Big City Greens built much of its humor around the Green family’s scrappy, chaotic dog, and this guide on how to draw Phoenix gives you a full step-by-step breakdown of that wiry, unkempt cartoon pup alongside the rest of the Big City Greens character tutorials on the site. Phoenix is all loose fur and goofy energy, which makes the linework a genuine challenge to get right.
What Makes Drawing Phoenix Tricky
The tutorial runs 29 steps and delivers clean black and white line art at the end, so every step is focused on building confident, controlled lines rather than color. Phoenix sits in a relaxed forward pose, but the shaggy fur outline requires consistent irregular strokes throughout, and the oversized cartoon eyes demand careful placement early on or the whole face reads off.
Phoenix’s Key Visual Features
- Shaggy fluffy fur covering entire body
- Large round wide-open cartoon eyes
- Long droopy snout with tongue out
- Sitting pose with front legs forward
- Thin wispy hair tuft on top
If you want more characters to sketch from the same show, Saxon and Remy Remington are good next steps, and Bill Green covers the human side of the family if you want a change from animals.
How the Step Colors Work
Each step image uses a three-color system to keep things clear:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Phoenix: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished Your Phoenix? Show It Off
Once the lines are clean and the fur outline feels right, drop your finished Phoenix drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different people handle those irregular fur strokes is always worth a look. All new tutorials go up on Facebook and Telegram as soon as they publish, a new YouTube video goes live every day based on existing guides, and Pinterest stays regularly updated too. For more from the same show, Tilly Green and Cricket Green are both up on the site. If you want to support the project and get access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages, the Patreon page is the place to go.