TUTORIAL // drawing animals

happy you found it helpful jessica! 😊

Loish

So helpful! I also am not the greatest with animals and I really want to get out of my comfort zone and get better with animals.

Jessica Morgan

so sorry to hear that gustavo! sometimes it takes a bit of practice before we can figure it out. i have a tutorial about shapes specifically that might help answer your question! you can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-flowy-64260217

Loish

I tried to draw with you and my drawing was really ugly, but that made me saw my mistake and ask you, how do you make those beautiful and smooth shapes? Really, its amazing, I know you draw for a while but I really want to know what should i train or practice to make shapes this beautiful like yours

Gustavo Saba

thank you marla! really appreciate the support!

Loish

I’m a new member, someone has probably already said this, but the shape you drew for the body of the Guinea fowl was a cat’s eye shape. I’m enjoying your tutorials and they encourage me to keep practicing drawing flowing lines

Marla Bonar

glad you liked it! :)

Loish

Finally watched this :) Found it very fun and useful to draw along (in the first half) and compare to your solutions, picking up a neat curve or hatching here and there. Wouldn’t mind more sketching sessions like that once in a while, especially animals.

Kolja Kähler

so glad you enjoyed it!!

Loish

This was an amazing tutorial, I can see immediate improvement in my sketching as a whole and this really helps me look further than simply drawing what I see as that is something I also struggle with since I learnt to draw the same way from references! Thank you so much!

glad you liked it jeremy!

Loish

super simple and effective stuff, helped me a lot!

thank you! I talk a little bit about having fluid lines in this tutorial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-warmups-47743894 it's mainly a question of forcing yourself to draw with more confidence and over time you'll get better at it :)

Loish

I LOVE when you do videos so we can see how you think! I'm always so impressed with how easy you make drawing look. Do you use specific exercises to keep your lines flowy and loose? I struggle with my lines looking too stiff

hey sam! you can find it in this brush set: http://cbr.sh/fg8up?ref=loish

Loish

thank you! I'd definitely try to separate the neck fur from the body and legs, and try to capture the volumes in the face as well!

Loish

thanks for the kind words! honestly I usually default to google because it's what I'm most used to browsing. I like pinterest too though!

Loish

Thank you for making such great tutorials. Is there a place you generally like to look for reference pictures, or do you just search endlessly through google images until you find reference pictures you like?

Hali Benabou

Thank you for the very well made video. How would you give volume to a white shepherd puppy? It's just puppy coat and I'm having a hard time giving it some structure so it feels less 2d.

I love the video tutorial! Is this brush part of a brushpack I can find either on this patreon or somewhere else? Thanks!

Sam Gauss

Thank you!

Holly Westlund

have fun!

Loish

hey holly! 'flow' is a setting in photoshop that makes the brush a bit softer. in procreate, that's usually the bottom slider on the left side, with the top one being size :)

Loish

Question: When you say you are setting a brush to a lower flow, what does that mean? (I work exclusively in Procreate for budget reasons, so this may be a Photoshop thing.)

Holly Westlund

Thank you for this!!

Asher Tail

Looks like I'll be drawing some animals today :)

Pricella

I'm glad you liked it! It's hard to cover 'animals' in general since there are so many but hopefully this gives ideas on how to approach any animal sketch.

Loish

so glad you like it! and yes, guinea fowl remains the cutest animal to me :) so blobby!

Loish

glad you liked it debbie!

Loish

Wonderful video! I love your approach to painting the volume of the animal, rather than the fur (or at least not much). Your animals come out with so much personality. Thank you for sharing!

Deb Merhege

Really love the way you draw animals. And the tutorial. We want more :-)

Jackie

Such a great tutorial, as always!! I'm so excited to try all the tips, I'll definitely draw some animals tonight! :) Thank you for inspiration! btw. I had to laugh when you said - here's one of my favourite animals - guinea fowl - they are so funny :))

Radka Kopecka (radu.k.art)

So exited to watch this! The way you draw animals is amazing 🙌🏻💖

Devotionart

This is such an amazing and detailed tutorial! The fact that you have shown to draw different kind of animals was very helpful, thank you Loish <3

Ece's Art

Yess, working for me too, thanks so much Lois! :)

Radka Kopecka (radu.k.art)

for me it's working again btw!

Loish

thanks so much for the support :) hope you enjoy the content here!

Loish

hey! sorry about that, it looks like vimeo is down. it should work again as soon as they've resolved the issues!

Loish

It's fun seeing how differently you go about looking at animals than I do :'D Though, our styles when drawing in general are very different. But most of the sketching process for humans I feel like I do it the same type of way, while with animals I do it quite differently XD

Elina Mauno

Does anyone have a problem with playing it? It says Service unavailable to me :( Can't wait to watch it!

Radka Kopecka (radu.k.art)

hi i’m a new member! i’m very inspired by your art :D

FrenchyFruuu