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

Dog drawing step by step
Dog drawing step by step

Information technology's recommended that you use a pencil for at least the get-go six steps of this tutorial and draw light lines that you tin hands erase.

Step one – Draw the Dogs Snout

Dog snout drawing
Dog snout drawing

Start by drawing the dogs snout. Describe the top section with a sort of split nearly its bottom and the bottom department with merely one curved line.

Endeavor and position the snout in such a way that you lot have plenty room for the head in a higher place it and plenty of room for the dogs body below it.

Step 2 – Draw the Head

Dog head drawing
Dog head cartoon

Draw the caput starting from nearly the halfway point of the tiptop role of the snout. Make information technology a trivial wider towards the bottom and narrower towards the meridian.

Draw the very elevation of the head almost flat.

Pace 3 – Describe the Torso & Front Legs

Dog front legs drawing
Dog front legs drawing

To add together the dogs legs and body draw two curved lines going from the elevation function of the snout down to where the anxiety are in the example. Adjacent describe two more than curved lines for the inner function of the legs. Later on depict the anxiety and connect the who legs with a curved line to show the lesser of the dogs body.

Stride 4 – Draw the Back Legs

Dog back legs drawing
Dog back legs cartoon

Now add the back legs sticking out from behind the front end legs/trunk. Describe the upper part of each dorsum leg with pretty much only one curved line. They should indicate slightly away from the dog as they go towards the top.

Adjacent add the dorsum feet as a sort of oval shape with a flattened lesser partially hidden behind the forepart legs.

Step v – Draw the Ears

Dog ears drawing
Canis familiaris ears drawing

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

Step 6 – Draw the Tail & Toes

Dog tail and toes drawing
Canis familiaris tail and toes drawing

For this step depict the tail with simply ii curved lines and afterward draw some splits into the feet to testify the individual toes.

Step 7 – Draw the Eyes, Olfactory organ & Stop the Line Drawing

Dog line drawing
Domestic dog line drawing

Finally describe the dogs face up. Brand the shape of the nose similar to a triangle with rounded corners. Draw the outer part of the eyes starting from the superlative of the snout with oval like shapes. Describe the inner part of the eyes (the irises) in pretty much the same way merely smaller. Above the eyes add together two modest cures for the eyebrows.

Finally make full in the irises of the eyes and the nose with black (or pencil shading) but leave some white spots for the highlights.

Footstep 8 – Color the Canis familiaris

Dog drawing
Dog drawing

You tin can make the dog any color you like but for this case we will get with brown for about of the dogs body and with yellow for the snout.

Decision

This is a very simple beginner friendly tutorial. If yous like it and would like to attempt cartoon some more animals in a similar fashion see:

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For slightly more advanced tutorials see:

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