How to Draw a Reindeer
I am glad to welcome you to a new drawing lesson in which you will learn how to draw a reindeer. This tutorial consists of nine simple steps.
The step-by-step drawing lesson on how to draw a reindeer will surely be useful to you. Draw as often as possible using the step-by-step instructions to develop your artistic skills. I have created these instructions to make it easy for any beginner artist or child to draw a reindeer. As a result, you will have a very cute reindeer drawing.
The reindeer are mammals. Reindeer are often seen as a symbol of Christmas because we are used to seeing these animals as Santa Claus’ helpers who carry him around in a magical sleigh.
You will start this tutorial by drawing an outline of the body of this animal and then adding a very important part of its body, the horns. So you can start drawing the reindeer.
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 20 minutes
How to Draw a Reindeer
- Draw the outline of the head and torso.
Depict the head as a circle and the torso as a freeform figure, using a curved line.
- Add the front of the head, the neck, and the tail.
Connect the head and torso with curved lines, add part of the head and the pointed tail.
- Draw the facial features.
Paint the reindeer’s nose, eye, and mouth with circles and a curved line.
- Depict the reindeer’s ears.
On the animal’s head, draw two identical pointed ears with curved lines.
- Add the horns.
On the reindeer’s head, add two identical curved horns.
- Draw the paws.
Outline two identical paws of the reindeer with straight lines.
- Add the second pair of paws.
Draw these paws at the back part of the reindeer’s torso with straight lines.
- Erase the auxiliary lines.
Use an eraser to remove unnecessary lines from the drawing.
- Color in the drawing.
To color this reindeer you should use black and shades of brown.
So you have drawn a wonderful reindeer step by step. You can now download the PDF file I prepared for you. This file contains a short version of this lesson and some additional useful materials that you can use anytime.
