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Summary: Drawing a cartoon crab using basic shapes then adding detail to make it appear 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 a crab. This is another one of the easiest ones. And you can make a whole crab book of crab capers. Start with a lemon type shape. Make another curve under there. That is basically the whole body and head and everything. Give it two nostrils and the cool thing is the eyes. Here comes out the arm, the other arm. At the base of the arm give it a nice big claw. Now look at that big scary claw. And on this side I will make his claw open. Almost the same thing. You just make it a little wider and make sure when you follow that zig zag line it connects like that. Here is his open claw ready to grab something. And then little feet, little legs rather. And basically there is your crab. I am going to put him on the bottom of the ocean. I am going to draw little lines around him, the ocean bottom. And you know you can draw the top of the water. You can draw some fish. You can put some bubbles. Generally just put little bubbles here and there and you get the sense that we are underwater. And there you have, you know what give him a little expression. He can be an inquisitive crab. You can make him an angry crab. You can make any kind of crab you like. There is our crab."