Supplies Needed for Drawing a Cartoon Santa

Series Summary

Santa Claus is popularly depicted on greeting cards all over the western world and is the hero in many Christmas time cartoons. Drawing a cartoon Santa Claus for greeting cards or just for fun is actually much is easier than you might think - especially if you have an artist show you how. If you would like to learn how to draw a cartoon Santa Claus, you can learn for free from one of our expert artists.

In this free how to art video, learn how to draw a cartoon Santa Claus from artist Matt Cail. Matt will tell you what supplies you need for drawing a cartoon Santa Claus. He will demonstrate how to draw Santa's face, how to draw Santa's beard, how to draw Santa's hat, how to draw Santa's arms, how to draw Santa's stomach, how to draw Santa's legs, how to draw Santa's bag, and how to color a cartoon Santa Claus.

Video Transcript

"I'm gonna show you today how to draw a Santa Clause cartoon. O.K. so lets get all of our supplies together as we set on our cartooning quest for the day, which is doing a cartoon version of Santa Clause. So, first we are gonna need to have some good basic white paper. This can be the exact same paper that you you print with, that's no problem at all. Or it can even be a no special paper. I would at least, I would suggest at least having an 8 1/2 by 11 size white paper though and definitely not tracing paper actually it should be like normal paper stalk. Next we're also gonna be using a lead pencil. So that's what you're gonna be using for lots of our out lining and kind of like guide lines, mapping things out today. And then you are gonna want to have a good set of felt markers. And for these felt markers it's great if you have both thick and thin felt markers. The thinner markers for the more integer details that we're gonna be doing and the big thick markers like you know quickly coloring in large areas, so definitely you should have both. Some of the colors that are going to be very useful today, of course it's like a pail flesh tone, also having some light blue, warm black, red, and green."