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Drawing the Paperwarrior - Step-by-Step - Page 4
by Markus Agerer

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

First the entire leg is coloured completely. The yellow borders of the letters have to be drawn somewhat careful that no (or as little as possible) blue color gets in the yellow areas. If they do, you will get green spots in the outlines of the letters.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - The leg of the warrior completely colored

Here I show again three steps of drawing a gradient using my Paperwarrior:

a) I will start with the darkest blue hue. In the area of the far left, which is a little shady, I draw with a color pencil putting firmly pressure on the pen. Thus I'm mixing the black color of the shadow (as previously subscribed) with the blue color. While I continue to draw to the right, I always put less and less pressure on to the pencil to let the hue phase out. The red arrows in the image show the direction in which I draw and the point where I stop drawing.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Learn to draw a gradient - step a)

b) At the point where I reduced the preasure of the crayon in step a) I go on drawing the gradient with the lighter blue hue. The red dot at the red arrow (see the figure below) shows that. With the lighter blue hue I follow in the same pattern.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Drawing a colour gradient with crayons - step b)

c) Now follows the brightest blue hue in the gradient. The location where you have to go on drawing with the next crayon drawing yocan see also on the small whithe spots in the blue color space. Here is the drawing ground not completely covered with paint. With the bright blue crayon I draw till to a line that I have previously marked. This line is the border of a box with a product description or something like that.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Drawing a colour gradient with crayons - step c)

The color gradient is finished. Now you have to draw the box with the text inside. Honestly I'm not keen to draw/write the whole text, so I just draw a scribbling that looks like text. That should be enough and looks actually pretty good. The buckling of the text lines I marked earlier with thin lines (but draw carefully - the lines should not been seen afterwards).

Now the finished upper part of the head of the Paperwarriors:

Drawing the Paperwarrior - The upper part of the head finished

I am afraid I made a smal mistake when I draw the spatial buckling :-(. But I think it can hardly be seen. Can you finds the error :-) ?

The lower part of the head is also draw with a colour gradient. In the area of the jaw are some ice cubes shown on the beverage carton.
Also about drawing the upper arm I don't have to lose many words. It's allways the same procedure. If you want to add some reflections and other bright areas afterwards, you have to remove some color with a hard eraser pen.

Drawing the Paperwarrior - Head and upper arm finished

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