Q&A for How to Draw a Cartoon Dog

You can do several things: a mixture of oil pastel colors, some nice markers like Prisma color, or some colored pencils would do the job! You can also use art software.

Everything comes with practice, so don't worry about it too much. You can only improve your drawing skills by drawing the dog over and over again until it looks better.

It depends on the size of the paper and the type of dog, but the head is usually smaller.

Just do a curved line with one end longer than the other.

You can draw the eyes at a different angle and more narrow so that it looks like it's looking down.

You can draw the dog using an image editing program. You can use your computer mouse or laptop trackpad. You can also use a drawing tablet. It connects right to your computer. Whatever you draw on it (using the special pen that comes with it) will appear on your computer screen.

Use the step by step guide for drawing a lying down dog but draw the background like the beach and add sunglasses to the dog so he is looking cool in the sun and use a darker shade at the top of his skin so it looks like the sun is on the top of the dog.

The writer of this post has probably practiced many times, whereas this is your first time drawing this kind of dog. If you practice, eventually yours can look just as good!

Make two small U shapes for the paws, then add three small circles and one big circle.

You could look at a picture of a bone and draw it in the dog's mouth.

Try giving the dog pointy ears, a longer snout, and a thin body shape. Also, try to make the tail longer, and maybe give it a panting tongue.

Some dogs have pointy ears. That one in particular looks like it might be Yorkie.

If it makes you happy, do it. You can do anything you put your mind to.

Use them as a guide at first and then erase them once you've done the darker lines. If you've already erased them but they're still appearing on your picture, color over them and don't press as hard next time.

Try looking at references. Look up photos of dogs and pick one. Don't worry if yours isn't exactly the same. Drawing takes practice.

Look at a picture of a real dog and try to copy it with a pencil.

If your dog is standing, do a curve for the back leg, almost like a bracket but longer at the edges, then at the edge of curve, bring it down, for the paw I would say make it like a soft zag, in and out for the toes instead of adding lines for them. Do it very gently and don't make it look zig zaggy, jut soft like a roundabout.