How to Draw a Fox

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1. পদক্ষেপ 1

   Block in the big circle of the fox head.

   Everything else gets measured against this, so draw it in one motion rather than in short careful passes. A slightly lopsided shape drawn confidently is more use than a perfect one built out of twelve nervous strokes, because you can correct a shape and you cannot un-see a hesitant line.

   সাবধান Drawing it small to leave room for detail. The big shape is most of the drawing - use the space.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক It should fill most of your page, with a margin all round.

2. পদক্ষেপ 2

   Add the two centre lines, lightly.

   These are the rulers for everything that follows. Without them the two halves of the fox drift apart by a few millimetres at a time and you do not notice until it is finished and subtly wrong. Press lightly - they come off at the end.

   সাবধান Skipping them because it looks symmetrical already. It will not be by the time you are done.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক They should cross at the middle of the shape you just drew.

3. পদক্ষেপ 3

   Draw the muzzle as a long narrow wedge.

   This is the shape that says fox rather than dog. It comes off the lower half of the circle and it is longer and thinner than feels right - compare its length to the head circle rather than guessing, and it should be about half as long as the head is wide.

   সাবধান A short, wide muzzle, which reads as a puppy.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক The muzzle should be about half the head's width in length.

4. পদক্ষেপ 4

   Draw the first ear: a tall triangle, leaning outward.

   Fox ears are big - roughly as tall as half the head circle - and the outer edge curves in slightly rather than running dead straight. Set the angle deliberately, because the two ears must agree.

   সাবধান Making the ears too small and too upright.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক The ear should be about half the height of the head circle.

5. পদক্ষেপ 5

   Draw the second ear to match the first.

   Compare it to the one you just drew rather than to your idea of a ear: same size, same angle, same distance from the centre. This is the comparison habit that fixes proportion everywhere, and a pair is the easiest place to practise it because the error is obvious once you look for it.

   সাবধান Making the second ear smaller - it usually happens because your hand is more cramped on that side.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক Both should sit the same distance from the centre line.

6. পদক্ষেপ 6

   Add the inner ear as a smaller triangle inside each.

   Set in from the edges and slightly lower than the outer point. This is where the dark goes later, and it is what makes an ear read as a cup rather than as a flat shape stuck to the head.

   সাবধান Inner triangles that touch the outer edges, which flattens the ear.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক There should be a visible margin all round each inner triangle.

7. পদক্ষেপ 7

   Place the eyes on the horizontal centre line.

   Fox eyes are almond-shaped and angled - the outer corner sits higher than the inner one, which is what gives a fox its sharp expression. Leave a full eye's width between them.

   সাবধান Round eyes set level, which looks startled rather than alert.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক You should be able to fit one more eye between the two.

8. পদক্ষেপ 8

   Add the nose at the tip of the muzzle and a line back to the mouth.

   A small rounded triangle, and it points down. The line from the nose back along the muzzle is what separates the top of the snout from the jaw, and without it the muzzle reads as a solid wedge.

   সাবধান A large round nose, which pulls the drawing back toward a dog.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক The nose should be small relative to the muzzle.

9. পদক্ষেপ 9

   Draw the body as a rounded triangle below the head.

   A sitting fox is essentially a wide-based triangle with the head on top. Overlap it with the head circle rather than butting them together - the overlap is what makes the head sit in front of the chest.

   সাবধান Placing the body directly under the head with no overlap, which reads as two stacked shapes.

   পৰীক্ষা কৰক The body outline should pass behind the head.

10. পদক্ষেপ 10

    Draw the tail as a long thick curve, wider than you expect.

    This is the shape most people undersize. A fox tail is about as long as the body and roughly a third as thick, and it curls round the base of the body rather than sticking out behind. Draw its outline as two curves, not one.

    সাবধান A thin tail, which loses the whole silhouette.

    পৰীক্ষা কৰক The tail should be at least a third as thick as the body is wide.

11. পদক্ষেপ 11

    Mark the white chest and the white tail tip.

    These are the two shapes that make a fox recognisable without colour. They are areas you leave alone, not areas you draw - deciding now where the paper stays white is what stops you shading over them in the next step.

    সাবধান Shading the whole fox evenly and then trying to erase the white back in.

    পৰীক্ষা কৰক You should have two clearly reserved light shapes.

12. পদক্ষেপ 12

    Shade the ear tips, legs and muzzle tip darkest.

    A fox's dark points are its ear tips, its lower legs and the very tip of its muzzle. Get real contrast between those and the white chest - a fox in a narrow band of grey looks like a stuffed toy.

    সাবধান Being timid, so the darks and the whites end up only slightly different.

    পৰীক্ষা কৰক The ear tips should be clearly the darkest part of the drawing.

13. পদক্ষেপ 13

    Add the few whiskers and a suggestion of fur on the chest.

    Detail is suggested, never itemised. A handful of marks in the right places lets the eye fill in the rest, and drawing every one flattens the drawing into texture. Put them where they matter and stop early.

    সাবধান Adding detail evenly all over, which removes the contrast between busy areas and quiet ones.

    পৰীক্ষা কৰক Step back. You should still read the big shape first, detail second.

14. পদক্ষেপ 14

    Go over the lines you want to keep, and lose the guides.

    This is the step that turns a construction drawing into a finished one, and it is the one most people skip. Press harder on the outline and the features; leave the small stuff light. That difference in weight is what makes a drawing look deliberate rather than traced, and it costs thirty seconds.

    সাবধান Going over everything at the same weight, which flattens the drawing back out.

    পৰীক্ষা কৰক The outline should be clearly darker than the smallest details.