Summary: How to use basic shapes to draw a cartoon elephant and adding details to make your elephant look more realistic; learn tips, ticks and more for creating realistic cartoon drawings in this free online art lesson about cartoons taught by expert Matt Moskal.
Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. He has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Philadelphia School District since 2003, using his...read more
"How to draw an elephant. I am going to start with the eyes. We are not going to draw a circle head this time believe it or not. Make the eyes looking a certain way. And then right from here we will go to the trunk. Go a little bit below the eyes and you can make the trunk go any which way. Kind of curvy. Just remember it's fatter towards the base and it gets skinnier and if you mess up you mess up. You know just practice a few times. Make the little lip part at the edge of the trunk and give it some hatch round lines to show the segmentation. Now we are going to do the tusks. Start about right here and there is a tusk. You can make this tusk face the same way or you can make it face the opposite way. Kind of go like that and top of the head. Now watch this, this is the cool thing about elephants. Big ear, big ear especially if you are Dumbo. And now we just come down to the legs. Kind of similar to when we did the pig. Like that make a nice belly. Now elephants have these cool toes that are like that. Anytime you even see toes like that you might think that's an elephant and tail. Let’s see my one big ear see how I did one ear really big. That elephant might have gotten bitten by a mosquito he was allergic to but it doest matter you just keep doing it keep doing. It gets better and it's a cartoon it doesn't have to be perfect. And that's an elephant. "