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A masive post about drawing animals! Plus 50 tutorials! Part of my how to draw animals ebook and video course, this is only from one chapter and I wanted share a lot from it. Hope it will help some aspiring artists!

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Think about the style you want to draw in

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Birds are really fun to draw. Play around with different wings

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Try all types of animals

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Even the smallest ones!

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Even cats. Or are you more a dog person?

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Play around with shapes

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Try to find the flow

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Start simple and easy

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Try some nice contrast

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Possibilities are endless

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Study anatomy

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Use these examples tompractise

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Analyze and copy them step by step

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Most important have fun. Learning to draw takes time!

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Checl out my ebook and video course how to draw animals to learn more! Use the code: welcome for a 30% off. Its full with many 100ths of tutorials like these. And hours of video content. See http://www.gumroad.com/mitchle...

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@MitchLeeuwe Really like your breakdowns. You do a really great job of adding just the right amount of text to clue people in that might not be as savvy

@Chumwizards Thanks! I also believe learning to draw is alo mostly just doing :)

@MitchLeeuwe As someone who is in the process of trying to design my own original cast of characters and is still struggling with design philosophy, this helps a lot.

@theDomJenkins Thanks! Thats great

@MitchLeeuwe Love this! Fully agree on the chicken one. Making designs more dynamic and not overly simplistic is a great strat! The amount of realism can depend on the person's style and how abstract they wanna go, but as a basis these are great!

@JadenBartley3 Thanks! Also depends on what it is for. For exemple simpsons or a disney movie etc

@MitchLeeuwe Twitter artists will just post decades of artistic experience for free without asking for anything in return

@MitchLeeuwe So cool and magnificently done. Thank you!

@MitchLeeuwe These are terrific Mitch!

@MitchLeeuwe I really like these courses, they are very educational.

@MitchLeeuwe 🫡🫡🫡

@MitchLeeuwe “Sorry this product is not available in your location” How, it’s a video course lol.

@MitchLeeuwe I still never understood how tangent lines are bad. i’ve seen them in some really good designs

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