How to draw a dog step by step: master class

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Every person can develop the ability to draw. There are special training workshops. From them you can learn, for example, how to draw a dog in stages. Carefully considering the pictures made in stages, you should repeat the steps - in the master class, each new stroke is colored red.

Master class "How to draw a dog step by step"

1. First, an auxiliary construction is applied to the paper, which is based on geometric shapes. This in our case will be two circles of approximately the same diameter and one larger oval. You need to arrange them in this way: an oval in the middle - it is, as it were, the top of an obtuse angle in a triangle, circles on other peaks - these will be the head and back of the body. A mentally drawn straight line from the oval to the back of the body should not be parallel to the ground, since the dog's hind legs are shorter than the front, so this part of the body is slightly lower. In addition, all figuresadditional constructions should not touch, and between the circle-head and the oval-body, the distance should be slightly greater than between the circle-back and the oval.
2. Since it is difficult to draw a dog in stages without additional basting, an eraser will definitely come in handy in your work. The image should be applied with a simple pencil with light movements. The second stage will be the connection of all additional figures with a common smooth curve.
3. Quite a difficult stage - drawing a dog's muzzle, open mouth and ears. Since it is necessary to draw a shepherd dog in stages as similar as possible, it should be noted that the muzzle of this breed is elongated, straight; she has a fairly large forehead, but not prominent. Also, the dog has a small bridge of the nose - the transition of the forehead to the muzzle. Further, it should be noted that from the extreme point of the muzzle - the "leather nose" - the line of the drawing goes down at an acute angle equal to approximately 60 degrees.



4. The line of the neck should be smoothly continued down, changing direction - these will be the front paws, so you need to make two lines close to perpendicular to the ground. The top line should also be extended smoothly down - this will be the "basting" of the tail.
5. Since it is impossible to draw a dog in stages without knowing the biological structure of this animal, you should carefully consider the drawings and photographs of the dog, as well as familiarize yourself with the structure of its skeleton. On closer examination, the artist will definitely pay attention to the fact that the front paws have an interesting structure: the elbowis located at the very top of the paw and is practically pressed to the body, followed by a straight forearm, which at the very bottom passes into the wrist - a tapering part, and then there are fingers - metacarpus - on which the dog walks. The pastern is slightly shifted forward relative to the straight forearm. At the same stage, auxiliary guide lines should be applied to draw the hind legs, and on the oval below, draw a slightly protruding chest and a more sunken belly.



6. The hind legs of the shepherd also have an interesting structure. The dog steps on the fingers - metacarpus. This is followed by the metatarsus, which is depicted at a slight slope in the direction opposite to the front paws. In the middle of the length of the hind leg, the dog has a protrusion of the hock joint, which corresponds to the heel in the human skeleton. If you put a point under the tail of the dog drawing and build a right triangle, the second vertex of which will be the angle of the hock, then the vertex of the right angle will just mark the femoral joint, which protrudes roundly on the hind limb towards the underbelly.
7. Since we have already practically managed to draw a dog with a pencil in stages, it remains only to remove the extra lines with an eraser, outline the contours of the shepherd dog more clearly and apply shadows with strokes.