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Supplies: textured white paper, vinyl eraser, pencil sharpener, sandpaper block, green, yellow, red/magenta, and pink colored pencils

Resources: • 8.1.R1 Introduction to Colored Pencils • 8.1.A1 Use Colored Pencils to Mix Colors

This tutorial has four sections: • Plan and Outline Daisy Dodo• Shade Daisy’s Head• Shade Facial Features• Add Final Details

Plan and Outline Daisy DodoYou need green, yellow, red/magenta and pink colored pencils (Figure 1).

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Daisy the Dodo Bird

Sketch the proportions of a zany cartoon and then shade with dry-mixing and burnishing

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.2Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 65.5Drawspace Curriculum 8.1.A5 - 8 Pages and 23 Illustrations

ArtSpeak

Pupil: The dark circular shape within the iris that adjusts its size under different lighting conditions.Iris: The colored circular section of an eyeball surrounding the pupil.Graduation: (also called graduated shading or graduated values) A continuous, seamless progression of values from dark to light or light to dark. Hatching: A series of lines (called a set) drawn closely together to give the illusion of values. Depending on the shading effects desired, the individual lines in hatching sets can be far apart or close together. Light source: The direction from which a dominant light originates. A light source identifi es the light and shadow areas of a drawing subject, allowing artists to know where to add light or dark lines and values in their artworks.

Figure 11. Draw a circular shape

that’s closer to the bottom of your drawing space than the top (Figure 2).

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Figure 3

Figure 2 Use your pink colored pencil. Note that the lower section of the circular shape is wider than the upper section.

Leave a little extra space above this circular shape to later add Daisy’s feathers.

Figure 4

Tip!

Choose a white paper that’s textured rather than smooth so the colored pencils can easily adhere to its surface.

Tip!

Don’t press too hard with your colored pencils or you’ll destroy the tooth of the paper and colors won’t adhere to its surface. Colored pencils are diffi cult to erase, and you may not be able to repair mistakes.2. Draw two slightly-tiled oval

shapes halfway between the top and bottom of the head shape (Figure 3).

These are Daisy’s eyes.

3. Draw a downward curved line below the eyes to represent the lower edge of the beak (Figure 4).

4. Draw an upward curved line attached to the previous curved line to represent the upper edge of the beak (Figure 5).

5. Draw a curved line with a tip pointed downwards inside the beak (Figure 6).

This tip represents the opening of the beak and separates the top from the bottom.

Figure 6

Figure 9

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ArtSpeak

Highlight: A small section of a drawing subject that is rendered with white or a very light value to identify the brightest area where light bounces off its surface. Burnishing: The process of applying one or more layers of a dry medium (such as colored pencils or graphite) over another to lighten, darken, or blend the colors or values. Dry mixing: The process of using a dry medium such as colored pencils to mix two or more different colors together to make a new color.

Figure 7

Figure 8

Figure 5

6. Draw circular shapes inside each eye (Figure 7).

These represent the irises.

7. Draw a tiny circle in the upper right of each iris (Figure 8).

These circles are the highlights, and will stay white to help make the eyes look realistic.

8. Draw another circle inside each iris to represent the pupils (Figure 9).

The pupils should appear to cut through and under the highlights.

Now the head, eyes, and beak are neatly outlined and ready for shading.

Refer to Figure 10 on the next page.

Shade Daisy’s Head9. Practice drawing graduated values with

straight and curved lines using a red pencil (Figures 11 and 12).

Apply lots of pressure with your pencil to make the dark values, and gradually lighten the pencil pressure as you graduate toward the lighter values.

The goal is to keep the transition between the different values fl owing smoothly into one another.

Figure 11

Figure 12

Figure 13

Figure 10

As an Aside

Colored pencils work beautifully for cartoons, which usually need a bolder, more colorful approach than traditional drawing subjects. When colored pencil drawings are outlined with a thin black marker, they look very illustrative and professional.

10. Add light shading to the entire head (Figure 13).

As the light source comes from the upper right in this drawing, the highlights in the eyes and on the forehead are closer to the right than the left.

As an Aside

Hatching graduations rendered with straight and curved lines are the primary features of realistic shading.




Figure 11

13. Outline the white of the eye and the iris with green and the beak with red (Figure 16).

14. Shade the irises with a green graduation, leaving the pupils and highlights white (Figure 17).

Figure 15

Figure 1411. Outline the head in red (Figure 14).

A dark, thick outline sets the stage for darker shading.

12. Add darker shading to the face (Figure 15).

Press fi rmly with a red pencil. Graduate the shading inward from the dark outline. Add some darker shading on the left of her head, between the eyes, and in the chin area.

The head is beginning to look three-dimensional.

Shade Facial FeaturesIn this section, you create Daisy’s fun facial expression by adding fi ne details to her features using green, yellow, and red pencils.

Figure 16




Figure 18

The irises are shaded with a graduation of green that is darkest on the upper right, above the highlight. The lightest sections of the beak are the top right and the pointed tip.

Dark outlines mark the edges of the eyes and beak.

15. Add additional shading to the beak.

Add a little shading around the edges of the top section of the beak, graduating lighter toward the center.

Leave the pointy section white to help make it look like it’s in front of the bottom half. Shade the lower half of the beak darker.

16. Apply lots of pressure with your yellow pencil to go over the green in the irises (Figure 18).

This technique (burnishing) makes the green brighter, and blends the two colors together so they look smooth. Burnishing colored pencils can also be done with a tortillon or a fi rm plastic eraser.

17. Burnish the red shading on both halves of the beak using your yellow pencil.

Shade the upper section and then the lower. If you burnish over the center line separating both halves, the colors may smudge. The red and yellow have blended into one another (dry-mixed) to create orange.

18. Color in the pupils with a fi ne-tip permanent black marker (Figure 19).

Test your marker on some scrap paper before you begin and make sure that it doesn’t smudge, or your drawing may be ruined! Remember to leave the highlights white.

19. Outline the whites of the eyes, the irises, and the beak with your black marker.

Take your time and draw your outlines slowly and carefully. Burnishing makes the irises look smooth and bright, and turns the beak orange. A thin, neat black outline adds a very professional look to the cartoon face.




Figure 17

22. Add some extra lines at the top of this clump of feathers/hair using your green pencil (Figure 21).

Figure 19

The shading is really dark and completely fi lled in with color close to the top of the head, but is uneven and raggedy at the top.

20. Draw three small curved lines on the upper outside edge of each upper eyelid to look like eyelashes.

Add Final Details21. Draw some feathers/hair on the

top of Daisy’s head using your red pencil (Figure 20).




Figure 20

Figure 21

23. Draw the neck and shade it darkly with your red pencil (Figure 22).

24. Outline Daisy’s head and hair with a fi ne-tip, permanent black marker (Figure 23).

Figure 22

Figure 23




Challenge!

Put on your thinking cap and invent a brother, sister, partner, or grandmother of Daisy’s to draw in colored pencil using the skills taught in this lesson.

Sign your name, date the back of your drawing, and put a big smile on your face!

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