How to Draw Fairies

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Jay French at jayfrenchstudios.com and I'm going to teach you how to draw fairies. When drawing fairies there's of course a wide array of styles and looks you can go for. We're just going to cover some basics. Of course you want a human form, I'm not going to get too much into the human skeleton here because that can be covered in other videos. But we'll do this fairy, a young girl. They're sometimes there's children, even occasionally there's none. Make her look about fifteen or so. And of course a lot of them you want them to look rather innocent. Some fairies are often drawn nude, we're not going to do that here and you want a lot of mystery in the face. So maybe some darkness around the eyes is a good idea even if they're very pleasant fairies. But we'll give her a little smile, so she doesn't look sad. Now you can get really well with colors and styles on fairies. We'll give her a big pointed ear for example. We're going to give her a short pixie hair in this case because it's quicker to draw, we just want to show you real quick. And of course the most important part is the wings. Now you can use direct butterfly wings, in which case just get some photo sources to draw from. Let's get her other hand in there real quick so it doesn't look completely strange. And, but I recommend doing some just down right fantastical wings, sort of dragonfly like or something like a combination of dragonfly and butterfly. Get some tendrils in there, maybe curly. You don't have to keep them even. The second wing can be different, like this tendril longer, this one's sticking out. The bottom wing, you really want to get over dramatic, prospects you get from the butterfly, so we're going to give like a swallow tail butterfly look to the bottom wing there to make it more fantastical. We'll continue with the curlies and if you're going the other way, if you're going to use curlies because they really put some element of fun into it. And then again, you don't have to follow exact nature and the designs of the wings, whether it'd be the outline or the patterns within the wings. You can make it up, but look at some nature to give you point of reference, such as this. I'm not going to finish the other wing to save time and that will give you a more fantastical look. That's your basic tutorial on how to start with drawing fairies."