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Cloud drawing is a snap, and it’s a great place to learn how to smudge your pencil lead when you are drawing. Don’t miss the cloud drawing video at the end of the page. If the written guide is a little confusing the video guide at the bottom of the page should get you on the right track in no time.

Step 1 - The cloud shape
Create your shape using circular motions to define the outline. If you’re having problems getting nice circles, go get a compass and use that to help you, but that will likely waste more time than it’s worth, so just have fun with it and keep trying to get a nice shape and move on.

Step 2 - Adding Details
Add some additional details into the interior of the cloud drawing. Use the same circular style that you created the outline with. You can start to add in some shading once you have defined some interior shapes. Notice that I didn’t add in TOO many details in the middle. I just added in enough details to make it interesting.

Step 3 - Shading and Smudging
Continue to shade in the entire cloud. When you are doing this - think of each of the circular shapes of the cloud drawing as a sphere, and shade it based on that shape. Once you have shaded in the cloud, use a paper stump, blending stick, or my personal favorite, your finger - and smudge the pencil lead together to help blend the shading. Don’t go overboard when you are smudging or you can lose a lot of the nice light and dark variations in your pencil drawing.

That’s it, you’ve just created a nice fluffy cloud!

Watch the video below to see exactly how I created the above images. If you’re confused at all by any of the above steps watching this video will surely clear those foggy areas up for you! Enjoy!

Here’s how to draw a caricature in step-by-step fashion. We’ll cover drawing a caricature from a photo in future lesson but for right now we just want to focus on the basic structure that you will need to learn in order to draw caricatures easily.

By learning this basic system you’ll have all the tools you need to draw great-looking caricatures. Depending on how much you practice this system will directly determine the quality of drawings that you’re able to make.

The different pieces of the face are follows: the nose, mouth and lips, chin, eyes and eyebrows, forehead, hair and ears. Notice the different pieces and the order that they appear. When you learn how to draw a caricature you will draw the parts of the face in this order.

The reason for drawing them in order is that you will get familiar with drawing the face in the same way each and every time. As with many learned skills repetition is essential and will help you learn more quickly and easily.

For simplicity sake will draw the head from the side for now. The side, more commonly called the profile view, is the easiest kind of caricature that you can draw.

The Nose

The first step when learning how to draw caricature is the nose. There are many different kinds of noses that you can draw and will cover those in another lesson later. For now just copy the nose that you see on the right.

Follow the arrows in the picture when you’re doing your own drawing. This is the way your pencil should move over the page. You want to make a profile of the nose (1) then the nostril (2) and then finally the back of the nose (3).

The Mouth

Next we’ll draw the lips and mouth. He’ll be smiling because the smile will always make the person you’re drawing look their best. Follow the 5 steps below to draw the mouth.

1. A Small curve will connect the nose to the top of the mouth.

2. Draw a curve for the top lip. Because we’re drawing a man you don’t have to worry so much about adding detail to the upper lip, but if you’re drawing a woman this upper left definition is essential. Add a straight line to the end of this line to show the natural line that happens when someone smiles.

3. Draw a slightly curved line to show the teeth.

4. Draw another curved line for the bottom lip. Its shape is similar to the top lip. Notice that the bottom lip doesn’t directly connect to the top lip. This is a style choice, but I think drawing the bottom lip like this looks better than when they’re connected. Feel free to experiment on your own always.

5. To finish off the lower lip draw a “C” shaped curve.
The Eye

The next area to tackle is the eye and eyebrow. Because this is how to draw a caricature lesson is a profile view you won’t have to worry about drawing both eyes which makes this kind of drawing much easier.

Start by defining the upper eyelid which should be a little thicker than lower lid because this part of the eye is naturally in shadow.

Next draw a circle for the pupil. One of the tricks to drawing great eyes is to include a highlight. This is nothing more than a simple white circle that looks like light is reflecting off of the eye.

You can then add a simple curved line along the bottom of the eye to indicate the lower eyelid. One of the important things to notice when learning how to draw a caricature is the simplicity of everything. Often less is more here, so resist the urge to over-complicate things.

Look closely at the eyebrows of your subject and draw the eyebrow top of the eye. Usually the eyebrow is slightly curved and follows the shape of the eyelid. When drawing females you should increase the curve of the eyebrow for a more glamorous effect.

Now that the majority of the facial details are completed its time to move on. We’ll finish off the ear, forehead, hair and finally the neck to complete this lesson on how to draw a caricature.

The Ear

I like to draw the ear before getting into the hair to give myself a point of reference when drawing the hair. This is really personal preference and if you like you can draw the ear after the hair.

To draw the ear all you need to do is make a curve similar to a backwards “C” shape and then inside that shape draw something that resembles a “D.” There are many different ways to draw the year so feel free to invent your own if this style of ear doesn’t look too hot to you.

The Forehead

The forehead is a curve that connects the nose upward to the beginning of the hairline. Before I begin to draw the hair I like to put a single point where the back of the head should be.

This gives me a target to shoot for one drawing the hair that helps keep the shape of the head so that it does not appear to be too small on the back of the head.

When you’re just starting out learning how to draw a caricature I strongly suggest using a reference point for the back of the head.
The Hair and Chin

This character has spiky hair so as you’re drawing keep that in mind and use light strokes so the lines do not get too thick. I usually draw the outside first and then go into draw the hair line on the inside that frames the face and forms the hairline.

Once the hair is finished draw in the chin. Connect it to the bottom lip and follow the image to the left.

The necks on caricatures are usually quite thin and connect to a smaller funny looking cartoon body.

That’s it for this lesson about how to draw a caricature. You’ve now learned the basic parts of the head and how to draw them. In the other lessons in the caricatures section you’ll go into more detail on the various parts and learn how to exaggerate and mix and match the different parts to create all different types of heads.

Drawing a cartoon bee with personality is what you’ll learn in this lesson. If you’ve never understood how to take basic shapes and turn them into a unique drawing, this lesson can help you learn the concept quickly. Let’s take a look at four easy steps to building one of my personal favorites - Lazy-Eye Larry.

Step 1 - The Base

All cartoon drawings can start with a couple of basic shapes, and these are usually used to start the head and body. Larry, our cartoon bee, begins with one small circle inside a larger circle or oval (it’s not a perfect circle, but we are going to make modifications anyway, so either one will work).

Step 2 - Modifications

Okay, so when Larry the Cartoon Bee is finished, his head isn’t just a circle. In fact, he’s got a bit of blubber on him that makes him cheeky, so we’ll take the inner circle and bubble it out to both sides with a “C” shape that will give him fatty cheeks.

From there, we can’t just leave the body as is because Larry has stripes, as any cartoon bee should. So, starting from the outside of the oval or circle and working your way in, you’ll follow the basic curve of the oval around and create stripes for Larry. They don’t have to be perfectly even (and in fact shouldn’t be), and it’s okay if the lines are a bit wobbly. Remember, Lazy-Eye Larry is a cartoon bee with a bit of a vision problem, and he doesn’t realize his stripes are beginning to sag and wrinkle.

Step 3 - The Face and Limbs

Okay, so now that this little bee has a head on which to place features and a body to support limbs, let’s get this show on the road. Start with Larry’s lazy eye. This one will be on the left hand side of your drawing (Larry’s right eye). Draw a really big circle, with a smaller circle inside close to the upper left hand part of the large circle.

Now, just to the right of that eye, you are going to draw another eye that is just slightly bigger than the pupil of the first. The pupil inside this circle will be in the same position as the first but will be little more than a dot.

Eyebrows are uneven triangles placed crookedly above each eye. The mouth should be a lazy grin with laugh lines at either side. Use a slash mark to give Larry a double chin.

The limbs are going to be skinny and seem to just “hang” from the body. Back legs are an “L” shape at an angle a little more than the typical 90 degrees, and the front left leg (on the right) will have a slight bend, while the opposite will just be two short, straight lines.

Step 4 - Wings, Fingers and Feet

Lazy-Eye Larry the Cartoon Bee is almost done. To practice the wings, start with a couple of simple triangles drawn at odd angles, and play around with smoothing out the angles, rounding the lines into shallow arcs, and placing bumps here and there. Back feet are just a couple of ovals, with overlap lines erased. In the front, we’ll create hands with upside down “W” shapes for fingers and connecting lines to the arms. Now, you’re done. As you can see, using basic shapes to create a base for a more caricature style drawing is easy!

Learn how to draw cats by starting off with a few circles so that the shape comes out easily. If you have your pencil ready, then hop right in and start drawing this adorable kitten. Remember not to make your lines too dark because you will need to erase some of the early steps once you get further on in the lesson.

Step 1

Make one larger circle for the head and then two smaller circles for the body like in the example. Be careful that the placement is correct because these circles will let the body take shape.

Step 2

First add another little circle lower in the larger circle to define the nose and mouth of the cat. The next thing to draw is the ears. Add the curved lines like shown in the sketch.

Notice that both ears seem to curve towards the right as they move from the head to the tip of the ear.

It’s good to think about little stylistic details in your drawings like this when you are making your own characters because it can add a little bit of personality that makes everything look better.

Next, draw some curved lines lower along the side of the face to define the furry cheeks of the cat’s face.

After that join the two circles from the top to the bottom and we have the basic body shape of the cat.

Step 3

Start off by erasing all the extra lines in the face circles and the body so that the body shape is clear… Add the two little ovals above the little circle in the face to make the eyes, and then add two curved lines above the eyes for the eyebrows. To create the nose draw an upside down triangle and below that you can draw a little line going down. Once that’s done the face is almost finished.

Next we come to the placement of the tail…the two curved lines going up with a little circle in the end will define the tail. If you’re just learning how to draw cats it might be easier if you draw the circle at the end of the tail first before trying to draw the two curving lines leading up to it.

Then come towards the front part of the body and draw the two curved lines going down with a little circle at the end to create the paw. The other front paw is a little trickier. Follow the example and realize that although it may look complex, it is essentially 3 curved lines with a circle on the end of them to create the paw lifted up in the air.

Use the same technique of drawing two lines with a circle at the end of them to make the first back leg. The other back leg is just showing a little from behind the lifted front paw and is draw with a line and a curve.

If you’ve made it this far, pat yourself on the back because the whole body structure is complete now. You’re almost finished – just a little bit more to draw!

Step 4

First, start off by erasing all the extra lines as shown in the example sketch.

In this last step draw circles to fill in the eyeballs in the eyes and make the two lines curve out from the little line below the nose to get a smiling mouth for this cat.

Add some details to show stripes on the cat and add some jagged lines along the outline of the body to give the feeling of hair. That’s it! You’ve finished learning how to draw cats!

The cartoon Buddha drawing in this how to draw lesson is both easy and fun. Grab your pencil and eraser and let’s get busy! Remember to draw lightly so you can erase any mistakes that you make along the way. Once you finish everything up and you can trace over your lines again with either a pen, or pressing hard with the pencil to get nice clean lines in your final drawing.

Start your cartoon Buddha with two ovals, one for the body and one for the head. Drawing the body’s circle first may be a little bit easier than trying to draw the head first. There is a proportion in the way that the two circles relate to each other. The head circle is about half the height of the body and about a third of the width.

On the bottom of the body circle put a rectangular shape which we will later turn into 2 feet.

TIP - When you’re making any kind of drawing, always be sure to compare the size of objects to each other so you can come up with simple relationships using halves, thirds or fourths to make things easier to draw in proportion to each other.

Step 2 - Mouth, Cheeks, Arms and Feet

First add in the cheeks by drawing to half circles on each side of the head. Next add a big smiling mouth. Start this off by drawing a slightly curved line along the top of the mouth. Then make a U-shape that closely follows the circle that you drew for the head to finish the bottom of the mouth. Notice that the top line of the mouth is a little lower than where the top of the cheeks connect with the head.

Next we’ll add arms to this cartoon Buddha drawing. Start by drawing the line along the top of the arm. Because this is a cartoon, we’ve exaggerated some of the proportions and the upper arm is very short compared to the lower arm. Once you’re finished with the line for the top of the arm, draw a vertical line where the end of the sleeve will be. Finish up by drawing the bottom line of the arm and then do the exact same process for the arm on the other side of the body. Usually it’s easier to start from the armpit and move down towards the elbow and eventually where the hand will be.

Finish off the step by adjusting the little rectangle you drew at the bottom of the body and making them into 2 square feet.

Step 3 - Adding Details

Start off by drawing the eyes and nose on your Buddha Drawing. You can draw these in any order you wish but usually I draw the eyes first. All of these details are just simple, short curved lines. Use more curved lines to draw ears along the side of the head. One of the characteristics of the Buddha is that he should have very large ears. Add some more curved lines along the sides of the mouth to give a little indication of the teeth.

TIP - Usually your drawing will look better if you just hint at drawing the teeth instead of drawing each individual tooth.

Add some curves to show the feet. Just like the teeth, we’re not really defining each individual toe. What we want is more like generalized shapes. This both looks good, and is also easier to draw.

Finish off the step by starting to indicate the end of the sleeves with rounded rectangles for each arm.

Step 4 - Finishing Up the Cartoon Buddha Drawing

Start by adding eyebrows and a little line above each eye to give a little more personality this cartoon Buddha drawing.

Next add two curved lines going from the bottom of the head down under the arm and finally ending at the bottom of the body. These lines will help to define the Buddha’s clothing.

The hands might look a little bit tricky but they’re not that bad. First, add a curved line inside of the rounded rectangle you drew in the previous step. This will help create the hole in the sleeve where the hands come out. It’s a little hard to explain but if you compare this area the previous step it should be clear how to create this part. Next, draw in two hands that meet in the middle. There is no real trick to drawing this; just follow along and copy what you see in the image to the right.

Add what looks like a “Y” to the feet to show the straps on the sandals that hold the feet in place. Now that you’re done drawing, color in your Buddha and you are all finished.