Video: How to Draw a Cartoon Alligator

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Make a cartoon alligator using basic shapes and add detail to make it 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.

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How to draw an alligator. Almost exactly the same as the lizard. It is one of the easiest things to draw so you can be drawing alligators everywhere. We are going to start with actually a little curve there for the nostril cause they have kind of have these big nostrils. Make the hole in the nostril. Make the rest of the snout. And here is a snout at the back of the snout where the eye is we are going to make another little bump like that before we draw the eye. And then the eye and the bottom lip. And the rest of the head in there. We will give him a little bit more fancy claws than we did the lizard. But basically it is almost the same as the lizard. Make his tail curl around there. And now to make him a crocodile or and alligator give him some nice teeth like that. The cool thing is that their teeth come up too so you can kind of do a zig zag line like that if you want to be easy. And there you can make some teeth coming down and some up. Once again you want to be scary and ferocious so give him a little bit of an angry look. Just one line right there. Give him a little bit of bony ridges along his back and the cool thing is as you are making these bony ridges you can kind of come around there and draw a line like that. And you see how the bony ridge kind of follows the tail around like that. Give him some scales. Put him somewhere scary. We are going to put him on a little island here. Partially submerged where he is just waiting for his next victim. And you know put water around. Water is like the easiest thing. And there you have the ferocious alligator.

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How to Draw a Cartoon Alligator

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