ASIAN FAVORITES

Don’t you love how each continent has its own take on terrain, fashion, and yes, animals? Asian flavor will always be dear to my heart, as it’s been infused into our family culture after living in China and adopting a son from there. The giant panda and red panda share some similarities, and the golden monkey has a unique blue face and fluffy fur.

ASIAN FAVORITES HIGHLIGHTS

» FINDING TRADEMARK FEATURES. Identify and highlight the most striking feature in an animal.

» BLACK AND WHITE. Learn to handle black and white with watercolor . . . the colorful way.

» GOLDEN HUES. Translate the shine of a golden coat with color and intentional brushstrokes.

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Giant Panda

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Golden Monkey

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Red Panda

DRAWING

Fur and small eyes may be the only commonality in drawing these animals. The giant panda has very rounded features topped with a slightly angular head, almost like a pentagon. The red panda is like a bear that squirms like a fox or a squirrel. The golden monkey, perched with hands clasped, is rounded but with long limbs. His head is small compared to his body, especially his face.

Draw the Giant Panda

1Begin by drawing all the main forms of the panda’s body.

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2Outline the head with a jagged line to imply fur.

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3Add ears. His left ear is turned backward while we can see the opening to the ear on the right.

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4Draw the panda’s unique eyes, nose, and mouth. Don’t forget the oval markings around the panda’s eyes.

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5Draw arms for the panda with small zigzag lines. His paw has claws peeking through.

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6Draw the panda’s legs and feet. The bottoms of the feet are visible.

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7Sketch the remaining contour of the panda’s back and belly.

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8Shade in the panda’s dark areas including his eye markings, nose, arms, and legs.

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9The finished panda.

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Draw the Golden Monkey

1Draw the basic forms of the monkey. This is especially necessary with crouching position.

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2Outline most of the body with a jagged line to imply fur texture.

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3Draw his arm, noting the long elbow and how his long fur hangs off the forearm. Draw a hint of the other hand behind this one.

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4Draw his tiny ears with dark sockets.

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5Define this crouched leg with an oval shape and a bit of his shin and foot beneath.

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6The monkey’s long tail has fur drawn downward.

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7Define the area for the monkey’s small face. Add a few hints of fur texture surrounding it.

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8Add a nose and mouth.

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9Darken in his round eyes.

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10 Add fur texture throughout his body, avoiding the face.

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11 The finished monkey.

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Draw the Red Panda

1Draw the ellipses of the red panda’s body. He is small but husky.

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2Define his head with jagged lines, avoiding the ears and snout.

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3Draw the body form, avoiding his limbs.

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4The red panda’s ears are triangular with long tufts of fur.

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5Draw the panda’s nose and round fuzz-lined eyes.

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6Draw the snout as a wide U-shape meeting at the nose. Draw a smaller U-shape beneath to define the lower jaw. Add a tongue within.

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7Follow your predefined body blueprint, but now defining the paws and claws at the ends. Consider the toes and add a claw to each.

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8Draw the panda’s raccoon-like bushy tail.

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9Add stripes to the tail and shade his underbelly.

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10 Add a hint of stripes to the middle area of his body. This texture can be achieved with closely knit hatch marks within a striped area.

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11 Add long, curling whiskers.

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12 The finished red panda.

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PAINTING

Your small brush will show fur, paint tiny eyes, and outline tiny claws.

Paint the Giant Panda

You may feel apprehensive about getting the giant panda’s proportions and coloring just right. His limbs aren’t extended; the overlapping parts may seem difficult to properly represent. His coloring—stark black and white—is a challenge in watercolor. But consider this: The rounded parts of the panda make for organic swoops that are fun to draw! I’ll walk you through my special tricks for handling black and white in watercolor. Look at him as a furry jigsaw puzzle and feel those apprehensions slip away.

COLORS

imageDr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolors: 54D Indian Yellow, 55D Tiger Yellow, 38C Tropic Gold, 17B Tangerine, 20B Cyclamen, 22B Slate Blue, 36C Tobacco Brown, 56D Coffee Brown, 28B Sepia

imageEcoline Pastel Rose

imageCopic White

MAIN AREAS

1Fill in the pale areas of the panda with a watered-down peachy pink. Don’t use too much color or he’ll appear dirty. I dropped in pink for the cheeks, but it’s purely stylization. The most important step in painting our panda is mixing all the colors to create a rich black—or at least a dark violet. Dip your brush into several paints one at a time, wring it out in a mixing well, then swoosh around to combine. Use this color to paint in the dark areas of the panda: the arms, legs, ears, and trademark eye sockets.

2Show furry edges by etching in tiny lines as a border before filling in the mass of color. Outline claws and other non-black parts to ensure that you can avoid them. I like to add brown to the bottom of the paws, be it because the coloration changes or because they get dirty (A). Paint a small, flat triangle for the nose.

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SMALL BRUSH DETAILS

1Use a small brush and a light blue to create outlines around the white areas of the panda. A furry zigzag line is just right. Drop more paint into a few of the wet lines to make the line appear to ebb in and out with color. Use this same color to create little lines to indicate fur on the belly, hips, and around the cheeks. Color over the nose is used to show its protrusion along with the snout.

2Use a dark brown for the round eyes, filled in as small circles with a tiny bit of white left. Outline the dark lips of the mouth and, if needed, add more darkness to the eye area (B).

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RICH BLACK OUTLINES

The rich black we created in step 1 applies even more depth. Add outlines and touches of fur texture, as well as small line segments along the blue bordering the white. This is your last step to tighten up and darken the panda’s edges.

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WHITE ON BLACK

Tiny touches of white are added as tiny dashes to indicate the sheen of the black fur. These highlights are best used along one edge of the panda; note his arms have white details along the left side. Feel free to use the opaque white on his light portions.

Paint the Golden Monkey

The golden monkey’s blue face caught my eye. His limbs are long like that of a spider monkey’s, making him able to swing and jump freely between trees. The nose is reduced to nostrils, the eyes to tiny beads of black, and the mouth to a simple slit. We’ll spend most of our time filling his body with brushstrokes of fur in varying shades of color.

COLORS

imageDr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolors: 54D Indian Yellow, 55D Tiger Yellow, 38C Tropic Gold, 36C Tobacco Brown, 8A Turquoise Blue

imageDr. Ph. Martin’s Pen-White

CREATING A GOLDEN COLOR

1Paint long brushstrokes of yellow in rows. Add more yellow color and brown to the bottom tips to paint shadows within them. Allow white between the rows of fur; these appear as bright highlights. Extend this patterned approach to the tail (A).

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2Paint the face with a watery yellow. Drop in richer yellows and golds. Reserve the middle of the face to be filled in blue (B).

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QUICK DEFINITION

1I applied a second coat of blue to make the face more saturated. Use orange-brown to paint within the ears and details of fur. The blue and orange are mixed to create a black, used to paint the facial features (C).

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2White is mixed with golden tones to create a light yellow. This color provides a subtle highlight throughout the monkey’s body. It also adds highlights to the face and defines the protruding mouth (D).

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Paint the Red Panda

The red panda’s colors have obvious appeal. The orange coupled with the rich black complement each other well and offer a harsh contrast that’s a clue to this animal’s personality—feisty! We’ll have the slight challenge of painting white fur, but it’ll be easy. We’ll lay down those beautiful colors first and then create the fur and details that make this little guy so eye-catching.

COLORS

imageDr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolors: 55D Tiger Yellow, 38C Tropic Gold, 17B Tangerine, 20B Cyclamen, 22B Slate Blue, 36C Tobacco Brown, 56D Coffee Brown, 8A Turquoise Blue, 28B Sepia

imageDr. Ph. Martin’s Pen-White

imageEcoline Pastel Rose

ORANGE BLEEDS

1We begin with a wet-on-wet application of orange. Once the silhouette is painted in, add jagged stripes with tangerine. Angle your brush toward its fur so the tip of the brush creates textured stripes. Drop in a darker red sparingly within the bands. Continue painting orange on the areas of the face. Using a cool color such as green or blue, outline the white areas of the red panda’s face (A).

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2Combine many colors to create a dark black or blue-violet. Paint the bottom half of the red panda with this color, using the tip of your brush to dab the border with texture. Outline claws and leave them white (B).

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RICHER DARKS

1Turquoise Blue is used to add a few lines within the red panda’s ultra-furry ears. A dark pink is a shading color for orange areas. Small dashes collected in a line define the fur around his cheeks; these dabs taper as they progress within the body. Other details of the face are painted with brown: tiny dashes of fur surrounding the eye, filling the nose, and the brown fur around the snout. Darken to define the hind legs. Paint the inside of the mouth pink, then outline it with brown (C).

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2White mixed with yellow brings back any muddled areas that need to be brought forward, in particular the cheek fur that protrudes on the head. Paint the teeth and curling whiskers a pure white. Add any small details of white where you see fit (D).

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