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How To Draw Animals. Art for Kids Hub. This playlist contains a lot of our how to draw animal lessons!
- Farm Animals & Pets
- Wild Animals
- Sea Creatures
- Birds
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- …And The Platypus
Cow
This real time video shows you how to draw a cow using simple, basic shapes and easy shading techniques. Add this one to your beginner practice playlist and pay special attention to the notes about using pencil pressure to control value. Check Out The Tutorial
Pig
This tutorial uses simple circles to create the form of a pig and shows a simple line technique to draw the joints of the legs. In the end this makes them look a lot more realistic. It also provides great practice with smooth shading. Excellent video for beginners. Check Out The Tutorial
Horse
Learn to draw a horse profile portrait using basic shapes like circles, triangles, and trapezoids. If you check out this tutorial you’ll see it also takes a close look at the features and structure of a horse’s face and ears while providing guidance on placing facial features. This tutorial is a little more advanced so you may want to warm up with some of the simpler videos before attempting this. But if you love horses then you’ll find immense value here! Or you might even like our list of b...
Lion
Here’s a fun tutorial focusing on the king of the jungle. The artist uses a simple proportion grid to draw the lion face in pencil, complete with striking eyes and realistic mane hair. You’ll also see a few different techniques for adding highlights such as using white acrylic paint on top of the pencil to add whiskers, and creating highlights with an eraser. Check Out The Tutorial
Giraffe
Our long-necked friend is easy to draw and he’s so fun! Here’s a quick beginner-friendly tutorial for drawing a full-body giraffe in pencil. The artist breaks down the form into basic shapes in this video tut. This is a great video to start with if you’re new to drawing animals. The hardest part is probably drawing the spots! Check Out The Tutorial
Zebra
Continuing with African savannah animals, this is a captioned tutorial similar to the giraffe video that also starts with basic shapes. Follow along, pause after each step to catch up, and you’ll have a realistic zebra drawing in no time. Check Out The Tutorial
Shark
Have fun drawing this slightly cartoonish great white shark in charcoal pencil and graphite! This is a great tutorial for beginners and especially so if you’re a sea lover. Check Out The Tutorial
Koi Fish
Enjoy this demonstration a beautifully stylized koi fish on toned paper using graphite and colored pencil. As the artist puts it: this drawing is very similar to a tattoo design. This is more of a process video than a tutorial because the artist don’t really explain how he’s doing what he’s doing, but rather discusses the structure of the fish. The techniques and shapes are fairly simple to follow if you have experience with drawing. So an intermediate artist shouldn’t have any trouble replic...
Octopus
The octopus is a very technical animal to draw but also really fun. And why not? They’re awesome and very unique looking. If you want to get in on the octopus trend this super simple tutorial will show you how to whip up a cool octopus pencil drawing in no time. This artist leaves the values fairly dark and sketchy, but you can even take this a step further with blending, erasing to create highlights, or adding a little color with colored pencils or pastels. Check Out The Tutorial
Owl
Whooo doesn’t love owls? (I know, sorry) Well this video will show you how to draw a great horned owl starting with a base drawing in colored pencil and coloring it in with Copic markers or brush pens. From start to finish you’ll have a gorgeous drawing with some really beautiful effects that can apply to all your future artwork. Check Out The Tutorial
Penguin
If you’ve ever been to the zoo then you’ve seen penguins. Everybody loves penguins. And this beginner friendly tutorial shows you step-by-step how to draw a simple emperor penguin using circles, ovals, and other basic shapes. Since it’s very simple to draw this is a good practice project for when you’re just getting started, short on time, or if you just want to draw a cute penguin. Which is totally legit. The video also includes instructions for a adding a simple Antarctic background which g...
Tern
The artist here doesn’t provide narration but it’s pretty simple to see what’s going on. You might want to just watch this once through before attempting though. Working with color usually requires a lot of layering(especially when you’re using translucent media like colored pencil or watercolor) and you might have to use colors that feel counterintuitive. It’s helpful to see how this artist selects and layers colored pencils to create a drawing of a type of bird that isn’t all that colorful,...
Frog
Hop on over to this video(I’ll stop now) and learn to draw a little froggy! This is a really great lesson in shading because you really need it to show the smooth form of the frog. And the final result is just impeccable. Check Out The Tutorial
T-Rex
Extinct animals still have a place on our list! This tutorial walks you through sketching an awesome T-Rex in a cool sketchbook style. This is a good demonstration of creating implied texture in pencil without having to draw every single scale, vein, and muscle, which is a massively important skill in drawing. Check Out The Tutorial
Komodo Dragon
This tutorial can show you how to draw the largest living lizard, which is good practice in drawing details related to animal anatomy. You may not know much about Komodo Dragons but they are lovable creatures to draw. Check Out The Tutorial
This video teaches you to draw an animal that belongs in its very own section of this list. It’s a weird creature so the shapes may seem odd. But keep at it and you’ll surely nail it down. All of these videos are useful and if you have patience you can recreate these drawings all by yourself. Or you can try switching up your mediums, adding or subt...
Cute and cuddly, fuzzy and finned—whether you want to draw a dog, draw a cat or draw a hammerhead shark, you can do it with the step-by-step guides you will find here on how to draw animals plus tips galore and resources that will guide you to your next animal sketch!
For drawing animals in a way that you’ll be able to learn good artistic habits and hone your skills as an artist, you first want to really get to know your materials. Step by step, you’ll discover steps for drawing dogs, cats, and horse drawings.
Mar 19, 2024 · Mar 19, 2024. Learn how to sketch animals in this mini-series of drawing lessons. In this first part, we'll focus on proportion before doing more complete sketches in parts 2 and 3. See beneath the video to download reference materials for this part.
