How to Draw an Archer

1. Begin the archer outline by drawing the face. Use curved lines for the outline of the face, the eyebrows, nose, mouth, and the outline of the eyes. Shade a small circle inside each eye.

2. Use a series of overlapping curved lines to sketch the hair and the back of the neck.

3. Next, draw the archer's muscular arm. Use overlapping curved lines for the shoulder muscle, upper arm, lower arm, and thumb. Then, extend long curved lines above and below the thumb to begin the bow.

4. Draw a rounded "V" shaped line to outline the remaining arm, bent at the elbow. Draw a line across it, but not touching it, to demarcate the lower arm.

Draw four small ovals, two partially covered by the thumb, to form the fingers of the hand.

From the fingers, extend curved lines loosely parallel to the first side of the bow. Connect the lines at each end by enclosing curved shapes.

5. Use a series of overlapping curved lines to create the fingers of the remaining hand.

Then extend two narrowly spaced parallel lines from the hand to the bow, and a bit past the bow. Draw a teardrop-shaped arrowhead at the end of the arrow.

6. Use curved lines to enclose the featherlike fletching at the end of the arrow, erasing as necessary. Then, use curved lines to enclose the neck, sleeves, and torso of the woman's shirt.

7. Use overlapping curved lines to sketch the archer's shorts and legs.

8. Complete the remaining leg using long curved lines. Then, enclose the irregular shapes of the shoes. Draw a curved line across the top of each shoe.

9. Draw straight lines between the curved ends of the bow and the point where the archer's hand meets the arrow.

This is the bowstring. Then using curved lines to enclose her ponytail and to contour her hair, clothing, muscles, collarbones, knees, and the soles of her shoes.

Your cartoon archer outline is now complete. Color your athlete.