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Bunny Rock Painting Tutorial – Manga Style Rabbit
This bunny rock painting tutorial is sure to get the “awws” and would make a great addition to any rock collection. Get the full rock painting tutorial and learn some tips on drawing Manga style animals.
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Manga Style Rabbit Rock Painting
I love drawing but honestly, I’m a work in progress and so is my art. It’s frustrating when the image in my mind looks nothing like what comes out on paper. But…
Recently, my daughter and I started learning to draw manga-style animals influenced heavily by Christopher Hart. Both of us are making strides and I thought I’d share this adorable Easter bunny rock painting tutorial with you.
Psst: if you’re a visual learner, scroll down to the bunny rock painting tutorial video.
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Materials for Easter Bunny Rock Painting
- A rock
- Posca paint pens (our favorites)
- Small paintbrush
- Pencil
- Optional: ModPodge and Polyurethane sealant
Step 1 – Sketch the face.
Start with the ears – your choice, one floppy and one straight, both straight – it doesn’t matter. Just know you might have to adjust in the next step, depending on the size of your head.
Speaking of the head, create a circle for it – we will be adding the puffy cheeks later. Adjust the ears, if necessary. The benefit of this design is that it’s such a simple rock painting idea that you can customize!
Now that you have the head and ears, create guidelines for the eyes, nose, and mouth. I create a vertical center line (sometimes a bit off-center if the head is turned) and two horizontal lines for the eyes.
Draw tombstone-shaped eyes which start at the bottom horizontal guideline and reach up to the top horizontal guideline. Try to get them even, but don’t fret – art isn’t the pursuit of perfection. And because this is a rock painting tutorial…
Next, draw a rough outline in the shape of a triangle (or heart) for the nose. Lightly approximate the mouth – I used two half-circles for a smiling mouth, but know that you could also have the Easter bunny (or just a plain ‘ol rabbit) with an open mouth and a little tongue peeking through.
I chose to add a little coloring for our rabbit rock painting, so I sketched out the eye patches (I saw this in Christopher Hart’s book – love it!).
Flare the cheeks by drawing them out to a point and lining them up with the base of the head.
Step 2 – Apply the first paint layer.
I like to start with the lightest color so I can let it dry and build on it. I filled in the top center of the face with white paint pen. Just a tip: to make it look like fur at the top, use short strokes without coloring it in.
Because I wanted to blend the white face into the center of the ears, I use the brown to color the ears and quickly blended with a thin paintbrush.
Fill in the rest of the face (including any markings). Use a brush to blend or soften the strokes.
Next, fill in the eyes. Start with the lids, then move to the large reflection. I find it’s easier to add the reflection first and build around it than it is to color white on black. I’m lazy. Once the reflections are done, create the pupil and then add the color. Add another reflection in the opposite lower corner of the eye. Mine are not symmetrical – oops.
Eyebrows and outlines are next up. The only tip here is to keep things as even as you can.
Color the pink nose (I blended red and white) and add in a smiling (or open) mouth.
Now, it’s time to touch up any area (I added more to the white face to fill some gaps) and added another layer to the outline to really make it pop.
If you’d like, sign, date, and tag the rock before moving onto the next step.
Step 3 – Protect
Cover anything painted with a light coat of ModPodge. Don’t do a lot of working on top of the paint here because it will run.
Once the ModPodge has dried, coat the rock in a layer (or 3) of polyurethane to seal and protect.
Yield: 1 bunny rock painting
Craft idea with instructions for an acrylic egg Easter bunny
Get the Easter Bunny in the house! Discover how ingeniously simple and fast you can make a rabbit from an Acrylic-egg! The fun is so great that it will certainly not be just one rabbit.
And it is as simple as that:
Which materials do I need to make the Acrylic-Egg Easter bunny?
In addition to a Acrylic-egg, Handicraft paint is needed in Brown . The spoons and paws consist of Foam sheets. White Pompoms are needed for the rabbit face and the stub tail. For tinkering and painting you will also need a sponge swab brush, a fine brush, hot glue, scissors and a hanging tape.
Handicraft instructions for the Acrylic-Egg Easter bunny
The Acrylic egg is primed with brown Handicraft paint and a stippling brush. For our handicraft idea we have created the Brown from VBS Hobby Color mixed with Ivory-color.
While the paint dries, ears and feet can be transferred from the craft template to Foam sheets and then cut out. With hot-melt glue the ears and foot parts from Foam sheets are glued together first and then fixed to Acrylic egg . For the face, eyes, nose, mouth and beard hair are painted with a fine brush and black Handicraft paint . As soon as the paint is dry, a small dot of Ivory-paint should be dabbed into eyes and onto the nose. This gives the acrylic bunny liveliness. Now only stick on the white Pompoms as chubby cheeks and stubby tails. A Satin ribbon serves as a hanging tape and is knotted to the egg – ready is a cute Acrylic-Easter bunny egg.
How do I make the Acrylic egg with rabbitNapkin?
Take a Acrylic egg with cutting disc and prime the cutting disc first with white Acrylic paint. After drying, stick the rabbit motif of Napkin with Napkin varnish on the cutting disc. Then you can carefully cut off the protruding edges of the Napkin with a scalpel.
Insert the cutting disc into the Acrylic egg and stick some tape around the groove of the egg. Fix white Satin ribbon on it. Attach the hanging tape. Take the tapes to the loop and attach them to the hanger.
