Welcome to Lesson 1 of the Beginner’s Guide to Animal Character Design! Over the next four days, you’ll learn simple techniques to draw animal characters in just a few quick steps.

In this four-part video series, I’ll be sharing how to:

• draw a hippo, a zebra, a crocodile and a flamingo character starting with simple shapes
• transition from observation to imagination
• use the six key elements to animate any animal character
• design a scene with your cast of animal characters

Today’s Task: Follow along as we construct four distinct animals—a zebra, crocodile, hippo, and flamingo.

What You Will Need:

• Paper and a pencil, with the option to use your iPad.
• I’ll be using my Staedtler Mars Clutch Pencil with a brown lead. Feel free to use a HB or 2B graphite pencil.

Happy Sketching!
Nina 

PS – Connect with me on Instagram @ninarycroft and share your animal characters! #drawwithnina!