Among the creepier corners of the Friday Night Funkin’ mod universe, Cartoon Dog occupies a specific kind of horror, a flat black silhouette with a wide grin that sits somewhere between old cartoon nostalgia and outright dread. This guide walks through how to draw Cartoon Dog in 25 steps, covering the bold flat-fill style that defines the character.
Building a Bold Black Silhouette from Scratch
The tutorial runs 25 steps and ends on clean line art with no color pass, since Cartoon Dog’s design is built almost entirely on solid black fill and contrast rather than color. The seated pose with those long, exaggerated arms adds some asymmetry to manage, and the wide grin with visible teeth is where the most precise linework happens. If you keep your sketch lines light in the early stages, the cleanup will go much smoother when those heavy black fills come in later.
Cartoon Dog’s Key Visual Traits
- Flat black body with bold silhouette
- Floppy ears, wide menacing grin
- Long striped arms, white gloved hands
- Sitting pose with curved tail
- Clawed feet visible at base
If you like drawing unsettling FNF characters, the tutorial on corrupted Rallo Tubbs covers a similar corrupted cartoon aesthetic, and Hellbeats Pico is another solid pick if you want practice with high-contrast character designs. Both share that same heavy linework focus you’ll be working through here.
Reading the Step Colors in This Tutorial
Each step in this guide uses a three-color system to show exactly what’s happening at each stage:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Cartoon Dog: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished Your Drawing? Show It Off
Once the line art is done, drop your finished Cartoon Dog sketch in the comments below. It’s always worth seeing how different people handle that flat black fill and the grin. New tutorials get posted directly to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. If you’re working through more FNF horror-coded characters, check out MX from Vs. Mario 85 or the Secret Histories Sonic for more practice with heavy black linework and creepy cartoon styles. And if you want to support the site and get access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages, the Patreon page is where that happens.