Drawing Animals - Lions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Aaron is about to release his first set of video tutorials from his "How To Draw Animals" series. This first set will be on How To Draw Big Cats. Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Cheetahs, and Cougars will be covered. Here is the first video from the set. Enjoy!
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Aaron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist.
For 21 years Aaron worked with Disney helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan" and more.
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Aaron: *breathes*
Everyone : *claps and likes*
Hehe I love u, ur my idol!!
Absolutely riveting.
I’m literally in tears. I have been stunted in my artistic abilities that I thought I lost them years ago after taking on a corporate work life. Being out of one since Dec and using this video as guidance, I can’t believe how good I am. Thank you, Aaron!
I love animation since I was a kid.
I started to love drawing way before that.
You made me fall in love with digital painting years ago.
You even make me wanna buy a Cintiq from Wacom now, which I'm gonna do later this month.
Now I'm in Emile Cohl art school, in France, and I dream to become as skilled as you are.
I want to say : Thank you, for helping that dream to fulfill.
A L hey I’m thinking about going into art, how has pursuing your dream going?
It’s a miracle that a genius like you posts videos for free on TH-cam. Thank you very much!!
You are an absolute godsend. So incredibly talented and generous with respect to sharing your talent with the world. Thanks! On another note, with respect to watching videos of cats....If watching videos of cats on TH-cam, you can go into settings and change the speed to .50 or .25. This give you a nice slow motion perspective.
So that's why Simba's mane is a greatly different shade than Mufasa's.
Indeed, the shade of a lion's mane greatly depends on the physical health and condition of the lion.
Darker manes are a sign of good health and higher testosterone levels, and are also a sign of a lion's age. Usually the darker the mane the older the lion.
The reason Simba had a vastly lighter mane is because he's younger than Mufasa, and he's been eating nothing but bugs for roughly six years. So he had malnutrition.
I absolutely love watching you draw while you explain. I'm learning so much!
every dollar I spend on your tutorials and brush sets is all worth it, as the knowledge you continue to share at such low costs is simply priceless to the art community.
thank you for all that you give us Aaron, you're an amazing human being.
its so incredible how you have so much experience on drawing animals and
how you're so used to drawing them that you do a sketch of one in what
it feels like seconds! its amazing seeing someone have that skill and i
love it!
I love this video :) and truly appreciate the time you've taken to impart your knowledge onto us.
I love the Aaron's scientific/anatomic but everyday and simple at the same time language, it make for much, really more easy to understand the anatomy...
I don't can before learn it because I not tryed to see it at that angle.. Thanks you so very very much Aaron!
We love youuuu
(even a young child could learn to do great things with anatomy by watching these videos
He it's funny
Mr. Blaise, I would like to say personally how thankful I am for these videos. I purchased the whole series of your lessons on drawing Big Cats, and I must say that these are incredibly helpful. I've looked a good while for an excuse to branch away from the dinosaurs and dragons I usually draw, and after learning about your channel and website... I cannot begin to express the joy I get from learning about drawing these creatures, as well as your tutorials regarding techniques on light and shadow and more (some subjects like light and shadow are quite difficult for me, and i've only recently begun using them to a greater degree). So, again, thank you so very much for creating these videos.
Aaron. I have always wanted to draw realistic lions! I never knew making out the skin of the lion while referencing the skull was helpful. This was amazing. Thank you so much!
Incredibly beautiful. . I am lost for the words that your art makes me feel. You are truly blessed
Wow11 So much to learn, but you definitely illustrated the need to know the structure to understand the details that make the drawing look real. Thank you. Can't wait to see the rest of your series.
Thank you very much Mr. Blaise for taking the time to create these for all of us. I've learned a lot from you and greatly appreciate all that you've done for us younger artists. Your tutorials and brushes have been very helpful in improving my own work and watching you paint has been a great inspiration of me. Keep up the great work!
Seriously though, I learned a lot from this short part with promise of so much more to come and I'm very much looking forward to throwing my money at you. I'm really just wondering, is there a particular reason why you won't cover snow leopards? I think their anatomical structure, especially in the face, is so very different from African leopards and yet they get lumped in with them too often or just forgotten entirely. I may be biased since they're my favorite subject to draw but still, show snow leopards some love! :)
Thank you. As far as snow leopards go I simply haven't drawn them enough to do a tutorial on them. I'll work on it.
+The Art of Aaron Blaise how bout them snow leopards now?
The Art of Aaron Blaise And now?
And now?
And now?
Thanks for this tutorial ^^ !
I love your drawing and now I’m going to drawing many lions with this tutorials because it’s one of my favorite animals !
Thank you, great series of tutorials. Hope to buy full membership in the future.
He's the nicest person on earth
I love the tip with watching videos! Definitely will use that way of referencing more :)
Watched the whole video. Really like your style, subbed.
Excellent!!! Thank you for sharing; this really gave me an idea of how the rest of the course is going to go! Releasing the first of the video series is one way to get me to buy the whole thing.......*runs to Aaron's website to make the purchase
Great teaching aid - the computer and you - I love this lesson - as I am currently into painting the big cats now and of course every good painting starts with a great drawing underneath as in sculpture, etc. where you are drawing with the clay. Great video! Guzentiedt.
Your design is beautiful, and bravo for technical!!!!
I have spent all day atudying and drawing your How To Draw Elephants pdf, so stoked about this one! Definitely going to do that with this video as well and buying it when the entire series comes out! Also absolutely can't wait for the character design one! Thanks for all your hard work Aaron
Ahhh! This is fantastic!! Thank you so much! It’s a long video and I was enjoying it the entire time. I learned a lot and can’t wait to see what by paper has to offer in a few months, won’t be as good as yours but I hope to make the video proud!!
genius! .. Seeing you working made me want to start drawing lions too!
AWESOME! I can't stop watching this video! AWESOME! I've been looking for some sources about lions and how to draw them, and there you go! What I like the most is the explanations on how different are lions, what to pay attention to when studying them. There are books on different aspects about lions - anatomy reference books, sketching/cartooning, etc. But this video for me personally puts them all together.
Man, what a fantastic video. I have now a much better understanding of the structure of a lion's head. Funny really, how everyone can immediately picture a lion, but when you want to draw it, you can't analyse for yourself what makes a lion a 'lion'. I for one always had trouble with getting the eyes right, as wel as the dark part of the lower lip and the mane. Knowing how the muzzle is structured really helps me out here. This set of video's is a definite must-buy for me, and I can't wait until the video's on tigers and cheetas are aveilable (my favourite big cats). Thank you so much, Aaron for sharing such gold with us!
Watching this video showed how little i actually know about drawing lions lol. But it helped a lot! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Keep it up!
Beautiful art! unbelievable
"lions, tigers," bears? "leopards," damn it, "cheetahs, and courgers..."
TheRexRider Lol I did the same thing lol
Lions and tigers and... leopards??
This isn’t the Wizard Of Oz I once knew
Where are the Jaguars
This is going to be so helpful! Thankyou so much!
This was brilliant, I am learning a lot! You're awesome! :)
that's such a fantastic and comprehensive lesson. Thank you
You are a terrific teacher. I just love your work. I really learn a lot from you and my art work is improving. I am so looking forward to your new courses on drawing animals, I too love to draw animals, especially horses and cats.(big and small) and nature. Just watching this little preview on drawing lions helped me greatly. It helped me figure out what I was missing. Thank you soooo much for sharing you expertise.
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Congrats on reaching the bottom of this! You must have a lot of patience!
Ngl I did loose my place a bit but was able to find it again, and it came out great for my first time drawing a lion. Thanks for the help!
wow just looked at About Aaron Blaise section of this video, Brother Bear is my all time favourite disney movie, and so excited to see more videos from this channel! After watching the first 10 minutes of this video I've learned so much! Definitely subscribing!
You are the greatest artist of our time
THIS IS AMAZING!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)
So informative yet simple enough to not get lost! I thank you :)
You earned a sub! I have never been able to find these kinds of videos! Thx!
So much anatomy at once! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!!!
Can't wait!
Amazing
:D awesome! I feel like this is going to be a great series!
I learned so much! If you make more of these videos I would watch them all! :D
This is an excerpt form my full class on "Drawing Big Cats" which is available here: creatureartteacher.com/product-category/tutorials-lessons/how-to-draw-downloads/?orderby=popularity
The Art of Aaron Blaise-thanks I’ll check it out
Wonderful and fantastic video :)
amazing! Thanks for posting this video
Awesome tutorial!
Hi Aaron, excellent stuff, thanks for your videos. Would love if you could explain the measures and proportions of the various parts while you're placing them. Thanks for your work :)
awesome stuff
You sir, are amazing.
this was satisfying to watch
Wowthis tutorial is really amazing i just started drawing lions and was all over the place but this tutorial made it all clear great work 👏 👍
Awesome class! Thank you! :)))
You have inspired me to paint more frequently on Photoshop and now my skill level has sky rocketed thanks to me observing how you paint and trying to recreate your brushes with my own style.
I just want to ask, how did you learn to draw and paint animals and creatures? Did you just start off by drawing things free hand with only a photo reference? Did you have to learn all about a specific animal and observe it in depth? Or did you start off learning by tracing them which then developed into memory?
Thing is that I need to roughly trace the animals shape and positioning of certain parts of their body in order to start off with the painting. From there on I start free hand painting with only the trace to guide me and the photo beside me to get an idea of what colours to use and how light is hitting the object or animal.
Is that a good way of learning and developing my drawings and paintings? Or will that only lead me to never being able to draw things free hand?
That is... Not one question, but I hope you can tell me a bit about the learning process of getting shapes and stuff like that in place so that I begin drawing and painting free hand. And thank you for your videos, really inspirational!
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Aaron , you are a great artist , I lean so much from your generous demos , and I wonder, if these are just free demos on TH-cam, How would be the Paid ones ...
I am going to get a Wacom intuos pro soon and with all these tips on drawing digital is really going to help me
Keep up the good work!
That's great! But keep in mind that with this series it doesn't matter if you're working digitally or not. I'm only working digitally here for the ease of recording and speed.
I really enjoy watching your tutorials. It's almost like watching magic unfold, which I'm sure sounds rather corny, but it's true nonetheless. I have to say, I'm very seriously debating buying some of this. I would really like to see you work on canines though.
very nicely done. Which tablet do you use? looks like you have a lot of precision.
Hi Aaron!
Excellent tutorial vid! Very interesting facts about lions' structure and tips are completely functional. I'll widely consider use videos for reference next time (I think it's when there's no chance to do it live, which is preferred, right?).
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!
Have a good one!
This was sooo helpful!!! Thank you so much for this clip of your lessons!!!! I hope to be able to buy this course in the near future!!!!!! XDDD
I learned so much, love to draw animals and that's helped a lot to understand anatomy... I was wondering if you are gonna do something similar for Bears :D
Do the complete tutorials have anything on how to take this knowledge and use to create more ''cartoonish'' characters? Also, do you talk anything about animation and how each animal moves and acts? I'm thinking on buying them when they come out, but would like to know this before.
Sorry for my bad english, and thanks once again for incredible contribution to the art education. I learn a lot from these videos! :)
Diogo simoes I do cover locomotion. As far as character design goes, my next set of videos will be a course on character design. Animal character design will be included in that set.
That's amazing thank you sooo much. I'm a big fan of your art!
Thank you, +The Art of Aaron Blaise!!! If you knew how much this will help me. I draw dragons but I take a lot of cat anatomy and especially my character Athello has wolf based head, but a leopard like body and I have so hard to draw him in perspective and poses!
A big thank you! :'D
just bought the brush pack for $5.00 and my sketches just jumped to a whole new level! everyone's gotta try the pastel brush
Great art .
Thank you very much Aaron, this is really informative and helpfull. I'll spread the word about your videos and how awesome you are ;3
hey Aaron thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I was wondering how you started sketching your thumbnails, on the commission with the 2 lions which you painted for a friend.
Did you first started to draw the action line... and then the skeleton of the lions till you got to draw details(skin,hair).Or do you draw right away with out using the skull as a support?
sorry my english is really bad,i hope does not bother you:)
hi Aaron, thank you very much for such informative amazing videos. I was wondering if after purchasing the Big cats course are the videos limited in being viewed for only a couple months or are they available to the buyer whenever they want?
can you tell me where I can see images of cats in attack mode? as they...pounce, as this is how I want to depict them in dynamic poses, this could either be still images or slow motion filming
I have a question, Sir. Will you ever do how to draw and shade wolves? I can hardly ever find those. Also Sir, do know anyone that does those kinds of videos? Thank you so much!
You are an Amazing artist ( which I'm sure you know ) GOD has truly blessed you!
I have an entire course on how to draw wolves here: creatureartteacher.com/product/how-to-draw-wolves-coyotes-foxes/
There is a nearly 2 hour sneak peek of it here: th-cam.com/video/lGRVM-ZSSts/w-d-xo.html
Really interesting your emphasis on video for still paintings or drawings. I know Disney, in the beginnings, stressed video in their works. They filmed dogs, cats, deer, everything ,in order to better understand the forms, movements and so ons of the animals.
I think Don Bluth put emphasis on that too, when he was starting out, as many studios, including Disney, didn't continue to do that during the 70's or so (They were looking at, or recycling, animation they had done on previous films). Some element of basis in reality is needed in art or animation, no matter the exaggeration.
Aaron, I've been watching your content for a while now and recently bought a bunch of your courses; however, I'd like to ask how you learn this all on your own? How did you manage to perfect drawing these animals?
Hi Aron your art is amazing ad even your explain!! Can you tell what kind of brushes are using?? Thank you so much, and keep going with your amazing work!!
excellent video
Awsome content.
Where can I find your pencil brush? Which set is it included in?
What do you use?
Wow thank you very much for this vid! It helped me a lot! :3
Thats so awesome!
What brushes are you using...?
How do you deal with all the lag ?
It does not disturb you?
Any tips on big cats' shoulder anatomy and leg proportions?
Hey Aaron do you have a course on how you draw the skulls and the skeleton??
If you are referring to animals that is covered in this course. If you mean humans yes I have a course on human anatomy at CreatureArtTeacher.com
All of your tutorials are very informative thank you! I have one question though, what version of Photoshop do you use? I've been looking for a good version of Photoshop. There is a lot of information on CS6 vs CC vs some older versions and it just got me confused on what is what and which is better, especially with the added monthly subscription vs not (which I also found and read a lot of info on but still don't really get.) Thanks again for these tutorials they are very helpful! Your art is very inspiring!
I subscribe so that I'm always using the latest version of Photoshop. Subscribing is your best bet. You can get a package that includes Photoshop and Light room for only $9.99 a month. A pretty good deal for always having the latest version.
The Art of Aaron Blaise You helped me find what I was looking for thank you so much!
What art program do you use? Like what kind of drawing tablet?
Hi Aaron, I would like to know which brush you usually use in your video, could you tell me? Thank you~:)
How do you do large German shepherd dogs? And scars? That's exactly what Birch is from my story The Dog City. He's a pretty large German shepherd.
TALENT
is there a tutorial in your website covering the subject of drawing/reconstructing extinct animals and particulary big cats? thank you
How in hell did this video get me from drawing a low-level realistic lion to a hyper-realistic lion in a day
You are absolutely amazing! May I ask what brushes do you use? :)
Transitioning from traditional to animal drawings really is tricky but it helps that i got abit of experience.
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