How to draw · Growing · about 20 minutes
Standing Dog
You need: Paper, Pencil. Optional: Eraser, Brown and tan crayons, colored pencils or markers.
Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.
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1. Draw a long oval for the body in the middle of your paper. Press lightly: it is a guide you will erase.
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2. Draw a circle for the head, up and to the right of the body. Leave a little gap for the neck.
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3. Draw four light lines down to the ground for the legs: two near the chest and two near the back end.
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4. Draw a long, floppy ear hanging down the left side of the head circle.
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5. Start at the top of the ear. Draw the top of the head, a long snout, a round nose end, then the jaw back under the head.
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6. Add a dot for the eye, a round nose at the tip of the snout and a smiling mouth line.
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7. Draw the back of the neck from under the ear, then the long back along the top of the body oval. Round it off at the back end.
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8. Draw the chest from under the jaw. Then draw the front leg around the leg line nearest the head: down, a round paw, and back up.
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9. Draw the back leg around the leg line nearest the tail. It bends: a big curve at the top, then a thinner lower leg and a paw.
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10. Join the two legs with the tummy line.
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11. Draw the two far legs on the two middle lines. They are behind, so stop each line where it reaches a near leg.
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12. Draw a happy tail curving up from the back end, with a round tip.
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13. Erase the body oval, the head circle and the four leg lines.
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14. Finish with details: an eyebrow, a patch on the back, a few fur lines on the chest and lines for the toes.
Practice here
Tip: Keep the guide oval, circle and leg lines light so they erase cleanly.