- 1). Find a picture of a wolf to sketch. Avoid sketching live wolves, like wolves in a zoo, unless you have practice drawing moving objects in the field. Try to find a picture of a wolf that is oriented in the way you want; wolves imaged from the side or slightly rotated toward the page are easier to draw than wolves facing directly toward you.
- 2). Begin by sketching the wolf's head. Draw a large circle or oval for the head, lightly, oriented to face whatever direction the wolf is looking; this oval will later become the face. Sketch the eyes first, making sure that they are positioned in the same place in the oval as they are in the wolf's face. Set the eyes deep in the head using shading on the interior corners. Draw the ears on top of the oval, especially noting the outside shape of the ears. Fill in the ears and eyes with detail at any time during the remainder of the sketch.
- 3). Draw another oval to indicate the place where the pad of the nose and the mouth converge, somewhere in front of the face oval, depending on the picture's orientation. Sketch lines back from the nose and mouth oval to the head oval. Fill detail for the pad of the nose and mouth; the pad should be filled in and the mouth should extend back towards the face. Draw a jaw to come under the face oval and connect to the mouth. Trace over the lines, erasing the first oval if desired, and making the outside line rough to indicate fur. Add the wolf-face markings, if any.
- 4). Draw two larger ovals behind the head to locate the shoulders and rump of the wolf. Look carefully at the picture while doing this, to locate them in space correctly. Connect them together, and to the head, with a curving line, and sketch a tail if shown in the picture. Sketch legs with a defined knee and four toes arranged around a pad. Shade to indicate fur, and put a few lines sticking off of the wolf to show hairs. Continue to fill in details until you are ready to proudly display your sketch of a wolf.
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