How to Draw a Sleeping Dog

Video Transcript

"Hello there I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com and today we are learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw a sleeping dog. I'm going to start off doing his face here. And this dog might look more like a Labrador retriever. And often when they are sleeping they often have a little bit of a smile. I'm going to make his eye just a very sort of narrow line which would be a slit, because he'd have his eye closed like that. And I'm going to put his ear down like this, they would not be up because he's sleeping. And I'm going to bring his back around like that and I'm going to put his front paw sort of curled up under him like this. I'm going to put a little dark spot here for his nose. And back here on his hind quarter I'm going to put his back leg and put his paw in like that. And there we have his back leg. And now I'm going to bring his tail around like a nice fluffy tail like that. And I'll put a little shading on him, assuming the light is coming down from the top we'll put some shading on the back part of his tail, under his body here, this side of his leg, under his neck and then I'll just rub that in to give it a little tone, a little value like that. The nice thing about working in charcoal you can easily you know give the feeling that it's a three dimensional subject. Now to make him look like he's on something we are going to put a little one of those carpets you know, you know a little carpet you normally see. And he might be in the house and I'll just draw where the front door would be. And there we have him in the house. On the carpet just enjoying his sleep. Put a little shadow under him and there we are done with drawing a sleeping dog. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."