We begin by drawing the face and spirit animal.
In my case I chose the leopard, but feel free to choose which spirit animal resonates with you today.
We want to keep our sketch light enough so that we don’t risk ruining our paper when we erase. You’ll notice that hot press paper can be quite delicate and if the fibers get messed up from erasing the watercolor can look splotchy and marked when we start painting.
Facing the light part two – drawing
here are my reference photos.
I’ve added a few extra for you to download so that you can choose which you feel most comfortable with:
alternative reference photos
If you are feeling intimidated by the drawing part and prefer to trace my drawing you can download it here: