Each of us remembers the famous phrase from the cartoon “Cat Leopold”: “Guys, let's live together.” Despite the fact that the cartoon is almost 50 years old, it is still loved. Children are happy to see how the mice try to spoil the cat’s life, but they don’t succeed. And parents are pleased that their child is watching a series of not foreign, but domestic production. But when the child comes to her mother and asks the question how to draw Leopold's cat, the woman falls into a stupor. But really, how to do it? Let's figure it out.
Draw with a pencil
Before you start creativity, you need to prepare the material. And you need to start with a cathedral of analogues. In order to improve a child’s memory, one can draw with him not from an analog picture, but according to the images stored in the head. First, of course, you need to watch a cartoon about the cat Leopold. Remembering what the main character looks like, you can begin to work.
How to draw a cat Leopold with a pencil? To begin, we outline the dimensions of the figure. To do this, draw an oval the size of a future cat. Now you need to mark the main parts of the animal with the same geometric shape: head, torso, legs and arms. In our version, the cat goes fishing, so he still needs to immediately outline a fishing rod and buckets. Now we outline the general silhouette, and then we begin to work out our ovals, turning them in turn into a head, shirt, pants, etc. Well, the final touch is detail. Draw eyes, hat, bow.
Colorize with crayons
After the cat Leopold is drawn, give it color. The easiest way to do this is to use colored pencils. By the principle of coloring, we paint over each detail in a separate color. Once the work is finished, it will look pretty dull. Colored pencils, in contrast to paints and felt-tip pens, are dimmer. Therefore, if you can’t stand out in terms of brightness, then you need to look at the technique of execution. Therefore, even if a child is about 6 years old, he can already be told about light and shadow. Even if your child can use 3 shades of the same color, the picture will look more profitable.
Coloring with paints
How to draw Leopold the cat in gouache? First you need to prepare a pencil sketch. Then we proceed in the same way as in the drawing with colored pencils. We paint over individual parts of the animal with different colors. It is also advisable to remember about chiaroscuro. But in the paint drawing, in contrast to the pencil drawing, there are several features.
- Gouache has the property of lightening after drying. This must be taken into account. If a child is afraid to take a saturated color, you need to tell him that in the end the brightness will go a little.
- You always need to start with the lightest detail and end with the darkest. It is not only a matter of the fact that the children are lazy and do not want to walk 5 times to change water. Professional artists look at the whole picture, and compare the lightest part with the darkest.
Coloring with crayons
How to draw Leopold the cat with a pencil, we already know, but how to give it an interesting color? The most favorite way is to use crayons. You can paint them like pencils, or you can grind into dust and use a dry brush to apply on paper. Young artists love this way. The picture is bright, and water from the paint does not need to be changed.