How to Draw a Leopard Gecko #2

For the next few weeks, I plan on redoing some of my old tutorials that weren't quite as good as they could have been (meaning that they looked pretty bad). So for today I am redoing a tutorial on how to draw a leopard gecko.

First start with the outline.

Then add some curves for the eyes, eyelids, and sides of the face.

Now draw the rest of the eyelids and two more curves to start the top of the head.

Then another semi-curved line to connect the other two.

Now draw the pupils inside each eye.

Then, erase the excess lines on the face and add two more darkened lines on the sides of the face and connect them below.

Now add the mouth, nose, and chin (I used the curved between the eyes to help position the nostrils although this step is not necessary).

Now add some spots and patches on the face, except for under the chin.

Then you darken the outline and add the beginning of some legs.

Also erase the no longer needed outline on the front legs.

Now make curved lines coming from the legs (the start for the feet) and a light line across the back.

Add the front feet.

And the back foot.

Now make a swirled pattern on the back and add scales to the side (it is not a necessity but it makes it look a lot better). Also add the last foot.

Now draw some spots on the front legs and shade between the designs on the back.

Continue to add spots to the hind leg and draw lines and designs on the tail.

Add some shading and then we are ready to add some color.

First, you will do the pupils and inner eyelids black (you don't have to color it in this order, it's just the way that I did it).

Then color in the spots with a warm gray (you could make these black, but I think that it looks better with the eyes being darker than the spots).

Now add a light gray to the tail along with some brown for spots.

You can do the eyes any color that you like, but I used a dark green.

Then the yellow. I also added a light greenish-gray to the head.

Then I added lime green to the eyelids.

Now darken the feet and add any extra shading that you want. Normally this would be complete but since I was drawing mine from a picture that I took, I continued on from this point.

I added some yellow since that is what the picture showed.

Next I added a shadow and the rest of the background.

Then after coloring in my picture, it is now finished.