Q&A for How to Draw a Dog

You can make the ears pointed by drawing triangles and make the tail a bit fluffier so it looks like a German Shepherd's. Look up pictures of German Shepherds for reference on their markings and colors.

Depending on the type of dog you are wanting to draw, you could stick to their natural colors like brown or black. If you are drawing a cartoon dog, or if you want to make it funny, you could color it something like purple or green.

Draw two curved lines from one side of the neck to the other side of the neck. Decorate it as you want.

Try making the eyes bigger, and add more white in them. This is how they do it in cartoons.

There is a wikihow called "How To Draw A Realistic Dog" and the dog used turns out to be a Rottweiler.

Make a really fluffy light brown dog like the golden retriever puppy, but with different coloring. Google images of Cocker Spaniels to get the right coloring.

Make the face pointed towards you and make the body and the head large and have only part of the butt visible to add perspective.

Draw the realistic dog, but make the tail bigger and fluffier.

The hound drawing would look like a doberman if you used black and brown and changed the ears a bit. You could also look up doberman pictures as a reference.

The best way would be to use this as like a base drawing and do different shaped ears and head to fit a Doodle's appearance.

You make a flatter body about half as long as a wiener dog with no tail and with white and orange small little legs and ears like a husky. Check Google Images for pictures.

Begin by lightly sketching the major shapes. You can use squares, triangles, ovals, and circles to sketch out the placement of the dog's head, ears, back, legs and other major features. Consult images of dogs for reference when doing your drawing.

Draw the realistic dog, but change the pointy ears to floppy ears by drawings the ears in an oval shape. Then make the belly curve of the dog shaggy by adding strokes of fur. Lastly change the tail to an upward curve and add strokes for fur.

Focus on just drawing the head, for starters.

Border collies have a large, fluffy mane and ears that seem folded. Find ways to copy these using any of the styles above.

Just draw a dog and add shadow and background. Don't forget to show 4 legs. Curve the lines and give it some detail. You could go online and search for pictures of dogs and choose one to draw. Now just draw what you see.

There is a wikiHow entitled "How to draw realistic dogs." You might find the answer to your question there.

First you need to make the proportions smaller then add bigger eyes and bigger ears. Make sure the ears are floppy.

Make the realistic dog smaller and yellow and white, and make the eyes like a cartoon dog's.

If you have a pitbull, use it as a reference. But if you don't, go to Google Images and look up pictures of pit bulls.

Make the ears backward a little and draw the tail longer and skinny enough to make it look like one. Greyhounds are thin and muscular too. You can look up pictures of greyhounds to help you.

That is normal, but not ideal. You might be pressing too hard with your pencil, or you have a bad eraser.

You can look up a picture of the dog, and then trace it.

Look at reference pictures, and go from there. It really depends on the type of dog you are wanting to draw. For a Pomeranian, make it fluffy. German Shepherd, make the ears more triangular and the tail fluffier, and so on.

Make the dogs ears flattened and have his torso hunched with his feet close together. Add upturned eyes for a cartoon.

I would suggest checking out wikiHow's article on drawing a baby for some help.

Draw the circle first, then draw different dogs inside (but not too many), then add the shadows by mirroring them on a surface and shading them in.

Start with a triangular shape, then add wrinkles in the fabric. To finish the bandanna, shade a bit under each wrinkle.

Try looking at different pictures of dogs and practicing. You can even print some pictures and try tracing over them. You can also look up video tutorials on YouTube, you'll probably find a great variety.

The dog in that picture looks like a sight-hound, while beagles are a scent-hound, which tend to have a different shape. Beagles have shorter legs and a longer body, so the angle of the dog's back would be less steep. A beagle would also have a larger, rounder head and muzzle, and floppy ears that drop to slightly below the dog's jawline, near where the head and neck join.