A short demo of a cartoon Santa Claus that can be done by kids and adults for this holiday season.
With Christmas coming up, learning how to draw a cute cartoon Santa Claus may just get you in the spirit. This cute little guy can be used on homemade Christmas cards, present tags, and on homemade wrapping paper. Hey, get creative!
The Santa drawing can easily be done by children, so grab one, and do this Santa drawing together! You can follow along with this demo by the author. This demo shows all of the marks that the author made when drawing the Santa.
This Santa can be done with markers or a computer drawing program for the best effect, but don’t be afraid to try paints, colored pencils, or finger paints.
First, draw a large circle for the stomach. Make sure that this circle is a little elongated.
Next, add a smaller circle for the head. To add a beard, erase the bottom part of the circle and replace it with a ‘W’ type mark. In the demo the beard changed a few times. You can tinker with your Santa’s beard as well to get the look you want.
The hat is next. This is basically a lopsided cone with a “poofy” circle at the end.
The face is a very easy child -riendly drawing. The eyes and nose are just dots with smaller dots inside of them. The nose has a white dot to mimic a highlight. Don’t forget to draw glasses around the eyes. Don’t worry about the ears. Just draw simple loops under the glasses’ earpieces. The mouth is just a simple line.
The arms and legs can be drawn as simple sausage-like shapes coming out from the body in a star shape. Add white, puffy ruffles to the wrists and ankles for decoration. The boots are simple sausage-like shapes, as well. Don’t forget to add heels and shiny highlights. You can also add laces, if you like.
The hands are a little circle with another circle on top for the thumb. These are red to look like gloves, but they can be made in flesh colors to look like bare hands, too.
Now, Santa needs accessories. Give him a belt by drawing a square in the middle of the body, with two lines coming out from it and curving around the stomach. Give his coat a few round circles for buttons. You may want to give Santa a nice toy bag or reindeer. Go wild!
As you can see, this Santa is very easy and you can adapt it so that is original.
