How to draw a cheetah running step by step

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Today , it's one of my favourite animals the cheetah , the fastest land animal , and we're going to be drawing it and running .

So get this off some plain white paper .

You'll need a pencil and a razor , a black pen and a ruler if you wish .

Or you can just draw a line free hat .

And don't forget .

If you like to draw animals , you can download my free pdf of how to draw horses galloping , which you'll find in the link just here .

So let's get started .

We're gonna start off with a nice circle just here on the left hand side .

You can draw around something , or maybe perhaps a coin or a small little tub or something .

I'm just gonna try and attempt it free hand .

Don't worry if it doesn't come out perfect because mine really isn't .

Just draw it really , really lightly in pencil because we're gonna go over it and pen .

OK , so now if you've got a ruler , use your ruler or you can draw this line free hand .

It's the only line that we're gonna have to do today .

So just draw just a line like that across and then over on this side , we're going to be drawing a smaller circle , so I'm just gonna kind of measure where the top is of that one .

I'm gonna make it a little bit smaller .

So just here is another circle .

There we go .

So a bigger circle and a smaller circle might make it a teensy weensy little bit bigger .

There we go .

That's the right size .

OK , so this is gonna be the front part of the body .

This is gonna be the back part of the body .

Now we're going to join up these two circles , so starting here , we're going to draw a curved line coming round to that one .

OK , just looking at it .

I'm gonna make this one a teensy weensy bit bigger even still .

OK , there we go .

That's the beauty of doing it in pencil .

First is that you can amend things next starting here , we're going to draw the belly , so that goes down and then it comes up just like that .

We're going to be doing the tail neck .

So at the top of this circle draw a line curving up and down just like that .

Starting here , we're going to be drawing horizontal line , going straight to the right hand side , just like so .

Now we're going to be doing the front leg , so starting just here , draw a diagonal line coming down here and then another diagonal line coming out around the front .

That's going to be the front leg now for the head .

So and remember , please pause it at any time .

If I'm going too fast , just pause and hit .

Rewind .

So we're going to be drawing a smaller circle so it might be useful finding a couple of objects , a couple of circular objects that you can draw around .

You find it hard drawing circles , or you can just use the trust , your compass that we used to use in the school .

I think I've still got one somewhere in my old school pencil case , buried at the bottom of the drawer somewhere .

Anyway , there we go .

So that's the head and from the head , we're going to be drawing a line , a curved line coming up and round till it hits the body .

Last but not least in this stage , we're going to be drawing the muscle .

So add a little bit onto that circular , um , shape for the head and then a little bit for the ear .

Just like this .

And an eye .

Now I'm gonna go straight into pen , But please , please carry on in pencil .

I'm just doing it in pencil .

You can see it easily on the camera .

So we're going to be focusing on the head now , So just draw this beautiful feline face .

Cheetahs really are one of my favourite animals .

They're just such beautiful creatures .

OK , so there's a nose and I'm gonna draw the top of the lip just here .

It's gonna come down and round like that , OK , we're going to put in the marking straight away just because it gives us a sense of what we're drawing .

And those markings are so distinctive .

So the line coming down from the eye , let's pop in the eye .

Now there's the I line that comes down and then comes around like that , so I'm gonna colour that in .

OK , now we're gonna draw the lower lip to lower it and then the rest of the head .

So let's do these ears .

You can see this , OK , on camera , Like a curved bit like that .

And then the back of the ear comes like that to draw some fur inside .

OK , so that's one ear and the other one's just peeping out from behind that ear , so we don't really see that .

OK , now we're going to draw the back of the neck so I'm using these little jagged lines all the way up here all the way up here .

So you get to here , OK , Going to be drawing the neck part as well .

So all the way till we hit this circle that we did before .

OK , now on the circle , we're going to be drawing the front of the shoulder So these cats are so powerful love the way they look when they run .

OK , so the po comes all the way in front of the face , so just make it a little bit longer and it's kind of got its paws .

All its little tyres kind of splayed out a bit like that .

OK , coming all the way back and there's a joint here coming all the way up and a little bulb there .

OK , you've got this far you are doing super well , so keep going .

OK , so we're gonna do the other front leg this song we can see just peeping out from behind the one that we just did serious .

But in the tyres , that'd be good .

And it comes back in like so it's absent claws on these toes that we got .

We're gonna carry on doing the body .

So just behind this front limb here , just here we're going to start the line for the belly , OK , so just draw the belly coming down around it comes all the way to there .

OK , we're gonna add a little bit of fluffy fur underneath the belly .

So So here's a random fact .

Did you know that cheetahs are the only big cat that cannot roar ?

But they do pur , that's kind of cute .

OK , now we're going to finish off the back , so there's like , a ridge here , and then it comes down a very slight bump and then we carry it on all the way till we hit the tail .

There we go and it goes upwards for the tail and then we follow the tail round all the way around .

It's got a nice , big , bushy bit on the end .

So just remember to put in that bushy bit there Also .

Another fact is that they can accelerate from 0 to 100 and 13 kilometres in a few seconds , which is faster than any sports car .

So there you go .

Lots of random facts today .

Alright , so let's bring this tail back around here so it hits the body .

Ok , now we're going to do the hind legs .

So just up here , we're gonna follow this circle round like we did before , but just to there , OK , now we're gonna go back round to the bottom part , and then this line's gonna come down around , OK ?

And this leg comes all the way backwards like this .

And then it has the little pour on the end , OK ?

And you can just see the little pads on the bottom of the pool , just like any household cat .

Bring it up and then the ridge there and then it goes up to hit this line here .

Perfect or perfect ?

Sorry for that joke .

All right , so let's draw the other leg .

This one comes a little bit further down cos it's a mid flight OK , and then the pores underneath .

And then it goes all the way up , just like so .

OK , well , let's add on a couple of claws just here and here , and that's the end of this stage .

Now , if you haven't done so already , go over it all in pen and then erase all the pencil markings .

OK , so I've raised all the pencil markings , So now we're going to draw all the spots .

Now , a little tip here if you've got an old pen , a thicker pen , maybe a felt tip pen that's running out that will be super useful for this part .

But don't worry if you don't just carry on in your normal pen .

OK , so I'm just using a slightly thicker pen just to do some little splodges around the face .

Make sure that the dots are slightly smaller on the face than they are on the rest of the body .

So here we go .

Just there's quite a few on the top of the head , and also on this part here doesn't really have a man , but it's a little bit longer on the top of the um on the top of the head and along the neck .

OK , so quite a few spots , So these are just at random .

It's much easier if you get a photograph of a cheetah and then you can copy the spots or you can copy what I'm doing .

OK , so they're a little bit longer on the legs , so I'm just drawing kind of longer shapes .

OK , they're bigger , they're more spaced apart , OK ?

And the underside of the feet are darker as well .

So I just add that in and then here slightly smaller towards the pores , and they get bigger and bigger .

Along here , every cheat is different , so don't worry if too much about the spots .

You know , as long as they've got spots , then you can recognise that it's a cheater and they're not completely round either .

You know , they're kind of little blobs , so I'm sure it's a very scientific term .

So keep on going all across the back area here .

There we go .

There aren't quite so many on the tummy , so they're just slightly more spaced apart on the tummy and they're quite a bit bigger .

A sure that and there are quite a few more on the top of the back .

There we go .

So I didn't even know about the king cheaters until very recently .

It was actually one of my subscribers asked me to draw a king cheater , which I will do at some point .

Don't worry .

Um , but I'd never heard of them .

And if you hadn't either , basically , they're cheaters with different markings .

So they've got three long vertical stripes all running along the back area along the tail .

Um , yeah , Check it out .

I googled it .

And , um , they look really quite different , but that's for another tutorial .

OK , so here the spots are getting larger and then along the tail , So they're really large on the tail .

I think this is where they're the largest .

So they almost look like stripes on the tail .

They're that thick , and then the end is completely black .

There we go .

I feel on the underside here .

There we go .

And they're quite big down here as well .

On the leg , they are beautiful animals .

So if you've got this far , you have done so well .

We are really almost finished .

There's just a few more dots to go and then you've finished your your cheetah .

Sorry .

OK , keep going .

A couple of little spots here Now , Last but not least , we need to add some shadow here on the ground .

So that shows that the cheat is at mid air .

So just gonna add some shadow ?

Yes .

You can add some grass if you like , just to show it's running at high speed across the , um , across the fields .

There we go .

And there is our finished cheetah drawing .

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