Animal Drawing for Beginners: Create Lively and Accurate Animal Drawings

Animal Drawings for Beginners with Life and Movement

“Thank you so much for joining me in this adventure! It's been an honor to share my knowledge with you. During the course I showed you in detail how to create an A2 study sheet of fallow deer in many different poses on mid-tone paper. But now I higly encourage you to make your very own project. Make it personal by choosing any other animal you like. Let me show you how I would like to see your process: The Materials Gather all the tools and materials you'll need to create the project. As I told you before, I really like Faber Castell color pencils, but if you already have some favorite ones... feel free to use them!

The Animal Think about an animal you wan to draw and study it! You can certainly choose the same as I did butI highly encourage you to pick a similar animal or another completely different. Space and Shapes Work on the negative and positive space. Then look for the main shapes and try to use different poses. Measuring! To create an accurate and well proportioned drawing work on it by measuring and comparing it with the reference you're using. The Drawings Draw on the A2 study sheet, then start using the colored pencils as I showed you. Take as many time as you need to achieve the result that you want. Once the project it's ready, upload it to the forum so that I can see your drawings! I will be giving you feedback as soon as I can, but in the meanwhile, use the time to give some feedback, tips and tricks to your fellows. While giving feedback to them, remember to be nice and gentle, we are all here to learn together. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Now we've reached the end of the course, I'd like to give you a summary of everything we've learned. Initially we explored line, LINE can give a vast amount of information even in the economy of a few strokes. can describe the subject's physical appearance in a representational drawing. Such as the outline of a shape to represent its form. We learnt the fundamentals of anatomy. Anatomy helps us make sense of what we're seeing. simple colored charts Create frameworks in your imagination that you can turn around So you understand where the various bones and muscles are even if the animal's fa...”

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Course summary for: Animal Drawing for Beginners: Create Lively and Accurate Animal Drawings

• Level: Beginner
• 25 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons ()
• 37 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketching