Cartooning for Beginners: How to Draw Cartoon Dogs! (Udemy.com)
Learn the cartoon drawing design process from sketch to finish using pens and colored pencils!
Created by: Malcolm Monteith
Last updated February 2025
What you will learn
- By the end of the course you will have created seven full colour cartoon dogs to share with the world!
How it compares
Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 85% of them
- Reviews102#153 of 195 by number of reviews
- Length1.1 hoursshorter than 89% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2025more recently than 83% of them
Course Description
Welcome to How to Draw Cartoon Dogs! This is a course for beginners, kids, parents or anyone else who would like to learn cartooning. In this course I’ll be walking you step-by-step through my process to create seven cartoon dogs. By the end of this workshop you will have created a chihuahua, a German shepherd, a poodle, a basset hound, a pug, a bulldog and a sausage dog!
I’ll first show you the sketch phase, where I build up each dog with some basic shapes, then we’ll move on to inking in the dominant lines with a thick pen, followed by adding details with a thin pen. Finally we will get out some colored pencils and do some good old fashioned coloring in!
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
102 Reviews
Malcolm Monteith
Oh hello there! My name is Malcolm Monteith, I am an artist and illustrator from Australia - It is a glorious nation, filled with great coffee and things that can kill you. My artistic adventures include things such as illustrating logos, posters, comics, selling oil paintings and watercolours in galleries and eating chips.
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Reviews
By Greenwood Luan on 6/7/2023
Really enjoyed the narration and step by step was great.
By Maria Erika Magsaysay on 3/23/2021
I absolutely enjoyed this course! I love his style of drawing and teaching! :) I was nervous to draw dogs, but he made it fun and relaxing to draw cartoon dogs. :) Love how he explains it with shapes! I'm so glad I purchased this course. Thank you!
By Gustavo G Shahin on 8/27/2020
I think this course is harder than the face drawings,but so far I am doing good on the drawngs .
By Helaine Weidner on 3/1/2020
I enjoyed the course very much. I always felt that I had no artistic abilities, but with the great explanations and videos, I find that I can do quite well. Now I am going to have to try to do a Greyhound since I work with a rescue group. I am sure that I will be taking more of these courses in the future.
By Michelle Chapman on 1/28/2019
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was really helpful to be given a process to use... Step 1-Start with basic shapes Step 2-Add details etc. Im quite a creative person and have painted in oils for years but I was completely clueless when it came to cartoons-Im pleased to report that I am no longer clueless. This has helped me immensely. Thank you.
By Ann Williams on 7/30/2018
This is a great course for beginners. The directions are clear and easy to follow. More importantly, you can take the basic designs and use them for other dogs, altering it to make it your own. A great teacher and a great course!!
By Beatriz Brito de Souza on 6/9/2018
I'm beginning as a illustrator and my first job is to draw a dog in cartoon style. I can't thank you enough for this course! It makes more clear to me how to start! And, of course, I had a lot of fun with your dogs! You're amazing and funny and I totally loved the course! Thank you a million times!
By Bianca Koch on 4/20/2018
Loving it so far. It's a little fast for me but I can catch up. Now that I am finished...... I loved it. Short, sweet and thorough. I'd like it a little slower paced so I can keep up better. ????????????
By Vinita Temmert on 4/18/2018
This course is exceptional!! My 6 yr old daughter is taking it now on the iPad. She’s drawn 4 cartoon dogs based on her learnings so far and the parents and teachers are flipping out at how amazing her cartooning skills are. Malcolm.. she’s like me to send you a photo of her first few dogs.. where can I send it? Amazing!!!
By JP Espejon on 4/18/2018
Love this course. It really taught me basic information on how to draw cartoons.
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