When you’re learning how to draw animals, you want easy and quick tutorials like the ones below.
We’ll go step by step to draw cute zoo animals, farm animals, and sea animals in a cartoon style.
How can kids make animals?
These are great if you’re looking for art projects to keep a child busy for a morning activity. It’s also a creative option for an afternoon quiet time activity.
But they’re not just for kids. The lessons are simple enough for adults that love to make crafts, like custom t-shirts with a Cricut machine or Silhouette cutting machine.
How do you draw an easy animal – digital drawing
You can make the drawings with regular art supplies like pencils, crayons, markers. Or you can make digital drawings of cute animals just using a basic graphic tablet or an iPad.
Digital drawing can be intimidating for a beginner but just like with anything else, the hardest part is getting started. Once you get familiar with the menus and learn the shortcuts for drawing, you’ll want to switch up and drawing in digital format all the time.
I tend to stick with methods that are good for beginners in my digital drawing lessons. Have you already tried digital drawing? It can seem really hard at first. The digital tools don’t react in the same way as traditional drawing tools. This makes some people think that drawing is not for them. That’s why finding the right technique is so important.
If you struggle with drawing in general, you can get better with just a few tips and some practice sessions. To draw an easy animal, you’ll want to use these basic principles listed below.
5 Tips to help you draw a cartoon animal
- Use simple shapes
- Draw the eyes wide apart
- Make the head bigger than the body
- Use bright colors
- Use reference photos from nature to show movement
How to draw farm animals
Farms animals are cute and fun to draw. You can use them to make storybooks or comic strips. If you want to really go for it, add a sunrise background to give it the feel of a morning on a farm.
Most of these are easy to make and should take less than 30 minutes. Don’t worry about trying to make them perfectly. Remember, the fewer lines that you use, the better your drawing will turn out.
How to draw forest animals
When you think of forest animals I’m sure that fables and bedtime stories come to mind. What if you could draw your very own cartoon animals to go along with those stories.
The drawings and the stories are perfect for homeschool projects too. Whether you need a quick and easy art idea for your kids or you’re working on a forest theme for a craft project, these little animals could fit into either of those.
Art supplies for drawing
Feel free to use whatever supplies you have at home. If you’re in the mood to stock up on art supplies, here are a few that you can add to your collection.
Drawing Supplies
Digital Drawing Supplies
Procreate
Paper Drawing Supplies
Art markers or Colored Pencils
Light Table for Tracing (optional)
Did you like these tutorials? If you don’t have time to draw all of them now, just pin this blog post to your board for easy drawings on Pinterest.
