How to Draw a Fox

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   Tilki kafasının büyük çevresini engelle.

   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.

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

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

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   İki merkez çizgiyi hafifçe ekle.

   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.

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

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

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   Burnunu uzun dar bir çizgi olarak çiz.

   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.

   Dikkat et. A short, wide muzzle, which reads as a puppy.

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

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   İlk kulağı çiz: dışa doğru eğilmiş uzun bir üçgen.

   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.

   Dikkat et. Making the ears too small and too upright.

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

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   İkinci kulağı ilkine uygun şekilde çiz.

   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.

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

   Kontrol et. Both should sit the same distance from the centre line.

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   İç kulağı her birinin içinde küçük bir üçgen olarak ekle.

   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.

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

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

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   Gözlerini yatay orta çizgiye koyun.

   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.

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

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

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   Burun kısmını burun ucundan ve ağzın gerisine doğru bir çizgi çiz.

   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.

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

   Kontrol et. The nose should be small relative to the muzzle.

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   Vücudu kafanın altında yuvarlak bir üçgen olarak çizin.

   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.

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

   Kontrol et. The body outline should pass behind the head.

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    Kuyruğu uzun ve kalın bir eğri olarak çiz, beklenenden daha geniş.

    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.

    Dikkat et. A thin tail, which loses the whole silhouette.

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

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    Beyaz göğüs ve beyaz kuyruk ucunu işaretle.

    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.

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

    Kontrol et. You should have two clearly reserved light shapes.

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    Kulaklar, bacaklar ve burun ucu koyu renk.

    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.

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

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

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    Birkaç bıyık ve göğüsteki kürk işaretlerini de ekleyin.

    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.

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

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

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    Saklamak istediğiniz çizgilerin üzerine gidin ve yönlendiricileri kaybedin.

    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.

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

    Kontrol et. The outline should be clearly darker than the smallest details.