The Simplest Way To Draw Cutie McTootie Animals

Learn to draw the cutest little animals in the simplest way possible. Welcome back my friends! My name is Shada Campbell and around here we make art, and it's fun, not scary. Today I'm showing you how to draw these animals the easy way. Let's talk supplies really quick. You need a little sketchbook, a pencil and eraser, and most importantly a black brush pen, and I will link all of my favorites in the description. And yeah, that's it. Let's draw some cute animals together. First up, the chicken. And funnily enough, his body starts with an egg shape. And we put a little lumpy tail on the back. It doesn't have to be perfect. Two little wings, and then we come down here to the base of the egg and we draw these little stick feet. From there you're going to make kind of a little heart shape on the top of his head. A rounded diamond makes his beak, two little dots for eyes, and another upside down heart shape under the beak. And there is our silly little chicken. You'll have a chance to see that again when we do it in pen. But first, our sweet little pig. You're going to start with two circles. One for the head, and one for the body. So you can kind of decide how big is the head, how big is the body. And then put an oval for the snout, two dots for eyes. A lot of dots for eyes. Real simple. The pig gets two cute little ears. And let me show you how I actually drew those ears. It's just one large circle and then a small oval. So that's the shape of the ear if you find that helpful. He definitely already looks like a pig. All we need to do now are put two little trotters directly below his snout. And then we're going to do one on its side. One leg on the side and you could put like a little lumpy tail. Let's go over everything in pen. So for the chicken, I'm grabbing my black brush pen. And the thing about the brush pen is it acts just like a paintbrush where you have that really nice fine point but the larger thick part closer to the base. And that allows you to create thick and thin lines. So I use just the tip of the pen to do thin lines on stuff like his little beak and his waddle. And then I go a lot thicker so I add pressure to the brush. Whenever I'm doing something that's kind of lower down like the his lower body, his legs, maybe the underside of a wing, you just want to do a bit of a combo of thick and thin and it looks so good. Let me hit you with some news. In one month I will be taking a maternity leave and not posting YouTube videos for four whole weeks. But there will still be videos every Friday on Patreon. If you've ever thought about becoming a patron, now is the time. It's three bucks a month. You can sign up for as long or as short as you like. There might even be a little sale going on. And this week you will get a colouring page and reference image. Head over to Patreon after the video. Come over to the pig, add a little pressure as you go across sort of the base of his legs or his lower body. We can add some little lines in there to show where his hooves are. We'll keep it pretty thin when we do his snout. He's got two little dots for eyes. You can also do little c shapes for some of the animal's eyes. That creates kind of a built-in simple highlight in the eye that always looks good. The cutest little chicken and pig and they both started with basic shapes. An egg and a couple circles. I really hope you feel empowered to illustrate these little cuties because I know you can do this no matter your skill level. Now my horse starts with a long oval for the face, two little ears on top, and then two little circles at the base to show the snout. You're but make sure they're really on the side of his head. From there we do a rounded rectangle for the body and it has to sit right under that long oval that is his head. Rounded rectangle drops down to these four legs and the legs are just rounded squares or more rounded rectangles. And then the only thing about the horse is we want to add a bit of a mane so we can see the hair peeking up from the top of his head and then we give him a tail as well. That is our simple horse. I think a cow is in order next. So circle for his head and then we're going to do an overlapping shape here for the body and we drop down and we do those little kind of rounded squares for legs. Give him a little tail and two little ears on the side of his head. Now let's erase a little because we sketched a lot of lines in there. He's going to get a snout very similar to the pig, two little dots for eyes and put a few spots on him. He's very very cute and silly and he can even have a little bell because he's a dairy cow and sometimes cows have bells. I don't know. Let's give his feet a little bit of extra length because I do want to draw his udders in there so I just made the legs ever so slightly longer. Just like we did for the chicken and the pig we're going to grab our black brush pen and go over these cute illustrations with our brush making sure to do some lines a little thicker and some a little thinner. So where I would use a thinner line would be like the mane and the tail hair and then thicker lines along the belly of the cow and the belly of the horse. You know tiny little dots or c shapes for the eyes. I did give some delicate little eyelashes to the horse. Remember these are very cutesy doodles illustrations so you can play around with what kind of personality. I guess that's how I would say it what kind of personality you add to these characters. You know the horse could have glasses on or the cow could have long eyelashes. It's totally up to you and you can be a bit silly with it. I did go really thick on those cow spots. I think that looks great and it's also it's up to you where you want to do your really thick and really thin lines. I do think we have room for one more little fella down here so I'm going to draw a squirrel. I start with an oval for his head and put two little rounded triangles for ears right at the back. Give him a body and then add two circles one large and one small. Make up the shape of the tail and you can see me kind of going over everything and just working out you know the overall squirrel. We'll give him an eye a nose. Does he want glasses? You know play with it a little. Have fun with this. I'm going to erase his lower body ever so slightly because I do need to draw in his leg. This guy is viewed from the side so we're going to see one leg and then the other foot kind of peeking out. He's also sitting down like the pig is. So thinking about how your animal your character is positioned before you begin is always a good idea. Do I want to draw this cow sitting or standing etc? And then of course we are going over everything with our fine liner and making thick and thin lines. Thin lines on the hair of the tail those little wispy bits and thicker lines on areas like you know the base of his legs and feet. And speaking of creating little animal characters, you can have them wearing a hat or glasses but they also could be holding something like a flower so those are just fun little considerations. And has anyone noticed what I missed yet? I forgot to give him an arm on this side of his body so I'm just sketching in a little mitt shape in pencil. We'll go over that with fine liner and there is our sweet little squirrel holding a flower. And then I decided to add one more little critter and that is a caterpillar and he is so fun to illustrate. If you are drawing with kids and you want to build confidence the caterpillar is a good one. He is simply a line of circles all lumped together and then we're going to put eyes on the very sides of that front circle and we're going to give him a smile, two little antennae and don't forget about the legs. And then when you go over it in fine liner you're not drawing the entire circles you're just doing the top and bottom of the curve and then you can kind of put a few lines in between little broken lines and there are the eyes on the side of the head, nice little smile, little antennae and you could even add some feet. So he is a lot of fun to illustrate and you can paint him any color or color him in any color and pattern which I think is nice. Speaking of color and pattern we could leave it here. I think you can color these in however you want. You've basically created your own coloring page now with your own little animal characters, very cute characters if I do say so. But I am using my Shada Campbell watercolor set that is available on Amazon in my Amazon storefronts linked in the video description. It's a great price point but whether you use crayon marker or paint my advice is the same. When you add the color be sure to leave lots of negative space. This could be a hard thing to learn but leaving a big highlight like the right hand side of the pig's face will make your illustrations look so much more intentional and sophisticated and you can just leave the color off wherever you choose. Don't overthink it. I tend to leave highlights on the upper right area and put low lights or shadows on the lower left just like you see me adding a little gray to the white cow. Typically an animal's underside or lower body will have a bit more shading be more in shadow so as I paint my horse this nice warm transparent brown I'm leaving a big old highlight lots of negative space on his upper face. I'll give him a yellow mane and then I'm coming back in with my brown and just releasing a little more color onto his body and the left lower side of his long face. The caterpillar really could be any color or pattern. I did a little bit of blue still not filling in too perfectly. I made my squirrel brown and I just used the lifting method to lighten up his tail and face and finally you might notice I added some wispy green grass and minimal flowers to kind of frame some of these illustrations. No matter your skill level or age I hope these cute animal doodles have left you feeling creatively empowered. If you like my teaching and illustration style I have got good news. My first book will be released this fall. Right now pre-orders are open and pre-orders are so important to the overall success of the publication so go check it out available on Amazon USA right now and don't forget to hit that subscribe button before you go. Thank you so much for being here friends and thank you as always for your support.