Easy Drawing: Three Little Santas

1. Introduction: **, **, **. Welcome to Easy Drawing. Three Little Santas want to draw Santa, but you struggle to get started. Then you come to the right place. In this class, I will show you how to draw cartoon Santas in a simple and easy way. Using basic shapes, we will create three little santas holding a slow pace, being relaxed and playful. Also, drawing smiling santas is like two gifts. In one, you learn a new skill and will be very happy At the same time. That is hard to beat. 2. Your First Santa - sketch: Before we get started, I want you to put on some great Christmas music. Maybe have a cup of cocoa or a spiced tea, and make sure that you sit in a warm and comfy room. I will draw a sketch first with the blue pencil. Later on, we will define everything with a darker one. Let's go ahead and start with sketching. I thought we will start by drawing a round shape, looking a bit like this. You can be as rough as you want to. It doesn't have to be a perfect line, a round circle for the head. And then we'll draw a guide line up like this across head, like that. Don't worry if the lines are crooked or if something is a little bit tilted, it will look perfect when you complete the whole drawing. There we have the head, and I thought we will have the body about the same size or length as the head. Let's go ahead and draw the guideline here. You can draw some guidelines up towards the edge of the head too. There we have a good start. If you have the Christmas music on, make sure that you sing along a little bit getting into that very nice mode. We're going to use these guidelines to place the nose and the eyes. And we can start by placing the nose and it will be just touching the guideline there. A little round shape looking like that. And then we're going to use the guideline for placing the eyes, two circles like this. Placing him in the middle there. As you see, I'm quite rough in my lines. This is just a sketch. Anyway, don't try to take it too serious, just smile and be relaxed inside here. We should have some pupils looking like this. I like to leave a little bit of light in the eyes. Leave just a little bit of room in the top corner here. Because if you leave a little light there, it gives the character a little bit more life. Now, have the nose and the eyes. Let's go ahead and do a little bit of a beard. Not all the way out here. Just a little bit further. In almost mimicking the eye line. You draw a bend up like that into the nose. And then you do the same on the other side. A little bend like that. I think they will look quite cute as usual. Don't think about that. It has to be a perfect line. This is an exercise, it's all about training your eye, hand coordination. And mostly that you're going to have a lot of fun when you're drawing. Now I'm drawing the mouth just to bends like this and I'm going to leave a little bit of room down here for the tongue. It's important to have a happy center. If you feel that it gets a little bit too messy, just use your friend eraser and just go back and define the lines just a little bit better. Now when we have the mouth, we can start to specify a little bit better where the head is going to be, the beard going up on both sides like this. And he should have some big jolly eyebrows, I think too. So let's go ahead and draw some big shapes above his eyes. And you can draw as many guidelines as you want to to help you place all the details in the, in the face. The other eyebrow will be approximately up here. Yes, I think that looks good. Now, we can extend the beer just maybe a little bit further up. Because we're going to draw Santa Hat to Deluva in Swedish, I suppose in your language. It will sound very, very funny with Tom de Luv. Now about the same place as the bottom of the eye here can draw a little guideline out like that. We will start to draw the The white part of the Santa hat. It is called fold maybe. I don't know. You just try to follow this line as best as you can just to get a real nice round shape like that. I think this looks good. Then we can do the top here. It's going to go ahead and draw a little line here. It will be at a very soft triangle that you're drawing here, but on one side here it will be a little extension. The stroll is a little bit stronger. That will be the end of the Santa Hat. Of course. There should be a very nice round white ball here like that. Maybe it's flowing a little bit in the wind. Who knows when it comes to the body. I thought that about half of this length, somewhere around here will be the end of end of his body. We will make about the same white fluffy part going over like this. On the other side, you have something sticking out from the side there. Then the bottom part of his coat. Then from this place, we can draw a little bit more bent line going into the head. It can end a little bit shorter than where the guideline is touching the face and try to do the same on the side. Something like that. I worry that both sides are supposed to be exactly the same. We will look very good when we finalize the drawing In any way. Astlegs, have fun, take a sip of your cocoa and sink into the Christmas mode when it comes to the legs, I thought this design, the first design we're doing, is going to be quite simple. We will not make any complex legs or arms. The leg will be a little stump like this. Then you can use the guideline here to place the other leg about the same distance. And then another shape up a bend up like this. If you want to, you can of course, measure the legs and see that they are approximately the same with. I can add maybe a little bit more to the side. A little bit of could be a she also maybe someone who is stressed up. Santa's shoes here. Just draw two lines like that. And then we will just fill this in a little bit to show him that he has dark shoes. Lastly, we should have a set of a pair of arms, maybe it's called a shape coming up just a little bit above where the belly is going up into the head. Then I wonder how far we should maybe make them a little bit smaller. These ones we have those white fluffy sleeve things on the end of his arm, something like that. And then we can make a little shape going down like this, showing where gloves are. We can also maybe shape the slightly to separate the shapes a little bit. Then we'll do the same on the other side as a little shape out like this. If you want to just go ahead and draw a little guideline out like this, you know, approximately the other sleeve is going to be why I use a color pencil. Maybe you can see it now, is that it is quite easy to move your lines a little bit. If you feel that something is not working 100% you can erase it. It is a little bit easier to erase this blue line instead of having a very massive, dark drawing lines. But if you don't have a color pencil or if you don't want to work in this way, I'm not going to force you to do anything. The best thing when it comes to drawing is that you are very comfortable and you're doing exactly what you want to do. And you're very relaxed and in a very good mood when you're drawing. At least for me, I'm always happy creating this joy and happy characters. Because they do make you smile, don't they? There you go. There you have your first Santa sketched out. Looks very happy and jolly. Good work. And see you in the next lesson. 3. Your First Santa - definition: Now when we have sketched out everything with the blue pencil, we're going to define everything and I'm going to use the darker one. I will start with the nose, just following the lines and you don't have to be very pedantic. You can draw maybe a little bit outside of the blue line. It doesn't matter. They are more like guidelines. Just fill in and be happy and be very relaxed and enjoy the process. It's a big part of illustrating. As you see, I am leaving that little light in the corner there of the eyes. And you see they are really glimmering and giving very nice life to the Santa character. Let's go ahead and sketch out, or the fine out beard. Here. The Santa is very neatly groomed quite a lot. Santa, the signs have big beards. But we are making a very simplified version and I think this works very nicely. Let's go ahead and draw the eyebrows. As you see, I'm varying a little bit from going to draw with very small lines and very long lines. This is totally up to you how you want to do. I can say in the beginning it's a little bit easier to draw smaller, shorter lines to find your way. Then you feel more comfortable. Go ahead and make sure that you can draw the line that you want to. I'm feeling in the mouth there and I'm making sure that the outer lines are a little bit stronger than the shadow, so it doesn't get too dark. We don't want too much focus going into the mouth and also making sure that the nose has stronger contrasts than the mouth. We can also go back and draw stronger contrast into the ice. Also, because when I'm drawing, I like to have a lot of emphasis. English is not my first language because I really wit want you to. The first thing you are noticing is the details in the ice. And you're greeting this character and finding out that he's a very jolly and happy Santa. Let's go ahead and part of the Santa, I encourage you that when you have practiced this a few times, maybe you can bring out some coloring, pencils, crayons or something, and you can start trying out some coloring of this character just to mix things up when you're drawing these parts. You can also do quite a try out with wobbly lines like this to see what happens to the drawing. They get a little bit more different contrast to the rest of the lines. As you see, if you have a line that is not 100% satisfactory, you just go back and erase it. Don't freak out, If you make a mistake, it is part of the process. Stay as relaxed as possible as you can. Just enjoy drawing. Don't think so much about the outcome of it. The most important part when you start learning something is the journey into getting into a better knowledge state and finding your way and finding your looks. Then I draw on the legs. And then I have the little boots. And I will just shade them slightly, not too strongly. I don't want focus going from the face down here a little bit, something like that. Do the same on the other boot. We can shade the hand. Whatever gloves slightly also has to give some variation and some contrast to the drawing. Yes, I think this looks very good. What you can do now is that you can strengthen the beard here, the outer line of the head. You can also strengthen this line a little bit. And you see that you get a little bit of variations in the drawing. Also, you can add a little bit of strength underneath his little tiny feet. This is a good way to connect a character to the ground, make sure that he's standing somewhere. Lastly, what you can do is you can just follow the lines you have drawn earlier and draw a little bit of a shade, just a little bit like this. Don't go too far out just a little bit outside of this line. Let's make sure that you have the focus between the boots here. Something like that. And I'm going to use the black pencil to fill in the shade, or shallow, maybe I should say. Let's make sure the darkest part is here, closest to the middle, and a little bit lighter to the side. There you go, your first Santa. I'm sure it looks really good. Good work, and see you in the next lesson. 4. Second Santa - sketch: The next can we will do, will be with a much more fluffy and full beard. But we will start the same way as the first one with a circle. I think this one will make it a little bit more like an oval shape, something like this. A little bit more oval. Of course, we will do a guideline for 21 word to call them one for a stop, something like that. And just keep in mind that it can be as rough as you want to. We will start by drawing a nose and I will place it again, just under that guideline, and then we'll make some mustaches. Almost like two petals, almost like two leaves, going almost up to the nose, not quite all the way. I don't worry. If they don't look 100% the same, it will look very good In then when you complete the drawing, then we will have a little bit of a mouth can define the lines just a little bit better here. Just make sure that when you're shaping this, that it looks like the Santa is smiling Santa character. So I don't think he is having all that many bad days. Yes. Now we can draw some lines for the chicks, two bands going out like this, something like that. And if you want to, you can of course, measure and see that they are about the same distance from the middle line there. We're going to make some very smiley eyes here. Let's go ahead and do two half pens like that and they are touching the guideline there. Then here we will make another line. Crossing the is a little bit of leaving some light there in the eye. Give me sat more life. Yes, I think that looks cute. We're going to draw the top of the hat here or the top, the bottom of the hat. Just doing a Bm line going across the face and going down on the other side, something like that. That looks cute. And then we can measure the distance from the nose on the top here. And do the same down here there. You have at the end of the beard somewhere around there. And then we're going to do some fluffy shapes here, the fluffy one in the middle. And then we will make one that is maybe a little bit smaller on the end there, another one that is about the same size. And then we will make a bit bigger one here in the bending back into the guideline there. Then we will have a end going up towards the hat, the first line here as touching each other like this. But this line is on top of the other line and the same here also. It can be quite good that when you're drawing something that you don't have lines that are crossing like this because it's hard to read either one line is on top of the other one like that or this one is on top of the other one. Don't try to do this so much, it's a good thing to avoid. Let's go ahead and do the other side. As you see, there's no freaking out. Just because a line is not going in the right place immediately, just use your eraser and redraw your line. Both sides of the bear doesn't have to be exactly the same. There can be a little bit of variation. It will look good anyway. We have one line on top of the out there in the same here showing that the beard is on top of the, the hair in the background there. Yes, I think that's a good start for Santa. Then we're going to draw the hat, just making sure that the hat line is not coming out from the back here. Because if you have tuning many lines that are intersecting, it can be a little bit hard to read it, try to have a little bit of distance there. And then just following the other line here. Something like that. And then we're going to have the hat. And it will be almost going from this line, but just a bit further out, going up into a triangle here. I always feel free to go back and change your drawing, trying to find the right, the right lines here that this line is going from here somewhere. I'm going to draw this a little bit lighter because we're going to draw the ball and everything on top here later. Let's go ahead and bend this line a little bit. Tone words, then we can add that ball puffs in Swedish, another funny word, probably for you. And then a little line like that. Go ahead and clean this up slightly there. You have Sanas face and his little hat. You can always experiment a little bit by seeing how the lines look better. If you want to have a, a thicker line here, maybe with there we'll see if it looks better. Maybe it should be somewhere in between. So let's go ahead and draw the line there. Yes, now we have the very fluffy beard that's super groomed. I'm not going to draw the full Santa body this time, so it will be just the torso up. But we can draw down to the belt maybe. Let's go ahead and draw a line here. Of course, Santa should be thick. He has to aim for the middle of the two beard shapes, two lines like that. You can of course, measure and see that they are approximately the same with if you have a line that you feel is maybe a little bit too crooked, you can always change it a little bit. Yes, it looks better. Then we can do the lower part of the belt. Also following the top line is called the belt buckle, I think so let's go ahead and do it here. Making a very, very simple shape. When you're drawing something, just remember that you don't have to draw everything that is that you see. You can remove things, clean up the signs of the same look. Let's make the belt a darker like that. Yes, I think that looks good. Then we will draw the arms also. We will make them quite simple. Just imagine that you have shapes coming out from the beard. Same here. Don't try to draw it in the middle. Usually all the lines are connected in the middle. Leave a little bit of space there for it to breathe. The hands are gloves. Very simple. This time too. Has a very simple form like that. And you can shade them also slightly. Yes, I think that looks good. It's the same here also line going down like that. And you can always draw another guy line over here, somewhere in the middle. Over there, belt will be the other little glove. And just change it slightly. No, let's go back. May be true, a little bit of definition before we go over with a black pencil. See what we're doing a little bit more on the eyes. And remember to do a little bit of noises, maybe imitating Santa, saying, there you go your second Santa. Good work and see you in the next lesson. 5. Second Santa - definition: So let's go ahead and define the lines with a black pencil. And I will start by working on the nose here, and then we will continue with his mustaches and his mouth. The original Santa in Sweden is not the Santa, most people are used to. This red coated guy was designed by a Swedish guy in the '50s for Coca Cola. But back in the days, Santa was more known as the gray. It looked really scary actually. I'm actually very happy that I didn't have that in my childhood, that we had this more jolly and friendly Santa. There we have the beard. Let's go ahead and do the eyes, making sure that we have those nice bent lines underneath showing that the Santa is smiling. And then with the light there, then you can add as much darkness for black you want in the eye. Just going forth and back till you're happy with the result. Then we can continue with the hat. Originally, a Christmas present or Christmas gift was called, Due is the old word for we don't really have Christmas in Sweden. In that way, we have a dual tide back in the day, it's because that was a noise that was made and someone was coming by your house and knocking on your door with a piece of wood that was usually the Christmas gift that was given in Sweden, something to keep you warm. It's nice actually. You just have to be prepared for it. You don't get scared that someone is banging on your door. I don't know what holiday traditions that you have where you're living. Maybe there's something you can incorporate in, in the drawings you're making. I'm sure that you can create something very, very interesting and nice. Now, we are drawing the belt and the ba, belt buckle. I'm just going to shade this a little bit. It's just to give some variations to drawing. Don't worry if the lines are going outside like that. It doesn't matter. This is all about an exercise and training your hand coordination. But if you feel that something is really disturbing you, we can always go back and erase it. Just stay calm and relaxed because this is the most important thing you can do is being in a very good state of mind when you're drawing. It's going to be a very happy place for you. So I'm just going to add a little bit more strength to the sides here of the belly. And then we can also add a little bit more strength underneath the beard, giving a little bit more contrast and separating and lifting it up a little bit from the body because that is what happening when you're drawing like this and you're strengthening lines. Just making sure that the mouth is not too dark, it shouldn't be as dark as the eyes. You can also add a little bit more strength here underneath to deliver the Santa hat. Yes, I think this looks really good. **, **, **. Happy times. Good work. And see you in the next lesson. 6. Third Santa - sketch: The previous two Santas, we have drawn straight from the front. This time, we will turn Santa a little bit in this direction, but we will start with the same base, that we draw a rough circle, looking something like this. Then we draw a guideline over this. But this time, instead of drawing a straight line, we will bend it a little bit. Just imagine that you're having a ball. You're turning the ball a little bit in this direction. The guideline will follow the surface of the ball. It looks something like this. As usual, you can be as rough as you want to. It will look very good in the end. When you finalize the drawing there, I think we have a good start of the head and we're going to place the nose here in the middle of the guidelines, looking like that. And then we're going to draw some happy mustaches, just coming up slightly over the guideline there, going back up slightly up into this guideline not touching in the nose completely. Then we will do the same on the other side, just very nice curved mustaches. And then we're going to draw a little mouth, we can just shade it slightly as the other Santa. Just make sure that you try to make it as it looks happy. Happy Santa. Then we're going to draw a little line here, slightly belowing us, going up into the guideline. Then we can do the same here, and this one is going to be curved up like this. Then maybe we'll done this line out just slightly, just a little bit like this, slightly. Then we can draw the headline here. Then the head going across, going across, looking something like this. Maybe a bit of a bow more curved. Just use your eraser. Yes, I think this looks good. Then we can place ice. I will draw a different set of ice This time you have three different eye designs to choose from. This time we will make them a little bit of, I will still keep the light there in the top corner looking something like this. Then when we drawing the hat, we will do a little bit of overlapping lines on both sides. Just slightly like this. The brim of the hat will come out something like this. Nice band following this one, going back. I think the beard will go up in under the hat as leaving that line slightly over. So you can see the hat is on top of the beard or the hair. Then you can draw a little bit too close, maybe a little bit farther out there. You have the brim. You can also also clean up this line if you want to. We see what we're doing. Yes, then we can draw the rest of the hat. And it can be maybe going slightly backwards like this up to a little point there can actually make it maybe slightly shorter. As you see, I'm just trying to find some nice lines. If I draw something, it doesn't have to be 100% You can always go back and change it a little bit. I wonder if I should first have maybe a ball up here, But I think I will actually do a little bit like the other. The hat is continuing a little bit behind like this. Maybe it's going up, something like that. Then we will have the ball here in the back. I think this looks nice. Remember this. When you're drawing, it's your paper, it's your hand, It's your pen. And it's your rules. Whatever you feel that you want to change, do it there. I had the head and the hat. I Santa maybe walking in the snow with his big bag on the back here and he's going to hold the sac with both hands like this. Just imagine that you have like a line down here from the nose, on the mouth corner of the mouth. Going something like this. Here you can place Santos little hands will be very stylish and very cartoonish. It will be two little blobs like that. So something like this can make the nest a little bit smaller. There, there you have his little hands. Now when we have the hands, we can draw out the arms also that are coming over the beard. Got a bit of a double line there. So let's go back and erase it. This arm, I'm not going to draw it all up, way up. This is just going up to the elbows. A little crease there. And then we will have the other arm line here and going up like this, up towards the beard. Yes, I think that looks good. And then on the other side, the other arm is curved and you have the elbow there and it's going up like this as we discussed earlier. Also I'm trying to not have too many lines going into the same place. If you see that the beard is maybe a little bit too close to the hand line, you can just lower it, maybe slightly. Give a little bit more room like that. I'm just going to define the lines just a little bit stronger here in the face before we continue with the rest of the body. That then here we will have the end of the sack coming out like this. Can be maybe a little bit curved like that. You really feel that he's holding the sac. It's quite heavy. Now we can draw the rest of the body somewhere around here. We will have the end of his Santa costume going out like that. And it's going to be a bit further out than the hat. Maybe somewhere almost in the middle of the ball there. Then you have a little line here trying to make it quite bent, giving a bit of attention to his body. Let's go and strengthen this line a little bit too. And then there will be another line here showing that white brim part of coat costumes to raise a bit, a little bit too far away. This part you can maybe shade slightly, showing that it's a little bit in shadow. Let's go ahead and clean this up too, while you're drawing. Don't worry if something gets messy. It's quite okay. It's just an exercise. It's not supposed to be a piece of art. Go ahead and be as messy as you want to. Now, when we have this part, we can start to draw out his little boots. We can start with the one that is in front here, draw a little line down here. He will have very tiny feet, so it will be looking a bit like this. So there you have the leg, and then he'll have his little foot being careful when he's walking in the snow. You can say this little bit to also Later we will make this part a little bit than this part. There we have 1 Ft and then botthereingup something like this, making that foot part quite small, tiny feet. Then just shade it like that. If you feel that something is a little bit of, as I said before, maybe you feel that maybe a little bit bigger than this one. Just go back, Just add a little bit of volume to it. Yeah, I think that looks better. Now he's pawing his way or tiptoeing in the snow. Then we should have a big big sac here full of Christmas presents. Somewhere in the middle here of the brim of the hat will start to do a big round shape. Then we will start from the middle of the foot tire. Of the boots going up the other way? Yes, yes, this looks good. A big, heavy sack. I think this is a good start. Now you have your sketch out good work and see you in the next lesson. 7. Third Santa - definition: So let's go ahead and define the drawing with a black pencil. And I will start with the nose like that. And then we can do the mustaches. Big and jolly mustaches. And then his happy mouth, making sure that he looks like he's smiling. Then we can go ahead and do the beard. When it comes to Christmas traditions where you're from, is there someone, is there someone in the family who is dressing up a Santa? Or do you have a secret Santa? Or what tradition do you have? Also does wear a mask or does he have a Santa costume? In Sweden, at least it used to be popular. You have a whole full set of a mask in front of your face, can you couldn't see who it was. If you can please incorporate when you're redoing the sketches, something that is coming from your own tradition there, we have the hat drawing, the last ball here, if you want to, you can make this maybe a little bit more that it looks like it's very fluffy. Go ahead and try that. Can do it here. Also, just a little bit more of a Bobby lines. Then we do the hands, making sure that we don't have too many intersecting lines, so it's easier to see the drawing on the other arm. On the end of the sac, we're going to do a slight shadow here, it's just to give a little bit of volume to the sack you can draw here, just a stronger shade, just closer to the edge there. As you see, sometimes I have a lot of lines that are going all over. I'm not panicking. It's just part of the drawing experience because it's important, maybe I saying it a little bit too many times, but it's important when you're drawing that you're relaxed and you don't take this thing too serious. It's more important that you're having fun trying to do a masterpiece. Eventually, you will be drawing masterpieces. But the journey there is important that you're having a lot of fun there. You have the boots, and then I will shade them too. I will make them a little bit darker than the rest of the shades we made the same here, but I'm not going to do it as strongly that they are overtaking. Drawing the picture, they shouldn't be as strong as the ice, for instance. It's important that you have a lot of focus here, up into the face. Then I will just make a few of these lines a little bit stronger. When you do that, you see that all of a sudden you feel that the coat is on top of the boots. This part of the sac is also on top of the boots. Finally, we have the big sack full of exciting presents. Yes, I think this looks very good. Before we end, we should maybe add a little bit of snow to this drawing. What you can do when you're drawing snow is that you can big balls and you can draw small balls and someone is maybe a little bit o and some are more round. Let's try to vary them. A little bit between and make small ones and big ones not too close to each other. Then you can experiment with how many it should be, maybe should be as a few. Now on this side I'm drawing quite a lot of them. On this side I will a few snowflakes. And then you can compare which version you think works best. Something like that. And then we can go ahead and define them just a little bit with the black pencil. But don't make too much pressure on these, because if they start to dominate the drawing and you don't want that, the snowfall that is the most important in this drawing, it Santa coming out and delivering happiness this Christmas. I'm just double checking because I don't see what's going on in the camera. I don't throw too many things outside of the screen here. Now you have a little bit of variation here. A little bit fewer snow flakes here and a little bit more on this side. Then you have Santa sneaking a little bit around in the snow. You can also add a little bit of snow like this. You can do it on the other side. Also, make sure that you don't draw the line straight into another line. Try to leave a little bit of room. We can also draw it, see all the way outside of the picture like that. Then we can fill them in slightly as with the snow flakes. Make sure that you don't draw this line with too much pressure. It's just a background detail there. You got Santa sneaking around joyfully in the snow. I want to thank you for taking this course. I hope you had a lot of fun and learned a lot and smiled a lot. Finally, show your drawings. It is the best way to grow your confidence. Show your work to friends and family. Post and share your drawings with your fellow students. Thank you and good luck.