How to Draw a Fox

ခြေလှမ်းတစ်လှမ်း

1. ခြေလှမ်း 1

   ကြောင်ခေါင်း၏ကြီးမားသောဝိုင်းထဲမှာ block.

   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.

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

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

2. ခြေလှမ်း 2

   အလယ်ပိုင်း လိုင်းနှစ်ခုကို ပေါ့ပါးစွာ ပေါင်းထည့်ပါ

   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.

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

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

3. ခြေလှမ်း 3

   လည်ချောင်းကို အရှည်ကြီး သေးငယ်တဲ့ ကြေးနန်းအဖြစ် ဆွဲပါ။

   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.

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

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

4. ခြေလှမ်း 4

   ပထမဦးဆုံးနားကိုဆွဲပါ: မြင့်မားသောတြိဂံ, အပြင်ဘက်သို့ဆွဲဆောင်.

   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.

   သတိထား Making the ears too small and too upright.

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

5. ခြေလှမ်း 5

   ပထမ နားရွက်နဲ့ တူအောင် ဒုတိယ နားရွက်ကို ဆွဲပါ။

   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.

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

   စစ်ဆေးပါ Both should sit the same distance from the centre line.

6. ခြေလှမ်း 6

   တစ်ခုချင်းစီကိုအတွင်းပိုင်းသေးငယ်တဲ့သုံးပုံတစ်ပုံအဖြစ်အတွင်းနားကိုထည့်သွင်းပါ။

   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.

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

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

7. ခြေလှမ်း 7

   မျက်လုံးတွေကို အလျားလိုက် အလယ်တန်းမှာ ထားပါ။

   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.

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

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

8. ခြေလှမ်း 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.

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

   စစ်ဆေးပါ The nose should be small relative to the muzzle.

9. ခြေလှမ်း 9

   ခေါင်းအောက်မှာ လည်ပတ်နေတဲ့ တြိဂံပုံနဲ့ ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာကို ဆွဲပါ။

   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.

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

   စစ်ဆေးပါ The body outline should pass behind the head.

10. ခြေလှမ်း 10

    အနောက်ကို သင်မျှော်လင့်ထားသလို အကျယ်ကြီး curve အဖြစ် ဆွဲပါ။

    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.

    သတိထား A thin tail, which loses the whole silhouette.

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

11. ခြေလှမ်း 11

    အဖြူရောင်ရင်ဘတ်နှင့်အဖြူရောင် tail tip ကိုအမှတ်အသားပြုပါ။

    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.

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

    စစ်ဆေးပါ You should have two clearly reserved light shapes.

12. ခြေလှမ်း 12

    နားရွက်အကြံပြုချက်များကို shade, ခြေထောက်နှင့်မျက်လုံးအကြံပြုချက်အနက်ရောင်.

    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.

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

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

13. ခြေလှမ်း 13

    အနည်းငယ် whiskers နှင့်ရင်ဘတ်ပေါ်တွင်ဆံပင်၏အကြံပြုချက်ကိုထည့်သွင်းပါ။

    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.

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

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

14. ခြေလှမ်း 14

    သင် ထိန်းသိမ်းချင်တဲ့ လိုင်းတွေ ကျော်သွားပြီး လမ်းညွှန်တွေကို ဆုံးရှုံးပါမယ်။

    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.

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

    စစ်ဆေးပါ The outline should be clearly darker than the smallest details.