Drawing Animals P.66
Cats seem to be a good choice for me to try and draw with having two ourselves and having spent a couple of days watching their behavior and movement, I feel I am ready to have a go drawing them. As with any skill, the more you try something, the better you get and I have noticed this when drawing Mollie. The shape of her head, body and tail become familiar. Here are some attempts at drawing her.
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Mollie eating her dinner |
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I started by sketching a few connecting circles just to get Mollie's proportions down before adding basic outlines As you can see, I started with the head because while she was eating this part of body was moving the most so I wanted to get that down as soon as possible Mollie stayed eating in that position for quite awhile and I was able to continue with the rest of her body |
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Completed sketch of the picture above, I used some crosshatch marking for the wall in the background and a bit of shading around Mollie's bowl to indicate a cylindrical shape I like how the door frame and scratch post frame the picture |
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Having bought a book " The Fundamentals of Drawing Animals" by Duncan Smith, he highlights the importance of being aware of simple anatomy when drawing animals because a lot the time, be it cat, dog or horse, the skeletal structure is similar so I attempted to estimate the structure of Garfield because to know this basic information is to know how to draw the animal, whatever the position |
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Top Left - Mollie in the window sill, it seems to be a good place to catch her as she tends to stay in one position in the window quite a lot. Bottom Left - Casper sitting in a low down window sill, the low afternoon sun created a long shadow on Caspers body. Bottom Right - Garfield relaxing on the floor, his normal position was to keep his head flat to the floor but I managed to catch this sketch of him looking up (which he did numerous times) Top Right - Again, trying to create the skeletal structure of Garfield |
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Casper (Pure White Tom) being quite playful so I took the opportunity to do some quick sketches of him looking in different directions and at different distances |
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My preferred style for drawing animals are from photographs, this is done using Pastel Pencils on coloured pastel paper . I chose a colour of card that would compliment the wolf and even allowed gaps on the paper for the grey to show through. |
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