Pencil drawing of a walking badger with four overlapping short legs, bold facial stripes and broad light coat planes on pale textured sketchbook paper.

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A walking badger

A study of a walking badger with four overlapping short legs, bold facial stripes and broad light coat planes on pale textured sketchbook paper. Draw a low body mass and a wedge-shaped head.

Animals Medium Pencil30 min, at your pace

A way into the drawing

Establish the main forms
Draw a low body mass and a wedge-shaped head.
Build the structure
Place the near legs before the partly hidden far legs, keeping the back nearly level.
Develop selected details
Map the two face stripes and shade the belly, paws and grouped coat edges.

A small thing to tryKeep the legs short relative to the broad torso.