How to Draw Cartoon Animals

How to Draw Cartoon Animals1 How to Draw Cartoon Animals Drawing cartons animals can be both full of entertainment and fun loving. It can also help an individual to enhance or boost the creative talent in him. Depending on the style there are many interesting ways and approaches to draw a cartoon animal, which an individual can achieve in his creation. Fortunately, there are a few simple and easy rules that can make the process easier for any beginner. Humanizing the cartoon character and converting it into some basic shapes are the two major concepts that can help an individual to draw cartoon animals quite easily.

By learning, step by step, how to draw cartoons animals an individual can covert his passion even into a profession like any other cartoonist. At times, it can also be a source of recreation in refreshing his mind from any stress. But there are some features that holds good in drawing cartoon animals. These relevant points are described in brief under the following subheads: -

Applying some Basic Shapes

Every single animal while drawing in a cartoon format can be visualized and sketched down into simple shapes such as circles, rectangles, cylinders and ovals. Such an approach initially will make the entire process of drawing these in a simple and effective manner.
For the purpose of practicing, an individual can take a print out of some reference photos of animals for tracing the basic shapes on top of the image. In cartoon animals, the body can be represented in an oval structure while the limbs are usually stretched out in cylindrical shapes and finally a circle for drawing the head.
Cats have ears shaped like the alphabet “V” in an upside down pattern placing them at the top of the head. A small triangle on top of the face to denote the nose, while a W-shape for the mouth. Similarly, the ears of a monkey can be sketched in a C-shaped pattern placed on the sides of the head.
For a dog the head can be drawn as an inverted triangle followed by a circle overlapping the tip of the triangle. You can draw the ears of a dog using the U-shaped structure. An individual can trace small black lines horizontal in direction to denote the eyebrows of a cartoon animal. In the same way two small circles can be drawn to resemble the eyes while a cone to draw the nose for the subject.

Mathematical Approach

There are also some mathematical calculations and measurements that hold good while drawing cartoon animals. The concept can be more easily understood if one can relate a cartoon animal with the proportions of a human body.
The shoulders will be approximately twice the length of the head while the hands are generally as long as the measurement from the hairline to the bottom of the chin. Although, all of these measurements can be deformed and exaggerated to make the character appear funnier in a drawing paper and less realistic.

These are some of the essential features that an individual should observe while drawing cartoon animals. But the only way to master drawing these cartoon animals is by dedication and continuous practice with an interest.