How to Draw
How to Draw a Dog
How to draw Barker, and his pals, Howler, and Woofer and Growler and …
How to Draw a basic dog:
Materials needed: paper; pencil, pen — nothing fancy required.
The aim of this exercise is to learn to draw a dog very quickly. Drawing quickly and ending up with a pleasing result will give you the confidence to draw anything else. Forever. Anything.
The techniques you learn drawing Barker (on the left) and Howler (on the right) (see below) will enable you to draw anything. The speed of drawing Barker and Howler (BnH) will give you the confidence to tackle them. In any style, too.
Most artists start with guidelines. Most beginners think this is a beginner thing. It isn’t. Guidelines will always be useful no matter how many drawings you do.
Talking of guidelines, start with a circle. It doesn’t need to be a circle-circle (as you can see) — it can just…
