1 00:00:01,983 --> 00:00:05,600 This is Lesson 6, drawing with color. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,800 Drawing with color is probably the most complicated thing that you can do 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,070 within the range of activities we call drawing. 4 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:15,730 Drawing with tone is quite difficult. 5 00:00:15,730 --> 00:00:18,060 Drawing with line is pretty simple. 6 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:20,900 Drawing with color, you get a lot of moving parts and 7 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:22,830 things can easily go wrong. 8 00:00:22,830 --> 00:00:27,590 Now, to stop them going wrong, the starting point for most people 9 00:00:27,590 --> 00:00:33,060 is to work with a pencil so you can get a framework to drop the color into. 10 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:37,240 In this drawing, a drawing by John Raskin of an eagle's head, 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,320 I think you can see, very clearly, he starts with a pencil outline. 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:47,226 He draws the shape around the head, the outline. 13 00:00:47,226 --> 00:00:53,240 Then, I bet he puts in the eye, attaches the end of the beak to the eye 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,260 with a very delicate line that just sweeps through the center of the head. 15 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:00,453 Then finally, he does the easy bit, maps out where the feathers are. 16 00:01:00,453 --> 00:01:06,035 Now, once that drawing is there, the tool changes, it's a brush. 17 00:01:06,035 --> 00:01:07,769 And with the brush, 18 00:01:07,769 --> 00:01:13,790 Ruskin brings a life to the drawing that a line during will never have. 19 00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:15,625 He brings actual color. 20 00:01:15,625 --> 00:01:17,004 He brings volume. 21 00:01:17,004 --> 00:01:18,923 He makes the feathers look fluffy. 22 00:01:18,923 --> 00:01:20,383 He makes the eye look glossy. 23 00:01:20,383 --> 00:01:21,910 He makes the beak look hard. 24 00:01:21,910 --> 00:01:24,499 And that is what color can bring into a drawing. 25 00:01:24,499 --> 00:01:28,290 It brings extra detail, it fleshes it out. 26 00:01:28,290 --> 00:01:30,435 If a line drawing is the skeleton, 27 00:01:30,435 --> 00:01:35,220 the color drawing is the fully clothed, fleshed out image. 28 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:39,910 So, my guess is he started with brown feathers and 29 00:01:39,910 --> 00:01:44,920 put on a very light brown wash that he then put a darker brown into 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,740 to give the feathers a three-dimensional look. 31 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:52,290 So, the color goes across the whole, and 32 00:01:52,290 --> 00:01:58,280 then comes back into the tip, putting on darker underedges to the feathers. 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,870 After that, Rustin probably painted the beak. 34 00:02:01,870 --> 00:02:04,851 He put on very, very fine tones. 35 00:02:04,851 --> 00:02:09,651 A beautiful pink at the opening, a blue gray at the end, and 36 00:02:09,651 --> 00:02:14,500 then this kind of bone color in the middle. 37 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:18,658 To finish this drawing he probably put a golden eye in with very, 38 00:02:18,658 --> 00:02:21,662 very transparent color very, very lightly. 39 00:02:21,662 --> 00:02:27,260 And then finally darkened the whole outer image to make the head look more dramatic. 40 00:02:27,260 --> 00:02:33,710 To contrast the darkness of the background to the shapes of the head. 41 00:02:33,710 --> 00:02:39,465 So, when color is put into a drawing, the most important thing to remember is, 42 00:02:39,465 --> 00:02:51,040 it should be done sparingly, it should be done carefully, and in layers.