How to Draw a Lion

Video Transcript

"Welcome to my studio today, guys. I'm Lars Robinson, I'm an illustrator. And illustrating is always interesting because when you have it simple, you have a lion here. When you're illustrating something you try to get the mood of what, of certain subjects to illustrate something for an article for example. This time we're just going to do this lion and it's going to be roaring. Rarrh... So, you look at the basic shape, you look at the forehead which is smaller here. And we got a really big roar on this one. There's his teeth, smaller teeth, lot of wrinkles here in the bib. Just going to use my pencil here to generally get in the shapes. Lion always has a lot of hair around him. And the tongue, more sharp teeth on the bottom. It's just like dogs where they got that stark line in here, and little gums. Gotta make sure you establish the forehead and know how the hair is attached to it. You don't want to overdo how it's attached, because it's laying on there softly. So you gotta find the ends of it, and here's the ear. There's a lot of hair inside the ear. My accent is Swedish, I lived in Sweden for ten years, so I might have a little bit of an accent. Lived there since I was eight until I was eighteen. Alright, the bottom of him, you can add a shadow right here, so you get this to come out. Here's the body. Because of the demonstration we could just show the hair coming. Alright, look at that! Really starting to pop out, that's why I'm putting the marker on here, to make it establish to come out. But remember if you want to try to capture something, just try to generally think about the shape and can think about the mood. And if you can imaging this one really come out. So I hope you enjoy that demonstration and knowing how to leave things out and have them make a deep out. Thank you guys."