How to Draw a Tambourine

Video Transcript

"Hello there, I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com and today we're learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw a tambourine and we're going to start off with tambourine in a vertical position and it's going to look like oval on the sides; so we're going to have a shape like that which is the side of the tambourine. And then we bring out the sides of it 'cause it has some thickness and then we'll bring down another line right near the other line like this and then we'll darken this line over here. So we have this shape of an ellipse; it's almost a cylinder, a short cylinder in effect. Now this would be the side of the surface that you would bang on to make a nice drum-like noise, you know, on here and I'm just going to put a little shading on that to sort of suggest it it's a little solid shape and we'll continue the ellipse around on this side, just around like that. Now what makes it a tambourine is all these little half moon jangles that sort of sit in the side of the tambourine that's when it's being shocked, it's making that nice sort of tinnie musical sound. And I'm just following the curve of the shape of the cylinder and bringing those around in it. Now they sit in little slots so that they have movement; the move, area to move around in and to make those jingles. So we'll just widen these slots with these little pieces of metal are coming out. So this is basically the shape for the tambourine; a nice ellipse with some dimension on the side. Now I can shade that a little bit to give it some texture where it's casting a shadow. So if somebody was holding that, they would almost just be holding it like that and hitting it from that side and the hand would be coming down and hitting on the drum and shaking those tambourine and we can show the tambourine almost in a motion that it's moving and getting that nice tinnie sound. So there we have a tambourine. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."