My son is a big Star Wars fan and asked me to draw him a picture of Darth Vader. We had a look through his books and found a nice picture to copy, and I took a photocopy. I thought it might be fun to film it so I suspended a camera above my head using a tripod. Looked a bit silly but there you go! I only had an hour and half's worth of tape spare so I drew it in a bit of a hurry, but the results are not bad. For most of the detail in the helmet I used the pointed end of a B pencil, with a bit of 2B for the darkest areas, and some H for the lighter areas. In the photograph Darth Vader is standing under some strip lighing so each light bulb is reflected in the helmet. I left these parts white.
The cloak was drawn with the flat side of a B pencil, with extra shading in the darker areas to give the illusion of folds in the cloth.
Here is the video:
And in case you are not impressed enough, the piano version of the Imperial March is played by me :)
Here's Darth:
And lest you forget, here's my Elvis video:
Done on the same table, before I realised how to suspend the camera!
Here's Elvis:
Happily for me I managed to sell this one, but let me know if you'd like me to draw you one!
