Draw a Grasshopper
Grasshoppers use their color to hide in the green grass, leaping around to get food and escape predators. Here's a tutorial on how to draw this simple yet fascinating creature.
Steps
- Draw the basic shapes of your grasshopper. These will serve as the guidelines for your drawing. You should end up with two overlapping circles to the right of a peapod-like shape, which will serve as the grasshopper's lower body.
- Draw shapes for the upper legs and angled lines for the lower legs/antennae. The back legs are so defined at the top because of all the jumping around that grasshoppers do, and they're quite a bit longer in total length than the front legs.
- Fine tune the lines and remove the guidelines that you made before. Then add more details to your drawing, like the pattern on the grasshopper's stomach and its eyes.
- You're done! You can color your grasshopper if you want, or add highlights/shadows, but they're not really necessary unless your drawing is for a science project or something significant.
- Finished.
Tips
- Draw lightly in pencil so that you can easily rub out mistakes.
- Do the lines very faint, so if you make a mistake, you can erase it easily, and then darken later.
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