Okay, who *doesn’t* love a good doggo? Sharpen your pencils and learn how to capture the cuteness with a little bit of practice. Though this tutorial walks you through how to draw a beagle, the same method applies to any and all breeds.
Draw a Dog
Level: Easy
What You Need
Instructions
1. Block In Your Shapes
Start your dog as all drawings begin: a block-in of the basic shapes. Use circles and ovals to create the different forms found in your pup’s face, and draw very faint horizontal and vertical guidelines to help you align the eyes, snout, etc.
Work to refine your block-in until you have a basic contour.
2. Lightly Shade
Once you have a clean contour line, clean up the sketch by erasing your guidelines. Begin shading the fur and features. For the blackest parts of the dog, like the eyes and little black nose, use a dark 6B pencil.
3. Define the Texture
This step totally depends on your dog’s breed and type of fur — our beagle’s short, straight coat is much different than, say, a poodle’s curls. But no matter which type of fur you’re drawing, you want to shade with directional strokes using a 2B pencil. Don’t get caught up trying to draw individual hairs.
As you work, build up the tone and details of the fur by increasing your pressure to define darker sections in your drawing. For even darker effects, switch to a 4B pencil.
4. Use an Eraser
Mold a kneaded eraser into a thin point with flat edges and gently stroke it over the shaded areas of fur. This picks up a little bit of the graphite from smaller sections and makes the fur even more lifelike.
5. Add the Final Details
Keep working on the fur using your different pencils until you’re happy with how your pupper looks on paper!
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Learn how to draw a dog:
Step 1. Draw a dog.
No learning involved in this “lesson”.
None
ecscuse me but ths is wrong ima begginner i dont know what a 6B pencil
4B pencil
2B pencil
White Eraser or a
Kneaded Eraser is.
I don’t know what the pencils are but a kneaded eraser is a eraser u can mold to what’s ever shape u need white eraser is almost like a regular eraser
Go to Walmart and buy a basic sketching pencil set. It’s like 6 or 8 dollars and has all the pencils mentioned and more and it comes in a time metal tin for storing. You will learn about the pencils better if you own some
I also forgot to mention the set comes with a kneading eraser and a sharpener as well. Make sure to choose the one for “sketching”
I also forgot to mention the set comes with a kneading eraser and a sharpener as well. Make sure to choose the one for “sketching”. And you can also get a sketch pad as well there tooo
This is helpful because if your a true artist you just need your eyes to see how things are done your a visual learner yes I am.
Very helpful.
would like to know about a course
Hi Louisa. What course are you inquiring about?
Jean
Craftsy
HOw do you access this course?
This is bull. Not helpful. Lots of ripoffs
Is there going to be a video on this? It would be very helpful.
The link to the free eGuide for “Learn How to Draw Better Animals” just sends you back to the homepage. Can you fix the hyperlink, or send me a copy of the eGuide? Thank you!
Hello Andrea,
Thank you for contacting us. The free guides are still getting added to the site. I apologize for the wait.
Thank you!
This is not for beginners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No kidding
what watirials do we need