How to Draw a Mammal's Body

Video Transcript

"We're cartooning today and we're drawing animals. Since we've been drawing mammals, let's go ahead and start adding their body. In the same way that we would concentrate on the mane and the teeth, we have a nice lion going on. If we were to draw his body, we would immediately think he's got big paws coming down. He's got some claws jetting out of those paws. What I think of when I think of a lion is you can't forget that tail. Where else is he going to have some bushy air like he's got on his head. He's got a little frock jetting out at the end of his tail. If you remember earlier, we drew a picture of an elephant. I'm going to draw him again really quick. Here's our elephant. He's got big ears. What else do we think of the elephant when we think of his nose and his big ears? He's got a big body. He's got some big powerful legs. I'm going to draw those. We'll draw the little toe nails. There's his little tail. When you're drawing animals and you're thinking of their most prominent feature, then carry that onto the body and try to think of what do I think of when I think of that creatures body. There you got a mammals face and body."