Drawing a Cartoon Dog
Hi, I’m Danny Green, I’m an illustrator and a teacher here at The Guilded Page in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And we’re in the classroom here, and today we’re gonna teach you how to draw a cartoon dog. I generally like to start with a rough shapes in drawing cartoon animal. And I start with a nice round shape for the head. Elongate his head a little bit, we’ll gonna give him a snout here, draw his jaws here. Give him a big old tongue hanging out, there. And draw a nose here. Put in… give a nice bean body here to the… to the dog. Those hind quarters there, dogs have this little funny curve to the leg. And the ramp there, and then we’re draw the legs on him here. Little joint for the knee there. Little stumps here… we’ll give him big paws like a puppy, coz I like that for cartoon dogs, big paws. And I’ll give him nice little tail here, give him little curve there. We’ll give him a big silly looking collar, because I like that on cartoon dogs to, so collar way bigger than his neck. So we’ll have a basic cylinder shape for that, and make a little ring there, give that little thickness here. Draw the spikes on the collar, radiating out of it, just draw tones, you know. And dogs, they got the really big pupils in the eyes, sometimes they’re all pupil in the eye. So now we finish our pencil layout of the… of our dog, and we’re now gonna start in with pen and ink. I like to use brush pen, filled with waterproof ink, just to give him a little more solid line quality to it, more cartoon line, so… we’ll give him a little bit of hair at the top here. Some dogs have a little bit of… few stray strands at the top of his head, the ears here. I like a nice thick and thin line there, so we’ll just move that around and… brush pens give a nice taper, kind of like the old Warner Bros. and Walt Disney cartoons. Let’s draw his snout, give him a little nostrils there in the snout. Big… big nose on the dog here. Legs here… some fur there… so it’s big paws, just like a big puppy. And the… underside of his belly, we’ll draw a few lines for fur there. Draw the tail here… and draw a couple of little lines at the end, kinda suggest a hairy tail. Put a nice tapered line for his back, okay… hind quarters. There we are, we got a nice black outline there. And now we’ll take some, we’ll give him some color now. We’ll take some pastels here and lay in some… lay in some of the hard color here around the dark shadow area. Let’s say the lights coming from here. Under the legs here, and this side here. Tail, we’re just laying a little bit now just dark… where the shadow would be on him. And now we’re gonna add some red here for the tongue and the nose, and we’ll put that around the base of that. And now we’ll going to put a blue for the collar, a little blue around the corner here, and not mess getting the spikes there. And we’ll take a pencil stub here, just blender kind of for a pastel and dry media, and we’ll just start moving the brown around to fill in the fur. And add some accents there and generally smear it around. And that’s… that’s about it. There… there’s our cartoon dog. And don’t go away, coz next we’re gonna draw cartoon cat.