How To Draw A Tiger – 6 Ways (With Pictures)

If you want to learn how to draw a tiger, you’ve come to the right place!

In this tutorial, easydrawforkids.com shows you six ways to draw a tiger. 

How To Draw A Tiger – A Step By Step Guide

1. Realistic Tiger Drawing

Step 1: Start with a large oval to represent the tiger’s head and three smaller circle for the paw.

Step 2: In this step on guide how to draw a tiger, you will draw the outline of the body, following the basic oval shape you sketched in step 1.

Step 3: Now, you draw the front and hind legs, starting with simple cylindrical shapes and gradually refining them to capture the musculature and the curve of the paws.

Step 4: Next, you draw circle for the eyes, and nose with wide nostrils.

The mouth can be depicted as a curved line with a slight downward angle.

Then, add the ears to the top of the head, shaping them like semicircles.

Step 5: Add detail to the face to give the tiger a fierce expression.

Step 6: Draw the tail, starting from the base and gradually tapering it towards the tip.

Step 7: One of the most distinctive features of a tiger is its striped pattern. Using curved lines to follow the contours of the tiger’s body.

Step 8: Coloring realistic tiger drawing

2. Tiger Face Drawing

Step 1: Begin by lightly sketching the basic shapes that form the foundation of lion face drawing.

Step 2: Using light strokes to outline the shape of the tiger’s head

Step 3: Now, you sketching the ears, eyes, and nose of tiger.

Step 4: Next, you add fur details around the face

Step 5: And it’s time to laying down a base coat of orange over the entire tiger face.

Step 6: Use a darker orange or brown color to add shadows around the eyes, nose, and cheekbones.

Step 7: Outline the tiger’s distinctive stripes

Step 8: Use a lighter orange to add highlights along the bridge of the nose, above the eyes, and on the cheekbones.

Step 9: Finish by adding whiskers, darken the areas around the nose and mouth

3. Fat Tiger Drawing

Step 1: The first step on guide how to draw a tiger, you draw a large oval shape to represent the tiger’s body and head.

Step 2: Now, adding a tail and round ears for the fat tiger

Step 3: Next, extend four curved lines to form the legs, as shown in the picture.

Step 4: Draw two oval shape overlap each other to form the snout, then adding claws for your fat tiger

Step 5: It’s time to add details to the face and stripes

Step 6: Coloring fat tiger drawing

4. Sleeping Tiger Drawing

Step 1: At first, draw a large oval shape for the tiger’s head, then add two ears on the top of the head

Step 2: Now, you draw the front legs in front of the head

Step 3: Next, extend two straight lines for the tiger’s body and hind legs.

Step 4: Draw the tiger’s facial features, including the eyes, nose, and mouth.

Sketch the tiger’s tail by drawing a long, curving line starting from the back end of the body.

Step 5: Add the distinctive tiger stripes by drawing a series of curved, parallel lines across the body and legs.

Step 6: Color the tiger using a range of orange, brown, black, and white tones.

5. Easy Tiger Drawing

Step 1: Start by drawing a circle for the head, then draw the eyes, nose, and mouth inside the outline of the head.

Step 2: At the top of the head, draw two ears and draw an oval shape around the nose and mouth.

Step 3: Draw the torso below the head.

Step 4: Depict the legs and paws using traights and curved lines of different lengths.

Step 5: On the left side of the body draw a rounded line for the tail.

Step 6: Now, draw the stripes on the body of the tiger using triangle lines

Step 7: Your cartoon tiger is now complete! You can color it in or leave it as a line drawing.

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6. Cute Tiger Drawing

Step 1: The first step in guiding how to draw a tiger is to depict the head as a deformed oval shape. Then, draw the nose and eyes of a cute tiger.

Step 2: Now, draw the torso, mouth and ears for cute tiger, as shown in the picture.

Step 3: Draw three short lines on the sides of the muzzle for the mustache.

Draw the legs by drawing four small ovals beneath the body.

Step 4: Add two more leg using curved lines. Then, draw the tail by using a long curved line that starts at the back of the body.

Step 5: Draw the tiger’s stripes by drawing a series of curved lines across the face and body.

Step 6: To color the cute tiger, use dark and light orange and also black.

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Now you know how to draw a tiger, and there is one more animal in your collection of drawings.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson; why not draw a whole family of them?

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