Drawing Cartoon Animals for Complete Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Some Basic Training for Drawing Cartoon Animals

Lecture 1: How to Draw Curves

Lecture 2: How to Draw Ovals

Lecture 3: How to draw simple lines

Lecture 4: Centerlines

Lecture 5: Ovals inside of Ovals

Lecture 6: Beans and Cylinders

Chapter 3: Simple and Fun Animal Faces

Lecture 1: Humans and Animals

Lecture 2: Drawing the Basic Head Shape

Lecture 3: Basic Animal Head

Lecture 4: Drawing the Eyes

Lecture 5: Drawing eyebrows for expression

Lecture 6: Drawing the Nose

Lecture 7: Drawing the Mouth

Lecture 8: Drawing the Ears

Lecture 9: Animal Faces Worksheets

Chapter 4: Cartoon Animal Bodies (The Easy Way)

Lecture 1: Animal Cartoon Body

Lecture 2: Adding Arms and Legs

Lecture 3: 3D Body Style

Lecture 4: 3D Arms and Legs

Lecture 5: 4 Legged Body

Lecture 6: Understanding 3D form

Lecture 7: Cartoon Animal Sitting

Lecture 8: Drawing Cartoon Claws and Paws

Chapter 5: Workflow for Cartoon Animals

Lecture 1: Character Sheet

Lecture 2: Thumbnailing

Lecture 3: Sketching

Lecture 4: Drawing

Lecture 5: Inking

Lecture 6: Color

Chapter 6: Project 1: Thumbnail Animal Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: Assignment 1 : Let's Start Slow

Lecture 2: Assignment 2 : Playing With Shapes

Lecture 3: Assignment 3 : Now you Try

Lecture 4: Assignment 4 : Leveling up

Chapter 7: Project 2 : Penciling Animal Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: What is Pencilling

Lecture 2: Penciling Exercise 1

Lecture 3: Penciling Exercise 2

Lecture 4: Erasing Exercise

Lecture 5: Using Line Weight

Lecture 6: Choosing the Right Tools

Chapter 8: Project 3 : Inking Animal Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: Introduction to inking

Lecture 2: Using the Worksheets

Lecture 3: Inking Sheldon's Outline

Lecture 4: Inking the Rest of Sheldon

Lecture 5: Final Inking Project

Chapter 9: Project 4 : Coloring Animal Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: My Big Mistake

Lecture 2: Intro to Color

Lecture 3: The Color Wheel

Lecture 4: Working with Color

Lecture 5: Flats the Easy way

Lecture 6: Another Way to do Flats

Chapter 10: Part 2 : Creating and working like a pro

Lecture 1: Sketching and keeping it loose

Lecture 2: Using Reference

Lecture 3: Shapes and Volumes

Lecture 4: Animal Figure Drawing

Lecture 5: Easy Worldbuilding

Chapter 11: All About How to use Reference.

Lecture 1: My Reference Formula

Lecture 2: Breaking Down Shapes in Reference

Lecture 3: Playing with Proportions

Lecture 4: Making the reference your own

Lecture 5: Where to Get Reference

Lecture 6: Reference File System

Chapter 12: Using Shapes for Creating Memorable Characters

Lecture 1: Big Shapes First

Lecture 2: Shape Variety

Lecture 3: Creating your "Shape Rules"

Lecture 4: 2 and 3 Shape Structure

Lecture 5: Joining Shapes Together

Lecture 6: Shapes and Facial Features

Chapter 13: Super Basic Animal Figure Drawing

Lecture 1: Intro to Anatomy

Lecture 2: Proportions

Lecture 3: Cat Stick Figure

Lecture 4: Cat Shapes

Lecture 5: Dog Stick Figure

Lecture 6: Dog Shapes

Lecture 7: Horse Stick Figure

Lecture 8: Horse Shapes

Lecture 9: Wings

Chapter 14: Additional Mini Course: Worldbuilding for Cartoons and Comics

Lecture 1: Do Not Be Afraid to World Build

Lecture 2: The Simple Approach

Lecture 3: Worldbuilding Questions

Lecture 4: Knowing What to Draw

Lecture 5: Building an "Animal World"

Lecture 6: Floorplans

Lecture 7: Rural Settings

Lecture 8: Building a City the Easy Way

Lecture 9: Things to Draw in a City