How to Draw a Fox

一步

1. 步 1

   狐狸头的大圆圈的屏障

   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.

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

   检查支票 It should fill most of your page, with a margin all round.

2. 步 2

   轻轻地添加两条中线。

   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.

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

   检查支票 They should cross at the middle of the shape you just drew.

3. 步 3

   将口罩画成一个长窄的边框。

   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.

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

   检查支票 The muzzle should be about half the head's width in length.

4. 步 4

   绘制第一个耳朵:一个高三角形,向外倾斜。

   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.

   小心 Making the ears too small and too upright.

   检查支票 The ear should be about half the height of the head circle.

5. 步 5

   绘制第二个耳朵以匹配第一个耳朵 。

   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.

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

   检查支票 Both should sit the same distance from the centre line.

6. 步 6

   将内耳添加为每个内部的小三角形。

   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.

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

   检查支票 There should be a visible margin all round each inner triangle.

7. 步 7

   将眼睛放在水平中心线上。

   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.

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

   检查支票 You should be able to fit one more eye between the two.

8. 步 8

   鼻子在口罩尖端加上鼻子 一根线回到嘴上

   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.

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

   检查支票 The nose should be small relative to the muzzle.

9. 步 9

   将身体画成头部下方圆形三角形。

   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.

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

   检查支票 The body outline should pass behind the head.

10. 步 10

    拖动尾巴,画成一个长厚的曲线,宽度超过预期。

    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.

    小心 A thin tail, which loses the whole silhouette.

    检查支票 The tail should be at least a third as thick as the body is wide.

11. 步 11

    标记白胸和白尾尖

    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.

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

    检查支票 You should have two clearly reserved light shapes.

12. 步 12

    将耳尖、腿和口罩的尖尖 都遮蔽在最黑暗的阴影下

    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.

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

    检查支票 The ear tips should be clearly the darkest part of the drawing.

13. 步 13

    胸口上加了几只胡须和毛皮建议

    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.

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

    检查支票 Step back. You should still read the big shape first, detail second.

14. 步 14

    越过你想保持的线条 失去导游

    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.

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

    检查支票 The outline should be clearly darker than the smallest details.