How to Draw a Cobra

Video Transcript

"Hi Joel Hickerson Grin Dog dot com. Today we are going to learn how to draw a cobra. Ok start out with an oval for the hood of a cobra. Ok and then the head, the head kind of arks into the hood so we are going to draw a circle for the head. And then another circle for the snout. Now draw the snout, do the mouth and you can draw it open or closed. If you decide to do it open, you can use this as the, this gap as the opening. Now as a cartoon cobra you might add some fangs, a couple of nose holes. Eyes on a cobra, I like to do triangles. Ok swoop down the hood because the head is actually an extension of the back. So the back actually comes across to the front. And then you draw the snake part which is always long and windy. And unlike some of the species of snakes that coil a cobra can strike as it's body is almost stretched all the way out. So they don't have to coil to strike. Eyes on the cobra, they'll be some brow lines to give it a little more fearsomeness. Shade in the mouth. And a cobra has bands on it's belly. And stripes so you might add a couple of stripes and the back of a cobra is black. Most species. And you can just shade in the back of your cobra. And once I've done all the construction lines I like to come back with a marker and pick out the lines I want. Trace just the lines I'm looking to keep. Follow the contour. The thing about when you are coming back you can kind of correct some of the issues you had with your pencil. Ok once you get it pretty much like you like it, come back with your erasure and get rid of the lines that you don't want and if you draw it light enough, they'll kind of come off on their own. And that's how you draw a cobra."