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2023-07-18 12:15:14

How to Draw a Leopard [Narrated, Step by Step]

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Hey there everybody .

It's Mark Crowley .

I'm back with another how to draw a video .

This is number 10 in an ongoing series of videos on how to draw animals .

Uh I've had a video on how to draw a wolf , how to draw a kitten , how to draw fish .

And today I'm gonna be showing you how to draw a leopard .

Now , what we have here is a perfect square .

It is uh around four and three quarters inches on all sides that comes out to uh almost exactly 12 centimeters .

So once you've got that square in place , what you want to do is place a dividing line here vertically uh exactly in the middle .

OK .

So I'm gonna add just two lines here , just very slightly diagonal lines that are gonna divide this square roughly into thirds and one will help me for placing the eyes the other for placing the nose .

OK .

Now , this video is a little different from some of the other ones I've done very often .

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I've just had the face looking straight at us .

Uh So it's perfectly symmetrical .

This time , I'm gonna have the uh leopard facing off in a sort of a three quarter point of view .

So let's begin by working on the contour of the leopard's face .

OK .

So you can see it's just sort of a curving line that starts right up here comes across and uh it almost meets where that line um intersects here .

It actually just sort of crosses past and then , uh touches the left hand uh edge of the square right around there and then curves back a little .

Now , I wanna draw the uh nose .

I'm gonna begin by putting a triangle right around here .

OK .

So you can see I've made just a very uh kind of exaggerated triangle here .

We'll be refining that later into the more uh accurate drawing of the nose .

But uh pay attention to how it doesn't quite uh touch that left line .

Uh and then sort of has a diagonal slope coming up the , the snout .

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What do I , I always call it the snout of the region as it begins to uh curve into a line for the eye .

And so , you know , speaking of the eye , let's go ahead and draw both of the eyes right now .

So notice um two things about the eyes .

One is that there are different shapes .

This one is uh really more of just an oval like shape .

Uh And this one has more of a teardrop uh shape coming to a point .

Uh It really has to do with the point of view of the angle that we're looking uh at the animal from .

And uh now I think it's time to go ahead and finish off drawing the um uh the mouth and the jaw .

Ok .

So you can see how I started at the point of the nose curving down here .

This line sort of echoes this line up here that might help you for getting the angle right , uh conveniently goes very straight across the bottom uh of the jaw right along that original line and then just comes and barely crosses over that uh center line .

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Then of course , you have the left upper lip and notice that the mouth is considerably closer to the nose uh than it is to the jaw .

Well , let's go ahead and place the ears , all right .

So I decided to go ahead and finish off the shape of the head .

But uh first of the ears notice this one sort of triangular in shape , nearly touching that upper line , this one at a , you know , we're seeing it from a different angle , it's crossing over that upper line and uh considerably less uh triangular looking .

One thing I noticed as I studied photos was uh this sort of interesting shape here over on the back of the head as it curves or sort of has an indentation , uh and then comes down here and flattens out very much uh like the jaw right there .

Well , I think it's almost time to stop with the time lapse .

So I'm gonna do just a couple of more lines , uh , around the eyes , uh , maybe get a dividing line here across the forehead and then finish off the neck .

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All right .

Well , this line here is gonna help me get in a sort of area of white , uh , that I observed in on some leopard's eyes .

And , uh , this , there's not actually a line going down the middle , but it'll help me sort of organize the spot uh later on and uh notice how strong the neck is , you know , comes way up high .

Uh , and uh getting that distance there will uh help you , um , get that final line in there .

And I think now we can finally uh knock it off with the time lapse , we can tell old man time lapse to go get a cup of coffee .

Oh , I could really use a cup of Joe right about now .

Uh And that means that we can uh do some real time drawing .

I'm gonna zoom in here and uh we'll start working on adding details to the eyes .

Ok .

So let's begin by uh adding the pupils , uh which uh are gonna be uh what's the opposite of dilated , undilated , anti dilated ?

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They're gonna be quite small , I believe uh in the daylight , uh they , uh you know , the pupils would get quite uh tiny so as to not allow too much um , sunlight , blinding glare of the sun into the eyes .

Uh notice the placement here , this uh in the three quarter point of view , this pupil is considering considerably to the right uh over here , uh a little more dead center , at least in the photos that I looked at .

Um maybe a touch closer to the top , but uh side to side , uh not so exaggeratedly off to one side as it is um on that other eye .

And uh what we wanna do now is get in um a an area of black , a shape of blackness that goes right around uh the edge of this , uh as I said , sort of teardrop shaped eye .

Um And the this area of blackness kind of comes off to one side a bit like this .

You can see me sort of uh having it uh extend to me .

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It reminds me a little bit of like the uh the Egyptian pharaoh uh illustrations uh with that heavy kind of uh eyeliner kind of a look .

Uh But then coming around here , uh uh from this point of view anyway , uh it's , it's quite thin as it comes across and then it , it thickens up around uh the area of the tear duct , at least for human beings , it's the tear duct .

Not sure if that's the right terminology , you know , me , I never know any terminology for anything , but there's quite a huge um uh extended black area right here again , kind of protruding off of uh the tear duct , the tear duct to the region .

I'll just invent my own words , why not ?

I have a long grand tradition when you don't know the word , just invent one that doesn't exist .

So , uh this shape here , uh it is really quite pronounced .

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I noticed as I studied um photographs .

Uh and um you're not gonna see it so clear clearly on this side from this uh three quarter point of view , but you are gonna get a pretty strong indication , uh , of it as it curves around the , uh , the bridge of the nose .

And so let's go ahead and darken in all around here .

Now , I can tell you right now there's gonna have to be , um , you know , time lapse of plenty later on in this video .

You can see how long it's taken me , uh , just to do the eyes .

I can't , if , if I spend this much time on every single part of the , uh , uh , face and fur , we'll have a three hour long video and , uh , I just can't do that .

Um , but while we're over here , I do want to point out something this curved line of the forehead is , um , a little bit of an exaggeration , uh , in terms of , uh , the actual structure of the forehead .

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So , what I'm gonna do right now is sort of erase away a little bit and show you how I would refine this a bit , um , with , um , sort of like a , the brow .

Um , just above the eyes , maybe some indication of the uh skull underneath there .

So you can see how it sort of dips in and then comes up here to where the uh uh the ear is and then uh maybe just a slight angle uh as it comes across and rejoined that line .

So , yeah , sort of refining that contour there .

I'm gonna just go ahead and get rid of that .

Well , apologies there , folks .

Sometimes I just forget the focus of the camera and so you probably were not able to see the upper extensions of that line there .

But uh here you go , having refocused the camera for national Refocus the Camera day , you can now see what I did there uh in its entirety and uh we might as well go ahead and uh get an extra line here for the ear .

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So you can see just maybe a hint of the upper edge of the ear , uh And then over here as well , um maybe just get the edge of the ear in place .

It's gonna be , there's gonna be a lot of fur um across this ear section .

Although I think I might uh sort of get a little indication of uh structure here where the ear joins the head .

But yeah , it does get , it all is gonna end up getting quite obscured by Tufts of fur that come out of the ear .

I've noticed that with cats um that there's uh almost always quite a bit of uh fur inside the interior of the ear , something I'd never really noticed until I started studying uh photos of cats .

And indeed , the structure of the face of a leopard is surprisingly close to that of uh of , of an actual house cat .

Um But I feel like I may have missed something here in terms of the eyes .

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Uh Yeah , I guess uh what I wanna do is sort of uh erase away here and um show how the , the purpose of that line really is just to give us a uh a sense of where uh a white area forms near uh the eyes , at least uh on some breeds of leopard .

And uh so that's what that's all about .

There's not really a hard uh dark line there .

It's more just uh that sort of delineating an area of whiteness and uh probably toward the end of the video , I'm gonna put out my old beloved white gosh and uh really uh lighten that up quite a bit .

I feel like this top area here could be thinned out even more .

Get that shape , right ?

And so over here as well , this is really just a delineation of uh of a whiteish area .

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And maybe now let's , I'm gonna to refocus the camera so that we can start working on drawing the details of the nose .

All right .

So as I said , uh earlier , this uh triangle is really rather exaggerated , but it helps you sort of place the lines and we can sort of refine them into something that's , um , a bit more anatomically accurate .

Uh , one thing that , uh , I've noticed is that , uh , a lot of , um , animals , not just , um , I think the wolf had this as well .

Oh , I'm sorry if I'm misremembering .

But , uh , you know , you have the nostril over here , uh , but there's this area off to the side that uh curves up like some and it's quite pronounced , um especially from this point of view , this three quarter point of view , um this sort of extra area in here , this all gets sort of blackened in .

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But uh I believe someone in the comment section on one of my videos said that helps for pulling in scents from the side , you know , that uh having nostril , uh having the shape of the nostril helps for pulling in , you know , the sense of smell is I'm sure key for the Vival of the start acting like I'm some kind of expert uh in any case .

Uh Yeah , getting in that .

Um uh This is something that I think you don't notice too much when you just sort of draw a leopard from your imagination , uh that extra contour .

Now let's go ahead and get a uh a central line that divides the uh nose and two , of course , from the three point of three quarter point of view , you're gonna see more uh considerably more of the nose on this side than on the other .

Uh In fact , I think I'm gonna widen out this nostril and make it a little larger .

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Uh And yeah , because he's in a three quarter point of view , we're not gonna see that other nostril really at all , but we can by way of the contour suggest uh its presence by sort of carving away a little area here .

Now , I was surprised as I studied photographs how much this triangular area really does come down to a point where you know what I was calling the sort of cleft upper lip , uh this area of darkness joins in in a pretty bold way .

In fact , you can kind of take this whole area here and turn it into a single uh area of darkness that uh comes right down like so and then splits in two .

Now I'm gonna go ahead and darken in , you know , the , the mouth is not open , but you can kind of see in there a little bit from this point of view , the far edge .

So that allows me to sort of refine this contour , just a touch .

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And um it's probably a little early to start getting into matters of the fur , but rest assured later on , I'm gonna be devoting some of the video to , to talking about the fur and in particular the direction that it all heads in .

Oh , here's an area down here .

Yeah , I'm still in frame .

Now , I'm paranoid that I'm gonna be teaching you all the stuff that you can't see because it's out of frame .

Uh I noticed in a variety of different photographs .

So I have to assume that this is common among leopards , this area of darkness down here .

I'm gonna start to delineate it right .

Uh Coming down to the edge of the uh the , the lower jaw , I guess .

And then all in here , this whole area right here on , um , at least a number of breeds uh of uh leopard is quite dark , uh and showing up almost just as jet black in a lot of photographs .

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It's a , it's an area covered with fur but uh covered with black fur evidently because you just don't see much detail down there at all .

But I had never again , I never really noticed this until I started studying .

Um , and , you know , later I'm gonna pull out my black uh prism of color and , and really go to town darkening in this area .

And yeah , I'm not real clear on the definition , uh how uh what the shape of this black area is , but I didn't know , did notice it extended quite , quite a bit through this whole region here .

I think maybe it does sort of come to an end like that and now it's time I think to start getting in these , the sort of rows of , of black dots .

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Um I noticed that there were three that were quite um pronounced and they have a uh very slightly s shaped um sort of line structure here .

Now , this is not , it looks like I'm drawing whiskers on him .

That's not the case .

This is uh going to be turned into a series of black dots that it seems to me are related to the uh to the whiskers where they emanate from this snout region .

So these three uh lines are gonna help me figure out where to put these dots .

Now they get quite big .

Well , I'll just start in the middle one here to show you what , what I noticed from photographs .

Again , quite , quite big , bold uh black dots .

I think this is different from some of the other uh animals that I've drawn , how , how bold these areas are .

In fact , the dots sort of touch one another .

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So it almost you feel kind of like you're drawing a sort of caterpillar like shape in here .

Um Again , you know , there's some , there's probably different breeds of um leopard and this does not necessarily apply to all of them .

But uh it did seem to be a um a noticeable characteristic from my point of view , something worth paying attention to as you as you draw .

So you can see me adding in that um again , nearly touching sort of blending into one another .

Uh these different areas .

I did notice a secondary uh region of um of dots just a little closer to the actual nose itself and these ones seemed more , uh , separated .

And over here the whole thing is curving away from you from the three quarter point of view .

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So you're just gonna sort of suggest maybe as I said , there's , there's , there's sort of like these three dominant rows , but I think there is sort of the suggestion of , uh , of , you know , sort of secondary rows down here .

But yeah , over here , you can't really see them so clearly they're just sort of curving around .

And I do wanna get the , the similar sort of freely spaced dots that correspond over there .

So many details , so many details to pay attention to .

Oh and then also um this area of the nose probably uh needs a little shading in .

So we get that in place .

And I noticed again , at least in some photographs , a um a bit of speckling uh occurring little dots here and there on the nose and just fairly randomly placed , I didn't perceive any pattern to speak of .

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Now , down here , beneath the , the upper lip is uh AAA shaded area that I think is really actually the flesh , the lower lip which becomes a little bit visible , at least in some photographs , but it is fairly hidden in shadow .

And down here is where um I saw sort of splotchy areas of black and he , he does have sort of like white facial hair .

It almost looks would remind us of a beard um that uh increasingly gets thick at the very bottom .

In fact , maybe now it's time to start talking a little bit about the direction of the fur .

So I'm gonna start doing that .

I'll go ahead and plunge into uh drawing the details of the fur coming out uh to , you know , the left and then uh sort of all along this edge .

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Uh I'm seeing the hair uh uh coming down almost like the um like a clock face , you know , as it curves around here .

Now this is white hair , that's what makes it a little tricky to uh to draw it because you're , you know , I'm using this sort of the gray of a pencil actually to suggest the contours of what are uh white hairs .

And so , yeah , you're sort of faced with without having a dark background to show this against .

How do you uh suggest the presence of white hairs ?

Well , I'm sort of cheating , I guess is what I'm doing .

I'm sort of using the , the grade and to help convey that um contour line of the face , but then also erasing away here and there .

So as to not have it look too dark anyway , we're gonna keep working on that uh as time goes on .

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But I wanted to talk a little bit about the um the direction of the fur all across the face .

Um And again , like I said , I can't really do all of this in real time , but I'll give you just maybe a few pointers um uh in various regions .

Like right here , I noticed uh in photographs coming off of the eye , uh that uh the fur was sort of um extending again sort of clock face style across uh this area of the eye and then it begins to curve up .

Now , all of these hairs are quite short .

I'm gonna go ahead and erase that initial guideline while I'm at it here , all of these hairs quite short as they uh go all across the face .

This in contrast to a number of the other animals that I have drawn .

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Uh It seems that other animals there are the uh area of the snout uh is the hair is very short , but then those hairs will get increasingly long on other breeds of animals I've uh saw in as I studied these photos that the hair remains quite short all across the entire face uh of the uh leopard .

And that uh I think is in contrast to to many of these other animals , but you can see that I'm paying attention even as I draw these tiny little lines uh to the direction that they're pointing in uh in this area , mainly pointing upwards .

Um But then like I was saying this coming across here , it seemed that they begin to actually point down and and across the snout area here , they get very short .

Indeed .

And uh sadly , this is just gonna have to be an area that I refine uh in time lapse .

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It's just , you can see it just becomes , uh almost way too time consuming to , to do all real time uh in video form .

But I wanted you to get a sense of the direction that things are pointing in .

I mean , it occurred to me , uh again as I studied these photographs that the hair is almost like aerodynamic , you know , you would imagine with the , with the , the way they make cars these days , making them aerodynamic , paying attention to the wind blowing across the car .

It seems to me that the hair is on a leopard's face , our sort of aerodynamic pointing back across the sort of cheek area here .

So , um yeah , this is uh maybe gives you hopefully enough information about the direction that all these lines point in and all across there , you know , sort of uh maybe pointing up diagonally as you get into this area .

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All of this stuff I'm gonna have to do later on , sadly , and uh that kind of brings me to the end of that part of uh you know , the facial features .

I want to now start paying attention to the spots .

That was part of my , you know , what attracted me to the idea of doing a leopard video was uh uh figuring out the the leopard spot .

So let's sort of refocus the camera .

So we can see the entire face .

OK .

So the pattern of a leopard spots , um I'm sure it's different .

Uh you know , each individual leopard is gonna have its own pattern .

Uh And indeed , it's not a super clear pattern on any of them .

It's uh there's a sort of a random like nature , but I did notice that there's this central area across the forehead and that's why I put that line in there .

And so I'm gonna begin in a fairly impressionistic way to just uh put um a sort of blur of spots almost coming down uh across the face following that line .

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Now , as you draw the leopard spots , I think you have the opportunity to , to convey some sense of the form of the head .

Now , I'm not paying too much attention to the uh the direction of the hairs uh at this stage , but I probably will be later on when I go back in with the uh black prisma color .

But uh anyway , I wanted to point out how , you know , I'm making these narrow spots as the head curves away from view .

Uh And uh as we come down , you know , across the forehead so that uh it's more uh facing towards the viewer , uh these spots become more spot like they , they're not .

So they're not these narrow strips that you see up here , you're gonna see them uh from a little more of a dead on point of view in terms of the shape of the individual spots .

I would , I noticed that uh not very many of them are a perfect circle .

So I would say stay away from that .

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Uh you know , uh just sort of uh make them unusually shaped .

I think you can feel a certain freedom to , to play around with different shapes , the spacing of them .

Like I said , I did not perceive any super regular uh pattern in terms of the placement of the spots .

Um But I did notice that like over here on some breeds , you would see a sort of cluster of darker areas , sort of like a cluster of spots almost rising up from um that kind of inside corner of the eye and uh maybe across here , at least to one of them um leopards uh that I looked at , you know , one of the photos that I studied had a what seemed to be a little bit of a , a streak of spots that uh framed one side of the eye .

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But I would say mainly in terms of uh drawing the spots paying attention to um you know , the angle of the head , especially if you're gonna do a three quarter point of view , you don't want a round spot like this right there .

No , because he's facing away from you .

It's always going to be uh a little more of like a side view of each one of the individual spots .

And so , you know , the more you um pay attention to that .

I think you will be uh rewarded with um a very three dimensional look towards the end of your drawing , even like a spot that's curving a little bit , you know , uh suggesting the , the um structure of the uh the bone structure underneath .

And there probably is a , a roughly symmetrical , you know , if you've got like a , a , a cluster of spots right here , you're probably also gonna have some sort of uh roughly similar cluster over here .

And let's see what else ?

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Because there's just , again , no way that I can do all of this uh real time .

But I guess I did notice that um over here uh across the whole area of the snout , I didn't see any spots at all .

So that is a spot free zone and I'm just sort of shading it in uh later on .

I'm gonna pay more attention to the uh like individual hairs and stuff .

But I uh noticed within the photo of at least one uh leopard that I looked at that there was a lighter that the hairs lightened up as they reached uh the actual nose .

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But yeah , this whole area I didn't see maybe a few spots between the eyes but uh no actual spots on the uh snout itself , which I found sort of interesting um some uh photos I saw uh quite a pronounced dark area right here beneath this uh shape of the eye and that can be also kind of helpful for um giving a sense of the , the structure of the snow .

I hope I'm using the right word snout .

Is it a snout ?

I never know the words for .

Um across here , I noticed smaller spots and nearer to the eyes , the spots seem to be smaller , um almost sort of pallet shaped .

Uh and then as you get further and further away , they seem to grow in size and you get larger uh spots over here .

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And I , I just , I'm becoming aware , uh more and more aware as I do this video , uh how long it's going , you know , it's taking me so long to , to attempt to teach this stuff real time that I just fear I'm gonna end up with a super long video , uh which can be a little hard for some people to take .

So I think it's time to um maybe do one last thing real time .

Let's focus on the ears .

Um darkening in this area .

I talked about earlier , the the sort of Tufts of hair , let me refocus so you can see this a little closer .

So , yeah , I'm darkening in uh this sort of upper area of the ears , but I did want to sort of point out um about the uh the big Tufts of fur here that really sort of obscure the interior surface , you really can't see very much of the interior .

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And so what I'm darkening in here is sort of a suggestion of , uh , this sort of , you know , gap between all the fur that allows you to see into the ear just a little bit .

But I wonder if there's sort of , uh , you know , if having that sort of , uh , is a way of keeping the ears clean , stopping things from going inside insects .

I'm not sure .

Maybe some of , you know , and can explain to me .

Uh , I noticed , uh , in some breeds a dark area here behind the ear and as that comes down , you sort of get back into an area of spots .

And , uh , similarly , as I said before , you're gonna , by having these sort of get narrower side to side , you can help , um , give a sense of the structure of the head and I'm afraid that is probably all I can do real time .

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My apologies to those of you who hate time lapse who , who curse old man time lapse and wish that he never came around me .

I'm a big fan of old man time lapse .

He helps me out .

He helps me keep these videos under three hours .

Uh , so I'm gonna go ahead and kick it into time lapse and , uh , finish off , uh , all of the , the , the fur , the spots , all this stuff and maybe come back and do a little more real time , uh , when it comes to adding final line work .

All right .

Well , uh , as you can see uh doing the fur .

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If you choose to try to represent the fur , it is kind of an endurance test .

You know , it's a real test of your patience .

And I suppose the one thing I would say is that , um , you know , my approach is to do lots of short , little back and forth movements of my pencil to , uh , try to simulate that really short , uh , fur , which again is something , um , that I noticed in photographs that the , the short fur seemed to extend almost over the , the entire heaven even up onto the back .

You know , it's not a leopard is not an animal with really long Tufts of fur , but rather this very almost , you know , reminds me of like a crew cut or something , you know , military kind of super uh short hair .

Well , it's time for me to pull out my trusty black prisma color .

And uh you know , I just thought I'd do a little bit of this real time .

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Um Maybe uh let's talk mainly about uh the importance of , of getting contrast uh in almost any um work of art if you have bold blacks and then very bright whites .

Um it improves the look of your illustration .

But I would say with a , a uh an illustration of a uh a leopard that it's particularly crucial to , to have your blacks get really black .

And that's why I'm using this uh really just ordinary black colored pencil .

Um And I , you know , I said again and again , the name of this pencil , it is a Prisma color black PC 9 35 .

It's not a magical special pencil .

It's just a quality uh colored pencil .

So , uh you don't have to go to the Prisma color company if you're in a different country or , you know , you can't get a hold of colors , just make sure you get something that's of some quality and , and it'll provide you uh with a good bold black .

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And I think that's really just the key to uh making the illustration pop and seem more three dimensional .

I would say , mainly , um you know , your , your goal is maintaining patience and don't feel that you have to complete the illustration in one sitting .

You can uh take breaks , you can , you know , spread it out over a number of days .

Uh keep coming back to it little by little .

You know , a lot of these people who do photo realism , that's what they're doing .

They're , you know , they're spending weeks on a single painting or whatever they're taking breaks , they're coming back .

So , uh anyway , sadly , I do believe that I am gonna have to once again , kick it back into time lapse , gonna finish up all this uh stuff with the black prisma color and then we'll come back with a little white wash to finish off the illustration .

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All right .

Well , we're finally uh near the ending stages here , a lot of times people want to know how long did it take me to do uh the illustration .

And , you know , I started this at around eight o'clock this morning .

It's uh 12 noon now .

So about four hours uh that I've put into this illustration .

We're not quite done though because I need to bring out my beloved white gosh .

And I'm going to attempt to add uh whiskers uh down here , in fact , making that very bold black will hopefully allow these , uh to stand out by way of contrast .

Now , it is sort of , um , nerve wracking to try to do this uh with paint because , you know , you only get one go basically .

And if you don't get it quite right , you're a little bit stuck with it .

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So I'm gonna do a few of these live , but I may sort of allow myself to , uh complete the process , um , in time lapse , but I did want to point out a couple of other uses for the uh whitewash .

Um , get some reflections on the eyes .

I think , uh a bit of uh reflected light there .

We add to the shininess , the sort of glassiness of those eyes don't wanna overdo it .

Uh And then I felt that the uh this area of whiteness near the eyes , uh could be , you know , you could even add to that a little bit and uh suggest uh fur , in fact , uh other areas like near the uh ears as I said quite a lot of uh Tufts of fur or little strands of hair that are becoming visible there .

So you kind of get the basic idea .

Uh really uh sorry that I can't do more of this real time .

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But uh yeah , you know , four hours , what I'm gonna do a four hour video .

You want me to do a four hour video .

Come on people , there are just limits to what can be done uh in terms of uh making videos uh that you know , have a finished illustration of this detailed .

So bear with me .

I'm gonna bring back old man .

Time lapse .

Get in here , man .

Yeah , I'm here .

I'm done with my coffee uh to help me finish off this illustration and then we'll be back with a few final words .

All right .

Well , there's my video on how to draw a leopard .

Let me know what you thought about it .

And also let me know if there are any other animals that you'd like me to draw in future videos .

I'd be happy to do more such videos like this one in the months ahead .

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But for now , let me thank anyone who has supported me by getting any of my books like Brodie's Ghost or Meek Falls , my two graphic novel series book six , the final book in the series finally out and available , mastering manga and mastering manga two and now my very newest book , The Realism Challenge .

Big thanks to anyone who uh purchased this book within the last week .

It's been wonderful to see people responding to it positively .

But I think it's time for me to lay down this pencil .

I wanna thank you all for watching this video .

I hope you enjoyed it and I'll be back with another one real soon .

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