
Digital Drawing 101: Drawing Animals

Instructor: Kirk Nelson


Course Description: This course blends traditional drawing techniques with modern digital workflows. The focus is to learn how to draw the basic forms of a horse, dog and cat—while exploring several illustration styles. We'll go over how to render these animals with Photoshop's drawing tools, as well as creating vector animals in Illustrator.


Related Links


Lesson 03
Horse http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1437584
Horse http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1431709
Jumping Horse http://www.freeimages.com/photo/674979
Running Horse http://www.freeimages.com/photo/674978
Bear http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1430576
Lion Resting http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1240393
Buffalo http://www.freeimages.com/photo/683916
Elephants http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1420927
Antelope http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1436608
Impala http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1121065
Rabbit http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1259065
Chameleon http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1144083
Alaskan Malamute http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1261100

Lesson 06
"Horseanatomy" by WikipedianProlific - Self drawn in abobe photoshop 7 and corel painter IX.5.. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horseanatomy.png#mediaviewer/File:Horseanatomy.png

Lesson 09
Dog Anatomy Lateral Skeleton http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dog_anatomy_lateral_skeleton_view.jpg
Male German Shepherd http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1409440
German Shepherd http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GermanShep1_wb.jpg#mediaviewer/File:GermanShep1_wb.jpg
German Shepherd http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schaeferhundruede.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Schaeferhundruede.jpg

Lesson 12
Skeleton of a Cat Diagram http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeleton_of_a_cat_diagram_ver.2.svg
Havana Brown Cat http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Havana_brown#mediaviewer/File:Havana_Brown_-_choco.jpg. 



