Step 1-Mark off the width and height of the picture. Add guidelines for the Grim Reaper’s body. Draw his head, skull, scythe and pedestal.
Step 2-Draw the Reaper’s cloak, neck and snath of his scythe.
Step 3-Add guidelines for the arms, legs and skull proportions of the Grim Reaper.
Step 4-Outline the general shape of the cloak and skull. Add the Reaper’s jaw-bones and the blade of the scythe.
Step 5-Draw the shape of the legs and arms. With light lines, draw the Grim Reaper’s eye-sockets, frontal bone, hood and cape. Detail the shape of the snath.
Step 6-Add the nasal hole, cheek-bones, cloak folders, the shape of the hood and finger phalanxes of the Grim Reaper. Detail the frontal bone, lower jaw and stems of the scythe.
Step 7-Work on the figure, paying special attention to detail.
Step 8-Contour the Grim Reaper, trying to vary the thickness and darkness of the line. Add more detail. Erase all guidelines.
