How To Draw A Cartoon Elephant

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Learn to draw a cartoon Elephant step by step, a drawing tutorial with illustrations to follow along the way.

Sketching And Coloring A Cartoon Elephant

Step By Step Cartoon Elephant Drawing Tutorial

How to draw a Cartoon Elephant is a step by step photo illustration drawing tutorial that you can follow and try and draw your very own Cartoon Elephant. From the beginning sketch to the near finished Elephant design it really helps when all the steps have been drawn and laid out for you to have a go at sketching.

Other drawing tutorials in the Cartoon drawing series include:-

How To Draw A Cartoon Cat

How To Draw A Cartoon Dog

How To Draw A Cartoon Dragon

The drawing steps go from the sketching stage to the inking and then the full coloring stage using Crayola Twistables which are ideal for coloring as there is no need for a pencil sharpener which I always found annoying with traditional coloring pencils even though I still use them and Prismacolors too.

Lets begin shall we? Start off by sketching a round shape for the head and a line for the back and we are ready to roll.

Starting To Sketch The Cartoon Elephant Shape

Sketching The Outline In Shapes And Lines
Sketching The Outlines Of The Head And Back line
Sketching The Outlines Of The Head An...
Draw Front Legs
Draw Front Legs
Draw Belly And Back Legs
Draw Belly And Back Legs
Draw A Tiny Tail
Draw A Tiny Tail
Draw In Both Ears
Draw In Both Ears
Draw In The Trunk
Draw In The Trunk

Draw The Features And Details

By simply adding eyes and a mouth you are creating a personality for your Elephant and adding character to it. So try and draw in the eyes and start to define the face more at this stage and the Elephants body too with the huge toe nails which can be later colored pink or light grey it's up to you.

As you can see from this section the drawing comes together quite nicely and it's looking more like an Elephant now with all of the elements in place like huge ears and trunk and large legs like thick tree trunks.

Before you start to ink the drawing make sure you are happy with the drawing.

Draw In The Features

Drawing Eyes And Other Details
Sketch In Some Eyes
Sketch In Some Eyes
Finish The Eyes And Define The Face
Finish The Eyes And Define The Face
Draw In A Happy Laughing Mouth
Draw In A Happy Laughing Mouth
Add Some Details
Add Some Details
Drawing Some Toe Nails And Define The Outlines
Drawing Some Toe Nails And Define The...
Then The Back Legs
Then The Back Legs
Ink The Whole Drawing
Ink The Whole Drawing

Coloring A Cartoon Elephant With Crayolas

Color With Crayola Twistable Pencils

I used the Crayola Twistable color pencils for this and other coloring tutorials and they are great to use for blending the colors together and if at the end of drawing this cartoon Elephant you could get a white Crayola pencil and start to blend the Black  with it, making the black a more smoother looking grey which is something I didn't do below.

I used a Black, a Pink and a light Blue for the eyes and this is all you need really unless you want your Elephant to be entirely Pink or Blue or any other different color. Or maybe you want to draw stripes and spots all over your Elephant because it's up to you.

Have fun drawing and coloring your very own Cartoon Elephant.

Coloring Your Cartoon Elephant

Color Demonstration With Crayola Twistables
Shade In The Inside Of The Elephants Ears With Pink
Shade In The Inside Of The Elephants ...
Start To Shade In Black Lightly On The Skin
Start To Shade In Black Lightly On Th...
Color Lightly With The Black Leaving White Space At The Edges
Color Lightly With The Black Leaving ...
Finish Off With Black And Then Shade In The Toe Nails With Pink
Finish Off With Black And Then Shade ...
Color The Eyes Blue
Color The Eyes Blue
Add Your Artists Signature
Add Your Artists Signature

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Updated: 02/03/2012, onepagearticles
 
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DerdriuMarriner on 12/06/2023

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Sketching And Coloring A Cartoon Elephant Step By Step Cartoon Elephant Drawing Tutorial, concedes to continued composing with Prismacolors and "traditional coloring pencils" that nevertheless demand pencil sharpeners.

What contexts do you find best for Crayola Twistables and what situations enlist Prismacolor and traditional coloring pencils?

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