Drawing Practice: Animal
Practice Assignment
Study this completed sketch:
Notice in the drawing above how the strong, simple lighting creates a contrasting pattern, separating light and shaded areas. (click to enlarge)
Before you complete the same sketch, outlined below, be sure to look at the drawings on the bottom of this webpage to see the different effects created with different pencils. Then, using an ordinary soft pencil, complete this drawing of the dog by drawing in the shading to give it solid form. (To make it easier to complete this assignment, download this PDF file of the outline image and print it out.)
NOTE: To receive a FREE EVALUATION of your completed assignment from an FAS instructor, please send it, along with your name and address, to Famous Artists School, Free Evaluation, 7 Hollyhock Road, Wilton, CT 06897. You can choose which of the practice assignment to send: Landscape, Animal (below), Portrait, or Figure.
Complete this drawing of the dog by drawing in the shading to give it solid form. (click to enlarge)
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