Leopards have always attracted the attention of artists seeking to capture them in motion. If you have the opportunity to observe leopards at the zoo, visit there and make some sketches and photographs that will help you understand this unusual animal, learn about the features of its body structure.
It is necessary
A sheet of white paper for watercolor, pencil B, ink 5 colors: Indian black, indigo, fiery red, sepia, lemon yellow; eraser, fountain pen, brushes: soft round brushes # 2 and 3, hard bristle nut brush # 8
Instructions
Step 1
Sketch the leopard with a B pencil while making adjustments to the original image. Trace the pencil sketch with Indian black ink. Draw short lines to draw the texture of the fur on the leopard's abdomen and on its chest under the neck. If the pencil lines remain visible, erase them with an eraser.
Step 2
Let's start adding color. Moisten the # 8 walnut brush with water and dampen the paper on the leopard's legs and lower body. Apply a thin mixture of indigo and a little fiery red mascara to damp areas. Wait for the wash to dry before proceeding to prevent mixing with subsequent layers of mascara. Moisten the rest of the leopard's body, then mix sepia, lemon yellow mascara and a little fiery red mascara and paint the leopard's body with wide horizontal strokes.
Step 3
We write spots on the skin. Take a # 2 round brush and scatter the sepia stains on the leopard's skin. Show the base of the animal's ear with a large dark spot, and then add spots to the leopard's face. Continue covering the leopard skin with sepia stains. Note that on the front of the body, these spots are smaller and closer together.
Step 4
We write grass. Add some sepia to the neutral brown blend you used, and slightly deepen the tone on the head and then all over the leopard's body. Mix lemon-yellow ink and sepia and, after moistening the surface of the painting with water, paint the grass with a brush number 3.
Step 5
We finish writing spots. Using a mixture of fiery red and lemon yellow ink and sepia, write orange dots in the center of the cluster of spots on the leopard's skin.
