Animal Drawing Guide

Check out these awesome videos to learn how to draw all kinds of animals and get some valuable practice in drawing textures like fur hair scales skin feathers and a lot more.

Animal drawing guide. This guide breaks up into categories for different animals so just scroll along until you find what you like. How to draw feathers. To do that you will work in large groups. Fur and feathers make animals much more difficult to draw than humans not to mention our unfamiliarity with their anatomy.

Stock your jungle with lions tigers snakes gorillas and tropical birds. Berkeley electronic press selected works. The key is to start from the bottom of the body and work your way for accurate stroke work. Detailed construction is vital to the accurate design of animal illustrations.

And for the face start at the nose and let the fur or feathers radiate out from there. Place the head a circle and the guideline for the neck and the slope of the back. Draw a dog that s realistic and anatomically correct. Draw an oval shape for the stomach.

For example why not draw a diorama of the frigid arctic using the tutorials for a polar bear penguin and whale. Realism and cartoony drawings. Author ken hultgren is a former animator at walt disney and he has years of experience to back up the writing in this book. Note the spinal cord which starts at the top of the head and ends at the tail and defines the horse s posture.

See more furry animal drawing guides feel free to combine several of our animal tutorials into interesting easy sketches.