This beginner friendly step by footstep tutorial shows how to draw a cartoon dog. It provides simple instructions with piece of cake to follow drawing examples.

Dog drawing step by step
Dog drawing step by pace

It's recommended that you utilize a pencil for at least the start six steps of this tutorial and describe light lines that you can hands erase.

Pace one – Depict the Dogs Snout

Dog snout drawing
Domestic dog snout cartoon

First by drawing the dogs snout. Draw the superlative department with a sort of divide near its lesser and the bottom section with just i curved line.

Try and position the snout in such a way that you have enough room for the head above information technology and plenty of room for the dogs torso below it.

Step 2 – Depict the Head

Dog head drawing
Domestic dog head cartoon

Draw the head starting from about the halfway signal of the elevation part of the snout. Make it a footling wider towards the lesser and narrower towards the top.

Draw the very tiptop of the head most apartment.

Stride 3 – Draw the Body & Front Legs

Dog front legs drawing
Domestic dog front legs drawing

To add the dogs legs and body draw 2 curved lines going from the pinnacle office of the snout downwards to where the feet are in the example. Next draw two more curved lines for the inner part of the legs. Afterwards draw the anxiety and connect the who legs with a curved line to evidence the bottom of the dogs body.

Step 4 – Draw the Back Legs

Dog back legs drawing
Canis familiaris back legs cartoon

Now add together the back legs sticking out from behind the front legs/body. Depict the upper office of each back leg with pretty much just i curved line. They should point slightly abroad from the dog every bit they go towards the height.

Next add the back feet equally a sort of oval shape with a flattened bottom partially hidden behind the front end legs.

Pace v – Draw the Ears

Dog ears drawing
Dog ears drawing

Describe the ears with a sort of "^" shape. Make them wide near their base of operations (where they abound from the head) and narrow towards their tips.

Step six – Draw the Tail & Toes

Dog tail and toes drawing
Dog tail and toes drawing

For this step draw the tail with just two curved lines and after draw some splits into the feet to bear witness the individual toes.

Step vii – Depict the Eyes, Nose & Finish the Line Drawing

Dog line drawing
Dog line drawing

Finally depict the dogs face. Make the shape of the olfactory organ like to a triangle with rounded corners. Depict the outer part of the optics starting from the top of the snout with oval like shapes. Draw the inner part of the eyes (the irises) in pretty much the same mode simply smaller. To a higher place the eyes add together ii small cures for the eyebrows.

Finally fill in the irises of the optics and the nose with blackness (or pencil shading) but get out some white spots for the highlights.

Pace 8 – Color the Dog

Dog drawing
Dog drawing

You tin make the dog any color you similar just for this example nosotros will go with dark-brown for most of the dogs body and with xanthous for the snout.

Conclusion

This is a very simple beginner friendly tutorial. If you like it and would like to endeavor drawing some more animals in a similar style run across:

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For slightly more advanced tutorials see:

  • How to Draw a Daughter Stride by Pace
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