how to draw a cute bat

Chris Desatoff is a cartoonist and blogger whose comic strips have been published in WriteHackr Magazine.

Learn to draw this cute cartoon bat, step by step. It's easy! — Learn to draw this cute drawing bat, step by step. Information technology's easy!

Hey everyone! In this easy cartooning tutorial for beginners, I'll testify you lot how to draw a cute cartoon bat—and I'll interruption it down with step-past-step instructions and photos then that you tin can draw it and redraw it at your ain footstep. This is a fun, unproblematic lesson that'due south easy enough for grownups and for kids.

Supplies You'll Demand

printer newspaper or notebook paper
pencil
pen
markers (optional)
smartphone or tablet (optional)

(You can also draw this with a tablet and stylus, if digital art is your affair.)

1 more thing: Stay tuned til the end where I'll share some simple cartooning tips that you can utilize to improve all of your comic characters—not just this vampire bat. Okay, permit'south get started.

Footstep ane: Draw the Head and Ears

If you've followed my zombie and kitty cat drawing tutorials, and then you already know I like to use a square shape with rounded edges for the caput.

The ears are basically just fiddling triangles plopped on tiptop of the head. I made these with the inner edges parallel to each other, but y'all can endeavor out different variations to run into how y'all like them.

Now that I think of information technology, I wish I had drawn one of the ears larger than the other to brand the character look less symmetrical.

Step two: Draw the Optics

Sometimes I like to draw the eyes as square-ish shapes with rounded edges. But I also tried this one with circle optics, and they looked pretty good too. Endeavour both variations to run into which shape you adopt for your bat's optics. I like the eyes to exist different sizes likewise; it just looks sillier to me (nosotros'll talk more about this at the stop of this cartooning tutorial).

Find the placement on the head. The lesser edge of the middle sockets is pretty low on there. You lot might even go lower, and then that they're practically resting on the lesser of the head. You might likewise like them closer together. Once more...experiment with dissimilar variations.

I also like my drawing eyes nice and big...

Step 3: Draw the Pupils

I thought I'd apply the expression, "Bullheaded as a bat" to this drawing and make the eyeballs actually goofy—to the bespeak that yous wonder whether this piddling guy tin can even see annihilation at all.

Footstep four: Draw the Teeth/Fangs

I skipped drawing the oral fissure and simply put those sharp piffling fangs forth the lesser of the bat'south head. I used the same concept when I drew my cute drawing zombie boy.

It works.

Step 5: Add Wing Lines (Top Edge) — Step 5: Add Wing Lines (Tiptop Border)

Step 5: Depict the Upper Edge of the Wings

Now we do the upper line of the wings.

Remember how I like the eyes to exist asymmetrical? Well, I like to apply that aforementioned off-balance feeling to the wings here. If the wings were the exactly the same size, it would await besides balanced—and clearly not silly enough.

Also, 1 wing is higher up on the body than the other one. You tin exaggerate the different angles even more if yous'd like, and so that ane wing is more vertical and the other more than horizontal.

Perchance the adjacent time you draw this little guy, effort putting that wing on the right almost straight up and see how it looks.

Step 6: Draw the Wings — Step 6: Describe the Wings

Step 6: End Cartoon the Wings

Okay, now we just finish the bottom lines of the wings and we're nigh done.

Be sure to make them nice and pointy.

Step 7: Add the Final Touches — Stride 7: Add together the Final Touches

Step 7: Add Thick Lines and Photo Edits

Our cute little cartoon bat drawing was basically finished at the last footstep, but I like to go over my drawing one last time to thicken up some of the lines and add a little more weight and depth to the drawing.

I'm not big on colour, but you lot can definitely go in at this signal with markers or water colors and add some color to your bat and groundwork.

You can besides take a movie of it and colour it on your telephone or tablet using art apps like Tayasui Sketches or Art Rage.

For my movie, I just utilize the free photograph app on my iPhone called BeFunky. It'due south a free app. I used the "Gritty HDR" effect nigh four times in a row to eliminate lines and shadows (I actually drew this on lined notebook paper).

Then I used the "Viewfinder 2", "Violet", and "TiltShift" effects to add that gritty look, blur the exterior edges and add a hint of color.

Note: I also did one more thing... I angled my phone camera when shooting the concluding prototype.

Using Disproportion to Create Goofy, Airheaded, Off-Remainder Drawing Characters

So throughout this beginner tutorial, I've mentioned several times how using asymmetry and angles tin can brand your characters look off-balance, goofy, silly, and all around cartooney.

But some things are easier to prove than to tell, so earlier nosotros wrap this up let'southward have a minute to see what a difference it makes when drawing comics characters symmetrically vs asymmetrically.

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Symmetry vs. Asymmetry: Testify Your Grapheme's Personality

When you meet the symmetrical bat and the asymmetrical bat, right away you tin can run across that these two characters probably have very different personalities. At least, as an artist and cartoonist, you probable desire to create characters with visual personality. And don't exist afraid to go overboard—exaggeration is the foundation of cartooning. There'south no such thing as as well silly!

Symmetrical: The symmetrical character seems more balanced and more stable, non just physically (flying through the nighttime sky) but emotionally as well. So when you lot're drawing a character who is more serious, intelligent, mature, etc., you'll probably want to draw them more than symmetrical. Even posing the character in a more than symmetrical, stiff manner can make them announced to have a more serious personality.
Asymmetrical: With the asymmetrical character, information technology's the exact opposite. Every physical characteristic is different: the eyes and pupils are different sizes, the ears accept different shapes, the wings are totally mismatched. One molar is cleaved. And the angle of the torso equally he'southward coming in for a landing makes him look even more off-residual. You lot start to wonder if this picayune guy fifty-fifty knows which way is upwards. Yous can nearly hear him panting, huffing and puffing for air equally he'due south awkwardly flopping through the sky. Compared to this one, the other (symmetrical) bat looks as graceful every bit an eagle swooping in on its prey.

Information technology's not that one style is better than the other. Both are cute and fun. Only as you get more serious about cartoon comics characters, you lot'll want to employ fiddling details like this to diversify your characters, to visually give them some added personality and to create a feeling in your viewers equally they look at your art.

Okay, so that's all I got for yous today. I hope you have a fun time cartoon your lilliputian cartoon vampire bat. Permit me know what you think! And please share this cartooning tutorial with your friends if you call up they'll enjoy it.

- Chris

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An older drawing of my cartoon bat — An older cartoon of my cartoon bat

Chris Desatoff (writer) from USA on March twenty, 2022:

Bahaha! RUSS! You impale me, bro. Practiced to come across y'all on hither. So how are you lot doing? I stopped Bubz ages ago (obviously). And to be honest, I'g inappreciably ever on hither too. Look...you commented 5 weeks ago and I merely saw it now...so that's how often I check on here.

Anyway, good to hear from you, man. I'll have to finish past your blog and see what you been up to.

Aloha, Chris

russkeith on February 12, 2022:

I only found this on Pinterest and have to say y'all must be the greatest artist ever and an crawly teacher.

neat from Dwelling Sweet Dwelling on November 29, 2022:

my son could depict this bat and he fifty-fifty changed it to a zombie, thank you, voted up

Chris Desatoff (author) from USA on March 06, 2022:

Thanks Jaime. I'm glad you liked them. And thanks for the thumbs upwards =)

Jaime on March 06, 2022:

That really WAS "super piece of cake." I loved information technology! I liked your cat one too, simply that was a harder one. Information technology took me a couple of times to get it right, simply now it's easier.

I clicked the "thumbs up" too for you.