Get Set for Spinning Webs – Drawing a Spider Step by Step
Have you ever wanted to unleash your inner artistic prowess and draw a spider like an expert? Drawing a spider doesn’t have to be as complicated as handling a live one in your home! Believe it or not, it’s much easier to tackle crafting a spider masterpiece than you’d think.
Grab your art supplies and get ready to craft the perfect picture with these steps!
Step 1- Start with the Body
Start off by sketching the spider’s body with a pencil. It’s easy to focus on the legs, but remember that the body is the most important part. By giving the body a rounded shape, it provides the spider with a better sense of proportion and movement.
Mimic a natural spider’s body by animating your sketch with gentle curves and a plush body. When your spider has an organic-looking body, it makes for a more realistic looking representation.
Step 2 – Have the Legs Make the Statement
No two spiders will ever have the same leg design, so do some research to find a cool style for your spider! If your spider is supposed to look creepy, incorporate spiky leg tips and hairy leg designs. If the spider is meant to look cute, opt for a more round and slightly fuzzy design.
Don’t forget to balance the spider with the legs–it should have eight legs of equal length. By varying the delicate length of the legs and sketching darker points at their joints, your spider will look more alive and less like a stiff art project.
Step 3 – Put the Spotlight on Those Eyes
No spider design would be complete without a pair of eyes! To emphasize the affectivity of your spider’s gaze, draw the eyes in a triangle shape and make sure they are far apart. Drawing the eyes on top of the spider’s head and adding lash-like shapes around them will make the overall figure appear more organic.
Now, you’re ready to give your creature even more detail–color, texture and web-slinging design! For a more realistic look, fill in the eyes with a bright, bold shade of black or blue.
Step 4 – Make Them the Best Dressed
Time to add some swag to your spider’s look! Give it color with a combination of shading and/or paint. In order to achieve the perfect illusion of a furry spider, add some small highlights of color around the spider’s body and legs.
You can even add extra features if you’re feeling extra creative. Try adding a small amount of detail to the entire spider with some short, quick strokes of a black pencil, leaving your spider with a unique and realistic texture.
Step 5 – Try New Techniques
Why stop at conventional color? Try incorporating other art techniques to add more depth to your web-weaving work.
Drawings are always easier to draw with crayons, markers, and paints, but why stick to a traditional look? Experiment with using watercolors and spray paints to give your spider a new and unique flair.
By combining different mediums and techniques, you can create a realistic looking spider with a bright and eye-catching design. For an added bonus, try coloring the eyes with a glitter pen to give your spider’s gaze a glimmer of life.
Step 6 – Make it Move
Take your spider to the next level by making it come to life. For really dynamic pictures, use layers of spider shapes and aims to show different aspects of movement.
To make your spider look like its really in motion, draw some wavy lines behind it or add accents of movement in front of it–drawing or painting streaks of colour from the spider’s legs, for example, will give the impression that it’s jumping out of the paper.
Step 7 – Polish it Off
Your artistic work is almost finished! To add the final touches, try adding background effects- like shadow and light- to your spider. Darken some of the body parts in order to give the spider more depth and dimension.
If you want to make your spider look like it has a backstory, draw a web behind it! Just a simple scribbled line drawing can help give your spider story an air of mystery and intrigue.
Step 8 – Give it a Glorious Finale
The finish line is here! Add some additional details to your spider masterpiece–like a signature, a hashtag or your own name—and you’re done. Congrats on a job well done!
Drawing a spider is a great and achievable task. Just remember to practice, practice, practice and you’ll be a spider drawing pro in no time! Good luck and happy web-weaving!
