Let's try to draw this amazing and beautiful animal correctly. This is a very graceful animal and a novice artist must first of all draw the grace of a jaguar.

This picture of a beaver was made by me on a tablet and you can use it to color the beaver with paints. But first, let's draw a beaver with a simple pencil in stages.

Learn to draw a tiger

You can draw a tiger only from a picture or photo. It will not be possible to see the Ussuri tiger live. This is an endangered species of animals (no more than 500 individuals), and besides, the tiger is a cautious predator. There are several types of tigers, but we will choose for our drawing the Ussuri tiger living in the Far Eastern taiga.

How to learn to draw a koala bear

The koala bear is a very cute animal, and therefore, in any picture, the koala always looks so cute and kind, which makes every person smile. If you can draw animals, be sure to try drawing a koala.

How to draw a giraffe

Drawing a giraffe will not be a difficult online lesson for you if you have previously tried to draw animals from a photo, such as a horse or a zebra.

Drawing of a bear for children

Drawing a bear requires some preparation, practice in drawing animals. The fact is that in addition to external similarities, first of all, in the drawing of an animal, its character must be reflected.

A drawing of a king cobra made on a graphics tablet can be a good picture for decorating your computer desktop.

How to draw a fox

As a rule, foxes have a small body size and short, mundane paws. Their body is slightly elongated like a dachshund. All this must be remembered in order for children to learn how to draw this animal correctly.

Learning to draw a wolf

The grin of a wolf can express the character of a wild beast in your drawing. Wild animals are always dangerous for people and in realistic pictures of animals you need to take this into account. In this lesson we will learn how to draw a wolf in stages with a pencil.

How to draw an elephant

The elephant has a very large body and limbs that are different from other animals. His large ears, simple in appearance, are very difficult to draw to match reality. But the elephant has parts that are easy to draw - these are its legs and torso.

Draw a reindeer

When a deer is alarmed by something, its legs should be slightly bent, ready to jump. Drawing a deer, even in stages, can be difficult for beginners, since it is necessary to be able to reflect the gracefulness of its movements and forms.

How to draw a dragon step by step

Color pictures of a non-existent animal - a dragon, and even in the Chinese national style, of course, are difficult to draw. In fact, the dragon is a symbiosis of a lizard and a bird, and in the drawing of the dragon it is necessary to reflect the plasticity of these two animals.

We draw a lion in stages

Drawing this animal from the first drawing lesson may not work. Then look at your cat first and even draw it, then it will be easier for you to draw a lion.

Camel drawing for kids

The camel has its main feature - one or two humps, thanks to which even a child's drawing of a camel cannot be confused with the drawing of other animals. But still, it is better to draw a camel so that not only with them it looks like a realistic camel.

How to draw a spider

For the drawing lesson of this animal, we will choose a tarantula spider. This spider has hairy limbs and a black and white body, so you don’t need to paint the drawing with paints, it’s enough to make a tone color with a soft simple pencil.

How to draw a snake

The snake inspires panic fear in many, since some snakes are very poisonous. But in fact, this is an ordinary animal from the reptile family, using poison for self-defense.

A picture of a kangaroo with a simple pencil

Kangaroo is a unique animal. Firstly, the kangaroo lives only in Australia, and secondly, the mother of the kangaroo for feeding the cub has a "bag" on her stomach, in which he sits until he grows up. A distinctive feature of this animal are huge powerful hind legs and a long thick tail.

How to draw a frog

Drawing for children with a simple pencil is best done in stages, at first outlining only the general contours of the frog. And then, step by step, draw the whole picture.

Drawing a bee with a simple pencil

Bees have many small details, which complicates drawing, but drawing a bee is a good lesson for children who are fond of drawing, as it develops mindfulness and the ability to maintain proportions.

Drawing of an ant with a pencil for children

If you need to make an illustration for a fable or draw this insect for a biology lesson, I suggest that you complete this task together.

Hedgehog drawing step by step

How to draw this unusual animal, for example, to illustrate the cartoon Hedgehog in the Fog or to draw on the theme "From the Life of the Forest", because it has so many needles? Let's try to do it step by step with a pencil. And perhaps this lesson will seem quite easy for you.

How to draw a panda

This lesson is designed for children who want to draw a panda. The drawing is made in stages with a simple pencil. If desired, he can help you draw a panda from a famous cartoon.

Drawing a crocodile in stages

The crocodile is a very dangerous and predatory animal, and in order to convey the character of this animal in the picture, first of all, you need to draw an open long mouth, widely spaced paws and a tail bent from tension.

How to draw a squirrel

Let's try to draw another animal - a squirrel, first with a pencil, and then "revive" the picture of the squirrel, color the drawing with colored pencils, draw a tree branch on which the squirrel sits and, of course, add a bump to the squirrel's paws.

How to draw a dinosaur

How to draw a non-existent animal - a dinosaur, if no one has ever seen this animal? Of course, only focusing on your imagination and the drawings of scientists recreating different types of dinosaurs that lived on our planet.

Pencil drawing of a scorpion

Few people like an insect so dangerous to humans as a scorpion, but many people like to draw predatory and dangerous animals. I suggest you do it step by step.

How to draw a dragonfly

Think you can't draw such a beautiful dragonfly as in my drawing? And you try. The main thing is to take a sharper pencil so that the lines are thin and clear.

When you draw a person, he poses for you, and you can calmly observe, study, and think about him. And how to draw animals, they won’t pose? What is common in their structure with the structure of man? A great master of depicting animals and a connoisseur of all these issues is the Soviet animal artist V.A.

Vatagin. The structure of all vertebrates is similar. The skeletons of a horse or a goat, a rooster or even a lizard, in principle, consist of the same basic parts as the human skeleton, the difference is only in proportions. In order to understand this better, it is useful to sketch the skeletons of several vertebrates. Constant sketches of animals and observation of them in various postures and movements will give an idea of ​​the basics of their anatomical structure. Having studied the skeleton of the junction of the bones, you will feel their location in a living animal, and this will help you gradually find out the main anatomical points of his body, thanks to which you will more and more accurately grasp the appearance of the depicted animal. This is the best way to draw animals. The artist on a relatively large sheet begins to make a small sketch of the animal. Suddenly it changes position. The artist leaves an unfinished sketch and starts a new one. Suppose the pose has changed again - the artist begins the third drawing, and so on. Finally, at the next change of position, the animal takes one of the previous poses, and the artist immediately returns to the corresponding unfinished drawing. The result is more or less complete sketches of one animal in different positions.

In such sketches corrections and additions can be made already at home from fresh memory. After working this way for a sufficient time, you will study the animal and notice its most characteristic pose, in which it can already be depicted on a separate sheet. Continuing further observations, one can further refine this drawing, supplement it with characteristic details and bring it to the greatest expressiveness. For sketches from nature, Vatagin recommends working with a pen, which teaches you to make a bold and responsible stroke. Drawing from life does not have to be only analytical, it can also become creative - the artist is free to select and emphasize what he wants, to generalize the form, striving to convey his understanding, his attitude to the depicted animal.

Examples of how to draw animals:

1. We draw with ovals - the head, torso, paws.
2. Next, we need to draw the ears, draw the paws with ovals and the tail with a circle.
3. We erase the extra lines, draw the eyes and nose.
4. Let's decorate our bunny.

Other drawings:

Elephant with its trunk

happy pig

fast horse

duck

Squirrel with mushroom

tall giraffe

Drawing begins to interest children from a very early age. Only the inconsistency of the picture on paper with what they wanted to depict can stop novice artists. Therefore, parents should show the kids how to draw different animals in stages.

The main mistake of novice artists is that they first of all draw a single part of the main object of their picture. The drawings of most peanuts are images of animals.

For some reason, almost all the little ones begin to reproduce their beast from the head. An oval is drawn, which is overgrown with ears, eyes, mustaches, horns - depending on which animal the little one wants to draw.

But on this, the crumbs have a stupor: what to do next? How to attach everything else to this magnificent head? Often the kid does not come up with anything better than attaching a few sausages - legs or paws, and a tail.

To teach the heir to draw correctly, you need to explain to him what step-by-step drawing is, how a drawing scheme is built. Well, if you yourself are not a very skilled artist, then you have a unique opportunity to learn this art with your children.

From this article you will learn

Where to begin

How to depict animals step by step so that they are easily recognizable can be explained to both a three-year-old baby and a schoolchild. Of course, the scheme of a kindergartener will differ from the instruction of a child of 12 years old, but some common features will be traced.

• To teach a child to depict animals in stages, it is necessary to explain what shapes (circles, ovals, rectangles) this or that animal consists of.
• Show how to make sketches that will later grow into details.
• Start training novice creators with simple plots. We learn as we go, so don't expect your little one to succeed right away. Gradually, the baby will learn step by step to recreate more complex objects.

Before proceeding to the process, stock up on paper, an eraser and pencils: simple ones for sketching and colored ones for coloring.

Pictures for kids

You can show your baby how to draw step by step those animals with which he is already familiar. The simplest drawing technique is circles. True, for this you need your child to master these simple shapes.

There is a simple algorithm for teaching crumbs to draw basic shapes: you need to take the child's hand in yours and draw a circle with a pencil. If the little one has mastered the outline of a circle, show him how you can draw funny little animals with this figure:

In this way, you can learn to portray not only funny cats and dogs, but even your favorite cartoon characters (for example, Smeshariki).

Drawing for children 4-7 years old

At this age, the guys know how to draw different geometric shapes, and their drawings based on natural motifs are already quite recognizable. Now the fidget is able to comprehend how to draw animals step by step.

The scheme is not particularly complicated: we learn to draw several circles (head and torso), which will serve as the basis; then we schematically depict the paws (legs), after that we add details and erase the auxiliary lines with an eraser.

You should teach beginner artists that the first step in the work should be to determine the composition: where the main object will be located, which objects will be in the foreground and which - in the background.

As you can see, the drawings of animals are still quite simplified, not burdened with details. All these nuances will need to be explained to the knights of pencil and paper when they grow up a little.

Drawing with children of middle school age

Starting from 8-10 years old, boys and girls are much more interested in depicting not only domestic, but also wild animals. At this age, you can teach children to give animals realism.

The bunny for the kindergarten child was round and cartoony and consisted mainly of circles. We learn to draw a hare for older children in stages a little differently: it has long paws with claws, body proportions correspond to real ones, the skin is not monophonic, but with traced wool.

Similarly, we learn to depict other animals: first, a sketch, then the main figures are complemented. After we erase the sketch lines, we detail the drawing.

The final touch is to add volume to the drawing using hatching (if it is a drawing with a simple pencil, like a horse) or painting over the beast according to its real color (lion).

Be sure to teach your child to work with a simple pencil. If some lines did not come out quite well, they can be easily erased. Having mastered the technique of drawing with a simple pencil, a novice artist can move on to more complex drawing methods.

This is my very first and favorite picture about animals, please do not judge strictly, I was only 12 years old.
draw animals not only children, but also sometimes adults. We draw our pets, horses, exotic animals seen in the zoo. And sometimes we even try to draw non-existent animals. Of course, drawing with a pencil and even paints does not convey all the details like a photo or video, but nevertheless, images drawn by oneself are dearer and closer to us than any photographs.

draw animals correctly more difficult than objects, because when we draw them, they do not sit still, but constantly change their position and move. How then to draw an animal? You can learn how to draw animals even without great talent, if you draw an animal in stages and at first with a simple pencil, using the initial markup in the form of a geometric shape of contours.
When drawing pictures of animals, it is necessary to highlight their distinctive features. If an elephant is drawn in the picture, then of course he will have a trunk and big ears. Consider also the fact that it is possible that not from the first drawing you will be able to draw your favorite cat or dog correctly, but after several attempts, you will definitely be able to draw them.

All animals differ from each other in many ways, but there are also animals similar to each other, for example, a dog and a wolf, a tiger and a lion. And even a cat looks very much like a tiger, only in a reduced form. This feature can be used when drawing felines. The same can be said about artiodactyls, for example, a horse is almost no different from a zebra, etc.

2. Some animals are easier to draw

Drawings of some animals are easier to draw, such as a snake or a hedgehog. But there are animals that are difficult to draw, such as a horse, an antelope, a giraffe and others. You will have to work hard on drawing a horse in order to accurately convey the graceful lines of this graceful animal, and it is especially difficult to draw a running horse. Remember this, when you don't get a drawing, try drawing the animal again.
And it must be said that in order to become a real artist, children begin to learn to draw at an art school for 7 years, after another years in an art school, and some continue their studies at a higher educational institution. So, it takes a lot of time to master this art perfectly. Our site cannot replace studying at an art school, it only helps to complete simple tasks and develops a desire to learn how to draw.

3. Animals are best drawn from life.

It is better to draw animals from life, but how to explain to them that they sit still? The only way is to draw your pet when he is sleeping and quickly sketch out the outline, as the animal may change position. In extreme cases, you can take a picture of it, and then draw your cat or dog from the photo. The advantage of drawing animals from nature is that you can convey many details that were missed when drawing from memory, more accurately convey the shape of the torso, paws, head, eyes, etc.

4. Break down the outline of the animal drawing

To make it easier to draw animals, especially for children and beginners, divide its outline into separate sections with geometric shapes. This will allow you to correctly take into account the proportions of the torso, head and legs, and also make it easier to draw each section, especially if you do it in stages.
First you will draw the bear's head, then one of the paws, and so on. When you draw the whole image without breakdown, then you need to see the whole animal as if in front of you, which requires a certain training of the imagination and a good visual memory.
When drawing any animal, try to immediately decide what it should be. A bear, for example, can be evil, or maybe good. Sometimes, by correctly reflecting the nature of the animal, you can divert attention from the mistakes made in the drawing of this animal.

5. Breakdown of the picture can be applied partially

You were able to draw the horse correctly, but the horse's head just doesn't work. Make several shapes to separate the horse's head. Draw separately the contour of the head, eyes, ears. This will help you get the proportions of the horse's head right and draw all the details accurately with a pencil. in the drawing. This technique can also be used to draw other parts of the body of any animal.

6. Using Color When Drawing Animals

Animals tend to be very brightly colored, especially exotic animals. Use this feature to make your drawing more expressive. Look, an almost shapeless contour, carelessly drawn with a pencil of a tropical fish, turns into an elegant beautiful fish, one has only to draw it with paints. Such a picture, placed in a frame, will already become a good decoration for a child's room.

I drew this picture of a panda a long time ago, but it is my favorite.

7. How to draw cats

The cat's body has very flexible, smooth and graceful contours. Therefore, it is quite difficult to draw cats, since it is not easy to display all the gracefulness of an animal in a drawing. Make your drawing as soft as possible, without sharp angular lines, try to constantly correct the contour until you achieve the desired shape. Be sure to try to draw as accurately as possible the expressive eyes of a cat or dog.

8. How to Draw Cats

You can draw wild animals from life only in the zoo. Before you go to the zoo, take an album and pencils with you. In the zoo you can meet such wild cats as puma, lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, leopard and lynx. Look closely at them, they are all very similar to each other and have almost the same body structure. They have a very powerful and elegant body with bright colors, which is exactly what needs to be emphasized in the drawing of this or that animal. Although they are larger than domestic cats, their body structure is almost the same. Therefore, try to draw your cat at home first.

9. How to draw horses

Each of us has seen a horse, at least in parks or a zoo, and some have even dared to ride it. But hardly anyone noticed that the horse has very beautiful, graceful forms. The large body is held by thin and long legs. Long neck and large head with large devoted eyes. That is precisely why it is difficult to convey the exact proportions of a horse, especially its eyes and head. It is worth making the body and legs slightly more powerful, and the handsome horse will turn into a heavyweight horse. Draw the horse a little shorter than the legs and it will turn into a pony. Therefore, first draw the outlines of the legs with the torso until you achieve an exact resemblance, and then draw other parts of the horse.

In cartoon animals, it is only important to emphasize their resemblance to real animals. To do this, sometimes it is enough to draw the most characteristic features of an animal in order to create a general idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe animal. All parts of the torso, eyes, head are drawn, as a rule, enlarged, which helps to convey the good-natured mood of the animal in the drawing. The eyes of cartoon animals must be large and a little naive. After all, it doesn’t matter to us that the hippopotamus is actually a very ferocious and dangerous animal. To completely "fix" the character of any cartoon animal, you can even draw animals a small smile, which will additionally give mood to the whole drawing.

You can draw a tiger only from a picture or photo, because you won’t be able to see the Ussuri tiger live. This is an endangered species of animals (no more than 500 individuals), and besides, the tiger is a cautious predator. These animals come in several species, but we will choose for our drawing the Ussuri tiger living in the Far Eastern taiga.

To draw animals, even in stages, you need experience and a good eye. But if you need to draw drawings of horses, this lesson will help you figure out how to draw a horse's head. For beginners to draw animals, I advise you to periodically compare your drawing with a photo of a horse's head.

Drawing a giraffe will not be a difficult lesson for you if you have tried to draw a horse before. Almost the same body structure, only the legs of a giraffe are slightly longer than those of a horse, and of course a very long neck. It is very convenient for novice artists and children to draw animals in stages, first with a simple pencil, and then color with colored pencils.

Dolphin is probably the most curious and kind sea animal. Many children love to draw this animal. It is not difficult to draw a picture of a dolphin, since its body has a similar structure to a fish, the main thing is to learn how to draw a head and observe all proportions.

When drawing animals, for example, a kitten, you need to have time to "catch" at least the general contours, and draw the rest of the details from memory. You can draw kittens "from nature" in stages. First, the general outline of the body, then the head, paws, choosing the moments when the kitten sits motionless.

The elephant has a very large body and limbs that are different from other animals. His large ears, simple in appearance, are very difficult to draw to match reality. But, the elephant has one easy-to-draw part, these are its torso and legs. In this lesson we will learn how to draw this animal with a pencil.

Drawn pictures, where rabbits are merrily jumping, only at first glance seem simple to draw. In fact, rabbits, like other animal drawings, are not easy to draw correctly, even with a pencil. In any animal drawing you need to accurately maintain proportions and convey its character, grace.

It is better to start drawing from childhood - this is one of the most fertile periods for mastering the basics of fine art.

Step by step drawing for children is a way to help you develop your child's creative abilities, regardless of his natural abilities.

You will spend many exciting hours learning the basics of drawing step by step and then be able to realize all your creative fantasies.

Staged drawing is a drawing method that allows you to create a drawing sequentially, in stages, from simple to complex.

Sometimes the whole thing stands still simply because the person doesn't know where to start. Often a child asks mom or dad “And draw a turtle”, and the parent would gladly fulfill the wish of the baby, but he doesn’t know how.

And if he had a step-by-step drawing of the same turtle in front of him, he would easily cope with this task.

For children, step-by-step drawing is a good help: firstly, they learn to draw without errors, following a certain procedure, and secondly, in the process of repeated training, they develop an algorithm that will later allow them to accurately depict many things without a diagram.

Finally, it's just very interesting and exciting to watch how a whole image emerges from small shapes and strokes, moreover, failures rarely happen.

How to teach a child to draw in stages?

Of course, at first it would be nice for the parents themselves to master this simple method. And if a child watches how mom or dad tries in creative work, the desire to repeat after the elders will definitely arise.

At first, in the lessons of phased drawing with a child, convenient and understandable schemes are needed.

The essence of the method is that drawing something takes place in several steps.

That is, when drawing a cat, we will not start with a tail or a muzzle, but we will follow a certain pattern that will allow us to avoid mistakes and inaccuracies in proportions.

The easiest way to start mastering step-by-step drawing is with pencil sketches. Paints and pastels will come in handy later.

Lessons of phased drawing at home

To organize the process you will need:

• album for drawing of good quality (dense enough, paper that does not crumple in work);
• pencils of different softness;
• eraser;
• diagrams that show everything clearly.

If pencil drawing has already been mastered, or if you want to immediately move on to pastels or paints, all this should also be available.

Provide a great workplace for a novice artist: a comfortable table and chair, good lighting, and the absence of all distractions. The child should be comfortable.

If there is a board or easel nearby - great, you can attach diagrams there. You can also use a book stand or wall.

Before you start drawing, be sure to tell your child about the following rules:

• you should not rush, everything works out only for those who try;
• you need to act strictly according to the scheme, especially if you are just starting to learn how to draw;
• remember what you are doing, and next time you may not need the scheme;
• start with the simplest, gradually moving to more complex drawings.

Next, we show the child interesting schemes. Offer a choice of several schemes, let the young artist choose what he likes. Remember that it is best to start with simpler schemes: first we master the phased drawing of animals, patterns, and later we move on to drawing a person.

Step by step drawing examples

How to draw a hare

Let's start with a stylized, cartoonish bunny, which is easy for a preschooler to get.

1. We draw a large horizontal oval, and under it a small vertical one, but without a top.
2. Draw paws to a small oval.
3. A small oval and two circles in a large oval - draw a muzzle.
4. We draw a nose and pupils - exactly according to the scheme.
5. We draw the same ears.
6. We draw small details - a mouth, eyebrows, antennae, fingers. The bunny should have a flower in its paw.
7. And now, under the paws of the bunny, it remains to draw a skateboard - our bunny is very athletic and mischievous.

Cat drawing

Now let's draw a cute cat.

1. First, draw a circle - this will be the head.
2. Two triangles on top - ears turned out.
3. Inside each triangle is another small one.
4. Two dots and a triangle nose - the muzzle begins to be drawn.
5. From under the nose, two arches go in different directions - the cat's mouth. Do not forget about the luxurious mustache.
6. We draw the torso - we start with an arc.
7. We draw a collar for our cat.
8. On the other hand, draw the paw.
9. It remains to draw one more paw.
10. And now you can take pencils or paints and make our cat colored. Ready!

Draw a dog

Now let's draw a charming puppy.

1. We start with an oval and a semi-oval, they should not be connected!
2. Now draw the eyes and tail.
3. Ears, nose, spot around the eye - we continue to draw the muzzle.
4. We draw a tongue and connect the head with the body and the ears with the head with thin rectangles.
5. We draw paws.
6. It remains only to decorate the puppy. That's all!

Draw a rose

1. We draw a simple oval on a thin stem.
2. We paint on the sides of the stem leaves.
3. Draw two main petals inside the oval.
4. Inside the petals is the base of the bud, like a rolled roll.
5. We draw side, small petals.
6. Add colors - and a charming rose is ready!

Drawing a cornflower

1. We draw a circle on a thin stem.
2. We draw the core and small stems on a large stem.
3. We draw buds on the stems. Separate the petals.
4. We finish drawing the buds, select the teeth of the petals.
5. Erase the circle line with an eraser.
6. We paint the cornflower in color.

Drawing a person

This simple diagram will help your child master the proportions in drawing a person.

1. We draw the head (oval), neck and triangle - the future base of the body.
2. At the bottom of the large triangle is a small triangle, legs (knees are drawn).
3. We draw hands, leaning against the marks meaning length.

Tank drawing

Any boy will want to learn how to draw a tank, and it's not difficult at all.

1. We draw the base, observing the proportions as much as possible.
2. We draw the wheels-caterpillars and the muzzle.
3. Let's focus on the small elements.
4. With the help of pencils we draw a tank in color.

How to draw a pattern

Perhaps, after mastering the drawing of these elements, the child will be interested in painting on wood - a very interesting, traditional art.

Draw a pattern "Grass Ornament"

1. A few curls - this will be the basis of the ornament. They should be even and graceful.
2. In two large corners we draw red petals.
3. It remains to draw smaller black petals.

Pattern "Leaves"

These elements are present in many samples of Khokhloma painting.

1. A thin stem is a small, curved line.
2. Draw an elongated oval on the stem in green.
3. In the “pair” he has two more leaves, in which we draw the veins in yellow.

So, phased drawing is a method based on order and sketchiness. To fix a certain algorithm in the creative mind of a child, it makes sense to resort to this method. You should start with simple stylized drawings, images of cartoon characters, etc. It is both simple and interesting, and the result will be successful.

When a child has mastered the basics of step-by-step drawing, he may want to continue his creative studies in a fine art studio or art school. A. maybe he will continue to improve his skill in drawing according to the schemes, which will become more complicated.