How to draw a Mountain Lion

What we will be drawing

Welcome, and thanks for checking out the how to draw a mountain lion tutorial. As always, take your time on perfecting the underdrawing before you start inking and have fun.

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Let’s start with an oval and build from there.

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You’ll notice our underdrawing isn’t perfect before we started to outline. As long as our basic shapes are correct we can add details later when we are inking our drawing.

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Ok, let’s lay down a flat brown over the entire background.

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Some soft darks around the legs tail and face give that classic mountain lion look.

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We like to use a technique where you make obvious brush strokes, then smooth them out. It gives the illusion of fur.

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🎉 Finished Drawing 🎉

We hope you enjoyed the tutorial, let us know if you want more big cats like this one. 🐯