How to Draw Monkey Skeletons

Video Transcript

"Alright folks in this clip I am going to teach you how to draw a monkey skeleton. First start with the head. You are going to want to draw it a little bit differently than the human skeleton meaning you don't want to have it have a lot of the same characteristics that we do. You want to have it look like it belongs to an animal. Now obviously I'm drawing sort of like a vicious looking monkey here probably one of those baboons or something like that but you get the idea. A skeleton should look different than a human beings. Then we are going to come in here and kind of draw the vertebra coming down here. You are going to want to do this all the way down and kind of get lighter and lighter as you get near the end just like that and then we'll come in and we'll draw the shoulder bones right here because another way to define a monkey is to make their arms nice and long and come in here and give them long bones that kind of come out so they can stand on them much like a monkey would, kind of like that. See then you are going to want to build the rib cage. Now the rib cage is kind of a tricky thing. I would do just a simple little, kind of come down along the sides of the spine and draw him just kind of circular or semi circular and there is a lot of ribs obviously so there is no reason to go and define each and every one. So there you go with the rib cage. Not a whole lot of detail just make sure that people can clearly see where they are supposed to be. Now rounding it out here at the back and the pelvic bone and the hind legs which also really details the monkey itself and make the backbone just like that. Then come down here again and draw the hind legs coming out much like we did before. Then essentially you have got yourself a monkey skeleton."