How to Alter a Playing Card

Series Summary

Drawing and sketching refers to two-dimensional pieces of art made by marking on a surface with a variety of mediums. Drawing tools can include graphite pencils, pen and ink, colored pencils, charcoals and chalk and pastels. It is the most foundational skill an artist possesses. The practice of drawing and sketching as an art form became widely popular in 15th century Europe when paper became generally available. The famous journal of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci contains hundreds of sketches, brainstorms and observations that inspire draftsmen today. Almost every form of imaginable art involves some level of drawing or sketching. In this free video series on drawing and illustration, an artist discusses some illustration and cartooning tips. Learn to make a fun art project out of an old playing card, and find out how to make a comic strip. Draw caricatures, make a flip book and discover art supplies that aid in illustration and cartooning. With a little creativity and the right tools, anyone can start drawing cartoons, caricatures and illustrations.

Video Transcript

"Hey welcome everybody my name is Lars Erik Robinson with LarsEr Art, All Around Art-Tainment. We're doing a little fun thing here, if you have some deck of cards laying around your house and you want to have, play around a little bit, you can alter your card. I actually noticed this is very slick and it's very fun to draw on. I just took some art sticks here for example, they're kind of made out of wax, and I started playing around with the background and it's a nice slick surface, and this is very open to whatever you want to do. You can actually take a little sandpaper and sand out a certain area of the face and maybe put your own face on there or something like that. There's miniature paintings, if you ever see those really really small paintings, you can actually use this surface and Jesso it over it. You can use Jesso or use, and paint it, paint this all over and do it yourself. Maybe leave part of the King logo, anything like that. I've a little marker here, how about we put him some sunglasses on a slant here, little cool king here. You know, and then we can, he has a mustache, but we can make it big or we can give him a goatee, and we'll do the same thing on the bottom. You know, there's something about repetition that's really interesting, seeing something on a, on a image like that, you know you could even add a water line right here, make it look like it's a reflection in the water, and then if you want to add, if you want to enhance that a little more, I don't know if you can really see this, but I'm going to go ahead and add some blue, blue waves and make it look like it's a reflection in the water. That's pretty neat, and we have the. So if you can see that, we add a little sunglasses, just play around you can alter cards any way you want. You can even add a little fish here or anything, or have something popping up, whatever you want. Just have fun with it. Thank You!"