded areas.
Step 7
When the entire head of the animal is painted over, take the # 1 column brush. Use white watercolor to paint subtle strokes for the lynx's whiskers and light hair on the face and ears.
Step 8
Lastly, paint over the background - the tree in the background. It is enough to apply a few broad strokes and not detail this part of the drawing.
