SUNNY BLUE

In this project you use colored pencils to draw a fun cartoon of a flower. The curriculum demonstrates basic color theory, and the skills of shading, overlapping colors, and burnishing.Colored pencils are ideal for adding color to cartoons, which usually require a bolder, more colorful approach than traditional drawing subjects. When outlined with a thin black marker, colored pencil cartoons can look very illustrative and professional. This lesson is divided into three parts: PLANNING AND DRAWING: You plan your drawing, and then use a yellow colored pencil to draw the outline and base color of Sunny Blue within your...
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SUNNY BLUE SUNNY BLUE Brenda Hoddinott S-01 INTERMEDIATE: CARTOONS IN COLOR In this project you use colored pencils to draw a fun cartoon of a flower. The curriculum demonstrates basic color theory, and the skills of shading, overlapping colors, and burnishing.Colored pencils are ideal for adding color to cartoons, which usually require a bolder, morecolorful approach than traditional drawing subjects. When outlined with a thin black marker,colored pencil cartoons can look very illustrative and professional.This lesson is divided into three parts: PLANNING AND DRAWING: You plan your drawing, and then use a yellow colored pencil to draw the outline and base color of Sunny Blue within your drawing space in preparation for adding shading. ADDING SHADING WITH COLORS: In addition to yellow, you need an orange (you may call this red) for the petals, and both a light and medium blue for the center. ADDING FINAL TOUCHES: You need purple, yellow, and medium blue colored pencils for the background, and a fine tip permanent black marker to give Sunny Blue some final details and her sunny personality. 10 PAGES – 15 ILLUSTRATIONS Recommended for artists and aspiring artists of all levels and abilities from age 10 to adult, as well as home schooling, academic and recreational fine art educators. Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers, Halifax, NS, Canada (Revised 2006) -2- PLANNING AND DRAWING Throughout this section you plan your drawing, and draw an outline of Sunny Blue within your drawing space in preparation for adding shading. Drawing space (sometimes called a drawing format) refers to the area of a drawing surface within a specific perimeter. Choose white drawing paper with some texture, as opposed to being smooth, so the colored pencils will easily adhere to your drawing surface. Texture refers to the surface detail of the paper, and is also referred to as the tooth. The word tooth refers to its surface texture, which can range from silky smooth to very coarse. The more tooth a paper has, the rougher it feels. Stay away from paper with a glossy surface! If a paper’s surface is too smooth, the pigment in the colored pencils simply won’t stick, because there’s no tooth for it to grab hold of. Hence, it’s darn near impossible to render medium and dark colors. You need only five colored pencils for this project, similar to the colors shown below: ILLUSTRATION 01-01 YELLOW ORANGE / RED MEDIUM BLUE LIGHT BLUE PURPLE Put the cat out, take the phone off the hook, sharpen your yellow pencil and get ready to draw! ILLUSTRATION 01-02 1. Use a ruler to outline a square drawing space. Mine is 4 inches by 4 inches, but you may choose any size you wish. 2. Draw a circle in the center of your drawing space, as the center of the flower. Choose a yellow, close in color to Illustration 01-01. Take note that the distances between the perimeter of the circle and each side of the square are almost identical.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. E-mail bhoddinott@hoddinott.com Web sites http://www.finearteducation.com and http://www.drawspace.com -3- 3. Draw three petals with spaces in between each. Each petal isn’t an oval, but rather a U-shape. 4. Add three more petals in between the first three. ILLUSTRATION 01-03 ILLUSTRATION 01-04 ILLUSTRATION 01-05 5. Color each petal with a yellow pencil. Don’t press too hard with your pencils or you’ll destroy the paper’s tooth. Yellow is one of the three primary colors; the other two are red and blue. Secondary colors are orange, green, and purple and are created by combining any two primary colors. Red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make gr ...