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Drawing an owl on an old upcycled skateboard

Sketching, drawing and detailing owl an artwork on an old upcycled skateboard
Free tutorial
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings)
721 students
34min of on-demand video
English
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The pencil sketch
Adding the outline
Adding shading and highlights
Finishing and varnishing

Requirements

  • Some drawing experience

Description

Starting from a basic pencil sketch on the old upcycled skateboard deck, to Inking the outline with a paint marker, shading and adding highlights to bring out the details to finishing it off with acrylic gloss lacquer to protect and make it look amazing

How to sketch the basic form of an owl from top to bottom using a pencil and a measured centre line

Then draw the main outline, thicken the lines in certain areas to enhance the form using black paint markers

Use shading and smudging to darken certain parts and create a more three dimensional image

Adding lots of intricate details, triangles, lines and dots to create lots of repetitive patterns

Use white highlights with a paint marker to bring out the patterns and enhance the details to really make them pop

Finally protect the owl artwork on the old upcycled skateboard using spray acrylic gloss lacquer to really bring out the colours and make it look professional. A few coats are needed to fully protect it.

Hopefully, this course should give the basic skills to draw your own owl, eagle, wolf or whatever you want onto a skateboard or some other item - there's no rules as to what you can draw and paint on


Who this course is for:

  • Beginners wanting to know how to draw on wood

Instructor

Artist Upcycler Maker
  • 4.0 Instructor Rating
  • 6 Reviews
  • 721 Students
  • 1 Course

I am currently based in Coalville in North West Leicestershire, East Midlands, UK. Born and raised in the Black Country City of Wolverhampton, I moved to Leicester to be with an awesome woman, married her and somehow she still puts up with me...Thanks bab ;-)

Psionic Games is my Design, Game Development, Digital 2D/3D Artwork and Music side. I have been creating Games, Art and Digital Design for over 20 years now as well as Music and Sound FX.

I have personally created over 30 games from start to finish for many of the big Flash Game Portals like Armor Games, Addicting Games, Kongregate, Newgrounds, Bubblebox, Crazy Monkey etc and loved every minute of it.

More games coming real soon I have also created many 2D/3D Digital Artworks, Designs, Characters etc for other projects along with many YouTube Tutorials (some with over a million hits - woohoo)

I also work on more serious design stuff using InDesign, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher, Blender 3D and do a lot of Illustration work for Technical Manuals and Diagrams.


Retro Vandal is my Traditional Artwork, Sculpting, Upcycling, Painting, Graffiti side. I have been drawing, painting, making and spraying stuff since I was a kid (just a bigger kid now) and It's a massive part of my life

I am into many kinds of art from Tattoos to Graffiti to Japanese Irezumi to Steampunk and Wastelander type stuff. I also work in many mediums - usually Acrylic Paint, Spray, Pencils, Markers along with sculpting using Air Drying Clay (DASCLAY) and Polymer Clay (SUPERSCULPEY), Wood Working & Metal Working.

I also collect loads of junk and strip things down to reuse, rework and find new purposes for things many people throw away. I love to upcycle and see potential in stuff that seems otherwise useless. Steampunk, Post Apocalyptic & CyberPunk Style Artwork are very well suited to this JUNK to FUNK method

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