Monkey drawing for kids pencil simple, black and white, color, coloring

You can draw a monkey with a pencil, paints and other materials on paper, notebook paper or canvas. The article below provides step-by-step drawing tutorials and tips for kids and beginners.

How can a child draw a monkey step by step using cells?

You can draw both straight and rounded lines, having previously made dotted markings. Depending on the size of the monkey, the number of cells allocated for the details can be proportionally increased. Below is a table of the minimum number of cells for each element of the drawing.

Name of body part	Minimum number of cells	The drawing process
Eyes	1	The cell is outlined along the perimeter or a circle is drawn around it.
Nose	1	The cell is painted black.
Mouth	—	Drawn with a curved smile line.
Ears	2	They are made rectangular or round.
Head	8	The perimeter of the head, along the edge of the muzzle, is painted brown, the inner part - flesh-colored.

Depending on the position of the monkey (profile, full face, half-turn), the proportions of the muzzle change.

Additionally, a rectangle or oval of the body is drawn, from which the paws and the upward-curved tail emerge. It is done in the form of a line of several cells.

Master class of drawing an animal on clean paper. Front view

It is better to draw on clean paper, depicting simple figures and combining them. To make it easier to remove unnecessary lines, it is better to make a sketch in pencil and then detail it.

Muzzle

Stages of drawing:

1. A longitudinal elongated oval is drawn.
2. The nose and mouth will be located here.

   

3. On top of the oval, draw another one, more round and elongated upwards. Its edges should be higher than the middle of the lower one. This is the main part of the muzzle, where the eyes will be located.
4. On the side of the upper oval you need to draw semicircles. These are the ears of the future monkey.

Torso

The body should be slightly smaller than the head. To make it, you need to draw an oval, elongated vertically and combine it with the head at the top.

Hands

It is better to make the monkey's hands rounded, consisting of one or two long ovals. Then fingers and details are added here.

Legs

The legs are drawn similarly to the arms. Depending on the position of the body, the feet can be directed in one or different directions.

Tail

The tail is presented as a curved line directed upwards. It starts in the lower quarter of the body and ends at the level of the beginning of the head. This part of the body is thicker at the beginning and thinner at the end.

Detailing

At the detailing stage, you need to add eyes, a nose and a mouth, as well as fingers and toes, and cover the entire body with fur. In a child's drawing, the monkey's eyes are represented as two circles or ovals with pupils inside. You don't need to draw pupils looking straight ahead, it's better to point them somewhere to the side, this will add realism to the drawing and simplify it.

The nose can be represented as two mirrored inclined lines or one circle. The first option looks more realistic, because the structure of the monkey's nose is more reminiscent of a human's than, say, a dog's.

The fingers should be thin and long, they can be either spread or bent. Monkeys, like humans, have a thumb, this should be taken into account when drawing.

The fur is drawn with strokes and covers the entire body except for the center of the muzzle. You need to add some chaotic, broken lines around the perimeter of the body and on the tail, skipping the fingers. This will make the drawing more detailed. You don't need to try to make the fur the same everywhere, there should be some carelessness in the drawing.

Coloring

Monkey is a drawing for children that allows you to use several tools at once. You can use pencils, markers or paints for coloring.

First, you need to outline the contours in black to emphasize them. At this stage, all unnecessary intermediate lines at the junction of the ovals need to be erased and outline only those that will remain in the final version. After outlining, you need to fill in all parts of the body with color.

The body is made brown, the muzzle is light brown or beige, and the eyes are white with a black, blue or green pupil. When painting the body, you need to follow the lines of fur growth and try to place the strokes along these lines. In this case, the monkey will look more realistic.

The following tips will help you with coloring:

• Pencils, markers and paints can be used together in one drawing. For example, fill the body with brown paint, let it dry and make strokes of fur with a pencil. Or outline the drawing with a black marker and then color it with pencils.
• It is better to leave the white of the eye unpainted, painting only the pupil. If some colors get on the white, then after it dries completely, you can paint it with white gouache or acrylic paint.
• If you paint adjacent areas with watercolor paints before they dry completely, the paints will run and mix. To avoid this, you need to let the parts of the drawing dry or use less water.
• Volume needs to be added. To do this, a lighter paint of the same color is applied to the lightened areas. For a monkey, this is the center of the body, the top of the arms and shoulders, the area above the eyes, and the top of the ears.
• After it dries completely, you can add a dot of white paint to the top of the pupil. This highlight will show volume and add realism. When drawing with pencils or markers, this dot can be left empty, as well as the white of the eye.

Monkey Drawing Ideas for Sketching with Pencil. Description for Beginners

When copying a monkey from a picture, the proportions of the body, the ratio of the length of the body to the head, arms and legs, as well as the position of the animal are taken into account. Due to its resemblance to a person, a monkey cannot be called an easy object to depict.

When drawing a complete picture, you need to act in stages:

1. Learn anatomy. Understanding anatomy allows you to make a drawing proportional and not miss unnecessary details. You need to remember that the monkey's arms and legs have three main joints, the eyes are set in hollows, the animal has an elongated muzzle and long, tenacious fingers.
2. Outline the background and the position of the animal on it. Beginners may think that it is better to draw a monkey and then fit it into the background, but this is not so, by showing the whole picture at once, it is easier to draw its individual elements.
3. Set the main parts of the body: torso, head, arms, legs and tail. If the layout looks harmonious, you can proceed to detailing. If it is difficult to set the shape of the body parts at once, it is better to start with lines. Often the most difficult to draw are the limbs, so you can outline them with lines. Two bends of the arms are taken into account - at the elbow and wrist, as well as the bends of the legs, taking into account the knees and feet.

At the first stages, it is better not to use a photo as a source image. Extra details that the beginning artist does not yet know how to draw will only distract. You can find a suitable drawing of a monkey or create a simplified source material.

To do this, you can download a photo and apply one of the filters to it that imitate painting or pencil drawing. Such effects are available in graphic editors. This will help get rid of the excess, while fully preserving the plot and features of the picture.

Monkey full face

A beginner may think that this is the easiest angle to get acquainted with the peculiarities of drawing an animal, but this is a myth. In fact, when drawing a monkey from the front, you need to be able to depict the details symmetrically, which can be difficult even for experienced artists.

Creation:

1. You need to start with the oval of the muzzle. It will be wider at the top than at the bottom.
2. Next, make 3 curved lines. One will go through the center of the mouth, the second - the nose, the third - the eyes.
3. The mouth line is curved downwards, the nose line is also curved, but with a much smaller curve, and the eye line will be slightly curved upwards.
4. Next, constantly comparing with the original image, you need to draw the eyes, lips and nose. The ears of these animals are usually located at the same level as the eyes or higher, depending on the species.

It is important to check how symmetrically and organically the elements of the face are located. To do this, you need to bring the image to the mirror and look at the reflection. This way, all the errors will become more noticeable and easier to correct.

The monkey sits sideways

When sitting sideways, the monkey usually bends its legs so that its knees are at chest level. First, you need to schematically designate the head, body and limbs of the animal, as well as the object on which it sits.

The monkey, the drawing for children of which was considered earlier in the article, was schematic, and now it is necessary to draw all parts of the body in detail. To do this, after drawing the contours, add eyes, mouth, nose, ears, fingers and toes. Drawing the fur is carried out according to hair growth.

To indicate light and shadow in a pencil drawing, the hair is made thicker in dark areas and thinner in light areas. For example, the hair should be thicker in the neck area, armpits, chest outline, and thinner on the knees, shoulders, stomach, and other voluminous areas.

To make a pencil drawing more realistic, you need to leave as few areas as possible unpainted. Where a smooth transition is needed, the pencil is shaded with a finger.

If in the drawing by cells it was necessary to leave clear contours, then here it is better to get rid of them, replacing them with chiaroscuro. The presence of clear linear boundaries immediately gives away the hand of an inexperienced artist.

The animal is hanging on a liana

The first step is to draw a vertically hanging liana. It should not be absolutely straight or too curved. For realism, one small bend is enough. Depending on the position of the body - head up or down - the monkey will hold on to the liana with its hands or legs and tail.

The drawing process is almost no different from the one described above, except for one detail - the animal's limbs should embrace the liana. To make it easier to imagine how it should look, you can take a pencil in your hand and put the brush in the same position as in the drawing.

All that remains is to transfer the correct anatomy to paper and add details. You should keep an eraser handy to immediately remove unnecessary fragments or unsuccessful attempts. The main thing is not to be afraid to try.

Animal on a branch

The steps to drawing a monkey on a branch are almost the same as drawing a monkey hanging on a liana. In both cases, gravity must be taken into account. If, for example, the animal hangs upside down, then the fur in some places, such as on the head and shoulders, should be directed downwards.

Monkey in the jungle

In this drawing, you need to pay due attention to detail. You should make sketches of the background - trees in moss, palms, ferns, windfalls and ruins of an ancient Aztec temple will fit perfectly into the plot. The center of the composition will be the monkey, but this does not mean that it should be placed strictly in the middle.

Guided by the original image, a sketch of the animal is made and corrected. Only after this can you begin detailing, gradually drawing both the background and the main character. If desired, you can add colored pencils to the gray pencil.

Cartoon character

Cartoon characters have their own characteristics. For example, the gorilla from Tarzan has massive forearms, and Abu from Aladdin has large elbow and knee joints, as well as unnaturally curved limbs.

When drawing cartoon characters, special attention is paid to details such as clothing and facial features. This will help convey the character's personality and anyone looking at it will immediately understand who is in front of them.

2 monkeys

A monkey is a drawing for children that can be made more complicated. If you need to draw two adult monkeys, the tips described earlier in the article will help. But the difficulty usually arises if you need to draw a mother monkey and her baby. The babies have different body proportions: a small body and chest, a disproportionately large head and long arms.

If one monkey turned out great, but the second one just doesn't work out, you can simplify the drawing. To do this, you can hide complex elements from the viewer. For example, the legs can be covered with a snag or a stone.

Funny monkey

A laughing monkey or an animal sticking out its tongue can be easily drawn by making a preliminary sketch. To do this, draw an oval of the face and divide it with lines, as when drawing from the front. The head should be slightly tilted upwards. At the same time, the lower line, indicating the mouth, should bend downwards more strongly.

Next, the eyes, nose and open mouth, stretched into a smile, are drawn. The teeth are drawn near the upper lip, and the tongue near the lower lip. The shadows are placed so that it is as dark as possible behind the teeth, and the tongue is in partial shadow. Monkeys have straight, thin lips that protrude slightly against the background of the face.

Realistic graphic image

When drawing a realistic image, you should detail it and try to convey it as accurately as possible.

These tips will come in handy:

• If it is difficult to transfer the image, the original image and the sheet of paper can be divided into equal squares with light dotted lines. This will help to proportionally transfer the silhouette and begin drawing.
• You shouldn't take on a complex image right away. To begin with, you should try drawing a monkey from several angles: half-turn, profile, full-face. You can depict arms and legs separately in different positions. Having learned to draw individual fragments, it will be easier to connect them into a whole drawing on paper.
• We must not forget about volume, shadows, half-shadows and light. If these 4 components of the drawing are in their places, then the monkey will turn out beautiful and realistic.

It is better to learn to draw a monkey, starting with simple things. Beginners should take a drawing for children as a basis and then complicate it, developing drawing skills.

Video about drawing a monkey

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