Monday 9 April 2012

Earth Day Poster 2012

1. Draw a 5cm-thick column at the bottom of the paper

2. Draw the slogan in block letters

3. Draw the trunk of a tree at the centre, on top of the line.
The trunk is short and stubby.

4. Draw the general shape of the canopy
Keep it light because you are going to erase this line later

5. Fill up the canopy with hearts
It is alright for the hearts to overlap one another
Erase the guiding line

6. Outline the hearts with red oil pastels (crayons)
Outline the tree trunk with brown oil pastels
Outline the block letters with green oil pastels
Make sure the lines are thick and smooth.

7. Fill up the hearts with poster colours
Blend red, orange and yellow colours horizontally from left to right
You can blend the colours from right to left too

8. Fill up the block letter with poster colours
Blend green, light green and yellow colours horizontally from bottom to top

9. Draw spiraling patterns with oil pastels
Pain the sky blue
Paint the ground brown