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Brenda Hoddinott

S-02 INTERMEDIATE: CARTOONS IN COLOR

With only five colored pencils, you draw this silly cartoon face centered inside long wild blue fur. The three dimensional nose

and realistic eyes are rendered with a technique called burnishing, and the fur is

created with hatching.

This lesson is divided into the following five parts:

INTRODUCTION: Colors of pencils and type of paper needed is discussed.

OUTLINING WOOLY BOO BLUE: You outline a cartoon face in preparation for adding shading.

SHADING FUNNY CARTOON EYES: Eyes are shaded with three colored pencils, and a bold, colorful approach.

SHADING THE FORM OF A SPHERICAL NOSE: Two colored pencils are used for shading Wooly’s nose.

USING HATCHING TO SHADE LONG BLUE FUR: You need two colored pencils to shade Wooly Boo Blue’s fuzzy fluffy fur.

Suggested drawing supplies include Good quality white drawing paper and the five colors of pencils illustrated in the Introduction.

Recommended for artists, aged ten to ninety-nine, who have limited drawing skills, as well as home schooling, academic and recreational fine art educators

8 PAGES – 16 ILLUSTRATIONS Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2004 (Revised 2006)

Copyright to all articles, images, text, projects, lessons and exercises within this drawing class belong to Brenda Hoddinott and may not be reproduced or used for any commercial purposes whatsoever without the written permission of Brenda Hoddinott.

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Don’t press too hard with your colored pencils – keep your lines VERY light. Colored pencils are really difficult to erase, and you may not be able to cover your mistakes if you press too hard.

UPPER EYELID: is a fold of skin that covers the upper section of an eye. WHITE OF THE EYE: (also called an eyeball) is the large sphere mostly hidden inside the orbital sockets of the skull. IRIS: is the colored circular shape surrounding the pupil of the eye.

INTRODUCTION Okay! I confess! Yes! I spend a lot more time drawing, than dusting. Wooly Boo Blue is one of a big family of dust bunnies who lives in my home!

Use white paper with some texture, as opposed to being smooth, so the colored pencils will easily adhere to your drawing surface. Texture is the surface detail of an object, as identified by your senses of touch and sight. I suggest the following five colors (or as close as possible).

DARK BLUE LIGHT BLUE BLACK ORANGE RED-BROWN

OUTLINING WOOLY BOO BLUE In this section you outline a cartoon face in preparation for adding shading. Pat your head, rub your tummy, and draw along with me as I take you step-by-step through this lesson.

1) Use a dark blue pencil, to draw two ovals (the eyes) in the center of your paper. Don’t draw them too big, or you won’t have enough space on your paper for the fur!

2) Lightly sketch a circle below the eyes as a nose. The top edge of his nose touches the bottom edges of both ovals. Make sure you have a little triangular-shape in the center of your three rounded shapes.

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HIGHLIGHT: a bright spot that defines where light bounces off the surface of the eye. PUPIL: the dark circle inside the iris, which adjusts its size to different lighting conditions.

The light source is from the right in this drawing,

which is why the highlights are closer to the right than the

left.

3) Draw a curved line through each eye to separate the upper eyelids from the whites. These curved lines begin at the same point in between his eyes. From this point, they curve upward, outward, around and down until they touch the outer edges of each eye.

4) Draw two large partial circles under his eyelids, to represent the irises. The irises of these eyes will be shaded with two different colors of blue.

5) Add a tiny circle to the upper right of each iris to represent the highlights. The highlights are off to the right and close to the lower edges of his eyelids. The highlights in his eyes will be left white.

6) Draw a smaller circle inside the iris to represent the pupils of the eyes. Make sure you don’t accidentally draw a line through the highlights.






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BURNISHING: is the application of

one layer(s) of color (or white)

over another, by applying pressure to your pencil to

blend colors together.

Burnishing colored pencils

can also be done with a tortillon or

a firm plastic eraser.

SHADING FUNNY CARTOON EYES Cartoons usually need a bolder, more colorful approach than traditional drawing subjects. You need three colored pencils for this section, dark blue, light blue, and black.

7) Use your dark blue to shade in the upper section of the irises. Apply more pressure to the pencil to create a nice deep blue in the upper section. Press less toward the lower section to make a lighter blue.

8) With your light blue, fill in the lower section of the iris. Press fairly hard with the light blue pencil and go over some of the dark blue sections until the two blues seem to blend into one another. This technique is called burnishing.

9) Use your black pencil to completely fill in the pupil of each eye. Remember to keep the highlights white.

10) Outline the little triangular shape (in the center of the eyes and nose) with a nice sharp black pencil.

11) Add shading with your light blue pencil to both the right and left ends of both eyelids.

12) Use this same pencil to add a tiny bit of shading to the right and left sections of the white of the eye.






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13) Outline the lower edge of the eyelid with a freshly sharpened black pencil.

14) With the dark blue, fill in the triangular shape in the center of the eyes and nose. This little triangle identifies the center of your drawing space.

15) Outline all the outside edges of the eyes and nose a little darker with your dark blue. Keep the lines really crisp and fine, rather than fuzzy and wide by keeping your pencil very sharp as you draw. You may need to re-sharpen your pencils several times as you add these outlines.

SHADING THE FORM OF A SPHERICAL NOSE You need two colored pencils, orange and red-brown for shading Wooly’s nose.

16) Use a sharp black pencil to draw a line between the eyes.

17) With your orange pencil shade in the nose, leaving a small circular section white. The small white circular shape in the upper right section of the nose (called the highlight), helps make the nose look shiny and three dimensional. Also note that the outer edges of the nose (close to its blue perimeter) are a lighter orange.

18) Use your red-brown pencil to add a crescent-shaped section of shading in the lower left section of the nose. This is an area in shadow and helps make the circle look three-dimensional and realistic.

Darker values are usually used in those areas of your drawing subject that receive less light than sections closer to the light source.






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USING HATCHING TO SHADE LONG BLUE FUR Now the face is finished, and you can finish the rest of your dust bunny. On to the fun part! You need your dark blue and light blue colored pencils to shade “Wooly Boo Blue’s fuzzy fluffy fur” (say that quickly ten times!).

19) Draw a few straight lines extending outward from the triangular shaped center. Small children often draw rays of light coming from the sun with lines.

Imagine for a moment that the dark triangle in the center of Wooly’s face is a large circle. Think of this circle as the sun with lines indicating the rays of light.

These lines serve as guidelines, to help you draw the “fur” in the final steps of this project.

20) With your light blue pencil, draw a whole bunch of straight hatching lines to represent his “fur”. Hatching is a series of lines (called a set) drawn closely together to give the illusion of values.

Use the guidelines to keep the fur “growing” outward from the center.

Try and make the fur a little thicker closer to his eyes and nose by drawing a few extra shorter lines.






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21) Use your dark blue pencil to draw lots of shorter hatching lines. These lines are darker and closer together near the center.

Use your vinyl eraser to clean up any smudges or fingerprints on your drawing paper. Put today’s date on the back of your drawing, sign

your name and pat yourself on the back!

CHALLENGE Use the techniques of outlining, burnishing and hatching, to draw another cartoon character. You may choose to draw Wooly Boo Blue’s crazy cousin Silly Willy Woo, or his little pet cow Mini Millie Moo, or you can even invent your very own dust bunny.

Use your imagination and any colors you like, and make any creative changes you wish! The nose can be big or really tiny, and can even be an oval or kidney shape. I have given my dust bunny thick fur. You may choose to give yours thinner fur (or even curly fur). Remember, the only goal is to have fun!






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BRENDA HODDINOTT - BIOGRAPHY As a self-educated teacher, visual artist, portraitist, forensic artist, and illustrator, Brenda utilizes diverse art media including graphite, technical pen, colored pencil, chalk pastel, charcoal, conté crayon, and oil paints.

My philosophy on teaching art is to focus primarily on the enjoyment aspects while gently introducing the

technical and academic. Hence, in creating a passion for the subject matter, the quest for knowledge also

becomes enjoyable. >Brenda Hoddinott<

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Brenda grew up in the small town of Corner Brook. She developed strong technical competencies with a personal commitment to self directed learning, and the aid of assorted “Learn to Draw” books. During Brenda’s twenty-five year career as a self-educated civilian forensic artist, numerous criminal investigation departments have employed Brenda’s skills, including Royal Canadian Mounted Police and municipal police departments. In 1992, Brenda was honored with a commendation from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and in 1994, she was awarded a Certificate of Membership from “Forensic Artists International”.

Her home-based art career included graphic design, and teaching recreational drawing and painting classes. As supervisor of her community’s recreational art department, Brenda hired and trained teachers, and designed curriculum for several children’s art programs. In 1998, Brenda chose to end her eighteen-year career as an art educator in order to devote more time to writing, drawing, painting, and developing her websites.

Drawspace http://www.drawspace.com incorporates her unique style and innovative approach to curriculum development. This site offers downloadable and printable drawing classes for students of all abilities from the age of eight through adult. Students of all ages, levels and abilities have praised the simple step-by-step instructional approach. This site is respected as a resource for fine art educators, home schooling programs, and educational facilities throughout the world.

LEARN-TO-DRAW BOOKS BY BRENDA HODDINOTT Drawing for Dummies: Wiley Publishing, Inc., New, York, NY, this 336 page book is

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