Drawing a Raccoon by Andrew Wales
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1. Sketch the basic shapes. (Draw lightly in pencil first, then use a fine-point marker or black pen.) The animal has a face like a fox with a sharp, delicate nose. Its legs are long. Its claws are strong.
2. It has a stocky body covered with long, coarse gray hair with black tips. Go around the edges with a pen to create a fur-like texture.
3. Sketch the outline of the raccoon’s “mask” around the eyes. There is white hair around the black patch which is around each eye.
4. Continue working on the face. Make a dark band between the eyes, running down to the shiny black nose. Also fill in darker hairs inside the ears. Allow your lines to cross each other. This is called cross-hatching. Add whiskers to the sides of the face. Make black curved lines around the eyes, defining the eyelids. The hairs on the side of the snout are shorter. There are not as many of them, and they are left white. Keep the white band across the face above the eyes.
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5. To work on the tail, make dark bands first, then fill in with lighter bands.
6. Finish by referring to the above illustration. You can add color to the background or leave it white.
Send a copy of your completed raccoon picture to us at Fun For Kidz, Box 227, Bluffton, OH 45817. You might see it published in a future issue. Be sure to include your name, address, age, and a photo of yourself, if you have one.
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