How to Draw a Real Tiger
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Preparation Begin by choosing a medium to high resolution photo of a tiger’s head and copy the photo into Microsoft word. Here you are able to manipulate the photo to a size that you would like to draw. Set the page resolution to 100% (bottom ri
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Equipment • HB, 4B pencils • Q-tips (cotton-buds) or alternatively cotton-pads (make-up removers) or tissues. • Ruler • White pastel pencil (optional) *Image: To draw whiskers or strands of hair, you can use a technique called masking.
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When drawing large areas of thick, rugged fur, I recommend holding the pencil as shown and making wide, sweeping and swift pencil strokes.
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If you are not yet a confident sketcher you can trace an outline of the tiger’s head. Alternatively, you can use a grid method or my simpler reference-point method to create an outline for your drawing. In my method, you need to choose several poin
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This is more or less the amount of detail necessary in your outline.
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Now that the gruelling work is over, we can begin to render the tiger face. Start with an HB pencil and draw a light base layer of shading to areas of the face that appear smooth. It is important that this base layer is smooth – do not add any deta
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With the base shading done, we can now add some depth to the nose and mouth areas. You do not need to start reaching for your 4B pencil yet – an HB pencil is more than adequate. When shading the darker areas of the nose, refer to the photo as often
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This step focuses on the mouth area – specifically the whiskers. In my opinion, the whiskers on any big cat are perhaps the most important facial feature to get correct. They must be white and this presents a problem – we can’t actually draw th
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This step is all about adding stripes to the side of the face. When drawing the stripes, a general rule of thumb is to avoid drawing straight edges – as these stripes need to blend into a fur texture, a jagged edge makes for a better transition.
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The penultimate step! The first area of focus is the ear. You want to get a good variety of highlights to define the individual strands of hair. Follow the same method outlined for drawing the whiskers but be a little less clinical to achieve a more
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This final step is all about cleaning the drawing up. Firstly, get an eraser and go over the large area of fur in the bottom-left corner with large sweeping strokes to add large highlights to the fur texture. This is optional as some people may p
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January 1, 2011
Description: Welcome to this detailed pencil sketch tutorial that will guide you in a fashionable way on "<em><strong>sketching a tiger</em></strong>", step by step. The tiger featured in this lesson took a while to complete but during that process, there's a step by step guide showing you how I created my realistic tiger drawing. Tigers are large and beautiful big cats that are wildly popular in every dimension of artists. Taking your time to learn "<em>how to draw a real tiger</em></strong>", will definitely increase your skills in the sketch pencil method. I hope this tutorial will be useful in your future drawings as I had fun creating it. Get yourself a set of standard quality sketching pencils and A4 paper for this tutorial. Observe the steps and think it through before you make a move on your drawing. Anyways, thanks so much for viewing and have fun!
