Dog’s Head Front View Drawing – Step by Step

by easydrawingtips

This quick and fairly easy tutorial is intended for beginners and shows some of the basics of drawing a dog’s head from the front view. The dog in this case is a Golden Retriever.

Dog head front view drawing step by step

Step 1 – Dog’s Head Shape Sketch

Before you draw anything else draw a vertical line that will be the middle of the dog’s head and draw a horizontal line intersecting with it. Try and place the horizontal line around the dog’s eyes. The point of the vertical line is to help make sure that both sides of the dog’s head are even and the horizontal line will later help you place other features such as the ears and eyes on the same level.

Start the head drawing by first sketching out the overall rough shape of the dog’s head (you want to start with the largest proportions first). In this case the shape will be somewhat similar to an egg but with a less rounded bottom.

Step 2 – Ears & Snout Sketch

Moving down to the next step you can sketch out the shapes of the ears and the snout as there are the next two largest parts of the dog’s head. You can avoid any smaller twists and turns at this stage as you can add those in later.

Step 3 – Dog’s Head Outline Sketch

Add the smaller details such as the outline shape of the nose and eyes as well as the eyebrow areas.

Step 4 – Dog’s Head Line Drawing

Finally clean up all of the guidelines and add some small strokes to show fur where appropriate. Next fill in the smaller details such as the nostrils, eyes and eyelids.

Eyes

The irises of a dog take up the majority of the eye so that in many cases you hardly see the whites of the eyes at all.

Nose

The nose has a cut like shape in the middle going from the bottom and fading towards the top.

Fur

The fur for a golden retriever will tend to stick out around the bottom half of the ears. It can also very lightly stick out around the bottom of the snout.

There will also be swirl like shapes of fur around the eyes for the eyebrows and a parting line in the fur around the middle of the head between the eyes.

Conclusion

Dog’s come in many breeds, shapes and sizes. You could probably easily make an entire book on just drawing dogs. It’s difficult to cover a lot in just one tutorial but it still should give you an idea of the basics of drawing a dog and the correct way of drawing in general.

For drawing a dog from the side view see:

How to Draw a Dog Step by Step

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