I haven’t painted or drawn a lot of animals through the years, which makes me feel very insecure about adding them into the stuff I make.
When I’ve tried to draw them, they end up just like they did in kindergarten with screwed up proportions and way to skinny legs.
So to get some practice in drawing four-legged creatures, I decided to try and draw a cow using pen and markers.
I have a tutorial book which shows how to draw both people and animals, so I used one of the examples to sketch out the proportions using a pencil.
I then went over it again using a felt pen, before adding some colour using different markers.
I think it ended up looking a lot more cartoonish than the example I used, and the grass in front is not well coloured with the marker. The rest of it went firly well though, I think.
The name of the drawing came to me quite quickly though. Because it is, really, “A cow just being a cow”.
Love the legs. Your cow looks like your style and we know he’s a cow. Don’t wish for anything more, because it may end up looking “not” like you. You have given him expression.
Thank you, Michele! 🙂 I guess you’re right. It does look like my style, and that should probably be good enough 🙂 I appreciate the kind comments 🙂
Eventually, you will have a field of your animals, grazing and chatting under your power lines. ha ha
That would be terrific! 😀