leopard

from an old doodle

clouded leopard

in a stretch that shows off his beautiful coat and long canines- the longest teeth in proportion to skull size for any cat species

leopard portrait

variation with hatching to add value, instead of color:

leopard

sniffing the ground

snow leopard

This is another one where I particularly like the look of the artwork in different stages or pieces. Such as the gray shades under the linework:

Leopards

some more finished than others

young leopard

Leopard cub, I think it was six months old in the film? I don't usually concentrate long enough to draw all the spots and you can see this time I lost interest in rendering all that detail when I got to the rear legs. My husband doesn't like this drawing, he thinks the face looks strange. It is a little akward- the nose skewed, the eyes not quite looking in the same direction. But I still think he's a cute little leopard, regardless.

leopard

snow leopard

two sketches of a snow leopard climbing down a rocky slope
the second one is better

Leopard

Sketched in ballpoint pen, from watching Big Cat Diary.

Leopard

 rollerball pen

Eye of the Leopard

Last night I watched a National Geographic film about a leopard, called Eye of the Leopard. Did some sketching while watching the film.

I did several sketches trying to just get the proportions of the body of the leopard correct. They have rather small heads carried high level with the shoulders. Also how one of the leopards would carry its tail with a perfect loop/curl at the end of it, as in the smaller sketch here.

Young leopard