animal drawing
Fauna on paper
Animal drawing is the practice of sketching or illustrating animals, whether from life, photographs, or imagination.
It encompasses everything from scientific illustration to cartoon characters to fine art studies.
The term also refers to the resulting artwork: She sold her animal drawings at the craft fair.
Learning animal drawing typically involves studying anatomy, movement, and characteristic poses of different species.
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- quick sketchBrief informal drawing
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- furAnimal body hair
feathers · anatomy · creature · pencil · colored pencil · naturalist · paws · snout · charcoal · zoo · tail · scales · watercolor · beast · muzzle · field guide · whiskers · pose
- drawing bookscoloring books, sketch pads, step-by-step, art instruction, cartoon faces
- drawing lessonsbeginner exercises, pencil shading, cross-hatching, basic shapes, foreshortening
- kids' artcrayons, stick figures, finger painting, scribbles, chalk
- outdoor sketchingplein air, sketching, nature sketching, landscape art, outdoor scenes
animal drawinglandscape drawing
Artwork showing outdoor scenery
portrait · still life · architectural drawing · cityscape · botanical illustration
animal, drawing, animals, animality, animate, animated, animation, animator, inanimate