How to draw a puma-cougar-mountain lion

Let`s learn how to draw a Puma. However, this amazing animal has many names-more than 40 in English! When I read about it, I immediately thought that learning to draw such a beast is easier than learning all his names. I fell in love with Puma when I read Castaneda: during the journey through the Sonora desert, don Juan encouraged Carlos with messages that the surrounding mountains were swarming with mountain lions.

How to draw Puma – lesson 1

Pencil draught:

The puma has a long body, its outlines, although it sounds paradoxical, reminiscent of both the oval and the rectangle.

The tail is also long, it is muscular, evenly pubescent. The hind legs are powerful and strong.

Relatively to the body of a puma’s legs are not long. The front legs are noticeably thinner than the hind legs.

The head proportionally also seems small.

Muzzle is quite typical for a large predatory cat.

And so we drew a linear figure of a cougar:

The body color of the puma is very uniform – it is either grayish-beige or yellow-brown.

Puma drawing lesson 2

The drawing sequence is exactly the same.

Step 1 – pencil outline:

Step 2 – draw the body of the puma:

Step 3 – hind legs and tail drawing:

Step 4 – front legs:

Step 5 – draw a pencil sketch of a puma face:

Step 6 – we got the full figure of a cougar:

Step 7 – let`s color our picture of the puma:

Well, I hope that not only me, but you also learned to draw a puma.