Drawing Animal 15: Hamster

How is the winter in your place? I hope you are having a cozy winter 😘

Welcome back to a new cute animal drawing practice designed especially for absolute beginner artists. In this week’s beginner-friendly drawing exercise, we will together create this chubby hamster.

Before jumping into the step-by-step tutorial, spend one or two minutes examining our reference photo, which is essential for beginner artists. 

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This Blog is created to help artists without much practical experience by introducing the method of drawing using shapes - imperfect circles. If you are new to this drawing method, you are recommended to read the two first posts belonging to Level 0. You can access that Drawing Level 0 as well as other exercises of other beginner-friendly drawing levels at Blog Navigation.

Now let’s grab your paper and pencil, we will go through a few simple steps to draw our hamster 🐹

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Step 5: Color your way

Since this hamster drawing is a practice of Level 3, you should consider the above coloring version just as an example. Playing with your own color palettes is a great way to boost your creativity and find your unique art style 🌞

I also created some printable coloring sheets suitable for beginner artists who love having creative time with colors. Check them out at my Ko-fi shop

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Thank you so much for joining today’s drawing practice. Visit my YouTube channel and draw with me through various drawing timelapse videos.

I hope you enjoyed my content. See you in the next drawing practice.

Happy drawing 😍

Drawing Animal 14: Squirrel

Happy December, my artist friend ❄️😆

I wish you and your family a cozy winter.

Thank you for joining me (again) on this week’s animal drawing practice for beginner artists. Today, we will go through simple steps to create this squirrel 🐿️

As usual, please spare one or two minutes to examine the following reference photo. Drawing from references is a crucial process for absolute beginner artists training our eyes in order to figure out the simple shapes needed to form an object.

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This squirrel is so cute, isn’t it? 😁 Let’s grab your pencil and eraser, we will dive into the step-by-step tutorial right now.

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Step 5: Color your way

The above coloring version is just my example. Select the colors you like and create your unique coloring version of this squirrel 🤩👏

If you like to practice drawing more, please access Blog Navigation and choose drawing topics you love. This Blog is designed to help beginner artists starting their art dreams by offering a variety of beginner-friendly tutorials of several levels. If you have just started drawing and don’t know how to start, the two posts of Drawing Level 0 are worth reading. 

In addition, exercises of Level 0, Level 1, and Level 2 include detailed coloring guidelines. The animal drawing series of Level 3, including this week’s squirrel, omitted the detailed coloring steps because I want you to play with your own color palettes and find your art style 🥳

In case you like playing with colors more, consider my printable coloring sheets available at my Ko-fi shop here

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I also posted some sketching short clips for those of you who also love pencil drawing (as I do ☺️). I hope you can enjoy them while learning some sketching techniques.

Thank you so much for drawing with me. Join my drawing practice again in the next beginner exercise.

Happy drawing 💖

Drawing Animal 13: Koala

Happy winter, dear artist ❄️☃️

Welcome or welcome back to the thirteenth practice of our drawing animal series 😀

In this week’s beginner-friendly drawing exercise, I will guide you through several easy steps to create this cute koala.

Since every drawing practice of this Blog is designed to help beginner artists starting their art journeys, each step-by-step tutorial will begin with a reference photo.

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Please spend one or two minutes on examining this chubby koala, and imagine which shapes this koala is made of 😘

Are you ready? Grab your pencil and draw with me.

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Step 6: Coloring

This animal drawing series belongs to the Drawing Level 3 of this Blog, so you are recommended to boost your creativity by applying your own color palette. I bet your colored version of this koala is much better than the example above 🤩🥳

If you are new to this Blog, or if you want to learn more about how to color, please have a look at previous drawing levels via Blog Navigation. In those previous levels and beginner drawing practices, I offered detailed sketching and coloring guidelines for all absolute beginner artists. And of course, exercises of previous levels are simpler than this animal drawing series.

I also created some simple printable coloring sheets for those who like playing with colors. Please check out my Ko-fi shop to see whether you are interested in them.

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Remember, practice makes perfect. A simple sketch per day is enough for beginner artists to improve our art skills 😍

Join me on my YouTube channel to practice pencil sketching through short and easy drawing videos.

Thank you so much for visiting this Blog. I hope you can find this Blog helpful.

See you in the next Blog post ✨💖

Drawing Animal 12: Red Panda

Good day, artist 🥰

Welcome to another simple animal drawing practice. In today’s beginner exercise, we will learn simple steps to create this cute red panda.

I have repeated regularly throughout this Blog, but this is worth repeating. Examining the reference photo carefully before actually drawing is really important for beginner artists to train our eyes. Therefore, please spend a minute to imagine which shapes that this red panda is formed 😁

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If you are new to the concept of drawing using SHAPES in this Blog, please have a look at the Blog Navigation. You will have an overview of how this Blog is designed to help absolute beginner artists training their eyes and hands to start their art dreams. Particularly, the concepts of using basic SHAPES to draw anything is explained in detail in the two posts of the Drawing Level 0. If you are new to drawing and don’t know how to draw anything you want, these Drawing Level 0 posts are helpful.

Now, let’s dive into the easy step-by-step tutorial to put simple shapes together and create our cute red panda 🥳

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Step 5: Coloring

This above colored version is just an example for your reference. As we have made it to Drawing Level 3, playing with your own color palettes and even beginning to adjust some small details in order to boost your creativity is a great step to find your own art style.

If you want to learn more about how to color, the drawing practices belonging to Level 1 and Level 2 may help you a bit. I shared beginner-friendly guidelines of how to color your artworks in those posts. Please check them out 😍

Another great way to improve your coloring skills and get more creative is to play with coloring books. I also provide some printable coloring sheets for you to consider. You can have a look at them by accessing my Ko-fi shop

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Thank you so much for drawing with me today. I hope you enjoyed the simple process and were satisfied with your own cute red panda.

If you are interested in pencil sketching and drawing cute animals from references, visit my YouTube channel for more 😘

I am so happy if you can learn something from this Blog. See you in the next drawing practice.

Happy drawing 💖

Drawing Animal 11: Racoon

Hello, my friend! Wish you a wonderful week 💖

Welcome or welcome back to a new animal drawing practice of this Blog. In this week’s exercise, we will go through several simple steps to create this chubby racoon.

As usual, firstly let’s examine our reference photo:

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This step is crucial for beginner artists because it will help train your eyes to figure out the shapes needed to draw an object.

Are you ready? Grab your paper and pencil. We will dive into the beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorial right away 😉.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5: Coloring

The above coloring version is just an example for your reference. Since we are in the Drawing Level 3, you are strongly recommended to boost your creativity by playing with your own color palette.

If this is your first time visiting this Blog, here is a brief introduction:

This Blog is created to support absolute beginner artists pursuing their art journeys by offering multiple drawing practices categorized into several levels. So far, this Blog includes the following drawing levels:

• Drawing Level 0: fundamental shapes

• Drawing Level 1: fun and simple fruits

• Drawing Level 2.1: animal plush toys

• Drawing Level 2.2: human dolls

• Drawing Level 3: drawing animals from reference photos

You can access all exercises of the above levels via the Blog Navigation.

In addition, my YouTube channel also provides many simple sketching practices which are suitable for beginner artists. You are welcome to join me there.

Finally, I also created some simple printable coloring sheets for those who like playing with colors to practice while relaxing. You can have a look at them by visiting my Ko-fi shop:

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Thank you so much for drawing this cute racoon with me. I hope you have created your own unique chubby racoon 😍. 

See you in the next animal drawing practice.

Happy drawing 🤗