The Ultimate Animal Drawing Course - beginner to advanced (Udemy.com)
Learn the #1 most important building block of all art
Created by: Jaysen Batchelor
Last updated March 2022
What you will learn
- Draw animals out of your head
- Draw realistic light and shadow
- Understand the fundamentals of drawing animals
- Draw animals in perspective
- Understand form and anatomy
Course Description
Join over 260,000 learning student and start gaining the drawing skills you've always wanted.
The Ultimate Animal Drawing Course will show you how to create advanced art that will stand up as professional work. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of drawing animals - or your money back!
The course is your track to obtaining drawing skills like you always knew you should have! Whether for your own projects or to draw for other people.
This course will take you from having little knowledge in drawing animals to creating advanced art and having a deep understanding of animal drawing fundamentals.
So what else is in it for you?
You’ll create over 50 different projects in this course that will take you from beginner to expert!
You’ll gain instant access to all 11 sections of the course.
The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of drawing animals in many different styles. It will equip you with the knowledge to create stunning designs and illustration!
Don’t believe me? I offer you a full money back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course.
Here’s what you get with the course:
You’ll get access to the11 sections of the course that will teach you the fundamentals of drawing animals from the ground up. The course is supported with over 10 hours of clear content that I walk you through each step of the way.
All at your fingers tips instantly.
The course starts with the basics. You will get an in depth understanding of the fundamentals of drawing animals. Fundamentals are the most important part of creating professional art. You will learn everything from line fundamentals and animal body structures to form, highlights, and shadows.
Next you’ll learn how to apply the concept of perspective to your animal drawings and how to incorporate it into your art. You will be learning 1 and 2 point perspective.
Once you’ve learned perspective you are going to learn how to create texture for you animal drawings. This course will cover fur, wrinkle, and scale textures.
Then you are going to learn how to draw animals from life. Observing life and drawing it is a very important skill when it comes to art.
At this point you’ll be ready to start learning how animal anatomy works and why its important and how to incorporate it into your drawings. We will spend a whole section on the skeletal system, muscle structure, and gesture.
Next you’re going to learn how to draw animal poses and gesture.
Lastly you will gain access to the bonus section where I’ll teach you how I draw animation styled animal characters step by step.
Over the 7 chapters you will learn:
How to draw a tiger eye
Line fundamentals
Animal shape and form fundamental
Animal structure
How to use value and contrast in animal drawings
Space and perspective
Drawing animals from life
Creating texture
Drawing anatomy
Drawing pose and gesture
Drawing animation styled animal art
Through out the course you will be drawing:
Dogs
Cats
Lions
Grizzly & Panda Bears
Horses
Cows
Big and Small Birds
Wolfs
Chipmunks
Rhinos
Elephants
Peacocks
We will be looking at examples of many other animals
The concepts and kills you will gain from this course will allow you to draw any animal you want.
What else will you get?
- Personal contact with me, the course tutor
- Lifetime access to course materials
- Access to the Artist Inner Family Facebook Group
- Understanding of how professional art is created
- Quizzes and exercise work sheets
This all comes under one convenient easy to use platform. Plus you will get fast, friendly, responsive support on the Udemy Q&A section of the course or direct message.
I will be here for you every step of the way!
So what are you waiting for? Sign up now and change your art world today!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,944 Reviews
Jaysen Batchelor
At the age of 17 I began a 6th month internship with an animation studio out of Utah. After my internship was up, I was hired on to build backgrounds and to design props and characters for animation projects. I then began to do my own freelance work on the side through networking and using online freelancing sites. Now I work as a freelance Illustrator and designer working on my own time from where ever I want.
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Reviews
By Amber on 9/27/2025
The teacher is excellent at describing everything, it is making a lot more sense on how to shape animal structures, really happy I found this online course, it is going to help me out a lot with my children book illustrations I have in mind. highly recommend this course to anyone who would like to learn how to draw animals by hand.
By Steve Ainslie on 7/4/2022
This is my third Jason B course. I get a lot from his teaching style. The only reason I gave it 4.5 stars vs. 5 is because of some repetition from the previous courses. If I see another lesson on core shadows and spheres, I'll want to cut out my eyeballs with a spoon. More seriously, I was exposed to anatomy, sketching, animal portraits, birds, lions, bears, horses and dogs. For the first time in my life, I can sketch an animal and it actually is identifiable as that animal. This was my goal! Great course.
By Mia Rats on 3/31/2021
The course covers all the fundamentals of drawing animals, and teaches you everything you need to know to continue studying, practicing and improving. As a beginner, I really liked the course and can absolutely recommend it! Whether you want to draw realistic or cartoon, this course is a good place to start for either one.
By Nadine Hegewald on 6/12/2020
Dieser Kurs hat mich wieder zu meiner alten Leidenschaft, dem Zeichnen gebracht! Die einzelnen Lektionen sind super strukturiert und so lernt man Stück für Stück, wie man das Zeichnen von Tieren angehen muss. Auf jeden Fall sollte man sich die Zeit nehmen und jede einzelne Übung mitmachen - auch wenn es mal nicht gleich ein ganzes Tier ist. Ich selbst war total überrascht wie gut ich mit den Anweisungen zeichnen konnte. Es macht absolut Spaß und der Bonus am Ende im Animationsstil hat mir total gefallen und Lust auf mehr gemacht! Absolute Empfehlung für alle die sich wirklich mit dem Zeichnen von Tieren beschäftigen wollen.
By Sophia O on 3/22/2020
I really enjoyed this course. I know he didn't had enough time for the explaining the full anatomy but overall I really enjoy it. The only thing I would've liked is drawing animated animals full body because maybe there a few subtle changes that can sepereate realistic and animation style. I learned a lot and the instructor is not boring so yeah, definitely worth to check it out.
By Sharon Elizabeth on 12/3/2019
Learned so much from this class. I'm beginner level... Concepts that I've found very challenging to understand in the past in different classes were explained so well in this course. instructor has the ability to engage the student without sounding dry in all the theory aspects. Appreciate all the drawing opportunities provided. Would recommend to anybody who has a desire to learn how to draw animals.
By Terrence McAtamney on 10/27/2019
This is a really really good course! It's easy to understand and the instructor explains things pretty good! He also provides steps and full footage of each step and how to get to the final product. This is very helpful for any beginner artist, he also explains shading, contrast, and more things in this course!
By John Hile on 9/20/2019
Very comprehensive. Well done. The only thing I felt was missing was what I consider a fundamental part of any drawing, the gesture. Animals move like flowing water and the gesture is critical to capturing their essence. Otherwise the course gives a very good foundation in animal drawing. Recommended.
By Roberts Briedis on 6/11/2019
I would give this course 4 stars but the fact that once again student requires a printer to print out animal photo, thats a big no no from me. Other than that not bad, i did enjoy this course learned couple valuable things as well as starting to understand why blue/red pencil is a must even for a sketch.
By Walter Simmons on 6/3/2019
It's a good match, especially seeing this approach to bilateral symmetry. I've dealt with that concern previously in measured perspective in boat construction, where I had to work with a cube of "known" dimension in the middle of the field and work outward from there. This is a much more relaxed approach to achieving the same end. Nicely done.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100












