Drawing Snakes and Lizards: How to Draw Reptiles For the Beginner

By Adrian Sanqui and John Davidson

2 Books
Drawing Snakes How to Draw Snakes For the Beginner
Drawing Lizards How to Draw Reptiles For the Beginner

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Drawing Snakes
Introduction
Drawing tools
Establishing the Form
Starting with the Contour Figure
Drawing a Black Mamba
Applying the Details
Common Snake Skin Patterns
Reference Lines for Drawing the Scales
Different Eyes of Snakes
Drawing with Pencil
Drawing a Cobra
Drawing a Rattle Snake
Drawing with pens
Coloring
Coloring a Scarlet King Snake
Conclusion
Drawing Lizards
Nose-horned Lizard
Tuatara
Casqued-headed Lizard
Drawing with a Pen
Frilled Lizard
Double-crested Basilisk
Coloring
Armadillo Girdled Lizard
Chameleon
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
• Release date: Feb 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311091178

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Drawing Snakes and Lizards

How to Draw Reptiles

For the Beginner

Adrian Sanqui

And

John Davidson

Learn to Draw Series

Mendon Cottage Books

JD- Biz Publishing

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Learn How to Draw Books for the Absolute Beginner

Table of Contents

Introduction

Drawing tools

Establishing the Form

Starting with the Contour Figure

Drawing a Black Mamba

Applying the Details

--Common Snake Skin Patterns

--Reference Lines for Drawing the Scales

--Different Eyes of Snakes

Drawing with Pencils

Drawing a Cobra

Drawing a Rattle Snake

Drawing with Pens

Coloring

Coloring a Scarlet King Snake

Drawing with Pencil

--Nose-horned Lizard

--Establishing the Details

--Tuatara

--Casqued-headed Lizard

Drawing with a Pen

--Frilled Lizard

--Double-crested Basilisk

Coloring Armadillo Girdled Lizard

Coloring Leaf-tailed Gecko

Coloring Chameleon

Conclusion

Author Bio

Publisher

Introduction

First, thank you for picking up this book on how to draw snakes for the beginner. We will be going over a number of different things, so follow along closely and do each step before moving to the next one. At the end, I hope you will have learned the basics of how to draw snakes. Let’s get started!

Drawing tools

Pencils

The most important tool you need, to be able to enhance your drawing skill, is a medium that can be corrected in case you make sloppy line strokes. It is better if you have pencils of different grades so you can have the kind of lightness or darkness you want to make. The ‘H’ engraved near on the pencil’s tip (side of eraser) stands for hardness, and it ranges from 2H to 9H. A pencil with only an H mark and no number means 1H; the most common grade of a pencil (pencils without grade marks) is usually a 2H pencil. The B marking on the pencil stands for blackness, and this means the pencil produces a darker marking and is softer than H pencils. It ranges from HB (hard and dark) to 9B (very soft and very dark), and this means the higher the grade, the softer and darker it becomes.

Mechanical pencil

A mechanical pencil has a consistent wick or point, which makes it easier for you to maintain the thickness of the line marks you produce. Instead of sharpening your pencil several times, you have a thin and constant fine point. Different grades of lead or graphite is also available for refilling your mechanical pencil. Just make sure that the size of the point your pencil has is also the same as the pencil leads you refill it with. They come in several sizes and style, but what really matters is that it does what it’s supposed to.

Sharpener

A regular sharpener is quite dependable if you are using H and low B pencils, but if you are going