How to Draw a Reindeer
In this drawing lesson, we will tell you about how to draw a reindeer. This step-by-step drawing instruction consists of eleven easy steps.
We suggest you complete an excellent drawing lesson in which you can learn how to draw a reindeer—a very beautiful and unusual animal. Reindeer is a fairly large animal, all reindeer have a graceful body with slender legs and well-developed muscles.
They have a long neck and a small head, which is decorated with large, beautiful horns. Reindeer antlers are branched. Usually, male reindeer have antlers. The older the animal becomes, the more beautiful and large horns it has. Reindeer are the oldest inhabitants of forests. Reindeer are also found in glades with tall dense grass, mountain slopes, near water bodies.
Probably, you can’t wait to start this fascinating drawing lesson. Knowing how to draw various animals is sure to make you a more professional artist. If you are ready to get started, we wish you good luck in completing this drawing lesson.
Time needed: 1 hour
How to Draw a Reindeer
- Add auxiliary lines.
To indicate the location of the body and head of the reindeer, you should draw three ovals using dashed lines.
- Depict markup.
Use lines of different lengths to connect the elements of the torso and head, draw the front of the head, outline the limbs.
- Draw the chest, neck, and belly of the reindeer.
To connect the bottom of the head to the oval representing the location of the chest, add a curved line at the bottom of the torso.
- Draw the outlines of the forelimbs of the reindeer.
Next to the previously drawn straight auxiliary lines indicating the location of the front paws of the reindeer, add curved lines.
- Add the outlines of the reindeer’s hind legs.
Now you should add a few curved lines around the reindeer’s hind legs previously drawn, draw the hooves.
- Sketch out facial features and an ear.
Draw the eye using arcs inside the previously drawn outline of the deer’s head, add the nostril as a dot, the mouth, and the ear as curved lines.
- Mark the reindeer antlers.
Above the reindeer’s head, draw a few curved lines as shown to indicate the location of the reindeer’s antlers.
- Continue drawing the antler.
Near one of the previously drawn curved lines, draw a few more curved lines to depict the antler in relief.
- Add elements of the second reindeer antler.
Now you need to add some curved lines to make the reindeer antler in the background more voluminous.
- Complete the sketch.
Now your drawing is almost ready, and before you start coloring it, you should remove all unnecessary elements.
- Color the drawing.
To color the deer, use shades of brown, black, gray, and beige. Also add the highlight on the eye.
This is the end of this fascinating and very useful drawing lesson, with which you could learn how to draw a reindeer step by step. We hope that this lesson did not leave you indifferent, and we invite you to complete other drawing lessons prepared by our team.