Let's show how creative you are:- Drawing - Squirrel

Greetings fellow steemians! How are you today? I hope you are as fine as I am. I remain grateful to the steem4Nigeria and @benton3 for organising and sustaining this contest. This contest is also an opportunity to always help me improve my drawing skills.

What is squirrel
A squirrel is a small rodent mammal with a bushy tail and big eyes. They can move very fast and are
omnivores animals. They mostly feed on fruits, nuts plants, insects and other small animals.

Economic Importance of Squirrel

• Source of food (meat) for man
• It helps in spreading seeds and spores which sprout into new plants
• Squirrels also spread mushrooms.

Fact about squirrel

• They are born blind.
• There are more than 250 species of squirrel
• Squirrel glide from tree to tree.
• They are both predators and prey

Materials used for the drawing

• plain A4 paper
• Pencils
• Colours
• Eraser
• Razor Blade

Step 1
I began the drawing from the head of the squirrel. On the head, I drew the nose, mouth, eyes and the ear

Step 2
At rbis step, I drew the Back of the squirrel and the hind limbs.

Step 3
I drew the stomach of the squirrel and the forelegs. I also drew the fruit that the animal is eating.

Step 4
Here I drew the stone on which the squirrel is standing.

Step 5
I drew the tail of the squirrel which brought me to the end of the pencil work.

Step 6
At this stage, I began colouring the squirrel from the back down to the hindlimbs. I used my brown and yellow colour to achieve this.

Step 7
I coloured the head and forelegs of the squirrel using a brown colour

Step 8
I coloured the tail and ears of the squirrel using brown colour.

Step 9
Here, I used a 12B pencil to give the black hairs among the brown hair on the body of the squirrel.

Step 10
I used a 12B pencil to give the black hairs on the tail of the squirrel.

Step 11
I coloured the eye of the squirrel using a 12B pencil, a 6B pencil and a yellow colour. I also used a 12B pencil to give the black hairs on the head of the squirrel. I also shaded the mouth and the nose.

Step 12
I shaded the fruit in the hands of the squirrel using yellow and orange colours. I also draw the long black hairs around its nose.

Step 13
I shaded the stone on which the squirrel was standing using a 12B pencil.

My selfie

Conclusion
Fellow steemians, this is my drawing for this contest. I hope you like it. Thank you for visiting my blog and for your support. I wish that these friends of mine participate in this contest:
@basil20
@imoh1
@m-fdo