How To Draw Dog Hair With Pencil

How to draw a dog labrador retriever puppy version with annotations.
How to draw dog hair with pencil. For this demonstration i am using a clay tool but a stylus blunt needle or even the end of a paint brush will work as well. 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. Then lay in peach to start the skin tone. Hair has often been considered a symbol.
For coarse hair we ll start by considering the highlights. This dog has a lot of black fur which looks like light grey sometimes even blue because of the light. 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. It s almost worse then hands.
The first thing to do is take a look at the shape to which the hair is attached. Drawing hair is hard work. 5 pencil method drawing with darrel tank 341 746 views. Drawing hair in graphite pencil.
I m still working fairly loose and defining the lighter hair masses by drawing the shadows around them. One of the most frequent questions i receive is how i draw curly white hair like my portrait called gabby. I always draw hair or fur starting from the root. How to draw white hair with pencil duration.
Lightly draw the shapes of the hairline ear and overall shape of the hair with mechanical pencil. When drawing very short hair take the skin tone up into the hair area. It s complicated time consuming and often the results are terrible and trust me i speak from personal experience when i say that. Build up the hair.
I draw the eye i do the white blink first then the iris and all the black parts in the end. How to draw fur coarse hair. With fine strokes of a sharpened pencil i created the fur around the eye. Isolate and sketch in the shape of the head or body beneath the hair.
5 pencil method drawing with darrel tank 90 900 views. We can now go in again with a charcoal pencil and a black coloured pencil and draw in individual hairs both inside the ear and on the edge of it. The hair appears to be a wild mass of lines and curves but it follows the contours of the dog s head. Because the paper is so close to the color of the dog i won t have to add highlights until the end of the process.
Note that most of the work in the hair has been in the shadows the ear under the chin around the eye etc.