The Ultimate guide to drawing Dogs

1. Introduction: Do you like dogs? Do you want to learn to draw dogs? Well then this is the course for you. In this course, I'm going to teach you how to easily start by sketching a dog, by simply splitting a dog's face into simple shapes. You will learn how to easily find the construction of the dog, adding features and shading later on, it's going to be like an icing on the cake when you have your construction ready. We're going to go through several different breeds. You can see that you can use the same technique to draw any dog. You will also learn about how to add shading with a pencil. You're going to learn about different strokes and how to add details to your final drawing. And last, but not least, you are going to learn how to draw a dog out of Kells. And easy technique that will break your fear of drawing and free you to draw anything you want. Sign up today and discovered the secrets. How to draw great dog portraits. 2. Materials: So to draw this first dog, I'm going to use a very sketchy style. So you can just warm up and it's going to be a quick sketch. So I'm going to use these pencils. I'm going to start with three B. I recommend you invest in such pencils like e.g. a. Kohonen is a good brand. And I'm going to use this one is three b, I have a to B. For B, it's this number here that says for B3, B or whatever, this is seven b and this is eight. And this is to be, why is this important? Each one of these bands have a different strength. Like e.g. you see, if I draw with two beam, this is the strength. You see that when I draw with for B, it gets a little darker. And if I draw with eight B, these drugs are even darker line. So we are going to use this different numbers of pencils to draw shading with different strength and you need a nice eraser. This is also a cautionary tale, good brand coffee. Now, why do you need a good eraser? It has to be a little hard. You make sure that you clean up this line by just erasing here somewhere so you have white space to erase because they don't they don't mess up your drawing too much. The more UV rays, morning paper will get my stop. And this one is very good at erasing while without messing up your sheet of paper and you're drawing basically you want to have a clean drawing. So these are the materials and I'm going to use those for the whole course. So I'm going to start with that, except for the second dog, what I'm going to use even colored pencils, but I'm going to talk about it. Then. Now, let's start with the first dog. 3. Drawing Techniques : So before we start working with a real picture, I want to show you some ways we are going to use the pencil to draw lines and shading. So take your pencil, it needs to be shocked. Well, so we're going to use the top of the pencil to draw lines like that. And to draw surfaces that are stronger in color, intensity of the color of the blackness. Then we're going to use the side of the pencil. So you link the pencil that way and draw a lighter around or the area that you want to shade. Well, you want to convey an idea of just a tone of shading like that. And then you move your hand from the wrist down, you see how likely I move it. There is another way to convey shading and this is to draw lines like this. You draw perpendicular lines like this. And then you lean the pencil a little bit and draw a line almost perpendicular on this line. But draw this straight lines one after the other is a little bit more challenging. You will need to have more training for me and it's cool we have hours training to do this, shading, these slides. So in this video, I'm just going to use the shading. That is where the leaned hand like that. You see that we can use the shading and if you want to shade it a little darker, we just go over the area and add another tone. Like that. I would like you to practice this technique a little bit. So you're ready when we start and you'll find it easier to work with them. So this is just a short exercise of how we are going to use the pencil to combine the idea of different shading within the same target, the same image. Now let's go ahead and draw the real dog. See you in the next lecture. 4. Dog 1, Introduction: So let's start with this cute dog and do a sketch like that. It's going to be a light sketch so you can warm up and start easy with some kind of a fluffy dog. And through the process, I'm going to take you from three different steps. How to split the head into simple shapes. So you can easily later find the proportions of the head. We're going to draw the dog with simple lines. And after that, we're going to add the fluff for the dog and the features of the dog or refining it step-by-step. So we will finish a simple sketch looking like that. So let's get started. 5. Dog 1, Sketching of a Fluffy dog: Let's start by drawing a sketch of a fluffy dog using basic shapes to define its head structure. Let's draw the sketch of this cute dog to look like that. We can summarize the head of the dog with simple shapes. Like the head can be contained within a rectangular. So we can make a kind of like a robot of this dog to use as a help lines. The lower part of the head of the dog where the gnosis is also another rectangular. The years can be described as a small triangle. And another rectangular. Draw a line, the split the face in the middle. From this line, the face will be symmetrical. Now let's find the position of the eyes on both sides of the line. We've dealt lines. We can even define the nodes and the space between the eyes. Use the rectangular as a guideline and round the shape of the head. Around the corners, and near the ears. Around the shape of the nose as well. Let's find the position of the nose with a basic simple sphere. Let's define the mouth as well. With two lines. Draw a line above the rectangular of the nose To find the position of the eyes. Now let's draw the eyes by drawing around spheres. Draw the pupils to make sure that the dog is looking in the right direction. Start adding more details to the rest of the shape of the head. The eyebrow areas, dots from the to help lines from the center. Draw a sphere to signify where the eyebrow area is going to be. Slowly. Start adding more details and be more observant. Add some chunks of hair on the body. Now, let's start erasing the help lines. We don't need them anymore. We'll start working on the nose. Now, you can start to be more observant and see how the shape of the nose is actually going. One nostril on one side and the other nostril looking on the other direction. The nose is not completely around, it's a little bit longer. So observe the shape and try to come as close as possible to the nose of the dog. Start adding some chunks of hair around the mouth, the chin. So you get closer and closer to the shape and look up the dog. Let's now go back and work on the ice. That the most important thing, what the softer pencils such as HB, start adding contours. On the eyes. Here it is again time to be more observant and see that the eyes are not completely round. It is important to achieve this cute puppy like look. Now start adding more chunks of hair. Follow the image and see where you can see visible chunks of hair and add them there with a few strokes, start erasing. The help likes to have a clean image. I'm using two different pencils, ADB and Tooby, to achieve different look and different intensity of the pencil. With a1b0, I work on the darker area, such as the ice. Just intensify the color there. And I'm going to use the same pencil for the notes. See that there is a visible shading of the nodes on the lower part of the nose. The nose is brighter on the upper part where the light is falling. I'm going to have the little mouth that is underneath the tongue and start adding more chunks of hair. And following the image and seeing where the areas are darker and where they are lighter, where I can see visible chunks of hair there, both shading and some hairs. I'm going to shade the area around the eyes so the eyes can pop out and the volume of the dog can be more significant and more visible. I'm going to shade the ears. And you shade something. When you tilt your pencil a little bit, you don't draw with a pencil straight on. Use the pencil very softly to add the shading. As I said, tilt of the pencil. To add the shading. You see the difference between the shading and align. Adjusted the ear. If the ear sense too short, as it looks like in this case. Here you can adjust an ad, changes, add more details, and refine In jump from one spot to the other. Don't get stuck in just one area until it's finished. That's how you're going to lose sight of the hall, which is not good for the image, for your picture. So I'm just adding more details. And this process can continue for a long time until you know, how finished and how polished you want too drunk to be. Personally, I enjoy to have the drawing and being more sketchy. It looks more alive and more hand-drawn. I don't want to have a painting or drawing that looks photorealistic too much. I mean, that's why you draw. I'm going to leave the body just as a sketch unfinished to make the head pop out and look more as an art. N. Now we are done. 6. Dog 2, Introduction: So this is a short introduction of the steps we're going to go through to draw this cute dog. We're going to use the picture of the dog as a reference to draw the dark. So we're going to go through three different stages. Finding the construction of this dog that I'm going to show you step-by-step. And I'm going to show you an introduction video of how to draw and find this help lines which you will use as a base to draw the dog. Then we're going to delete the help lines and start refining the features of the dog. And when we find the construction and the right proportions of the face of the dog, we're going to go ahead and shade a dog. And for this dog, I'm going to use colored pencils. So if you have your children's pencils, big dose, I'm using just cheap pencils that I bought in the local store. It doesn't have to be too fancy. I'm going to use the brownish color of it. If you want to use that preparedness to have a patent. And now let's go ahead and show you how you can find the construction after dark. In the next lecture. 7. Dog 2, Construction : Now let's go for another type of dark. So let's draw a different type of dog. And this time I'm going to summarize its shape, its head with round shapes instead of squares. Just to show you that there are different ways you can see the shape of the dog. So let's assume this upper part of his head is, the skull is one shape around shape. And the nose here that is sticking out is another more elliptic, elliptic shape. So we have a part here. You have to also see that three-dimensional within the picture, or a bar of the nose that is also a round shape like that. So we can see the years as a triangular shape here that connects with a square. And we can see even this part of the year like a triangular shape. And this one connects with the rectangular. And now let's find the neck. We have these lines here on the neck. And these lines here that's signified this shape of the neck. And the body is more of a like a rectangular. So pretty much that summarize the dog. Now, let's find the middle line here. It's going to be approximately here on if you can start with the head, the null suggesting what is the middle line here on this part of the dog? And it connects with the nose approximately here. Connect that makes up the middle line. Now, let's see where the eyes are. So you just add a line to connect where the eyes are. So you try to connect that part of the eye with that part of the eye and go past this parts of the eye to get some more correct line. And you see that the line is not straight. It's kind of a round, round that line. Now, let's signify and find even where the eyebrows are. You try to connect this area with this area. And you just draw a line. Here are approximately the eyebrows and we have one part here that is the cheek of the dog. As you see. We draw in doubt and we saw me draw that on the other part. What else can we add here? Well, we can add where the eyes are. So we can add a line from here and we measure how long is approximately this line from the middle line. It's going to be different though because we have a slight perspective and three quarters for this dog. So you approximate and you measure the line according to other measurements, like the nodes e.g. and where this corner of the eye, where does it? And according to this picture. So you study the picture and these are basically the help lines that we need. I'm going to include this model, these lines in the file to help you draw your dog. As a first step if you need it. Because now we're going to draw the dog without this picture. We want to learn to eyeball everything. And let's continue that and start drawing the dog according to how I split the face right now. See you there. 8. Drawing the Second dog: So let's start drawing this dog now without having the picture underneath. We will still have to look at the picture of the dog, but we have a blank sheet of paper to work with. So let's start with one sphere for the head and one sphere for the nose. A little longer stretched out sphere. Okay. Let me bring out the help lines that we drew for the dog. So let's draw the sphere where the nose is going to be. The nose and the mouth. This is a three-dimensional dog, after all. And the nose and the mouth are actually another dimension of the nose. Let's bring out the help lines for the eyebrows and the eyes. And let's draw the space where the chicks are. Three-dimensional. Space that is going to signify the cheeks and the ears. One rectangular shape and one triangular shape. You see that I already started drafting the shape of the ears. Now that I did this scheme after dog with shapes, it becomes easier. Now, let me hide again the scheme and try to just look at the picture of the dog. When you want to draw portraits of animals, you have to get used to eyeball all these shapes that I started with. I draw it first and imagine an invisible lines going from one shape to another and connecting them with other invisible lines. That is basically the secret for drawing. So let's just go ahead with this dog without having the help lines in front of us. Just for the sake of it. You can go back and look at the help lines, or you can even use them already for your drawing. Draw them before you start drawing this portrait. If you have difficulties to do that yet, it's gonna come. Don't worry about it. It's just a matter of practice. Great. We are ready with the construction. Let's start polishing a little bit. Now using the help lines, we are going to be more observant of the dog. Where is one shape according to the other? Using the help lines of where the ice and we are going to draft the eyes and the nose. I have drawn help lines for you as well on the scheme for the dog just to make it easier for you. But you can draw as many shapes and help lines like that when you draw anything really to help you go ahead and find the shape. And now, let's find the mouth, where the mouth connects with that shape that we have in the side, the cheeks. And let's do that for the other side. Connected this cheek. Where does it end? It ends exactly where three quarters of these nodes when the nose is sticking out. And that connects to the other part of the mouth, the other chick. Now let's find the top of the nose. You'll see that it is approximately that space that I've drawn on there with the red lines. I'm keeping everything very rough. I draw with rough lines. I don't try to be precise about his health lines because these are just help lines. Don't try to do perfect circle or perfect whatever. Just try to find the shape. The dog. When you find the shape of the dog, everything else is going to be really, really easy. So now what I'm doing is trying to find where this brown shape phase is after dog. Just to help me to discover or how big the ISR. This is constant measurement, constant measuring and sometimes eyeballing. You're not going to be right. That that's okay. It's good to be wrong sometimes. So you will know what you're looking for. The most important thing is to be analytic about it. Ask yourself questions, how big is this? According to the nose? Or compare it to the ears, measure one, I comparing it to something else. So now the observant and try to find the, the eyes basically where they are located and be observant of the pupils of the dog. To make sure that we have the right proportions. They may not be top-notch to start with. That's why you're a beginner. You are not you're not expected to do super work. I mean, not even I do for work. You have good days and bad days. It is how you train your eye to see different proportions, different shapes. Okay, so you see that step-by-step using the help lines. We are almost there. With the construction of these dogs had it looked, it looked like unbelievable, right? That you will find this construction. Now, try to see more details. Break it down. Like this chick, e.g. where does the mouth and what else do you see on the dog? Yes. Add a little texture on the neck or texture and try to find what the legs start. We're not going to draw the whole body, but there are small, small details on the dog that will just give you more perspective of the whole, of the whole head. Okay, so we're pretty much done here. Now, let's start erasing lines that we don't need. Let's clean up or a drawing. Erase the help lines. Erase the helpline that helped us find the position of the eyes and the eyebrows and start drawing more details. Now here I'm trying to draw where the black spot is. It is not true in dimensional space. It's just giving me more suggestions how big this black spot of the dog is. Defining even more of the ears and deleting more lines. Cleaning up your drawing. Let's delete more help lines. We don't need them anymore. And that's why I'm telling you don't be too to precisely the help lines trying to do them to even or just one helpline, just discover. Use this as a discovering process of your job because you're not going to lead them and you have an eraser, right? So you will always be able to erase and refine. And let's clean up the nose. Use the goods eraser because your eraser needs to be cleaned. If your eraser is not clean, just erase on an empty sheet of paper or somewhere on a table. So you don't smudge your drawing, that you see, that it starts getting dirty on one side and destroying my drawing. So I'll have to redo that nostril. This happens to all of us and sometimes we get lazy, we get caught in the process. We don't see that. Or pencils, sharp or erasers are not clean. But this is important to have nice flaw in your process. So we're done with this construction. Let's continue with the rest of the drawing in the next lecture. 9. Adding details and shading : Welcome back. So now that we have or sketch a rough sketch of the dog with everything placed where it should be. The construction of the dog's face. It is time to start adding the details. And this is just the icing on the cake because we basically have our dog, they're done. So what we need to focus on is some details. And the eyes are the most important part of the dog, basically every creature, because the eyes are the window to our soul, so to say. And so this is true of the dog. So here, be more observant of the picture of the dog and see what you can see, what you can distinguish in this picture. So let's start with thicker pencil. Add a tone of the overall eye shading. And because we are going to do just black and white plus one other color, we need to focus on the strength of the tone of the pencil. Start adding more and more shading. Add more details in the pupil of the dog. And let's go with the other eye and do the same. I'm having fable pastel pencil, which is pretty dark. And if you use normal pencils, you can use eight bits, e.g. for the, for the eyes, which is a very thick, very soft pencil. And the harder the pencil, the less strength there is in this pencil. So eight B for the darker area, or HB, or to be for the lighter area. So I'm adding one town at the time. So being more observant, now, you see that there is a shading on top of the eye of the dog because of the light falling in from the other side. So try to add all of these details. Whereas this shading placed how does it, how farther away from the eye it is? Now, I'm going to add this darker area under the dog's eye. They there's a little bit black area. So there is two parts of it. One is that the dog has black and white and orange area. And another is delighting coming from one side and adding more shadow for certain areas. So try just to copy where the shading false, following this picture, following the picture of the dog, and add the darker areas the way you see it from the photograph. This is where you're actually becoming more and more observant. Now I'm going to go back adding some more details even on the nose. But I'm basically jumping from one place to another, trying to compare the strength of the shading in this particular area. You see that one, either one that I'm working on now is pretty much dark with a more with a pencil that is more tilted on the site. I'm adding larger parts of shading. When you tilt your pencil on one side, the tone becomes softer. And if you work with a point of the pencil, you can add more sharp details. So whatever you want to make softer shading, just tilt your pencil and work with shading in this way. Now, I am going to follow the shading of this dog from the nose because the nose is kind of it's not flat. It also has a three-dimensional shape. So I'm going to be observant here as well and add the shading. Whatever I see the shading is and have lighter shades. Shading on top of the nose. Just follow the way I do it at the moment. But at the same time, ask yourself these questions. What am I doing? What am I doing it for? And that's why I'm explaining to you how I go about in the process. So you can not only just repeated the steps, but you can learn the process. And you can ask yourself the same questions whenever you have to draw a different kind of dog. Because the point will discourse is not only to draw just as dark, it is for you to learn the principles and techniques of how you go about when you draw any dog. So here you see, I've added shading, whatever. I see that the nulls shading is, and now I'm adding these small shade under the mouth, no lower lip where the two chicks of the lips split up. And I'm adding slightly some small far. I'm not going to draw all the firm because if you draw all the four of the dog is going to be too much. It's different between photograph and a drawing. Also, I want this drawing to look more sketchy. I want it to look as if it's starch from the human hand. And it's not just a copy of a photograph. This is something that is my taste. Whatever you learn this principle, these techniques, and how to be observant, you may want to choose your own kind of style. Maybe you want to draw all the hair. I'll look for the job. There is nothing wrong with that. It's just, I prefer to have the dog sketchy, so it feels more alive to me anyway. So here I focus on the dark spot of the black Spot up the dog and try to find where the spots are darkest. I start with them first. So I can later on just add more shading to those parts. At the same time as I add more shading to the lighter parts, which will have the darker shading parts even stronger. And it will keep the difference between what's darker and lighter. So now I'm adding even more shading on one of the I because it's in the shade part. It is where the light is not falling, so it's going to be darker. So I'm just intensifying that part and just continue doing that and jump from one place to another. Now, I'm going to shade that year. As you see, I tilt the pencil a little bit to add a more even tone. So whatever you want to have, a shade shading for the dog, you can just tilt your pencil. Now, let's clean up, clean more of the help lines, refined the final lines. You need to come closer now to completion, even though it is, we've just drawn the nose and the mouth and the eyes. This dog is coming to look like the dog that we want. And now I decide to use colored pencil, one orange and one yellow, because this dog has three different colors. So I thought, well that can be fun. So just use yellow and orange pencil to add this orange area. And we're going to work the same way that we did with the black pencils. No difference there. I'm starting with observing where are the shading parts of the darker parts of the orange area? And it's here on the cheek, the one that we already signified even before there is a chick there. So I'm even using some black or brown pencil actually here to get it even darker. I want this dark areas to reflect the volume of the dog. These are volume defining shapes. So when you put them there, it just makes the dog look more three-dimensional. Otherwise, you can at least you can even stay with that sketch. That's not bad. It still looks good. But the more observant you are and the more light shading you add to the dog. Observing from the picture where these areas are, the more your dog will look like it is a three-dimensional dog because the photograph is also an illusion. It's a two-dimensional photograph that is the illusion of having three-dimensional Doug. And it's the same thing, the drawing. What are you trying here is to convey an idea of three-dimensional shapes. And all you do that is through measuring an observation and adding shading. Basically. Now, I'm using this puzzles there like for kids, set pencils. And I'm trying to just observe what kind of color it is around this area does and drawing, comparing it to some other color. And just even use reds. And I said already orange and yellow, but use violet and black, reds and browns to add more depth to this. Darker areas where, where, which are in shade. So here I'm using violet color to add more darkness, more shading to these areas of the dog. And you can do that too. Don't be afraid if it's orange. Just use the orange, add lags at yellows and do whatever feels good to you because eventually you're going to use your own perception and your drawing will be different than my drawing. And this is just good because you are developing your own style as well. This is what you want. You don't only want to draw in any way, you want to draw the way that you feel good about and find your own technique. And the thing is that your technique is going to change as so as mine. I tried different approaches. It is like trying, trying things out. That's thing is, when you are a beginner, you think that there is only one way of doing things and that's what stabbing you. There is not only one way, there is multiple ways, million ways of doing things. But as soon as you find the proportions of anything, I mean, you're free to go, you're free to experiment, experiment with shading, experiment with texture. Now, I want to have this part of the black spot of the dog feeling more light. I mean, how would you do that? You do those parts lighter. When you have similar parts of the dog, dark, darker. Contrast is basically the magic key. To have something appear lighter contrast of the same color, like adding more details or more contrast to one thing and having another spot lighter with a pencil that has lighter color will make one thing appear lighter and darker. You think it doesn't make sense. But when you draw, this is something you're going to wonder, how can I make a black spot that is lighter in certain areas and darker in certain areas, appear different in lighting, is basically adding contrast, having dark pencils and leaving some areas light with the same pencil when you draw. So I'm jumping from one place to another because I want to have more details again in the eyes. Now I'm going to focus on the other important area of the dog. And here I'm going to be more precise. And that is the mouth. Like I said, the eyes and the mouth is somewhere. We add more details. When we sketch. Again, I'm jumping back and forth. Because sometimes when you go from one place to another, you see what you need to do with the other area of your picture. So you need to darken it there or some more details there. After a certain, certain place at a moment of your image. It will give you suggestions what to do next and you will not have to wonder. So that's why if you find it difficult to continue one area, just leave it, go and work on something else on another area of the picture and then go back. And see how do you feel about it. Use your, really, your intuition Muslim to know what you have to add, what kind of color you need to add. Because that's how your picture, your dog comes to completion one bit at a time. It reveals itself like a puzzle, really. You know what you have to do next. So I'm going to add some for this area. And just to add more contrast, as I said, I'm wondering, how can I add more contrast between the black and the shading and the black in the light. While adding maybe some four chunks will give that illusion. Because everything we draw now is just an illusion. We are trying to convey the idea of a real dog. So let's polish a little bit the ears as well. Now with a slightly tilted pencil, Let's add shading. Inside of the year. You'll see that it is, the ear is brownish, It's also orange, but it's also very, very dark. And the fact is that, okay, I use kits, pencils because this is something that you will have available. And the color on these pencils is not as intense as if I would use very expensive pencils. So what I want to convey here is that the ear is dark, there is depth in there in this shading, and it is not the center of my composition. The center of my composition is the eyes and the nose. But I still want to have a year's have some finished touch to it. So I'm going to just suggest that there is shading in there and I'm going to continue with the mouth. And the mouth is where a lot of details live for this dog. And I'll add more chunks of four. I will be more precise and more observant. And here there is a little black spot and also the part is also in shade. So I'm just adding light shading with the side of the pencil. Again, talking about the technique here, how to add light shading. Just tilt your pencil and draw lightly on top of that. So here there is some black spots, like gray spots on the nose of the dog. Small details that are now important here because this is what we see when we see this, this dog. And we add some whiskers, even though we don't clearly see them on the picture. We'll just add them because they add more texture and more life to a two or a dog's face and refine a refined the lines and the other urine you see I'm I haven't even left the other years so far unfinished. And I'm just going to refine it with the color line and just add slight shading. I don't need to make it as dark as it is. You see on the picture, it is really dark. But the thing is that if everything is just even tone on your picture, your pictures, that's looking boring. So choose a variety, choose where to add accents with means about where to work more and which areas to live. Kind of unfinished. Because actually those areas that are unfinished will have your picture centered butter picked. People will look at the dog's face and they will not be disturbed. But also it will have more life to it. It's going to feel sketchy. It comes to fill handmade. And basically that's what you want. You want the viewer to see your sign in the portrait. And if you are, if you have a preference, actually two more finished details. We'll go ahead and do that. I mean, this is basically just interpretation from here on where you can add more. You can work more on this dog. You can add more for chunks. I mean, the experiment. Why not? What we did is actually finishing or a dog stage of the sketching. When we found that outlines, when we found the position of the nose and the eyes and everything else. And then you had a clear canvas to go and experiment. And this is one way of doing it. So this is your dog number two, and I'm glad that you follow me here in this tutorial. Buy from me. 10. Dog 3, Structure: So welcome back to another fun tutorial. We're going to draw this cute guy here. So let me give you those tips of how to summarize the face into simple, basic shapes. As you see, we have different dogs in different perspective and it can be a little challenging. So I'm using Procreate here just to show you how to do at, but later on, we're going to do it again on paper. So this is just a guideline to use where I can use the picture to show you what have you learned. We see one big shape here of the head, One round shape, right? Of this main shape. And we have another round shape here of the nose. And we can split this head when this white spot here, it's showing us what to do next. So we're going to split this round shape in the middle following this line. And this is going to be, this symmetry happens for either two eyes are placed and the two shapes of the mouth. But you see that one shape, one middle line goes all the way through one sphere here. And we have the second shape that is a little bit forward again from the nose. And it is three-dimensional shape. So we have the nodes here and we have another shape that signifies the front part of the nose. And it has an own middle line, which goes from this middle line, this point here, to the nose here. And another middle line that you can follow from this part of the nose here. It goes from the nose to the mouth. And down here. Again, this is just summary. Don't have to be super precise. Because as you see from the previous lectures, we are going to delete those lines later on. Another thing that the ice. So we have this part of the eye here that pose another round shape. We're taking this part of the eye here and connecting dots and go through that point here, connecting dots and round that up. The disappears in this direction because the head is a sphere. It's not a flat surface. So everything is going around this sphere in ellipse shapes. So where's the eyebrow? The eyebrow is here approximately. And we have the other line. And we can also have another line that signifies the eyes from here to here. And from here to here, you can have as many lines as you want. Now, here are we having the ears? So let's have them like in this kind of a rectangular shape. And this one like that, a rectangular shape. And we can just have the neck over here like we did for the last dog. Like that. Just very roughly. Where does it end? Rough it out. I mean, it is approximately like that. And now let's focus on the face again. Why do we have here we have this Around space, around the eyes of this dog. It's kind of has this sad look. So I'm going to add two spheres, just signify that this shape that builds the sad face of the dog. Got to put it in there. We have the nose here, so we have this fear of the nose. And the line that splits the chicks is, I'm going to have these lines for the mouth like that. And if I turn off the picture, we got something like that. From this part, we can start building on our dog. You can add more lines here for the legs. Maybe just the line for the Cloud. We're not going to draw so much detail here, at least not in this lecture because this chain is way too complicated. It's going to take more time to do correctly. Then the dog itself, we just like that the dog is having this look at these clouds. Just find your own pictures of alpha d2 to drop. Signified. Here is a leg. And basically this is what we all we need to start with. I'm going to put this drawing without the dog and the dog. So you can have it and you can draw just this, use it as a guideline. Or when you start your drawing. If you find it too difficult to find it yourself. But I encourage you to start blank on a blank sheet of paper with a pencil and start eyeballing it as we are going to do in the next lesson. I'm still use that drought us that on your on your sheet of paper. If you feel insecure and start building your job from there, it's going, you're going to find that this is easier. With every exercise. You're going to find out that it gets easier and easier. So now, let's go to the next lecture and start working with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper. Having the dog picture just as a reference and going through the same steps without having to use the picture underneath. So I'll see you there. 11. Dog 3, Drawing from scratch: So let's repeat the steps we did. And now drawing it on paper with just using the picture as a reference. So let's start drawing this cute dog and grab your pencil. Start word, um, maybe two or four B cells. Soft but not too soft as ATP. Why do you need to do is break down this dog, the dog's face in simple shapes. So I'm going to take the whole head and I'm going to continue within this sphere to find the position of the face in the middle of my paper. And I'm going to roughly sketch it on the body. Pretending God, his neck is just a rectangular. His body is another rectangular. At this stage, I'm just doing the placement of everything. And I can eyeball where the legs are approximately here. And now, let's go ahead with the head. There is another chunk of form of shape for the nose. And everything is two-dimensional. And that's why it's important that you break it down and you think of the dimensionality of the face. So I'm going to use another sphere approximately here. Draw it very roughly with many lines. It doesn't have to make perfect spheres. Now, before we add more details, let's place the ears. Because when you add more details, you might need to readjust those details. So I'm going to approximately measure how big the ears are in comparison with the hat. So they're kind of like approximately as long as this distance here. So I've measured it, right? That's because my sons of volume has been trained by drawing a lot. This is going to happen to you as well. If you draw a lot of drawings and I'm going to draw a line to the neck for the next year and it is a little bit higher than the first year. So it's approximately here and I'm going to contain it within another rectangular, very roughly. Just sketch where its position is. And now let's go ahead and built up the whole face little by little. So let's find the middle line of domains. Fear the head of the dog, as we did on the schedule. And pretend that you split this sphere in half, where you can find the symmetry from that line on both sides of the face. And we have the flat side after the dog's nose, as well as the shape. Signifying that this is also another shape and it builds a cylinder. And as we did before, the cylinder has one middle line that splits the upper part of the nose and another one that splits the flat part of the nose where the mouth lies and the center of the null slice. Now let's go ahead and find the eyes, where the lines where the eyes are and the nose. Finding the position of the nose. Why am I sketch? I change parts of what I sketched. Because if you don't have the picture underneath, you have to always compare one measurement towards the other. So when you find e.g. the position of the eyes, you can immediately jump and say, well, where is the nose compare to that line of the lines. Measure it. If you have two on the picture and add it on your image, on your drawing. So now I'm trying to discover the face and slowly I start actually adjusting the shapes the way I see them on the image. So now that you have the proportions almost there, now start being more observant. Let's define where the mouth is and add some wrinkles. You see the wrinkles on the picture. And you're not gonna hit every measurement, right the first time. I mean, I still don't I still have to readjust but put whatever wrinkle or line you see there on the picture for it wrong, even. The secret to drawing is basically the secret to measurement, comparing measurements one way or the other. Now, let's see where the office and it's easy to find it now what that we have the middle line of for this part of the cylinder. And now let's define the mouse even. Where is the nodes located? I'm from that, let's find how big part is the part on the right side screen, right side of the nose. It always comparing, always readjusting. Now let's find the eyes. We are, we are aiming for finding the pupils of the dog. So I'll draw them around. And you see that I sketched so roughly and I jumped from one place to another. And I encourage you to do the same. Just jump from one place to another. Never finished. Just one thing. Because if you do that, you're going to lose sight of, of the whole. And it's easy from that point on, if you lose sight to make something bigger, something smaller, to lose sight of the proportions and proportions in this stage is all that matters. Forget about drawing clean, clean drawings, clean lines. All you care about at this stage is finding the right proportions where everything on the face is compared to something else. Something else on the face. That is what you are looking for at this stage. Now, let's use the white line to draw the middle line there and continue adding more details on the eyes. Are the correct proportions? Yes, the same as they are. The help lines has helped us find out the help lines that we did in the beginning. Let's jump on the nose a little bit. Where is the middle line up the nose? Now be more precise. Where this small holes of the nose, the nostrils, starch being more observant at that stage. Now it's time to go slowly after some details at the mean. So compare it to the picture. Use the guidelines that you already set in there. And just add detail after detail one step at a time. Don't don't worry, don't freak out. If your measurements are not correct. At this stage, you can readjust your rent, your measurements. You have an eraser and you can readjust it. And I measure like how many times the ear is in comparison to the face. Measure while using your pencil and putting your two fingers. Using the pencil as a measurement as a measurement tool. Another thing you can use is actually a measurement, tape or a measurement, a real measurement to measure the eyes, the face, and nose, how they compare to one another. So now I'm start adding, starting adding some details. The mouth, the wrinkles. This dog has a lot of wrinkles here. There was one the rayon go over here and there's one chunk of flesh coming down from this part of the mouth. That position of the mouth. I add this in there. There is another wrinkle. Coming from top of the nose down. So I measure, I measure even dot y dot wrinkle is added in. And now I start deleting the lines I don't need. Let's clean this up a little bit. Saw. Delete, erase the lines. I mean, I say Delete because I'm so used to working digitally now on. But working on paper is the best way to learn because you train your brain to commit mistakes. Believe me, the mistakes you do are really the path to your learning how to draw. Because it is not about only one single drawing of the dog, right? You want to be able to draw any kind of dog all the time. So the only way to do that is to learn this process. So it sits in your, in the back of your head and you're brave enough to do it. And now I start adding details and you see the placeholder of the ears that are doing so much help. We know kind of like the proportions of the year. So let's delete even around the nose, all the lines that we don't need. We don't have to get confused now, readjust if I have two. So the nose is sitting a little bit too much lower down and it's to untidy. So I will read you the notes. You'll see that even I make mistakes and I don't delete the notes completely. I leave a little bit shading from the previous nodes because the placement was correct that the notes that I did was too messy. So I deleted with lighter lines. Now I can redo it. So I encourage you to do the same. If you follow my steps. This is a good habit for you to get used to, to make mistakes, to delete, and to redo, and to become brave, brave in your drawing. Brave in your approach. Not to be afraid to put the lines in there, to be even uncertain, unsure about yourself. So now I will do the same for one of the eyes. I see that I need to pull the eye closer to that wrinkle. And I see that I have done a little bit just to a millimeter, really. I further away from that wrinkle of the nose. So I bring it up closer. You can either leave it as it is because the difference is so, so tiny. But at that stage of my drawing skills, I have become picky and I want things to be precise. And again, I'm not afraid to delete and you will be there too. I encourage you also to delete. And when you delete something, you can now draw it cleaner on top of them. So now I'm completely sure the I is going to be there. So I start adding more darkness, more blackness to the pupil because you see how blew his eyes are. And we are drawing with a pencil, so we'll have to simulate the blue color with lighter shading of the pencil. Let's delete some lines here again and clean up or a drawing. So you see we are coming closer and closer to the face. Now, let's define the eyebrows. Eyebrows, and of course not just around shape. They have a different kind of shape. They are more fleshy or they are more chunkier. But we have the place holder for the eyebrows. And now it's easy to do. And I'm refining more and more of the head. The head is not completely round. Ucb has this chunking is to do it. Join connects to the head. So I'm adding those lines in and becoming more and more observant and cleanup, cleanup, cleanup more. And then the wrinkles. And I'm more chunky mass to this part of the dog. And I'm going to round the neck and find where the clothing as of the dog. And now I'm going to erase that part of the neck because I see there is more flesh to it. You see there is a big chunk of flesh underneath the dog's face. In comparison to how big the head has become on the paper. We're always in comparison to other parts of the head or of the body. And I'm rounding the mouth. Jumping in the neck again. You see, I jump off always from one detail to another. Never. Just finish one part and leave the rest of the part untouched. You are doing measurements here still. Even though you're going to more subtle and more precise details of the head of the dog. And now we have the face constructed. Let's move with the shading on the next lecture. See you there. 12. Dog 3, Refining and shading 1: Now let's start to refine and shade a dog. I'm going to delete lines that I don't need anymore. Clean up as much as possible while still keep some help lines available for me to see what other shapes and surfaces are in how the construction looks like. And I'm going to grab a pencil. Hb, darker gray, darker lines to draw it in the ice and the darker areas on this dog like the pupils. I'm going to let the white spot here. And it is good to draw from picture because here you can be observed on them. You can let the image guide you for the shading and lighting. You don't have to discover this yourself. It's good to have an image that's y. And don't worry, if you don't get it right there. The first time. When you draw, what you do want is awesome to train your ability to observe. There is some white glands of the other. What I mean that is hidden. And this is also, this part is also save it. So I'm going to add, I'm an extra shading here. There is some white area just below the eye. Now use every detail to enhance the dog. I'm start, I'm starting slowly to add details on these drawings. Following what is in the image where the wrinkles are, how the form is behaving on the head. Following the shapes of the head. Note that I said there is a surface that is flat here and then it rounds up the head upwards. I can add that because I have observed it and I have accounted for it with another surface. And now I can shape up the nose as well. Clean it up, lift. Perfect. Personally, I prefer the drawings to be rather sketchy. I do not like photorealistic to photorealistic drunks. It is a preference because I mean, otherwise, you will take a picture, right? So I like to feel that discovering process, the stroke of the pencil on my drawings. And it's up to you how much you want to add to the details of this. I'm just drawing of yours and what kind of style you're looking for. In part, in this video. Of course, I'm showing my preferences. And I hope you enjoy job because it's very free and very liberating. And I find it very pleasant. If you don't have to do to photorealistic drawings. You can feel doesn't tivity and the shirt, the feeling of the pencil under your fingers. It is pretty nice. So from different places I'll do some slight details. And this is around the nose, the mouth and the eyes, and the rest. I'll just live slightly unfinished. And now there is. Two shapes here, one for this mouth and one is another skin. Going behind here. I'm not a dog experts, so I don t know the anatomy of the of the dogs. That's why I need to be more observant. And here I need to shorten the neck. So after this surface, there is immediate thought of the body. So the body has been too low down. The head needs to be chunkier here. So I'm changing dots. It's not a big deal. That's what the drawing processes. I'm not going to draw the chain goes, so we're just drawing them. Took the dog here. I'm adding some texture of the form and the mouth here to enhance the texture of the dog and the forearm. And then I'm drawing some volume. When I took the tensile, the light is coming from this side. So we need to shade this part of the dog a little more. It is slightly darker, shading to it. It is difficult to come for different colors if you draw just in black and white. But it is all about observing, which is darker, which is lighter. And just apply that. Let's focus on the cute dog. Ice. And there is a surface here below. Not it's darker. It's on white spot here. Make sure your eraser is clean. Roberts, a little bit on the surface of a table or another paper. So it doesn't leave some dirty spots on your drawing. And it has this puppy. I'm perhaps when you do shading, gradually, RStudio, very, very unlikely. And if you have two, you add another layer. And I'm going to go back and do some draw the ears. So I lose a little bit sight of what I'm doing and get a perspective. That is kind of shapes here. I'm not going to draw the ear to precise because I want the center of the attention to be on the ice and on the face. And I'm going to leave the ear slightly. I'm finished to have this artistic look that I've been talking about. This one here. There is a shading going this way or why do is observe? Know how the shapes aren't? What I want to add a new alarm to make this shading just with the tip of the pencil. Then you can go ahead and shade different areas and see. If you want to add more shading towards the drawing will lead you to see how much you want to add and how complete you one of my gut and how sketchy really, you can leave it pretty sketchy, like delta, it's already a nice picture. But I'm going to continue here around the eyes to get more texture. And around the nose. I'm going to leave this some whiskers as well. I'm going to draw those and they have some very specific direction on this bread there, like in a line that gives them a lot of character. And you see that you've done see all the adults that are kind of hidden in the form. So they're not random dots. And I'm going to add more shading and more color to signify that the far as two different colors. That means I'm going to add shading around where the two colors meet. That's another trick that you can use. If you don't want to shade everything, because you don't have to. So time for a little break, go grab some coffee or tea or whatever. Go drink a refresh, and come back to continue with a drawing. See you there. 13. Dog 3, Refining and shading 2: So let's continue with our refining the dog, I hope you are refreshed. And now I'm adding more shading to parts of the face, focusing on the eyes, still. Small wrinkles here of this dog. That gives it this specific popular look. And let's clean the white area between the two colors. And continued even, even here. I'm adding also the shading underneath the mouth to give more volume to the dog and enhance the lighting. I'm correcting the chin because there is another shape going in here and it is a little shorter. So doing that as well, and it looks more rectangular rather than around. Drones off a little bit of the texture. To make the textures pop out. Don't have to draw all of that. Again, the eyes are the most important to you. I'm enhancing even this wrinkle. It is important for the character of the dog. Just wait it out. What do you want to, what characterizes this, this breed and what will be good to add on now, because there's so many shading. If you start staring at a dog, the shading is enormous. And if you're going to do everything, mean the dog will disappear and shading and what kind of lose the charm of the drawing. You have to wait out. What do you want to enhance? And why do you want to add more shading? Now, I want to phase out, so I'm going to add extra shading under the chin to put it in shade, in dark and make, make it more three-dimensional. And you'll see how step-by-step This dog becomes Smith. I mentioned there is a little white area here that this describes this kind of rectangular chin. And I'm going to erase it and then come for it. And see his little mouth here. And I'm going to shade a live births the neck. And slightly shade this part of the dog. Because it has one volume here that now becomes more three-dimensional. Every shape you add, it makes it three-dimensional and real. I mean, even though photograph is actually a two-dimensional image, it's not three-dimensional. It's an illusion that this image is three-dimensional. What makes things look three-dimensional as the lights and the shading. The more your work with the light, the more this image will look two dimensional. This is the secret really up drawing. Being God, becoming good in absorbing the light. And connected to the shape. First, you have construction, and then you'll have lights. Because data set. And the rest is just manner. What kind of manner you want to convey to dragging. Now I'm going to make this button here. Justice at this dog is actually having some kind of cloth. And I'm not going to draw this. I'm going to completely live at very sketchy to make the head pop out even more. And look sketchy and nice. Now I'm even going to enhance some features with just thicker lines that will create interesting surfaces. Look for not only to make an image, a picture of a dog, but to make an art piece, to make something that is fresh and interesting. If you draw all the lines, they become too boring. So just when you have the construction of the darker, again, allow yourself to be autistic and to draw interesting images. Well, I think I'll stop here because I'm pretty happy with this. And I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. See you around. 14. Dog 4, A different technique : Welcome back. In this exercise, we are going to have a little more fun. And what I M with this is to break your fear of drawing. And the more techniques you find to draw that makes you free from this fear of drawing, that you have to make a clean line, the better you will become. So I'm going to use a bullpen where we cannot erase and we're going to draw a dog out of chaos. So let's show, let me show you the technique we're going to use. That's it. Just draw thick lines. That is what we are going to use. And we're going to find the shape of the dog by squinting. And we're going to draw e.g. darker area. By drawing workout inclines in this direction. You see DI shaping. You're going to see it, especially when you squint your eyes. Now I don't even have a picture of the dog and it kind of starts looking looking as as a doc. So you can use a pencil for that as well. But I encourage you to use both been where you cannot erase. So let's start with the drawing and let's have some fun. 15. Dog 4, Doodling the dog: Okay, let's start drawing this dog. Now. Squint your eyes. Let's turn the picture into black and white. If you can see the image blurred without turning into black and white, That's okay. You don't have to do it. But just for the sake of getting easier on you, I'm going to turn it into black and white. And I'm going to drag the focus down. Now. Start doodling by finding just the proportions. How big is the hat? And roughly doodle just the shapes. You don't see any details now. So you're not distracted. For a drawing eyes or drawing. Anything else. Just try to find the proportions very roughly by doodling it. Where are the shape of the eyes? They just dark dots. Signify them, like dot out. And it is good to have a dog that is fluffy for this occasion, because it's a lot of four. And it gives you the possibility to do the, this kind of dog without thinking too much of the skull. The structure of the body fluff is easier to do and it's easier to train yourself to see shapes with fluffy dog. So you see that I'm jumping from one part of the body to the other. Just noticing how big the head shape is and finding the darker areas like the necklace up the dog. I'm just doodling out dot and continue on with the four and the fluff of the body. Very roughly. I have no concrete lines now and counters everything you lose. Everything is just shapes. It is easier to do that with a fluffy dog because it doesn't have called, you don't see a rough shapes and scowl and muscles and so on. It's a lot of form. So this is a very good exercise for you to train yourself to just see the shapes. And now I'm going to unblock the image and start shaping some details like the eyes. Look how nice it is to see the dog again, to see, well, especially for you that don't have glasses, you don't know the feeling of how good it is to see better. Again. Three, find some details, and the eyes and the nose are the most important. We have already a placement for the nodes. We have this darker spots that we already drew. So just be more observant here at the nostrils and add some features of the nose. The way you see it on the picture. You have already the place holder of this, of this dog, without even going for the shapes that we used to do in the previous lectures. So let me add some for around the mouth and be more concrete here. When the shape, we started adding details because you see that we already actually have an image of a dog without any effort just to freely, without torturing horse cells with complex shapes and complex really perspective and rules. Product. And this is basically what you want to accomplish. You want to be more easy about your drawing. You want to have more fun with it. Because when you have fun, you are going to stick to it. And you don't want to be drawing only one picture for the rest of your life. You want to be able to draw many pictures and to be able to stick with it, you have to find a way to serve yourself with where you are at the moment, because with every new drawing, you're going to be better. So you will have to find a way to get there. And the way to get there is to go through such techniques that I'm showing you here. Where you feel easy, you feel relaxed. You feel that You can make the mistakes you can do out. There is no right and wrong. Everything is about training your eye to see the proportions and whatever method you find. That's good for you. Myself at school, we were trained even to draw with cigarettes with now I don't encourage to smoke, I don't smoke. So find maybe an elements in the drawing on the sand, e.g. just to find the proportions, just to make the process easier. And now I can really define a little bit more some elements, some darker elements because this is image of contrast. We only see black and white. Here. We want clearly to add more darkness to the darker element two, and more lightness to leave the elements that are white, brighter, to be more bright, so focused on the shading of the eyes. You see that. You see how the shapes are, where the light areas are. Here are the blurred image again, and it's much easier to see. Now I'm shaping again more the ears and adding more for, more shading to it. Let's go back to the clear picture. And you see that this year that is on the outside that is behind, it's darker. It has more shading to it. So I'm just going to add more four. And using the metadata I showed in the beginning with adding shading that works with the Bolton as well. You lean your time at the site and we'd lose hand, loose wrist. You just draw lines as a shading instead of just lines. It's very, very easy. And if you've gone through the process where the pencil, that's not going to be too hard for you at the moment. But you can also draw the ears by doodling. Continue the doodles. It's going to look good anyway. The dog will come to live anyway, no matter what method you use, as long as you work with the light and the shading, the dog will come to life and it will look like the dog that we are drawing because we already have the construction of the dog by doodling out where the shading from. This point on, it is just about details. How many details you want to add. You see that the dog is already there. So I'm going to add actually more shading on the spots where the dog is touching the ground. Underneath the feed water. I see the shading there. I see some shadows and darker areas. So it looks like the dog is sitting down. Every time you see an area where there is a contact or surface of contact, I have some more details to be more shading because that will give your viewer the illusion of perspective and the illusion of the dog sitting on the ground. So adding more doodles there, and I'm adding another layer of doodles. I, as I told you, it's the same principles here. You just add another layer of doodles on the area where a darker, you'll see that the light is coming from screen to screen, right? So I'm going to add another layer of doodles of chaotic lines on the screen right side to convey an idea for that side being darker. Adding some more details on the four here and coming really to completion of this dog. And I'm pretty happy with the picture right now, so I'm going to leave it there. And if you've come to that, I congratulate you for completing this fun image.