Run Time: 9Hr 3 Min
Video Size: 1920 x 1080 Full HD
This coyote is almost a daily site at the back of my property. I often see him on his evening perambulation through the woods on his way to the next door neighbors house, a hot spot for chicken dinners. I find myself always amazed at the beauty in their coat, most people see the coyote as a nuisance, I see them as pure beauty.
In this art tutorial we learn how to achieve the daunting task of painting multi-coloured fur. We will break things down and then learn how to use value and temperature to create convincing fur, soft snow and highly textured wood. We will also learn how to use 'holding' through our shadows to create stability in our painting and to reinforce mood.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Board Size: 11 x 13 1/5 Inches
Downloadable Lesson Aids: Line Drawing, Colour Template, Materials List, Reference Photo.
After a short introduction we mix our base colours and then start to block in our coyote head and body.
In part two we continue to block in the body of the coyote establishing our shape and form and then start our second coat, refining our colours.
With blocking in completed we concentrate of building shape and form and then begin our detailing of the head.
In this part we turn our attention to the body and start to refine the colours in the coat before breaking the areas up in preparation for detail.
In part five the fun begins as we start to develop and then detail the tail and the hind quarter of our coyote.
In part six, with our shape and form built, we start to detail the multi-colored coat of the coyote on the back and sides.
In part seven we begin our snow textures. We block in a background that we change down the road and then start to build up the foreground snow.
In part eight we learn to rework our background into a stronger composition. Once blocked in we build up shape and plain changes in our snow.
In part nine we learn how to make subtle plane changes in our snow to create the look of ripples and swales in our snow.
In part ten we paint our background trees and ground debris. With the background completed we blend and break up our right foreground tree.
In this part we blend 'local' colours on our left trees by hand with a demo of how to do with airbrush and then we start adding detail to the bark.
In part twelve we add the fallen branch and ground debris. We learn how to use lighting to create shape, depth and holding.
In this part we detail the raised leg/paw of the coyote and then move on to adding final detail on the body and head of the coyote.
We finish off by painting the hind legs and adding detail to the tail and rear area. We complete the painting with some added detail of small saplings.
