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Drawing the Paperwarrior - Step-by-Step - Page 3
by Markus Agerer

Step-by-step instruction - How to draw the Paperwarrior

A good exercise If you want to learn drawing is to draw spatially kniked letterings. It trains your spatial imagination and you can learn the drawing of perspective. This means that the paperwarrior is a great example :-).

I now start to colourate the shaded drawing. To do so, I draw at first the signs and logos on the gorilla. Therefor I'm planing previously where the writings and other objects should be placed on the folded gorilla. At difficult folded parts of the gorilla I fold the original beverage carton in the same way (as good as possible) as the gorilla is folded and draw it.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Complex spatial foldings - a very good exercise to learn to draw

For areas which are not so complicated to draw in, I put the beverage carton simply on to the table to draw it. Please pay attention when you are drawing e.g. the borders of the yellow lettering, as you can't draw over your drawing afterwards. That means everything that should be yellow later has to stay white till you draw the yellow colour on it. If blue color gets in this area (what you actually can never prevent completely) you'll get green color.
Possibly it is better if you draw the yellow borders first and the blue color around it after that. I have not done so and that's why I get some green spots into my drawing.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - The original beverage carton serves to draw from it

Now I'm drawing already the logos but I replace the brand name with the word "gorilla". Just a little gag in the picture.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Close-up of the Paperwarrior

Now everything that has to be blue is now filled with a blue colour with a cloured pencil. Below the word 'Eis" begins a colour gradient into a light blue hue. That has to be kept in mind.

Now when you draw over the gorilla with the blue pencil, you might get the feeling that you would destroy the previous work of shading. Indeed, it is the case that some of the previously drawn shadows a later barely perceivable. Really dark shadows have to be re-drawn with a black pencil when the coloration is finished.
Beware of very bright areas! This should not be drawn to strong with the coloured pencil, but initially only weak. Afterwards you should draw over thos areas with a white coloured pencil. With the white color pencil you can now firmly imprint, to seal the area and to get a smooth, seamless color area.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - The drawing is shaded with a blue crayon

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