Kevin is back with the black leopards for another attempt at moving them around the sanctuary. Will Kevin be successful or will they prove too stubborn once again? It's all part of the fun.
The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary's mission is to provide a self-sustaining African carnivore sanctuary for the purposes of wild species preservation through education, awareness and funding, especially pertaining to the rapid decline of large carnivores in Africa due to habitat loss, human-predator conflict, unscrupulous hunting, disease and their illegal trade.
To raise awareness, Kevin has now set up his YouTube Channel 'LionWhispererTV'. The channel is all about raising awareness about not only the declining numbers of lions, but also how this rapid decrease is happening. By watching these videos, you are directly contributing to our scheme of land acquisition.
Kevin captures the majority of his footage on GoPro cameras, allowing the viewer to get as close as possible to the lions.
By doing this, Kevin hopes to give people an insight into the lives of these beautiful creatures and to let them see just what they can do to help. You can nearly touch them.
A young pride of lions learns how to survive by important lessons taught by their mother.
There are two phenomenal beasts that rule one of Africa's true wilderness areas, buffalos and lions. The first dominate the plains with bulk, power and aggression, the latter rule by fear and tenacity. Hunting lessons are not what you might expect. Instead of ambushing their prey and quickly despatching with a clean bite to the throat, these lions wrestle their victim to the ground and tuck in before the hapless beast is dead, meaning a slow and painful death. Are these lions behaving badly, or is it simply that this is what lions do?
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. A year ago I did a tutorial on how making a pencil drawing from a photo using an earlier version of Photoshop. Now, I'm going to show you a faster and easier way to do it. This document is approximately 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches with a Resolution of 150 pixels per inch. Open a photo and make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl + J on a PC or Cmd + Jon a Mac. Click on the Adjustment layer button and choose Hue / Saturation. Reduce the Saturation to -100. Click on the thumbnail of Layer 1 to make it active and change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge. Invert it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. At this point, your image should look white. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Slide the Radius to an amount that looks good to you. Your image should have the look and feel more of a pencil drawing than a photograph.
To make the overall image look densest, click on the Adjustment Layer button again and this time choose Levels. Slide the Input dark to the right until the face is just the right amount of density. If other areas are too dense like the dress in this example, open your Brush Tool, make the Brush Size-relatively large, the Hardness 0% and the Opacity, 40%. Make sure the foreground color is black and then brush over the areas you'd like to make less dense. To clean up some areas, make a "composite snapshot"by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on a PC or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac. Invert the foreground and background colors by clicking on the curved, double-arrow icon or pry pressing "x". On your keyboard. Make the Brush Size small to medium and the Opacity, 100%. Now, simply brush over the areas you want to clean up. Using these quick, simple techniques, you can transform any photo into a beautiful pencil drawing. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!
Hey there! My name is Stan Prokopenko, I'm going to be doing a series of video tutorials on drawing the head from various angles. Hopefully there will be some interest and I'll continue making more of these for you guys! In this first video I'm going to *attempt* to summarize and simplify Andrew Loomis' approach to drawing the head. Here we go. . If we remove the eyes, nose, lips, and ears from the head we are left with 2 simple masses. The first is a ball for the cranium and the second is a boxy shape for the jaw. The cranium is spherical, but with the sides flattened. So, chopping off a slice from both sides gets us a simplified but close representation of the cranial mass. When drawing the head, I'll start with the circle for the ball. and after a few failed attempts. . . rip out your hair. Take a deep breath and try again. But seriously, make sure it looks like a circle and at least the height and width are the same. The oval is a bit more tricky. The height will always be the same, no matter what angle you're drawing the head from. It's 2/3 the height of the circle. So I'll usually look at the area From the center of the circle to the top, divide that area into thirds, and this top third will be where the oval begins. and the same for the bottom. The width of the oval depends on the direction the person is looking. Compare the width of the front plane to the width of the side plane. The top portion of the oval falls into the corner of the forehead. This is where the front plane meets the side plane. This area is usually rounded so it's open to the artist's interpretation. I've found that it usually lies near the end of the eyebrow. So as I just showed we indicate the left and right turn of the head by the width of the oval. Now we need to find the up and down tilt. This is indicated by an angle along the side plane. If the head is tilted up, the angle will point up and if the head is tilted down, the angle will point down. The degree of the tilt will determine how steep to make this line. I like to use the angle from the ear to the brow. From there, I'll continue that line over to the front plane. Since this line represents the brow, pay attention to the angle from one brow to the other. Then, draw a curve parallel to the first one, this time starting from the bottom of the oval.
This represents the bottom of the nose. Drawing the same line again from the top of the oval, would bring you to the hairline. Since the face can be broken down into nearly perfect thirds, chin, nose, brow, and hair, we can use the measurements we've already found, to find the length down to the chin. Observe the general shape of the jaw and draw in the major angles starting from the brow coming down to the chin, and going around to the side plane of the head. It's usually about halfway into the oval, or a little bit further back. We've already found the side plane of the cranium. Now we need to do the same thing with the cheek and jaw area. There's a rhythm that starts at the top of the ear and curves down to the outside of the chin. Then find the centerline of the face. Remember, this is the center of the front plane, not the center of the whole head width. And finish with the neck. Now that we have the foundation of the head established, we can finish it by putting in all the features! eyes, nose, lips, ear, hair, jaw, cheeks, chin. Don't worry, I'll explain this step in more detail in another video. Each feature deserves it's own tutorial. This approach is really good to establish the perspective of the head. A good exercise is to try to think about the head as a simple elongated box.
The angles in the front plane of the face such as hair line, brow line, nostrils, lips, and chin will be the same as the angles on the front plane of the box. The angle of the brow line to the ear is the same as the angle on the side plane of the box. These angles are really important because they establish the head as a three dimensional form in space. Let's go through that one more time. Start with a circle for the cranium. Oval for the side plane of the head angle to show the person looking up or down. Draw an identical curve to find the nose and double that distance to find the chin attach the jaw and you have a 3 dimensional representation of the head ready for the features. At first this approach might seem a bit technical with a lot of important details to remember, but once you get the hang of it, it actually becomes really easy. So get that sketch book out and practice this a hundred times, with various angles. Did you like this video? Your friends might too. Please help me out and share on your favorite social network and don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter on proko.com
