Drawing Animal 4: Hedgehog

Happy autumn, my dear beginner artist 🍂🍁

May you and your family have a cozy and happy autumn. Welcome back to the forth drawing animal tutorial. In today’s beginner drawing practice, we will create this cute hedgehog 🦔

Please remember that this drawing animal series belongs to the Drawing Level 3 designed for absolute beginner artists. If you are about to start your own art journey from scratch, this Blog may help you. You can access exercises of previous drawing levels through Blog Navigation. There are plenty of beginner-friendly tutorials and tips are waiting for you to explore☺️

Now let’s spend a minute to look at our reference photo and figure out the overall shape of this hedgehog.

Source: Pinterest

Are you ready to simplify this photo and draw with me? Grab your pencil and sketch 😘

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Step 4: Coloring

You can color your hedgehog based on the above example or, more interestingly, apply your own color palette 🎨🎉

Playing with colors is a great practice for beginner artists to find their unique art style. I have created some printable coloring sheets for absolute beginner artists to practice, you can find them in my Ko-fi shop at the link

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Last but not least, If you want to practice art skills through watching YouTube videos, you are welcome to draw with me through a number of sketching videos and timelapse drawing clips.

Thank you a million for joining me in this week’s practice. I hope you are happy with your own hedgehog 😘. See you in the next drawing animal exercise.

Happy drawing 🧡