How To Draw Dog Hair With Colored Pencils

I use scotch magic tape to create the highlights.

How to draw dog hair with colored pencils. A few weeks ago i shared some pointers on how to draw realistic hair with colored pencils if you missed that article you may want to click the link and read it before continuing here since those methods will provide a good foundation for today s walk through. I m using faber castell polychromos and caran d ache luminance. Having worked on breathing life into a dog s soulful eyes. The more lines the darker the area.

Let your colored pencils do most of the work. Add a shadow between the coats. Add another coat between them. I draw the eye i do the white blink first then the iris and all the black parts in the end.

Now i m going to demonstrate how to draw four types of hair. In this video i show you how to create realistic curly fur using coloured pencils. Take one of your black colour pencils and work this in using tight circulism. Finally using your black colour pencil draw in any fine details like tufts of hair.

Our art lesson on how to draw a dog with color pencils is a demonstration of the various steps involved in creating our dog drawing above of ben the border collie. Colored pencils can be used in many different ways. With fine strokes of a sharpened pencil i created the fur around the eye. The list of materials can be found below.

Draw strands on the edge of every coat. Color pencil is the ideal medium for illustrating this subject as it naturally suited to making the rhythmic lines that convey the colorful sheen of the dog s coat. Their facial expressions and color markings allow for artistic interpretation and a great depth of color. Add a bit of hair under the eyes too.

In this colored pencil video i m explaining my techniques for drawing dog fur in colored pencils. As with any drawing draw in the overall shape of the hair first. Then go over it with some dark umber to separate the layers of the hair. To begin lightly draw the shapes of the hair with a mechanical pencil.

Dogs are a perfect subject for any artist and in this tutorial we re going to learn how to draw a german shepherd using colored pencils. This dog has a lot of black fur which looks like light grey sometimes even blue because of the light. I always draw hair or fur starting from the root. Remember you draw an impression of fur not each hair.

Create the hair strands. Keep them loose and wavy. Drawing short neat hair. Please note i m using animal samples as illustrations but the principles do work exactly the same for human hair as well.

Drawing animals particularly beloved pets is a lot of fun. Don t dive into details.