How to draw a hare using a pencil

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The ability to draw animals is a special art that everyone can learn if they wish. When drawing these living creatures, it is important to remember that animals are very mobile, so the picture should convey all the dynamism of their behavior. Accordingly, the more active the animal behaves in the natural environment, the more difficult it is to draw it. Perhaps one of the most popular representatives of the fauna, which is most often tried to portray, is a hare.

Many people ask the question: “How to draw a hare so that it turns out beautiful and looks like a living one?” To do this, you need to perform several standard drawing steps. And the hare will look like a living one.

Before you draw a hare, you need to decide which animal you want to draw: a cartoon or an ordinary long-eared one. This choice largely determines the steps that will have to be taken during drawing to make the image beautiful and neat.

Let's considerthe first option (if you want to draw a cartoon hare with a simple pencil).

Then you will have a logical question: “How to draw a hare with a pencil?” In this case, you can first draw the outlines of the muzzle of the animal. Then draw all the details: eyes, nose, ears, mouth and teeth. The next step will be the image of the legs and body of the animal. Then you need to add the hind legs and finish the missing small details of the animal's appearance: forelock, claws, fur and others.

Depicting a real hare is more difficult, since such a drawing will have more details. In addition, it is necessary to make the animal as similar as possible to the real one, because only in this case the drawing will turn out to be beautiful, complete and will attract attention. To make all this work, you need to know how to draw a hare in stages.

The first step to a successful image of the conceived animal will be the designation of its body parts. The best way to do this is with ovals. In other words, first mark with ovals and circles where your hare will have a head, where is the body, and where are the paws. At this stage, you should decide in what position the animal will be depicted, whether it will be drawn in motion or in a static position.

How to draw a hare completely? To do this, it is necessary to connect the resulting ovals with smooth curved lines in order to give the desired shape to the body of the animal. It is also important to pay attention to the proportionality of the image. After the body shapes of the hare are drawn,we proceed to the image of smaller details: eyes, nose, ears. Since we are trying to draw the most believable animal, at the end of the image it is imperative to mark the shadows, as well as work out the hare's fur. To make the fur beautiful, it is necessary to apply short parallel strokes (about 0.5-1 cm in length) with a pencil, adjusting the pressure. Accordingly, you need to press harder on the pencil where a shadow falls on the hare's fur. Where the skin of the animal is bathed in the sun, the strokes should be light.

So, now you know how to draw a hare, and you see that the process is not so complicated. The main thing in it is to enjoy the drawing itself! And then everyone will admire your image without exception!