I Draw Crash Bandicoot: Process - Learn to Draw With Friends
For this drawing I wanted to try working with color pencils and experiment with some techniques to see what I could come up with.
Materials
The Steps
I began by drawing a series of circles to represent Crash's joints and features and connected them with lines to create a simple skeleton to draw over.
Then I did some line work to rough out the image.
With the basic line work done I covered the drawing with a second piece of thin "onion skin" paper and taped it in place. The reason I did this was to keep the pencil lead graphite from smearing together with the color pencils I plan to use next.
Then I filled in the color sections lightly on the new piece of transparent paper with my color pencils.
I'm using a 24 piece set of artist quality Prismacolor Primier colored pencils.
With the colored pencils now defining the image I removed the paper with the original pencil line work.
Whoops, looks like we don't have any gray pencil in our 24 piece set for the gray on Crash's shoes. We'll just use light purple for now...
...and mix yellow over top of the purple (it's complimentary color) to create a more neutral tone.
Finally I picked up my black colored pencil and shaded in some final parts like his eyebrows, hair, and some small shadows here and there.
I'd just like to say a big thank you to everyone who viewed, commented and showed their appreciation, it really does mean a lot to me. Thank you
Took an hour out of my beach vacationing morning to draw a CrashBandicoot meme for all to see.
Cool Crash man!
Thanks
First of all that drawing is so good. And second, by reading your post I learned so much about ways to step through drawing something! I love the tracing paper technique and also the complementary coloring you did on the shoes! So neat and what a great result you have!! Thanks @ckurtish!
Thank you so much, I tried to be as concise as I could on this post. I like using the color pencils on onion skin because you can press as hard as you like without pitting the paper.
The complimentary color trick was born out of necessity :D
This is the story of my childhood game console :D
That looks good! I love how you explained the process.
I think people can learn a lot from how you handled it. Thank you :)
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This is awesome! My girlfriend has got those same colored pencils. Haha, the case is definitely familiar. I love to see art like this, it always peaks my interests.
Upvoted you!
This was one of my favorite characters back in the day.
Awesome!
Here's a gallery of paintings here.
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Wow!! amazing drawing.. maybe I should take part in #ltdwf too... But I don't follow the usual style of drawing, I draw with (ballpoint) pen from the start, I don't do inking because it's ink in the first place and I rarely color.... is it okay to take part with that style?
anyway~ Here's the only few drawings be me that are on steemit to see my style.
Sorry for the late reply, so far the #ltdwf challenges have required that they be pencil drawings. That said there are other art contests happening in #contest that your style my be suited for. Good luck!
Thanks will check them out!!