How to draw a stone lion

The drawing steps of the stone lion are as follows:

Step 1: First, draw the head of the stone lion, which has a lot of curly hair, and draw its shape with snail shell lines.

Step 2: Draw the outline of the face of the stone lion. The stone lion has two almond-like eyes, a big nose and an open mouth. Draw the lion's teeth in the mouth and draw his body parts. The stone lion squatted on a stone pier, drew the lion's claws and the base below, and drew some grass decorations next to the base.

Step 3: Paint the stone lion with beautiful colors, pay attention to the gradual change of colors, and draw the texture of the stone, and the beautiful stone lion will be painted.

This is the teaching of the lovely stone lion stick figure painting. When we paint the stone lion, we focus on drawing the shape of the stone lion, but the difficulty is painting the color of the stone lion, so that the stone lion drawn is vivid and beautiful.

meaning

The stone lion is a common evil-warding article in China traditional culture. It is a sculpture with artistic value and ornamental value, which is carved into the image of a lion with stone as raw material. The earliest stone lion was in front of Gaoyi's tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is often used as an ornament in traditional buildings in China, and can be found in palaces, temples, pagodas, bridges, mansions, gardens, tombs and buttons in China. But more often, Shishi refers to a pair of lions placed on the left and right sides of the gate.

folk lion

among the people, the lion becomes a brave, powerful and auspicious embodiment. Performing arts and plastic arts are often inextricably linked. The lion image in the lion dance is created by folk artists according to their own aesthetic ideals. It is lively, naughty and lovely, and completely loses the prestige of "the king of beasts". In folk art, the lion also resonates with the sounds of "Taishi" and "Shao Shi", which implies a high position.

unlike dragons and phoenixes, lions, as a royal patent, only appear in the modeling of court art, and lion modeling art spreads all over ordinary people's homes. Even at the door of ordinary people's homes, a pair of small stone lions may be erected.