Cute Drawing Ideas: 18 Easy Prompts for All

Learn three easy ways to draw spiky sea urchins -- along with shocking facts about where their eyes really are.

There is something so cute about frustrated, fluffy monsters! In my example here, the monster is trying to stop snacking at night. How will he solve his problem?

Rainbow octopus? Why not! Learn tips on easy cephalopod drawing here.

Here are my deep thoughts (and tutorial) about how to draw a snail... but there's one problem: it turns out that to make the snail cuter, I accidentally changed something about the animal! See what, here.

Here are three different easy ways to draw clouds: from happy and fluffy, to stormy, to semi-realistic.

Get insights on what aspects of frog anatomy to emphasize for maximum fun. Hint: Those giant squatting legs are a hoot!

Sketching a whole mermaid is fun, but the mermaid tail is particularly exciting. See tips on how to create the scales and shading here.

Cuteness and fluffy hair are correlated! Pick an animal (in my case here, a sheep), and draw it with as much fur as imaginable. You'll know you've succeeded if, when the picture is done, you want to nuzzle your face into all that fluff.

Think of something in the natural world (in my example, I used the wind, a cloud, and a tree), and give it personified personality by adding cute googly eyes and expressive eyebrows, mouth, and positioning!

Draw a food (like a pear, or, in my example here, bread rolls) and sketch eyes and a big, friendly smile on it! Though I'm not really sure you'd actually want to eat a roll that says hello to you, it's still awfully cute to gaze upon.

A great trick of creating humor through art is to juxtapose (contrast) a big thing with a tiny one. In my example cartoon here, a small girl is powerfully standing up to a hulking dragon.

Continuing with the theme of juxtaposition, placing an unexpected object or thing in a setting it's not usually found can be very cute if done right. In my example here, the wide-eyed frog is sitting cutely on... a woman's bed!

People and animals make highly cute and funny faces when in the middle of jumping, so see if you can sketch a "freeze frame" moment from a leap, as shown in my example here with a purple whale emerging from the ocean. Indicate the movement of the jump with lines.

We can't have a list of cute drawings without the prompt of drawing a sweet little child, can we?! The key to the cuteness for kid cartoons is large, wide eyes with a shine them: achieved by leaving a sliver of white in the pupil to show the reflection. Bonus points for adorable tiny bodies to go with the big heads!

Contrasting a funny little hat with a spiky body (like a cactus or, shown here, sea urchin) is a sure path to cuteness. Spikes can be pretty easy to sketch by using zig zag lines in and out, or drawing individual needle lines.

As shown by this horse-sized snail, here, blowing up the size of an animal can cause comical and often cute effect. Just make sure they have a jolly expression on their face so things don't get scary.

It is wildly cute for something that's not even a human (ex: a pumpkin) to look arrogant and smug. So many people in the world are insecure about the smallest of things, so to see a cocky fruit is hilarious!

Sketch something or someone holding on for dear life, like this snake clinging to a stalactite! Don't worry -- you can always save them in the next frame.

I can't resist closing this list with the fluffiest of bunnies. May this bunny send you happily on your journey of drawing the cutest things around!