Victor Perard - Drawing Animals

This sketch is badly placed on the page, as it is too far to the left.

This is properly placed on the page. It is better to have a little more room in front of a figure than in back.

This gorilla is placed too near the bottom and too much to the right of the page.

The jaguar is too large for the paper, but that is better than being too small.

The antelope is much too small, and badly placed.

Too small

Placed too high

Draw imaginary lines with your finger.

It is better to have more room in front than in back.

Use basic lines for proper placing.

So named because its brown hairs are silver-tipped, the grizzly is the fiercest animal in North America, although it rarely fights man unless attacked. A large male may weigh 500 pounds.

It eats small animals and a variety of plants, berries, and insects. In this drawing a grizzly bear family is looking for insects in a dead tree.

In order to learn expressions and proportions, get a good outline first. Do not shade any more than is really necessary. Shading is less important than outline.

All that remains of the once much hunted buffalo is a small, protected herd. The buffalos head is large and heavy, its shoulders massive, and its hindquarters small.

The Arabian (dromedary) camel is larger than the Central Asian (Bactrian), and has only one hump, while the Bactrian has two. The Bactrian has the shorter legs, is more awkward, and grows a thick winter coat, which it sheds in the spring.

Ordinary writing ink is fine for brush drawings.

Chimpanzees enjoy performing for audiences.

The chimpanzee is from Equatorial Africa. Here is one threading a needle.

The ape walks on its knuckles.

Bull

When drawing, always try to capture the spirit of subject. A bull should be drawn boldy.

Use light lines to start a drawing.

Domestic cow

Texas long horn

Blooded bull

Use straight lines first to show the direction of the lines, the subjects size, and proportion.

Jersey calves

This sketch was treated with a bold pencil technique, in order to bring out the block shaded method.

Coyote and pups

Outline studies with a pen teach accuracy; mistakes cannot be hidden by shading.

Coyote

Russian wolf