How to draw: An Excavator

Today we continue the series on how to draw things with a drawing of an excavator. I am not a technical artist by any means, and I am sure there will be some of you out there who will be able to spot some obvious errors in my drawing. However, I hide myself behind artistic freedom, and show you how I went about it anyway. The really fun part of today's blog, is that I use acrylic ink to paint the drawing with, when we are done. Ink is one of my all time favourite mediums and I can barely wait to introduce you to it!

We will need paper, a pencil and a ruler for this drawing.

Start your drawing with a triangle, a rectangle, and a shape for the rollers/wheels that the excavator moves on.

Start developing the arm.

Continue the development of the arm and the cabin.

We are now starting to add a third dimension to the drawing.

A whole lot of detail is added in this step, from the top to the bottom.

Even more detail is added.

It is time to redraw the sketch in ink. I used a black marker for this purpose.

Erase all of the pencil lines.

I then used my black marker to draw a setting for the excavator. This was done freehand and very quickly. Do not overthink it - this is simply background.

I used Dala Acrylic Ink to paint the picture with. I also used smaller and larger flat brushes. Once the ink dries it is permanently set. However, as long as it is wet, it can easily be washed out with water.

I started with the lightest shades and coloured these a pale yellow.

This was followed by a more intense yellow.

I then added Sienna.

This was followed by black.

I painted the background in Sienna as well.

Then I added dark areas in Brown.

The final picture.

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