Animal Drawings

There is a good selection of easy animal drawings to be found on this site, just see the list of all the different animals in the column on your right.

Sometimes it's hard to find a specific drawing of an animal for your project but here you'll find drawings reduced to their simplest form, making them easy to copy.

If you learn how to draw first, you won't struggle once you begin to experiment with painting.

Of course, a lot of people dive straight into painting and there's certainly nothing wrong with that.

If you are an animal lover, you would get great pleasure by drawing and painting animals of all sorts.

Knowing the drawing basics is an important requirement but it's certainly not a necessity for any artist. All you have to do is follow your heart.

What interests you the most? You will excel at anything if your desire is strong enough.

I really enjoy doing pencil drawings of animals. It takes a bit of concentration to get the outline right and then the rest is easy.

You can always use a grid if you really struggle with outlines or you could try tracing the outline first, to learn it more intimately.

This outline of a dog should be an easy template for you to copy. Go on, try it, you will surprise yourself when you get a good likeness.

I don't generally like scrawled, scratchy outlines but I have seen some very clever artwork where you can distinctly see what the drawing subject is, even though it's a bunch of scribbly lines!

I just haven't mastered the art of drawing a subject completely made up with various types of strokes - yet.

It's all a matter of time, practice and how badly we want to succeed with drawing.

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Some Extra Tips

For you to do some animal drawings in pencil, it is best to start with the outline first.

Sometimes it helps if you draw a box around the subject you copy and then draw a box to the same dimensions on your paper. This method assists you as you watch where and how the outline deviates from the sides of the box. Check to see if it is in proportion first and then you can concentrate on details and shading.

If your outline isn't right, the drawing will never look right. You can save a lot of time by getting the outline correct first.

Drawing in your details too soon takes your focus away from outline and proportion.

It's funny, when I look back on old drawings, I realize they are not as good as I thought they were at the time.

I am sure the animal drawings you see here (created in 2006) have certainly got room for improvement.

My turtle drawings (done in 2011) show that I am now much more confident with a pencil.

Most artists aren't always completely satisfied with every piece of artwork. The longer you look at your drawing, the more things you'll see that need changing - it's the way it is.

Drawing Animals

A dog, a bird, a fish, a snake, a fly and worms are all animals.

There are almost one million kinds of animals.

So, when you think of doing animal drawings, you're not likely to get bored with this unlimited range!

Of course, it is best to actually do drawings of animals from real life.

However, if that isn't possible, you can get a good idea from a photo or a book.

Animal pencil drawings aren't that spectacular at first glance but once you get the idea of doing simple pencil outlines, then you can progress onto doing any animal drawing.

You'll get a real buzz out of being able to do it so well.

From then on there will be no stopping you.  You'll get the drawing bug and good luck to you, too.

It is an amazing pastime and one truly worth exploring.

Find the whole list of animals drawings in the right hand column at the top of the page.