Drawing Together Episode 26: From Heron Out
this episode is Part of the Drawing Together live video series – learn more here
The ponds near my home offer some wonderful opportunity to observe these graceful creatures. Let’s take a look at drawing a Great Blue Heron! If you’d like, follow along with this reference image: https://bit.ly/2yQx752
Today, I’m working with:
- Strathmore Drawing Paper
- Ebony Pencil
- Carbon Pencil
- Kneaded and Rubber Erasers
In this session, we’ll cover:
- Drawing a Blue Heron
- Drawing Reflections
- Drawing Water
- Drawing Feathers
- Realistic drawing techniques for pencil
- Shading Techniques
- Managing detail
Finally posting!
The tip to limit the details was really helpful!
This was a really relaxing one to do. Thanks for the great tips on using the eraser to draw with – it worked so well for the water
This was one of my favorites.
This was a good instruction on landscape with water. Of course that is a subject I always try to tackle and have difficulty with. Thank you for the class.
so good!
This was one of my favorites. I love seeing all the different renditions. Looks better in person 🙂
Love the details you got on the wing
Thia was good practice working with water and a lot of fun. Still working on getting details with the erasers too.
Great lesson again! I didn’t have any ebony nor carbon pencils so I just used graphite. I definitely enjoy charcoal much more though. I think it came out ok.
Beautiful!
Here is my Heron. I cropped it as I need lots more practice on water. I enjoyed this class as I do all of them. Thanks again for being there for us.
My Big Boy…
Your background reminds me of a wharf….I like it!
Rendering water and reflects are challenging. Appreciate the tips and techniques. Seemed like my white rubber eraser really loaded up on the ebony pencil and smeared.
Fun learning experience. Thank you!
Have enjoyed various episodes an gotten great tips. Great.
I cannot find where to upload my tree from the last lesson so I’ll upload it here.
My heron got a little….fluffy…. 🙂 and I see how I need to lighten up quite a bit. I start off way too heavy handed!
So much fun with this one! I have learned that my erasers are now my friends. Thank you!