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Drawing Cartoon Animals with Tim Hodge
Creature Art Teacher Course
Learn to draw expressive cartoon animals with personality and appeal.
Join Tim Hodge for a fun, approachable course on drawing cartoon animals.
You’ll learn how to simplify animal anatomy, build characters from basic shapes, push expressions, and create appealing animal designs full of life.
Cartoon Animals
Beginner Friendly
Character Design
Drawing Fundamentals
Beginner Friendly
Character Design
Drawing Fundamentals
What You’ll Learn
Use simple shapes, gesture, expression, and animal reference to create fun, readable cartoon animal characters.
Animal Design
Explore how to simplify real animals into appealing cartoon designs while keeping their unique personality and charm.
Course Journey
Practice construction, posing, facial expressions, body language, and design choices that make animal characters feel alive.
Meet Tim Hodge
Learn from a veteran animation artist, story artist, writer, director, and teacher with decades of professional experience.
Lessons
02 Simple Shapes – Eyes & Expressions
Exercise to push expressions in your characters.
03 Drawing Fun Poses
Define the concept of “line of action” and work to get fun poses.
04 Drawing a Cartoon Dog & Cat
Push your characters to get a really cartoony result.
05 Drawing Cartoon Elephants & Rhinos
Go from spheres and cubes to accomplish elephants and rhinos in action.
06 Painting an Elephant on a Beach Ball
Follow Tim while he transfer one of his draws into watercolor.
07 Drawing Toby with Ink & Paint!
Delve into your graphic style by selecting one of your sketches and giving it color.
08 Drawing a Dinosaur with Ink & Paint
Design a dinosaur character and take it from drawing into color painting.
09 Bonus Tips and Drawing Farm Animals
Tims tips for your sketching and drawing. // Share your favorite cartoon animal in your own style with #baldmelon #cartoonanimaldraw
