Drawing Snakes and Lizards - How to Draw Reptiles For the Beginner

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Play around with color combinations for your lizard drawing. This means that you can add different colors to different features, as long as you keep the choices consistent for different features. This is your drawing, and you should make it look as you want it to. What kinds of markings would you like to add to this cute lizard?

For this step, we are going to create a pattern on the body. This can be any pattern you want with full artistic freedom. You could even skip this step and go straight to adding color. There are most than 5,500 species of lizardsscattered across every continent except Antarctica. Lizards have scales, are cold blooded, and live in a variety of environments, from rivers to trees, and from tropics to deserts. The lizard’s body stays very low to the ground almost all the time. With Luna, I have noticed that this only changes when she is out of her tank running around the house. Otherwise, she stays super close to the ground. There are many ways to create an easy lizard drawing, however, in this tutorial, we will be working specifically with colored pencils and a ballpoint pen. We will want to make sure we have an HB pencil for the early stages of drawing, and we will then proceed to work with colored pencils and a ballpoint pen in the later stages. We will also want to make sure that we have an eraser and sharpener to minimize any silly mistakes along the way. It’s also important to take note of the species of lizards that have the ability to change colors, such as the chameleons and the anoles.

Eye Drawing Ideas: Get the guide to drawing and painting the eyes–an important aspect of every portrait. Mastering the art of drawing lizards can seem daunting, but with enough practice and observation, even beginner artists can draw these magnificent creatures. With the base shape and tail complete, it's time to sketch the legs and face details on the head. Sketch the Legs of your Lizard The process of drawing patterns into a lizard is really fun because there are so many different types of lizard species with different types of patterns and colorations. This allows you to add patterns as you would please and create your own pattern. You can often play around with adding stripes, spots, blobs, and other shapes. However, the most important thing to remember when creating a realistic lizard drawing is that you want to keep consistency in color and three-dimensional flow. This means you want to make sure that features within the patterns and throughout the lizard drawing are consistently the same. You also want to make sure that patterns flow along the three-dimensional flow of the lizard, wrapping around the creature in certain areas. When adding patterns to the lizard drawing, consider the three-dimensionality of the lizard’s structure and consistency within coloration.

So, the one you often see wandering around the walls of your house is just one of the many species of lizards. You can learn how to draw a lizard with our easy step-by-step instructions. It’s simple, fun, and stress-free. The key to learning to draw a lizard is separating it into parts. The head, legs, and tail are easy once you learn how to draw each individually. The lizard takes a long time at first, but once you get the hang of “drawing in stages,” these reptiles become easier and more fun.We can also add another eye on the more visible side of the lizard. This eye can be drawn as a leaf shape, with some circular line work around it to indicate its bulging form. Allow yourself to explore variations of a single color to give it more depth. For instance, you can blend pinks and purples in the stripes to give the stripes a richer coloration. Make sure you go through your lizard again, tweaking any little details as you feel necessary. As long as you keep consistency throughout the lizard drawing, you should have a realistic lizard drawing as a result. Lastly, draw a curved line underneath the roof of the lizard’s mouth. This creates an illusion of the tongue, making it look like the lizard’s mouth is wide open.