How to draw animals

We are all born with the ability to draw.It is extremely beneficial for adults and children to learn the skill of drawing. Since drawing is a valuable asset in numerous career fields – it should be encouraged and taught early on.

Most five year olds are assured that they can draw, sing, and dance. Tragically though, in a couple of years, a child experiences a crisis of their creative ability. The ability to draw a likeness may appear to be a natural gift or talent but it is actually acquired by practice.

Drawing is an extremely useful, if not essential tool used in creative thinking. Drawing is very helpful to students and adults in the development of all kinds of creative ideas and in problem solving. Learning to draw develops the portion of the brain that visualizes.


"Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up." –

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

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   Presketching with few circles and ellipses
   
   
   Now you can start to draw the contours of the animal and begin to work it out clearer and clearer

2. 

   Contours of the animal babie worked out
   
   
   If you are satisfied with the results of the drawing you can start to draw the lines stronger on the paper. You can draw the shadows as exactly as you want to or just scribble it.

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   Learn to draw Animals: The animal is finished :-) how cute, isn't it?
   
   
   Now the drawing is finished. How you like it!

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   * In the following you can find a step-by-step drawing of a tiger. Drawing animals is simply fun because animals are one of the most beautiful drawing motives!

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   First draft with tough drawn outlines

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   And finished another one.
   
   
   At best you just get book with animal pictures from your bookshelf and try to draw some dogs, cats, horses, dolfins or whatever you want to by yourselve.
   I wish you a lot of fun and a lot of success at drawing!

Tips & Warnings

• This is a how-to guide for learning the art of drawing animals. Drawing animals is a skill that can only really be learnt through and experience. This tutorials should give you a few hints and tips along the way. When you intend to learn to draw animals you should begin with trying to draw from some photo templates. I think trying to draw from memory makes not a lot sense at the beginning. The best way is to encirle the area in which the animal will be drawn or to isolate the drawing area otherwise. Then you can draw the several body parts of the animal roughly with ellipses (or other forms). I guess almost everyone of you has allready senn such a presketching with the help of ellipses. I personally would not overdo it with too many ellipses - just draw a presketching of the animal very roughly in this way. That means with not more than three to five ellipses. Thus you draw the proportions only unsubtl.