How to Use Shapes to Draw Animals & Kids
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When breaking things down into shapes, the head is a circle, the body is an oval, legs are rectangles.Photos.com/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
Put tracing paper over the reference image. Look at the image through the tracing paper and notice which parts of the animal or child are bigger than others. These will be your main shapes. Decipher whether these shapes look like a circle, oval, rectangle, square or triangle. - 2
If drawing a kid, it should look like a humanoid robot during this step.Thinkstock/Comstock/Getty Images
Start lightly tracing over the image onto the tracing paper putting in place all the shapes you see. Keep going until you have all the shapes you need. The finished product should sort of like a robot version of the animal or kid you are drawing. - 3
You may choose to take your drawing a step further by coloring it in.Hemera Technologies/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
Draw the outline outside of the shapes. This will unify the shapes. Draw this outline darker than your shapes step. Continue to draw in details of the clothing, hair or facial features.
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