BABY ANIMALS - How to draw a LAMB

To draw this little lamb you're going to need some plain white paper, a pencil, an eraser and a black pen. We're going to start off our spring lamb with an oval shape just here. So remember just do it lightly and pencil it, it doesn't have to be perfect. These are just preparatory shapes just to help us do the actual drawing. So a rough oval shape just like that. Now I'm going to measure it with my fingers, this does not have to be accurate and just starting round about here I'm just going to draw another oval shape roughly the same size. Remember you don't need to measure these, we're not doing an architectural drawing. Just drawing the chest area of the little lamb, just like that. I'm now going to add another oval shape or just part of an oval shape just starting here and just going upwards, curving round and just joining up with that oval shape over here. I'm going to be adding the nose, a little triangle shape like that, an eye there, an eye there and then the ears. So one up like this and the other one up. Now for the legs, so I'm going to be drawing like a tube shape just like this, coming down like that. Another one just coming downwards, about the same level as the other one and then upwards. Remember these are just rough shapes. Another one coming all the way down around the same level as this one and then a slight curve in this one and then coming in like so. Now for the lower half of the leg. I had the great privilege of going to my friend's farm yesterday and actually seeing the newborn lambs. Oh my goodness it's the most amazing experience, they were so cute and they were so well looked after. All the mothers seemed really happy with their babies and it was just such a lovely wonderful experience. I took my daughter, she absolutely loved it. We got to name some lambs as well. Okay I'm going in with pen now just so you can see it much easier on camera but please carry on in pencil. We're going to start off with these gorgeous big eyes. One eye here and then the other one just over here. So lambs can actually walk minutes after they're born but they still remain dependent on their mothers for another four to six months. Okay so just colour in the eyes leaving a little tiny glimmer of white at the top to show a reflection of the light. Add some eyelashes, there we go. Now for the nose, I'm actually going to bring it down a little bit, I did that one too high. So I'm just going to add the nostrils and just draw a line down the middle, very fine line, two coming around and there's my little face, certainly a very happy lamb. I'm just going to draw a couple of dots leading up there, a few around there. I'm going to do the top of the head now. I'm just using these little flicky lines just to show that it's fur and the same on this side. Just like that. I'm going to do a couple little dots coming down from the eyes and then coming around like so. All the way around and then downwards. A little bit of the neck. So another thing my friend explained to me yesterday was that each lamb and each sheep has their own unique kind of voice, their own unique bleat so they can recognise each other. So it's really important when they go and graze in the field, like we saw them grazing yesterday as well, and they could instantly recognise which one was their mother by the way that they caught them. So this ear goes a little bit higher. I'm just going to do the inside like the other one, just like that. Now we're going to come down and I'm just using little curved lines all the way down. I'm just going to do a little tuft of fur here. Lines coming around. Little brushes coming upwards. Some coming downwards. Another one coming down around here. The back. Some of the fur's a little bit longer here. I'm just going to show it. We'll come back to this leg now. So sheep are really intelligent with good memories and recognition skills and they make friends and they can display a large range of emotions. Very clever animals. Okay, come around. Little knee area and all the time I'm just using little dashes, nothing more, nothing more, nothing less. Oh I forgot to mention they've got excellent peripheral vision. Their large rectangular pupils allow them to see behind themselves so without even having to turn around. Quite a handy thing to have particularly when you're on the lookout for predators and things. So let's go upwards here. The other knee. Fluffy legs. Comes in like so. This one. The hind one. Comes around and inwards and then you can just see the other hind leg just poking out behind there. So if you haven't done it in pen, go over it in pen and then erase all the pencil lines. Now we're going to add some little curls of the fur or the wool. So I'm just adding like little curved lines just like this. Just here and there to make it look really fluffy. Particularly in the area of shadow we're going to add a few more. Particularly just down here. This is in shadow. And also just underneath here. The fur is less curly on this bit. I'm just using longer strokes and towards the inside part of the hind leg. And a few more little curly bits making them much shorter here. And then particularly underneath here. I'm doing all the areas in shadow. So a few more down here where there's shadow again. And on the other hind leg that you can't quite see in the background. So really it's just lots and lots of little dashes to be honest. Do you have any spring lambs near where you live? Let me know in the comment section below. They were ever so cute. I can't get over how lovely they were. Just came up to us and yeah tried to eat my jacket. Did make me giggle. Just coming down here. Okay now I'm going to draw some of the hay that it's rested on. Just kind of lots of long strokes like this. In lots of different directions. I'm just going over it once more just underneath the little lamb. Just so that it looks like it's in shadow. Making it a little bit darker. I don't want to confuse things too much. I don't want to make it look too busy underneath the lamb. And there we have our finished little lamb. I really hope you've enjoyed it. If you've enjoyed this one check out the whole playlist of baby animals. You're going to love them.