Jul 13 2009
Drawing The Grim Reaper
Drawing the grimreaper of death, a popular image which appears on tattoos and other fantasy media such as comics and fantasy art paintings.
how do you draw a grim reaper?, in simple steps that will help you draw to a plan of anything you put your mind to. The Grim Reaper is one iconic image and it’s up there with Skull art and Dragons, it is such an overused and also an ancient icon of death that it is fitting that we get to grips with drawing this dark reaper of death.
We know from elsewhere on the internet or that other artists have envisioned an image of a dark robed figure with skeletal features which resemble the passing of life and the shadowy figure holds a scythe for which to scour the lands for new souls who are about to pass over to the next life.
And it is this classic vision we can use to start as the basis of our grim reaper. We all know what the Grim Reaper looks like, so have that image in your mind.
We first want to sketch what we want to see and envision for our Grim Reaper, so a sketch is always on the cards for our first draft drawing, below we see a shape, a wire frame if you like of our intended reaper to visualize, we want to develop this further and we want to make this drawing our template to do better.














