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You can use the first method, and draw the lion's teeth and claws exposed. Step 6 Form the swaying thick mane and give the facial features as shown. Most importantly, you have to practice.

Afterwards draw in the second front and back leg on the “far side” of the lion. This step by step tutorial shows how to draw the full body of a lion from the side view with illustrated drawing examples for each step.Please note that the drawing also shows a “no mane” version of the lion which can be applied to drawing a lioness or a younger lion.If you are going to be following the tutorial using pencil and paper be sure to draw light lines that you can easily erase for at least the first five steps of the tutorial.Start the drawing of the lion by first outlining the basic shape of it’s body and head. All rights reserved. You also acknowledge that owing to the limited nature of communication possible on interactive elements on the site, any assistance, or response you receive is provided by the author alone.
Their necks are strong and their shoulder blades are often visible without the mane covering it. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This may be harder to do in a smaller drawing so if you find that to be the case just draw the whiskers with the same thickness throughout.Also try and give the whiskers slightly different curves and vary their length to make them look more natural.A lion can be a fairly challenging animal to draw especially so if you want to draw the entire body. You will need a pencil, pen, an eraser and paper. You can do this by using mainly straight lines with a few basic curves around the joints and two larger curves to indicate the upper front areas of the paws.Draw the ears going through the middle of the top curve of the head angled slightly towards the snout. Try and draw the clumps with slightly different curves and twists but at the same time try and respect the general direction of the hair as described above.Once you are done with the mane you can add some hair along the belly area. This image is not<\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. It depends on your artistic skill.