Drawing will help the child understand how tigers differ from other representatives of the cat family. Before starting classes, you need to find out what materials and tools may be needed for drawing, as well as look at several pictures and step-by-step master classes.
What you need to draw a tiger
Tools needed for drawing:
- eraser;
- sharpener;
- art brushes;
- palette for mixing paints.
To draw black and white pictures, you need simple pencils of different degrees of hardness. The table lists the tools with different markings and their purposes.
| Pencil hardness rating | Marking | Purpose |
| Very hard | T3 and above | Applying light shading |
| Solid | T and T2 | Creating a sketch |
| Hard-soft | TM | Drawing small details, marking shadows |
| Soft | M and M2 | Final tracing |
You can draw with pencils on any paper. Notebook and album pages, as well as printer paper, will do. For drawing with paints, you need thicker sheets with a rough surface that will quickly absorb moisture and prevent the paint from spreading.
Step by step instructions for drawing with a simple pencil
A tiger (a drawing for children can be simple or complex), drawn according to this master class, will turn out realistic. With sharpened pencils, you can draw in detail the fur and pattern on the animal's skin. Correct application of shadows will help make the drawing three-dimensional.
Sketch
The sketch is needed so that all other elements of the picture, at subsequent stages of work, are drawn correctly. You will need a hard pencil.
Algorithm of actions:
- Draw the shape of the body as an elongated oval.
- Draw a round head next to it.
- Mark the position of the paws.
- Finish drawing the tail.
- Connect the head and body with 2 smooth lines. This will be the neck.
- Draw the shape of the head more clearly. Highlight the lower jaw, nose and shallow depressions in the eye area.
- Finish drawing the ears.
- The upper parts of the paws are depicted as rectangles. The lower legs are drawn in the same way, but here the rectangles need to be placed at a slight angle so that they form an angle where the tiger's paws will bend.
- Show massive shoulders and rounded hips in the picture.
- Draw the back slightly curved.
- Draw feet in the form of semicircles to the paws.
Erase all unnecessary lines with an eraser.
Detailing
Now you need to draw small details so that the animal in the picture becomes recognizable. You will need a hard-soft pencil.
Procedure:
- Draw the tiger's eyes and outline the nose.
- Show your toes on your paws.
- Select the area where the whiskers will grow. Put a few small dots there.
- On the neck and chest, show tufts of fur in a zigzag line.
- Draw the protruding hairs on the ears, the tip of the tail and the belly.
- Erase extra lines and strokes with an eraser.
- Finish drawing stripes on the tiger. On the paws and head they should be shorter and narrower than on the body.
On the side, the stripes can be depicted in the form of diamonds, with thin lines.
Hatching
To make a drawing look beautiful, you need to shade it correctly.
Procedure:
- Using a T3 pencil, apply diagonal hatching to the upper body, head and feet. Color in the tail.
- Using a hard pencil (T), shade the stomach, neck, and lower jaw.
- Darken the base and tip of the tail, paint over the legs.
- Using a soft pencil, outline all the marked stripes with a dense, zigzag line. The strokes should be placed horizontally.
- Darken the tip of the tail. Color the ears.
- Highlight the eyes and nose.
Outline the tiger using a dashed line.
Pattern variations
The tiger (a drawing for children under 3 years old should be done together with adults) in the picture can be depicted in a realistic style, or, conversely, in a cartoon style. For preschool children, option 2 is suitable.
It is difficult for a small child to draw small details and maintain correct proportions, so the drawing should be as simple as possible to perform. To interest the child, you can offer him to draw a character from his favorite cartoon.
Further in the article you can look at instructions on drawing tigers using various techniques and materials.
Tiger cub drawn with felt-tip pens
First you need to make a pencil sketch, then color the picture with markers and trace its outline.
Algorithm of actions:
- Draw an oval body with a hard-soft pencil. Place the oval vertically.
- Draw a round head on top. The lower part of the circle should slightly go beyond the outline of the oval.
- Draw the tiger's cheeks in the form of a small horizontal oval.
- Draw semicircular ears.
- Add 3 front rectangular paws, draw semicircular feet at the ends.
- Draw the hind legs in the form of arched lines.
- Draw the feet.
- Mark the fingers with short lines.
- Finish drawing the tail.
- Erase extra lines with an eraser.
- Draw the tiger's nose in the shape of an inverted triangle.
- Use an orange marker to color the tiger's body, avoiding the cheeks and inner parts of the ears.
- Paint the inside of the nose and ears with pink.
- Use a black marker to draw 2 small eyes, add a mustache and outline the nose.
- Finish drawing stripes on the tail, paws, neck and head.
Outline the tiger using black color.
Tiger head made of geometric shapes, gouache painting
This drawing technique is suitable for children from 4 years old.
To work you will need a medium-sized brush with soft bristles, as well as 5 colors of gouache:
- orange;
- white;
- gray;
- black;
- brown.
How to draw:
- Draw a large circle with orange paint.
- Draw 2 semicircular ears on top.
- Dry the drawing.
- Use grey paint to draw a circle where the lower jaw will be.
- While the grey gouache is drying, use brown to draw 1 small semicircle inside each ear.
- With white paint, draw 2 small circles on top of the gray paint, but so that the gray circle is half-covered. These will be the tiger's cheeks.
- Dry the drawing.
- Use brown paint to finish drawing an oval nose. It should protrude above the cheeks from above.
- Use black paint to draw 2 round eyes on the tiger.
- Divide the oval that represents the nose into 2 parts horizontally. Color the lower part.
- Draw straight, horizontal stripes on the sides of the head and above the eyes.
- Between the ears, on the top of the head, draw 3 vertical stripes.
Use a black marker to draw a thin mustache.
Cartoon tiger
You can use any paints to create such a design.
What colors will you need:
- brown;
- white;
- black;
- beige.
You also need 2 brushes with soft bristles, thin and medium.
How to draw:
- Mix brown with white in a 3:1 ratio.
- Using a medium-thick brush, draw a trapezoid. Make its lower edge semicircular. This will be the tiger's head.
- Finish drawing the semicircular ears.
- From the bottom of the head, in the same color, draw 2 long front paws. At the ends, draw feet looking in different directions.
- Mix brown paint with white in a 2:1 ratio.
- Draw a semicircular back and a long, straight tail with a rounded tip.
- Mix brown and white in equal parts. Finish drawing the hind legs in the form of semicircles.
- Mark the lower part of the chest, between the front legs.
- Dry the drawing.
- Paint the chest with beige, draw the tiger's cheeks and highlight the center of the muzzle.
- Using a thin brush, paint the inner parts of the ears.
- Draw the nose and thick stripes in brown.
Dip a thin brush in black paint and draw closed eyes and a mouth on the tiger.
Saber-toothed tiger Diego
You can draw the saber-toothed tiger Diego from the cartoon "Ice Age" with simple or colored pencils. This master class describes a black and white version. This drawing style is suitable for children over 10 years old. You will need 2 pencils: hard and hard-soft.
How to draw:
- Use a hard pencil to make a schematic sketch consisting of geometric figures. First draw an oval body, then draw the head in the form of a 7-sided polygon. Its top should be flat. The head narrows towards the bottom.
- Draw the paws as rectangles.
- Draw the shape of each paw, mark the feet, highlight the shoulders and hips.
- Draw the tail short, in the shape of a triangle.
- Diego's chest is much wider than his back. This needs to be shown in the drawing.
- Give the head a clearer shape. Finish drawing the triangular ears, highlight the nose and lower jaw.
- Make all the outlines smooth. Erase the extra lines with an eraser.
- Draw 2 eyes.
- Finish drawing the slightly open mouth and protruding fangs.
- Draw the shape of the nose more clearly.
- On the feet, highlight the toes and draw the claws.
- Draw tufts of fur sticking out on the cheeks.
- Highlight the lower part of the body with a smooth, broken line.
- Draw the protruding fur on the widest part of the chest.
- Make the tail fluffier.
- Erase all unnecessary lines.
- Draw eyelids and eyebrows above the eyes.
- Decorate the inside of the ears.
- Using a hard-soft pencil, shade all the dark areas: the lower part of the body, cheeks, and far paws.
- Outline the drawing using a dashed line.
Use an eraser to clean the background, removing all stains and unnecessary strokes.
Tiger cub in a teapot, colored pencil drawing
In 1972, a cartoon was released where the main character was a tiger cub sitting in a teapot. The drawing in the cartoon is quite simple, so it will not be difficult to depict such a tiger cub on paper.
For work you will need pencils of 6 colors:
- blue;
- blue;
- grey;
- yellow;
- orange;
- black.
You will also need a simple hard-soft pencil and an eraser.
How to draw:
- Draw a large teapot with a simple pencil. Draw a floral pattern on the teapot.
- Now you need to draw 2 large tiger cub paws above the teapot. They should be semicircular at the top. At the bottom, you should highlight the fingers and draw short black nails.
- The tiger cub's head will be large and round. The crown should be slightly elongated.
- The lower part of the muzzle will be hidden behind the paws. The tiger's 2 eyes and nose will be visible. You need to draw them.
- The ears will be small and semi-circular.
- Use a blue pencil to color the teapot handle, spout, and floral pattern.
- Mark the shadows with grey.
- Paint the tiger cub and his paws completely orange.
- Use a yellow pencil to color the eyes.
- Darken the upper parts of the paws with black.
- Draw stripes on the head. Darken the crown.
- Draw stripes above the eyes that resemble eyebrows.
- Color the pupils.
- Shape the inner parts of the ears and shade the nose.
- Outline the tiger cub using a thick line.
- Highlight the eyes.
- Shade the background in blue.
Draw a square tile behind the tiger cub using horizontal and vertical lines with a blue pencil.
Tiger cub on a sunflower, watercolor painting
The tiger (a drawing for children over 6 years old can be done without using a pencil), living on a sunflower, is a character from a Soviet cartoon that was released in 1981.
Drawing the characters in this work is quite complex, so preschoolers can be asked to draw a tiger cub and a sunflower schematically.
For work you will need paint of 6 colors:
- red;
- orange;
- yellow;
- black;
- pink;
- purple.
You will also need a medium-thick brush with soft bristles, as well as a simple pencil.
How to draw:
- Place a sheet of paper horizontally on the table. Divide it into 2 parts with a horizontal line.
- In the center of the drawing there should be a sunflower, and in its middle - a sleeping tiger cub. Above the tiger cub there will be a round sun. With a pencil you need to outline the contours of all the elements of the drawing.
- Lightly moisten the paper with water.
- Place orange watercolor on the tip of the brush and blend it over the top of the sheet.
- Take a little red paint and shade it around the drawn sun.
- Dry the drawing.
- In the center of the sheet, draw a sunflower with yellow paint. It is not necessary to draw it realistically, it is enough to show wide petals sticking out in different directions.
- Below, under the flower leaves and along the horizon line, draw blades of grass with blue and purple paint. As if the light from the sunset reflects on the grass and gives it such a shade.
- Use orange paint to draw a sleeping tiger cub in the center of the sunflower.
- Use black to draw stripes on his body, add eyes, a nose and a mouth.
There is no need to outline the drawing, otherwise the effect of smooth color transition will be lost.
Tiger Shere Khan
The tiger (a drawing for children, made with a pencil, can be seen at the end of the article) named Shere Khan is the main villain in the tale of the boy Mowgli. You can depict the insidious Shere Khan on paper using simple pencils.
How to draw:
- Using a hard pencil, draw a small oval located horizontally.
- Draw a larger oval at the bottom, but so that the small figure is at the top of the large one.
- The small oval is the tiger's forehead. Below it, you should outline the position of the eyes, and draw semicircular ears on top.
- Outline the nose and finish drawing the cheeks.
- Add the lower jaw, outline the position of the eyebrows.
- Give the eyes shape, draw stripes on the tiger's face.
- Draw shoulders above the head.
- Draw 2 paws below. One of them should be located a little further than the other.
- Add tail.
- Add stripes to the tiger.
- Draw sharp fangs in the mouth, paint the nose and mouth black.
You can color the tiger with colored pencils, and then outline it with a soft pencil and shade the stripes.
Tigger
Tigger is Winnie-the-Pooh's best friend from the English fairy tale. He is a funny and cheerful character. It is easy to draw him using a simple pencil and markers.
Procedure:
- Use a pencil to outline the shape of the head and body and show the arms spread out to the sides.
- Draw the legs and thick tail below.
- Shape the head, draw a large nose and 2 small eyes. Show small eyebrows above the eyes.
- Draw a mustache.
- Tigger has no toes on his paws. His front paws look like mittens, and his lower paws look like semicircles.
- Use a smooth line to highlight the chest and belly.
- Draw stripes on the tiger.
- Color the muzzle and belly yellow. Shade the rest of the body with an orange marker.
Use a black marker to color the nose and eyes, outline all the stripes and the entire drawing along the contour.
Examples of images for copying, tips for beginners
Tips for beginners and adults:
- When drawing animals in the "realism" style, you need to outline them with a broken line, not a straight line. Short dashes imitate protruding fur.
- You need to shade pencil strokes lengthwise, not across.
- To make the tiger's whiskers thin, you can use a black gel pen instead of paints and markers when outlining.
- A sketch drawn in pencil should be barely noticeable so that any unnecessary strokes can be easily erased with an eraser.
- The pigments of felt-tip pens can soak through thin sheets of paper. To avoid staining other pages of the notebook or album, you should put cardboard under the paper.
- To draw the eyes and nose evenly, you need to draw 2 thin lines across the head of the animal you have drawn, 1 horizontally and the other vertically. When all the details have been drawn, these axes should be carefully erased with an eraser.
- To paint the hairs with paints, it is best to use a brush with hard bristles.
- All paints should be mixed on a palette. If you apply them directly to the drawing, you can get an unpredictable result and ruin the work.
You can draw a tiger together with children in several styles. The main thing is to draw all the details that are characteristic of tigers so that the animal in the picture is recognizable. Orange color for coloring the fur can be obtained by mixing red and yellow paint.
Video about drawing
Tiger drawing for kids: