Step 5.It's now time to commit ourselves to the final drawing. Using your fiber tipped pen, (a 0.2 or 0.5 Pilot Drawing Pen) begin by pick - ing out and drawing over the best pencil lines, use thick & thin lines by appling more or less pressure to the nib, it will give any draw - ing a sense of depth.

Don't religiously trace over your sketch, the drawing should be, (unlike dinosaurs!) evolving at every stage. You can either start by laying over a new sheet of paper and tracing through or, drawing straight over the pencil sketch. Which ever way you choose always begin at the top, working your way down to the bottom, to avoiding smudging the ink with your hand.

Step 6. There! When the ink has had a little time to dry, we can erase our pencil lines so that we have a nice clean drawing to color in. Don't worry if all of the pencil dosen't rub out, it's nice to see how the artist has achieved his or her masterpiece!

We can now add a few finishing touches to the raptor by adding a few muscle lines on the legs,arms and neck, and maybe a few shadows here and there. Done? Okay let's color her in.

 

 

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