How To Draw A Chameleon

Easy How to Draw a Chameleon Tutorial and Chameleon Coloring Page

How do yous draw a chameleon with all his intricate parts and rainbow coloring? Well, if y'all are simply starting out, this simple pace by step version might work best.

Chameleon Drawing

A drawing of a Chameleon, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Chameleons are fascinating lizards that can change the color of their skins for camouflage, or to signal their mood to other chameleons. Well-nigh adopt to live in warm places that vary from the desert to the rain forest. Their long, sticky tongues can fire out in a fraction of a 2nd!

This fun and easy chameleon tutorial works groovy for younger uncomplicated students, peculiarly those that are just learning how to describe. The simple shapes and bright colors are perfect for their abilities and imagination.

Working with Drawing Guides

The best way to get students off to a good offset to any cartoon projection is to show them how to use guides as a reference point.

You lot may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site accept middle guides that are showing as both a vertical line and a horizontal line. If students make lines like those on theirown paper, before drawing, they will accept some actress help in seeing where to brainstorm.

For case, as seen in Footstep 1 below, the chameleon'south head is sitting just to the right of the vertical line, just above the horizontal one. The trunk and so lines up to the left of the head.

Drawing skills are all about getting the right size and placement, so having some visual reference signal to get started, volition ever assistance anyone learn how to be a little more than accurate.

And so does that hateful students demand to use their pencil to draw large fat lines down the center of their newspaper before they start? Goodness no, please don't! That will most likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished fine art. No, only fold the newspaper in half both ways, make a pucker, and unfold. The dazzler is that by the time the drawing is done and colored in, the creases volition disappear.

And now, on to the chameleon drawing projection.

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Preview of the Step by Step Chameleon Tutorial

Chameleon Coloring Page

Materials for a Chameleon Drawing

Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much improve task than just the pencil tips.

Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent mark pens make nice black outlines, have a adept tip for coloring, and never bleed when they go wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.

Prang Crayons. These are a scrap softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also accept a some prissy dark-brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.

Crayola Crayons. The reliable make that e'er works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellowish colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.