Sunday, July 17, 2011

How to Draw a Classic Witch


The drawing of witches is something that can be achieved through the study of classic witches and learning how to draw the basics of one is the way to go for witch drawing.

First you start off with drafting some sketch ideas together, these need not be detailed as they can just serve as visual ideas and helpful references for your main witch drawing, I always try and do a good few sketches first, so that I can pick and choose how my design will look in the end. Thumbnail sketches help you better when you start to get an idea and work it through with quick drawings.

Then you select your best idea out of them sketches and start to develop that witch drawing by filling in some of the details like the hat, the features of the witches face and the black gown that classic witches wear, it is just about defining the features here and playing around with them at this stage as we want to build on our witch design by finding more design elements that work well.

If you take a good look online, maybe do a Google image search for classic witches or even black witches, this might bring up some good reference images for you to draw from. The details are important for your witch drawing to look like a witch and not something else entirely, an option could be to include a witches broom and a black cat somewhere against your drawing so that it relates to the subject.

After this step, you begin to strengthen the pencil lines to make them more solid and start to clean up some of the rough pencil marks, and then the sources of light you begin to work out where that is going to come from, you may add a few light sources so that light hits the character from a few angles and the dark areas are recessed within the witches clothing. This also sets the drawing up for the next optional step of inking your pencil drawing with a black fine line pen or something quite similar to darken everything and the rubbing out of the pencils graphite makes the drawing look very clean and professional.

You should have a good witch drawing now and one that you can colour if you wish later on with the standard green pale face complexion and black to grey mid tones on her clothing.




Wayne Tully an artist of fantasy art, drawing many tutorials on how to draw fantasy art and drawing tips and resources. http://hubpages.com/_drawfantasyart/hub/How-To-Draw-Witches



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