Animals come in many shapes, sizes, and species which makes them very fun to draw. Check out this ebook packed with everything you need to know about drawing animal characters!

For some reason humans really love to draw anthropomorphic animals. Check out this ebook packed with everything you need to know about anthropomorphic characters!

Drawing with guidelines and mindful construction will make drawings more dynamic and three-dimensional.

My new drawing and painting demo shows you how I would design a cartoon bird character, but I go way beyond that in my new animal course that’s now available in the proko store.

This course will begin with basic concepts before moving on to more in-depth and step-by-step lessons.

Building off from the line of action will help add construction to a variety of shapes, which will make these types of characters much easier to draw.

Adding contrast to a character’s shape design will make them more stylized and interesting.

Drawing both the head and body with construction will lend a greater sense of depth to character designs.

This demonstration of a penguin character will be using everything taught so far in this course.

In character design artists will often have to create a turnaround of their characters to show them from every angle.

When drawing anthropomorphic characters it’s often a good idea to simplify an animal’s anatomy and then stylize it.