Draw an Octopus
This tutorial will show you some techniques in drawing both a realistic and a cartoon octopus. Let's begin!
Steps
A Realistic Octopus
- Sketch the basic shapes of the octopus
- Sketch the wireframe for the tentacles. each tentacle should connect to one point on the star shape.
- Sketch a circle for each point of the star shape. The circle will determine the thickness of the tentacle.
- Sketch the shapes for the tentacles using octopus pictures as references.
- Sketch additional details for the suckers and the eyes.
- Refine the sketch using a smaller tipped drawing tool.
- Draw the outline over the sketch.
- Erase and remove the sketch marks.
- Add color.
A Cartoon Octopus
- Sketch a Circle to be the octopus' head.
- Sketch circles for the tentacles.
- Sketch the tentacles and additional details (suckers, cartoon eyes and mouth).
- Refine the sketch using a smaller tipped drawing tool.
- Draw the outline over the sketch.
- Erase and remove the sketch marks.
- Add color.
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