How to draw cartoon dogs – part 3
Welcome back. Let’s quickly take a look at the body-form of a dog (top), and compare that to a cat (bottom).
How to draw cartoon dogs – part 1
Dogs are great to draw as cartoons. The reason for this is that more than any other animal – including humans – dogs come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes, forms, colours, patterns and textures. Just think of well-known types as Basset hound, Chihuahua, Terriers, Dalmations, Pitbulls, Daschunds, Bulldogs, Rottweilers, Saint Bernhards and Labradors…
Funny Animal Cartooning 3 – How To Draw A Cartoon Cat part3
To finish this series on how to draw a cartoon cat, here’s some of my own drawings of cartoon cats.
Funny Animal Cartooning 3 – How To Draw A Cartoon Cat part 2
You should be pretty good at drawing cartoon cat faces now, so let’s move onto the body.
If you’ve been doing your sketching, you’ll realize that there’s lots of different types of cats around, each with very distinct characteristics. Our examples are based on the average tabby cat, but all cats share the same body form, so we’re going to take a look at these details.
Funny Animal Cartooning 3 – How To Draw A Cartoon Cat part 1
Cats are funny creatures to draw – I say this from personal experience. The thing is, it’s very easy to draw a cat wrong! I’ve seen so many drawings, illustrations and cartoons of cats that look more like dogs that it just proves my point.
Funny Animal Cartooning 2 – Metamorphosis
Transformation stages of cartoon drawing animals.
Cartoon drawing, animals or humans or any other subject, is synonymous with caricaturing – finding the most recognizable physical features of the subject and then drawing them in a more, or less, simplified or exaggerated manner.
Funny Animal Cartooning – animal form basics
There are as many ways to draw funny animal characters as there are to draw funny humans. And the goal is the same – to modify the features, by simplifying or exaggerating them, in order to create a caricature of the real thing.
Drawing Tips For Cartooning – How To Draw Clothes
A cartoon drawing can be broken down into four distinct and important elements: body form, body posture, facial features and…clothing. It’s rarely that we need to draw a cartoon character naked, so the clothing is more important than the body underneath. Here’s some drawing tips to draw your cartoon clothes.
Character Cartoon Drawing – Developing Your Cartoon Sketches
Following on from the series on drawing cartoon figures – now I want to take you to the next step, so you can develop your cartoon sketches a little further.
