In order to draw a tiger, you need to depict a large wild cat with strong legs and a long tail, and then add details to the sketch, in particular, bright stripes and voluminous tanks.
Instructions
Step 1
Choose a tiger pose. He can be depicted jumping, walking or lying on his side with his paws extended in front of him.
Step 2
Begin the drawing by constructing auxiliary details corresponding to the head and body of the tiger. If you are drawing a tiger from the front, the head can be depicted as a circle, if in profile, outline a drop-shaped element, its pointed part will later become a nose. Keep in mind that a tiger stalking its prey walks with its head down; if it is alert, it stretches its neck. In a calm state, this large cat majestically lifts its chin.
Step 3
Observe the proportions of the tiger's body, do not forget that the size of the image should correspond to what surrounds your animal - trees, stones, flowers. Remember that the length of the animal (without the tail) is on average 2 and a half meters, but depending on the subspecies, it can exceed this value.
Step 4
Draw the body of the tiger. It is quite elongated and strong. Please note that the tiger's shoulder girdle is very developed, if you compare the height of the animal in the area of the shoulder blades and pelvis, then the first is somewhat larger. In general, the body is similar to that of a cat, but longer.
Step 5
Draw the head of the tiger. Highlight the powerful brow ridges and a long drooping nose, its shape resembles a rectangle, sagging cheeks begin on the sides of it. At the end of the nose, draw diverging nostrils, note that the tiger's olfactory organ is not covered with hair, but, like in cats, has a special structure of the skin. On both sides of the base of the nose, draw oval eyes with a raised outer corner. Do not forget about the massive lower jaw, it can protrude slightly forward.
Step 6
Select with a few strokes the vibrissa of the tiger. These are long, stiff whiskers growing on the sides of the animal's nose.
Step 7
Contour the ears. They are set quite high on the sides of the head. They have a semicircular shape, may have slight curvatures on the outside. Draw elongated hair covering the ear opening.
Step 8
Draw the legs of the tiger. They are very tough. Compared to the proportions of a cat and a tiger, pets have longer and slender limbs. For convenience, break each leg into three sections - shoulder (thigh), elbow (lower leg), and palm (foot). Draw them in the form of auxiliary ovals, outline them with connecting lines. Keep in mind that a tiger has 4 toes on its hind legs, 5 on its front legs, and on the inside they have skin pads like a cat's.
Step 9
Don't forget the tail. In a tiger, it is very long, a little more than a third of the length of the body with the head.
Step 10
Start coloring. Use white, black and orange-yellow paints and their shades. Note that the tiger has white areas above the eyes, on the chin, on the cheeks and bumpers, and on the belly. On the rest of the surface, white smoothly turns into yellow-orange, and in some places brownish. The nose, belly and lower legs are devoid of dark stripes. These coloring elements outline the tanks, are located on the forehead, parallel to the ribs on the body. The stripes are not necessarily symmetrical, they do not close, but gradually become thinner and disappear, sometimes bifurcate.
