How do u draw animals?

Question

Elephants,Giraffes,Wild Animals

Answer 1

You could as some of these people say here, buy a book on How-to-draw-animals. Although you could also borrow them from the library or look stuff up on the internet. Also one of the best things is to sit and look at the actual animal, OR get a book or magazine that has a picture of what you want to draw and just start sketching. Pencils are good because you can erase. Yet, pens are fine if you don't mind throwing away messed up drawings!! You WILL mess up, just count on that. But practice makes perfect and if you add that to drawing skill and you will increase your talent a ton. Try putting an image upside down and drawing the shape and outline, then turn your paper rightside up again and you should really see a difference in your drawing. When drawing this way you can really see the SHAPE and texture of an object (or animal) instead of just seeing the animal. If the stomach looks oblong, draw it oblong... don't just draw a circle with a trunk. There are so many things to think about and see when drawing a picture and detail means everything!! I hope this helps and good luck to you!
The best thing I can say is practice practice practice!!!

Answer 2

Everything has to be broken into parts. Like a human being, that has broken into parts when I draw. The best is to show you a website so you can see what I mean.

But if you practise using shapes first, like boxes, or circles and start working with them, then at least you get the shapes right before the detail.

Be good at doing the basics and you'll be able to do all these animals with speed sketching, and do so upside down.

Or as I do, using outline as a silhoute. You can see this doing in video below. This is a female artists showing you. She's passionate about elephants but be patiant and watch her draw the elephant.

Check out the link below to see a video on how to draw an elephant. Hope it helps!

http://www.janbrett.com/video/how_to_draw_an_elephant.htm

Answer 3

1. Get a piece of paper or two.
2. Get a pencil.
3. Sharpen the pencil (if you need to).
4. Find a comfortable place to draw.
5. Put the pencil up against the paper.
6. DRAW!

Answer 4

The same way you draw anything else.

Check out Betty Edwards (link below). I read her book a few years ago and it helped me a lot. Drawing is really not as hard as people make it out to be. And the way you're approaching this question is the antithesis of the way she teaches people how to think. The idea is that you shouldn't think about what it is you're drawing; just draw what you see. She always says that it's not about learning how to draw, it's about learning how to see.

I think a dose of Betty Edwards is all you need. I would highly recommend her book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."

Answer 5

Try your hand at scratchboards. Thats what I do. An x-acto knife and an ink covered art board are my only tools. What you do is "scratch" out the image. sorta like carving. But I find it much easier to do than drawing the image with a pencil.

Heres a link to my scratchboards.
http://www.iggabod.com/scratch.htm

Answer 6

Draw magical animals, like Ligers. That way you won't have to learn to draw mutliple kinds.

Answer 7

i draw them like cartoon characters HAHA with one eye bigger than the other..and maybe on two legs instead of 4 haha im a goof!!

Answer 8

get 1 of those stupid books that teach step by step how to draw

Answer 9

With a pencil.