Drawing a Blue Fox - Lineart and coloring process-

Hi my dear followers, welcome back to my blog. This time I will share with you the lineart and coloring process of my new drawing; a Fox.

At first I had thought it would be a realistic drawing, when I was drawing the draft I decided to caricature it a bit, as you may have noticed is not a complete cartoon but it is not realistic, it is an intermediate point between both and I like it, I also opted to change the color of it´s fur to blue because it is my favorite color.

As always I leave the list of materials that I used:

-Pencil
-Mechanical pencil
-Sharpener
-Eraser
-PITT artist pen 0.3 mm
-Cardboard 10 cm x 16 cm
-Prisma colors scholar

Drawing process

Now I´m going to show you the drawing process that includes three main steps: draft, lineart and coloring.

Step 1: Draft

In this step I started drawing the head, the eyes, the nose, the ears and then the rest of the body. I always start by drawing the head because that is how I feel more comfortable with the drawing. I did not take many pictures of this step because I let myself be carried away in the drawing and I forgot it hahaha sorry for that n_nU

Step 2: Lineart

In this step I started drawing the lines of the eraser with my 0.3 mm faber castell artist pen, very useful to define the lines. Again I forgot to take more pictures, I promise that in my next post there will be more photos
;)

Step 3: Coloring

Now in this step I begin with the eyes. Usually I always start coloring the eyes, for the fox eyes I used a ocher yellow.

For the fur I used three different tones of blue. For the base of the coat I occupied a light greenish blue, I made soft strokes to form several layers of color. I also used a very light yellow as a contrast.

Next I draw more layers with a medium tone of blue which will be the predominant tone in the coat.

Finally, to finish the coat I added layers of a darker blue in the way of shadows. Also used a black color for the darker areas of the fur like the paws and the ears. A mechanical pencil was really useful to trace the final details of the coat.I really like how it is looking .