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In this step by step tutorial, which is my first, i am showing how i draw anthro heads both for male and female, these are mostly for the canine species, and this can also transition into canine type heads for the actual animal, bu i will be going into various other body parts later down the road. I feel like i have seen a lot of beginners try to draw anthro heads, and i thought maybe i could throw this out there to kind of help them out.

For a reminder this can work on both tablet and paper, with paper you just need to draw very lightly and use your best friend the eraser just enough to still see your sketch lines. My tip i always provide to others is if you dont like how it looks, dont be afraid to erase it and start over again.

P.S: I apologize for spelling errors:

1.) First Draw a Circle, this is the basic shape your goign to begin with, and it dosent need to be perfect, even mine isnt all the perfect, but as long as it resembles a decent circle you should be pretty fine. Secondly your goign to add a cross onto it seperaiting it into 4 separate sections, and this is a sphere that we are working with technically so the lines should be straight at the end, but rather curving into the sides depending on the angle. It may be easier to understand if you were to draw straight lines across a baseball and use that as a reference if you need something physical to look at.

2.) This is going to be the mouth, and it is basically a cube of sorts. For the male i usually draw a more thicker and shorter mouth, and for females i draw them much longer and thinner. You should be able to draw some lines to box off the front of the mouth so you get an idea of depth so its not just a flat box.

3.) Here is where i add on the ears and sideburns. There are many difrent ways to draw eays and you dont really need to show the fleshy parts of the ears that connect to head, but ears do come from the upper back of the hear and then proceed forward, so make sure you dont draw them directly from the sides like human ears. Sideburns can also be drawn diffrenty, some people dont even add them to their characters. I often switch between them being brushed up or down, or in diffrent angles depending on the perspective of the character in your drawing.

4.) For the fourth part i draw the neck, and sometiems a bit of the shoulder area to get an idea of where to place the collar bones. Technically the neck area is divided into 4 parts, front sides and back, and it is curved, never completely straight. This might come with more practice as to how to move the neck around, but it should be able to be picked up with some ease, since there isnt as much detail in the neck as there is in the rest of the face.

5.) This extra cross like area with an x above the head is showing where you will separate the face for the eyes and hair line. The line going horizontally is usually somewhere in between the bottom or mid bottom of the ears. The vertical lines represent the nose bridge , and for the male eyes it starts at the beginning of that line, females usually can go past it slightly to make larger eyelashes.

6.) for this step i have drawn some more detail of everything before the final line work. This is whats know as the sketch, where everything below is known as the skeleton. As for the finishing details i added a few more minor details, and some really sloppy coloring.

I really hope this can help anyone interested in drawing some anthro heads, and if this how to helped you, feel free to post in the comments below what you were able to come up with, i hope to see all the people i have helped new or old artists alike.

Description
In this step by step tutorial, which is my first, i am showing how i draw anthro heads both for male and female, these are mostly for the canine species, and this can also transition into canine type heads for the actual animal, bu i will be going into various other body parts later down the road. I feel like i have seen a lot of beginners try to draw anthro heads, and i thought maybe i could throw this out there to kind of help them out.

For a reminder this can work on both tablet and paper, with paper you just need to draw very lightly and use your best friend the eraser just enough to still see your sketch lines. My tip i always provide to others is if you dont like how it looks, dont be afraid to erase it and start over again.

P.S: I apologize for spelling errors:

1.) First Draw a Circle, this is the basic shape your goign to begin with, and it dosent need to be perfect, even mine isnt all the perfect, but as long as it resembles a decent circle you should be pretty fine. Secondly your goign to add a cross onto it seperaiting it into 4 separate sections, and this is a sphere that we are working with technically so the lines should be straight at the end, but rather curving into the sides depending on the angle. It may be easier to understand if you were to draw straight lines across a baseball and use that as a reference if you need something physical to look at.

2.) This is going to be the mouth, and it is basically a cube of sorts. For the male i usually draw a more thicker and shorter mouth, and for females i draw them much longer and thinner. You should be able to draw some lines to box off the front of the mouth so you get an idea of depth so its not just a flat box.

3.) Here is where i add on the ears and sideburns. There are many difrent ways to draw eays and you dont really need to show the fleshy parts of the ears that connect to head, but ears do come from the upper back of the hear and then proceed forward, so make sure you dont draw them directly from the sides like human ears. Sideburns can also be drawn diffrenty, some people dont even add them to their characters. I often switch between them being brushed up or down, or in diffrent angles depending on the perspective of the character in your drawing.

4.) For the fourth part i draw the neck, and sometiems a bit of the shoulder area to get an idea of where to place the collar bones. Technically the neck area is divided into 4 parts, front sides and back, and it is curved, never completely straight. This might come with more practice as to how to move the neck around, but it should be able to be picked up with some ease, since there isnt as much detail in the neck as there is in the rest of the face.

5.) This extra cross like area with an x above the head is showing where you will separate the face for the eyes and hair line. The line going horizontally is usually somewhere in between the bottom or mid bottom of the ears. The vertical lines represent the nose bridge , and for the male eyes it starts at the beginning of that line, females usually can go past it slightly to make larger eyelashes.

6.) for this step i have drawn some more detail of everything before the final line work. This is whats know as the sketch, where everything below is known as the skeleton. As for the finishing details i added a few more minor details, and some really sloppy coloring.

I really hope this can help anyone interested in drawing some anthro heads, and if this how to helped you, feel free to post in the comments below what you were able to come up with, i hope to see all the people i have helped new or old artists alike.