Each parent, observing how the child grows and develops, notices that there comes a moment when the baby begins to express his worldview and thoughts with the help of a drawing. This desire to know the world is extremely beneficial contributes to its full development. What is noteworthy, the greatest interest among children is drawing animals. The task of parents is to fully support the child's endeavors and help him learn the basics of this lesson. In this article, we decided to pay special attention, in particular, to the question of how to draw a pet. Below will be considered a few examples.
General information
In order for your baby to learn how to correctly portray animals, you need to help him in this. Namely, explain how to draw pets, where to start. Initially, the task of parents is to understand whether their child has the desire and desire to comprehend the basics of art. After all, sometimes the first unsuccessful experience is able to avert the little man from further fine exploits. So that your child again has a desire to create a "portrait" of his beloved pet, it is worth a little help with this. He may be interested in drawing animal figures that you have proposed. You can still watch with your child a friend of the family, having studied his habits, external features and so on. Before you draw the animal in stages with a pencil, you should decide what kind of beast your baby will depict today. Of course, there are many animals. Everything will depend on the desire of the child. For starters, you can choose simple pictures. Not all children are interested in dogs and cats (although in most cases these are the favorite characters of the first children's drawings). But we suggest you consider other illustrations. For the image of the animal at first it is better to use pencils. Paints or felt-tip pens will turn out brighter pictures, of course. But pencil-drawn animals look more realistic, and bad lines can be corrected. Well, in addition to this, your baby will be able to better develop hand motor skills. So, how to draw an animal in stages with a pencil?
Portray the fox
In studying the question "how to draw an animal in stages with a pencil," you should first create a sketch of the image of the beast. The head is depicted as a circle that two lines intersect. One vertical (denotes the nose) and two horizontal (denotes the eyes). At the bottom of the head in the form of an oval we draw the future body of the fox, and also outline the legs, ears and tail. Then we draw the ears and with the help of a zigzag line we denote the muzzle. At eye level, draw the upper eyelids and depict one foot. At the level of the vertical line we make a triangular fox nose. Relative to it, cheeks and a mouth are drawn. The texture of the wool can be transmitted using the zigzag line, which smoothly passes to the lower part of the tail. Now you can draw the remaining paws, cheek and beautifully finish the ears. Please note that the eyelet must be clearly shown and the tail is divided into two parts. Now use the eraser to remove all the auxiliary lines and, if necessary, draw a sharper outline.
Portray a panda
Recently, many children have been fascinated by watching the cartoon "Kung Fu Panda." In view of this, we decided to separately illuminate all the subtleties of drawing this cute animal. To depict it is quite simple. Since the panda is black and white, you should not use colored pencils to decorate the beast. You can make the landscape around colored: add trees, mountains, etc. to the picture. You should also consider that we are portraying a cartoon character, so human features should be added to the picture. To make it easier for a child to master a cartoon character, you must first learn how to draw a panda with an ordinary bear with a pencil. It can then be easily turned into a cartoon character. So, with the help of an oval, depict the head of a panda and his body (the main thing is to accurately withstand all proportions).
Now draw the paws of a teddy bear. If it is problematic for the baby to immediately complete this point, then they can be represented schematically. And in the future, draw completely. It's time to portray the contours of the nose and ears. To cope with this task is not so difficult. The only advice: during drawing, do not press too hard on the pencil. In the art process, you have to repeatedly remove and adjust many lines. It's time to move on to detail drawing. The main thing in this matter is to check the correctness of the image of all parts of the body of our character. It is necessary to remove the auxiliary lines and draw a panda, as shown in the figure. When the image of the bear is ready, you can start painting it. As everyone knows, the panda's face has dark places only in the eyes, nose and ears. Do not forget to draw nails for your little bear. And you can also depict a cane stalk in his paws, this is a favorite plant of pandas.
Portray a cat
Talking about how to draw animals for children, do not lose sight of everyone’s favorite puppies and kittens. After all, kids usually begin to learn the drawing process from them. So how to draw a cat in pencil? In the form of two flattened circles, depict the head and torso. To make the picture more symmetrical, you can draw a vertical line. The next step is drawing the eyes. To give them greater expressiveness, make the tone at the bottom much lighter than at the top. Please note that all lines must have a smooth transition. In the form of an inverted triangle, draw a nose from which lines will go to the ears and eyes. The cat's mouth is depicted in the form of an inverted English letter Y. That's basically all, it remains only to correct the shape of the animal with soft lines.
We portray a dog
The body of the animal consists of two circles, one larger (head), the other smaller (trunk). Further, inside the circle denoting the head, we draw slightly curved lines, the center of intersection of which is slightly shifted to the lower left corner. Then smoothly connect the torso and head. Having drawn the eyes and nose, we get a cute puppy. Clearly draw the lines of the face. Do not forget to depict ears, mouth and eyebrows. It remains only to draw a tail sticking out the top.
Conclusion
So we studied the question of how to draw an animal in stages with a pencil. As you can judge, there are no difficulties here. The main thing is to follow our advice step by step - and your child will quickly master all the subtleties of drawing your favorite animals.