5 METHODS TO DRAW REALISTIC FUR! Coloured Pencil Drawing Tutorial- Episode 4

[Music] hello everybody welcome back for channels so today's video is the fourth episode in my color pencil series and in this video we're going to be focusing on five different ways for how you can draw fur and I'm also going to be showing you five different types of so that you can draw as well okay so the third place is don't going to be showing you guys is layering and this method probably takes the most time so it is not my most favorite method to use but for this method I'm using the prismacolor pencils and this method is really good for both long fur and short fur but for now I'm going to be showing you how you can draw a long fur with it so the first thing that I do is I use the black prismacolor pencil and I use this to establish where the shadows are in the fur so when you're practicing jointer and make sure that you're using a reference photo so that you can tour it as realistically as possible so I'm starting off by establishing the shadows and to do this I am using pencil strokes that are lines rather than circles or ovals and I'm going in the direction that the fur would be going and once I did that I took a light brown pencil and I used that to cover the whole of the area and to do this I could use circular motions but that was so that I could get an even coverage across the whole of the area and then I went in with a dark brown pencil and I use this to further establish the shadows so the important thing when you're doing this is to make sure that you're looking at your reference photo and also that you're using lines rather than circular motions and when you're doing your lines make sure they're not straight make sure they're curved lines and that they're going into motion that defer is given because the third will tend to have a flow to it and a certain motion that's going in there may be certain bits of fur that going against this motion but there'll be a general direction that the fur is flowing in so I'm going to continue using that diagram and the black to further define where the shadows are [Music] so wonderful finish defining the shadows I went in with the cream prismacolor pencil and I use this to lightly go over the whole of the area so I did this to slightly blend the layers together but because this is still an early layer I didn't want to press too hard on the pencil otherwise this will damage the to the paper and it will mean that you can't apply very many layers after that I'm now adding the light brown pencil and I'm adding this to the whole of the area as well and then on going back over the shadows with the dark brown pencil I'm now quickly using light brown pencil how easily shadows into the highlighted regions that it's not such a harsh transition and to add more tone to it so now going in with the white Karen - pencil and I'm using this to add some of the highlighted strands of fur over the top so when you look at Sur there will be clumps rather than loads of single strands but you will have some flyaways transfer over the top or certain strands of fur that stand out more than others so because this current - luminance pencil is really opaque it goes over the prism colors really well so once I added those highlighted strands you can really see that it's starting to look like fur now because we are drawing longer so the strands that I'm drawing a longer and slightly thicker but if you're drawing short fur then you just need to make your pencil strokes shorter so again I'm just adding some more depth to those shadows by using a diagram pencil and the black pencil and then I'm also going to go back in with the white and pull out some more of those highlights as I'll get into the final layers I'm applying a bit more pressure especially when I'm using the white and the cream to create those highlights I'm applying a lot more pressure so that I can really get those highlights to stand out also because there's a different strength to certain highlights if you add more pressure on certain strands then this will make them really stand out compared to others and it will create a lot more dimension in your work if you've got certain highlights which is slightly darker and then some really bright highlights that will come straight to the front and really pop out a final thing that I do to make my highlights look a bit more natural is where it's slightly darker but there's some highlighted regions you can go over your highlights use in a light brown or the dark color and glaze a bit of that color over the top say eases that highlight into the hair a bit more and looks a bit natural rather than making it look like a white strand over the top of a really dark shadowed area make sure that you glaze over it with a dark color to make it look like it's in that shadowed region as well [Music] okay so moving on to the second method for this method I am using markers as an under base and then going over the top with color pencils so for this I'm using Pro markers and follow castell polychromos and I'm starting off by using a light brown and a darker Brown Pro marker and just applying this all over the area to create a base layer and then once I've let this dry I'm going in with the ivory polychromos and I'm just creating some short hair marks over the top of this so for this method I'm showing you how you create short fur now because you've already got that base turn down using the markers you've already got that brown foundation to work on so if you're looking at brown fur on an animal you'd see the general brown color and then you'd see some highlighted strands of fur and some darker strands of fur standing out at you once I've added hair strokes over the whole of the area and then go back in with the ivory pencil but this time I'm using a bit more pressure and I'm applying it to create certain hair strokes that will stand out and when you begin to lay the hair like this where you create some lighter general strokes with the ivory and then press it slightly harder to create some hairs that are slightly lighter and stand out more that's when it's going to look like your fur is in layers which is going to make it really look three-dimensional and realistic another thing that you can do to make your fur look realistic is to glaze colors over the top of it so because this is brown fur you could glaze over that ivory color with some light Browns or some slightly warmer tones to give it a really natural look [Music] [Music] [Music] now move along to the third method this is very similar to using the market as an under base the nips method I'm using watercolours and under base and this method is very similar to the one that I use when I do the foxes in my last drawing and for this type of sir I am drawing more of a Reddy brown fur so I'm starting off by doing a light under base used in the ward colors and so I'm using the burnt sienna and the bird umber and I'm not worrying so much about blending these watercolor smoothly are quite like that rough flirt because it adds more texture when I'm drawing the fur so to add the watercolours I am using a water brush list and now I let this dry before I go in with the polychromos pencils so I really like using polychromos to draw fur because you can sharpen it a lot finer than you can with the wax based pencils and this means that you can get some really fine fur strokes so when I drew style here I started off by using a dark brown color and I use this to establish the shadows again and then I went in with the ivory like edge of the last method and use this to create some of those hair strokes and I also use some of the white to create the highlighted hairs as well and then once I did that I glazed some warmer colors over at once again to transition between those shadows into those highlights so this method is really good if you want to draw short course hat and then once I've done that I just continue to add some detail to make it look like the reference photos [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] now for the fourth method I'm using solvent and the solvent I am using is possessed at pencil blend but you can also use paint thinner as well so for this method I'm going to show you how you can draw black sir so I'm starting off with a black polychromos pencil and I'm using this to establish where the shadows are and again you can see that I'm always using lines that are flown with the motion of the hair and I'm also using a cooler gray color across the whole of the area so the black fur that I'm good to be drawing is going to be a cooler black fur that is going to have a blue tinge to it once I've established where the shadows are then used enough of that gray tone across the whole of the area I go in and blend it with the solvent so in order to be able to blend the per solvent you need to have enough of the pigment down onto the paper to be able to blend out that doesn't mean that you have to apply a lot of pressure to the pencil it just means that you need to have enough layers of pencil down in order for it to blend smoothly so what's really good about solvent is that it doesn't damage the tooth of the paper which means that once you've let it dry you can go over it with a whole new layer again and especially with white pencil once you've blended out I could apply the white pencil straight over the top of the black which I wouldn't have been able to do if I didn't use the solvent once I've ended it out with the solvent I start to choose the white car - luminance color pencil to establish where some of the first folks were so I do this in the same way that I do the others but because this was longer fur I use slightly longer fur strokes and again I use different degrees of pressure to create different depths in the fur I then use some of the black color and the bluish color - how gradiate between their shadows into those highlights especially where I've done the highlighted pieces of fur within the shadowed regions I don't want those to be really bright otherwise that will look natural so where the shadows are glazed over the highlighted regions that you've done within those shadowed parts with some of those dark colors to make it look a lot more natural and I also added some of that blue color where the highlighted regions were so it didn't look so flat and then once I did this I went in with the solvent again and blended it out and then I continued to add some more of that white colors and those blues and the blacks - how really define it [Music] you [Music] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so moving on to the last way to draw sir this is where I'm using an action tool to help me draw the first and this method is great if you want to draw a white sir or if you need to draw a whiskers so you can't really see much of what I'm doing when I'm acting the one doing is I'm taking the etching tool slightly on the side and I'm using it to engrave some of the fur marks into the paper and I don't use a lot of pressure otherwise this could tear the paper and this will take a bit of practice to see what pressure you need to etch the third into the paper but without damaging it and then once I've hg in all the first ropes I go over with the light grays and some darker Gray's or the shadows are and as you can see when I'm going over the area with these light Gray's it doesn't go in the grooves well of itched in those details and so those areas where etched they still appear completely white even though I'm going over the area with the gray pencil and this is because when you've engraved it you create a dip in the paper which means when you go over the top of the gray pencil it can't get into that groove that you've created and that's why this is a really good technique for white fur or whiskers so that you can actually then in the start you don't have to worry about keeping and preserving those areas white however if you're using solvent with this technique then you can get some of the pigment go into the grooves that you've created so I wouldn't recommend doing that until you tested it out first once I established all the gray tones I used a bit of blue tack and I use this to lift certain areas of color where the highlighted portions of the third was and I also use the white Karen - color pencil to help smooth out the area as well anyway so those are my five methods for hiking your fur if you enjoyed this video and found it useful make sure you give it a share which will really help out the video and my channel also if you're new to my channel feel free to subscribe for future tutorial videos anyways thank you guys for watching as always I'll leave links to my social media sites and my new online store in the description below thank you for watching and I'll see you my next video bye [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Kirsty Partridge Art

Views: 701,679

Keywords: coloured pencil, colored pencil, drawing tutorial, how to draw, drawing realistic, prismacolor, artist, art, challenge, drawing fur, how to draw fur, polychromos, tutorial, sketchbook tour, drawing for beginners, beginners, step by step, how to, painting, watercolours, promarker, marker challenge

Id: cdcDeXint4U

Length: 18min 17sec (1097 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 24 2017