Fifth Drawing Blog: How to Draw a Lion Part 2

Hi everybody, this is part 2 of my lion blog. I hope you enjoy.

Step 1: Start right above the lion's face, and make a few dark lines going upwards. The further they go up the lighter they get. Make the lines reach the oval of fur that we made for the lion. Make sure that the lines seem like they are coming right out of the top of the lion's head. After you make the lines on the top of the lion's head start curving the ends of them. In the areas where the ears are, don't put that much hair. Just throw in a few strands here and there. Now you are going to shade the bottom left side of his face. Shade that part darker then the rest of the body. Then draw some lines coming out of the shaded part. Draw lines coming from the oval of fur, and connect it to the shaded part on the left side of the lion's face. Draw the lines from the top left side of the face, and connect it to the lines of the shaded part. Once you are done drawing the fur to the shaded area, take out your eraser, and start erasing some curves on the lions face. This will make it seem like the lions hair is not perfect, and looks messy. Draw small little lines on the lions ear so he would have fur on his ear. Then shade in the lion's ear lightly. Make sure that the shade looks like fur, so make it have some lines.

Step 2: On the lion's face repeat what you did to the right side. Make sure that the lines aren't the same, make all the lines messy and different. This is so the hair will actually look like lion's hair. Make the bottom part of the lion's face darker, so it would seem like the hair is coming out of it. To draw the lion's body, just draw one line going to the left, and one going downwards. Shade this in, so it would seem like it has hair on its body. Now you are going to start shading in some of the hair. On some lines, darken the middle. Darken the top few strands.

Step 3: Darken the ends of all the bottom hair strands to make it look like it is against the body. Draw a few more strands coming out of all the fur, so the lion's hair would seem imperfect. Finally, this is optional, grab a small paint brush and some white paint and paint a few strands for whiskers.