How To Draw A Garter Snake

Here folks, Terry and Josh,

snake

, yeah, let's

draw

a

garter

snake

. We hope you follow it. In fact, we have seen one of these in our garden. Yeah, it was really cool. Look what we found, where a little Jack came out. nowhere little snakes looked like it was in the grass you need your

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ing supplies and we are using markers but you can use whatever you have at home or in the classroom you also need some paper and something to go with it yes you are ready to start Yes , because we are using markers to draw and color, we also use marker paper to draw, but if you are using regular colored pencils or something else, you can use regular paper.

Yeah, first let's start by drawing the head of our snake and I'm going to draw here, we're going to draw a little flat line like this, just a diagonal flat line, yeah, and then we're going to draw the shape of the head coming out of that flat line. and then we're going to curve right at the end and we're going to try to match that same shape here for the other side of the head for a simple way to draw a little snake head, then we're going to draw two lines coming out, what do you do ?

I think this is for the tongue, yeah the tongue and snakes have little divisions on the tongue so let's draw a little V to connect the end of the tongue yeah okay now let's draw the eyes let's just let's draw a little oval here and a little oval here now for the really fun part, we're going to draw the body and we're going to draw curves, so first let's start here, we're going to draw curves like this and you can actually change your snake to let it curve any way you want, you don't have to do it exactly like we do, so I'm going to curve it down and maybe stop there for now, I don't want to go too far because we need to do that too. draw the other side of the body, yeah, we don't want to overlap too much, so let's start here and then we'll try to match the same curve and keep the same distance all the way around.

Oh, this is a pretty thick league. snake here we go, I'm going to stop right when I get here because we only draw part of the snake that way, we can come over here now and we can turn around and look at this, we can get closer to this side of the body, so I'll stop here and then it will spread out or it will continue to the other side, so go back and grab the other side to where it actually stops. Yes, okay, let's continue. I'm going to make another one, let's see how. I'm going to get closer here and then I'll come out like this and then maybe we'll stop like this oh you're doing such a good job okay now let's come back here and we'll continue down the other side and because now we're drawing the tail we want to start getting closer to the other side until we're really close and finally at the point at the end yeah, we did it, there's our snake, which is a pretty easy way to draw a cool snake, yeah. and our friends better be able to memorize those steps so that they can draw many snakes.

You could even add another one right next to this one. We finished using our black marker. Let's choose the colors for our snake. Next, we will use our art for children. Cube markers, if you have the same set, the colors we are using are 26 yellow, this one is really light yellow, also 11 red and cg9, which is a very dark cool gray, yes, and don't worry if you don't have these exact ones . colors, you can use other art supplies, something completely different, like colored pencils, so first let's start with our light yellow, this is number 26. In fact, I'm going to use the Chisel Edge, we're going to completely surround our snake just through the middle.

In this part we could speed up or if we go too fast during any part of the lesson, you can always pause the video. Next, let's use the same color and we'll add another stripe right along the side of the body and because this is a clear marker, if you get too close to the black marker it could smear the black or bleed so I try to be very careful to Don't go too far over the black line to capture that color when you get to the tail. In fact, I'm going to stop so we have because we're going to get too close to the middle and it's going to look yellow, and then I'm going to go back to where the head starts and I'm going to draw. another stripe on the other side of the body and then I'm also adding yellow to the side of the head, we go through the eye and we'll do it on both sides, oh and we can also do it a little bit on the front of the head and on the other side of the head now the type of snake that we are drawing or coloring we are going to add little red stripes all along the side between the yellow stripes, so I'm going to Start here on the side of the neck and I'm going to add it right here and we're just going to add a little stripe like this.

We can go back and forth and make it look natural and then follow the shape of the body going all around. Up to the tail there are different types of snakes and some are brown, others look a little blacker and some don't have such a strong red texture and some have a lot of red, yes, and I even looked I got up and saw that there is a California snake and it's like a very bright blue and red and it's a very fun snake to draw or color. It would be great to do this lesson again and do that one, let's speed things up. and we'll finish the stripes on both sides of our snake now we're ready to switch to our dark gray this is cg9 and we're going to color the rest of our snake so let's color in between the yellow stripes and also the little red dots and let's move on quickly again, so remember to pause the video and take that extra time to color your snakes the way we're coloring, it's actually very complicated and I'm realizing that if you want to color, let's try something a little different, you want to color all your snake solidly with this dark gray and then we'll use colored pencils to color on top and add those stripes again.

Do you want to try that? Yeah, okay, that was a lot easier, uh, yeah, okay, now let's add the little stripe again. You can use a white prismacolor pencil and start here like we did with the yellow and you can add this again right in the middle of your snake all the way down. to the tail, oh, let's sharpen it first. I think I'm also going to simplify my snake by coloring the side stripe so that there is only one yellow stripe right on the back, that's the part you really want to see, it's the only stripe that goes. all the way to the end of the snake, this looks great too, but I think I just want to change it to make it a little bit easier and simpler to make, oh yeah, now it looks a lot more like a

garter

snake.

Yours too Austin, you are doing a Great job, carry on, you can also use a red colored pencil to add back the red stripes. It won't be as bright as mine, but that's okay, it still looks great and you can also use that red pencil for the tongue while you're adding those red stripes again. I'm going to use my CG1 to add a little shadow underneath our snake to make it look more 3D and I'm just going to draw on the bottom side of the snake so it goes up here and then we'll thin it out a little bit here and then I'll add one more shadow thick up here, so just on one side of the snake this will make it look like it's on top of my paper.

I'm going to add a little curve here and then we're going to color this to add that shadow here at the bottom, so we colored it on our garter snake and yours turned out great. Thank you. I especially love that you colored. yours differently our friends might do the same. I think it was a little easier to color the entire snake solidly and then add the stripe afterwards. Yes, and you could also change your snake any way you want. You could color it completely different. I think if you want to draw a snake, the most important part is to place that little white or yellow stripe down the middle of your snake from head to tail.

Yes, you can also add what you would add for your background: lots of grass. Yeah, these like to hang out on the grass in our backyard and you could also add rocks, you could also add maybe sticks and some other interesting things that you would find in the ground. Yes, we will be very funny drawing a snake, we do it. I hope you had a lot of fun and see you later, goodbye friends.