design skills to learn

• drawing a crusader…. we are so excited to welcome back our friend, emmett for a fabulous tutorial on how to draw a crusader! he went above and beyond and did two tutorials for us…. an advanced crusader and a basic crusader! for the basic crusader he was assisted by his sister, harley! this is such a treat! you will be so pleased with the results of following along with them.
• drawing and shading with pencil
• perspective

MATERIALS: (SEE ART TOOLS IN MENU FOR DETAILS + LINKS)

• sketchbook or two sheets of heavy paper/card stock
• extra piece of watercolor paper or card stock to draw your crusader on
• pencil
• eraser
• ruler
• scissors
• 3M foam tape
• krylon satin finish or hair spray

STEP NO.1

• on a separate piece of watercolor paper or heavy card stock draw your crusader by following one of emmett’s tutorial
• the drawings below are emmett + harley’s basic crusaders and emmett’s advanced crusader
• cut out your crusader

STEP NO.2

• in your sketchbook draw a medieval castle inspired by “Castle Diary” for your background
• tutorial for castle background below

STEP NO.3

• write history sentence
• we used a “line script” style

STEP NO.4

• adhere your crusader popping off the page with 3M foam tape
• we used two pieces of foam tape folded in half for each “tape square”

STEP NO.3

• spray your drawing outside with krylon satin finish to keep your pencil drawing from smearing (or you can use hairspray)

HAVE A CREATIVE WEEK!