Quiet little owl by Rachel's Rocks

Hello guys, today we are going to make a cute owl as promised, starting with a gray stone, nothing special about it. I'm just going to put two coats of white paint on it so you can see my pencil drawings, my paint palette. It looks like it's already been used and I actually accidentally deleted my entire tutorial for my owl and have to redo one now. I'm using different shades of brown, white, gold, black, yellow, orange, different brushes, whatever you feel comfortable with. I'm going to make the easiest version of an owl I can think of, I start with a triangle with a butt sitting on top, easy to remember, two circles for the eyes and then I make this shape around the eyes and the beak, you can adjust everything . with paint if it doesn't look like you want and we'll just do a wing on the side and it'll just come a

little

bit over the beak at the end so it's

quiet

, don't say a word I like it.

To start, I put a

little

black on the eyes to get them out of the way and have something to work with there and then I move on to the beak because I usually have to apply a couple of coats of orange so I can't see through the orange and see the box. of pencils I'm drawing, so I put a couple of coats of orange on it and let it dry. Now I'll use pewter gray to surround the face. You can mix white and black to make gray. you want to use your own shade of gray and I literally sponge it on with a fuzzy brush and mess it up, it doesn't have to be perfect and now I use a brush and just lick the paint in different shades of brown. black, you can add orange, yellow or red, whatever you want to put in there.

I'm just doing different shades of brown, gray and black and just hitting the brush, it's very messy, it won't be perfect and everything will come together. In the end that's all I can say about it. I always do the back of the rock when I finish the front and it's completely dry, so we'll just do the front first. Now I like to add a little gray to my orange. and make half the beak a darker shade and lighten the other half, it just gives it some definition, it looks like there's some light shining on it. Zeke makes it look like there's a little not-so-simple curve and then outlined in black.

There I'm also going to outline the beak in black and shade a little bit along the side, just blend the black paint so it's not just a thick straight line so it looks like there's a shadow there. I'm also doing that with the wing. I'm blending the black just to make it look like the wing is raised a little bit. There is a little shadow below. Now I'm going to use brown on the bottom and gray. on top and I'm using it like a fine brush and I'm just painting these hairs. I call them hairs, but it just gives the eyes a little bit of definition when we're done, so I make gray on top.

Brown on the bottom and then I go over everything with the same brush. I don't change my brushes at all. I like to mix the colors and I go through all of that and then I go around the outside over the top of the gray. so it looks all furry around the face and then I draw my eyes again because we went inside the lines, so I'm shaping my eyes again with black paint. You may have to use a hair dryer on low heat on a cool setting and blow dry it so you can let things dry and then you can go over them again if it starts to get too dirty, but you can always fix the paint, always You can review it and keep trying.

I like to have a hair dryer near my desk right now I'm drawing with dark dark brown paint just my pens I'm not going to do anything fancy with them I'm literally very careless with it. I come in with dark brown. I go in with a lighter shade and it keeps getting lighter and lighter as I get closer to the pen next to it so you can see it goes from dark to light but I'm not mixing I'm just applying the paint while it's wet and everything mixes. together and it looks like a feather when we're done, this is a simple owl and you can do whatever you want with it until it looks good, but I keep putting in different shades of brown and I apologize, my video is temporarily outgrown here. opens again in a large video.

I'm outlining all my wings with black, my feathers, sorry, with black so they stand out and you can see each individual feather. I also use a little gold and apply the gold with a brush. once it's dry once the feathers are dry I just do a little gold brush over each feather and it also makes them stand out a little bit more, separate each feather now I'm going to use a toothpick as well with a little bit of white. paint and I'm going to put some little white dots on the bottom of the wings, there's the gold that really makes the feather stand out, just that little gold brush on top, all good, and now here we just do a little half. circles in dark brown just like you did with the feathers.

First I use the dark brown and then the tan color and keep changing, okay if it looks sloppy I'm going to outline the feathers in black. once I've colored them all with different shades of brown and gray and then I just define them with the black and then the black, now I'm putting little streaks of black paint that get bigger as I get closer. all the way down and that looks like little tufts of black feathers, there are the white dots that I made with a toothpick, now with the eyes, I mix a little gold paint in the center of both eyes, just a little, not too thick, how you want to still see the black through it, so you go in and make a pupil with the same brush with black paint, so bring the black paint down so that it looks like a little crescent moon and then you go around with your black paint to Make sure the gold does not directly touch the hair.

I make a circle of black around it and then do the white to give it a little shine once it's dry. I turn it over and go back to simply moving. the different shades of brown, black and gray look messy, but that's the back, you can do whatever you want, you can use it the same way you did with your friend for the others. I always sign it and then as you can see there's the first one I did what I asked myself to delete it so now I have a pair of cufflinks here but I've rezoned them and they're beautiful and shiny.

If you want to see how to resin them, check out the tutorial before this one and I hope you do. I love this owl. I hope you can do it. Thank you so much.