32 Little Animal Sketches To Draw When You're Bored

Feeling bored and looking for something fun to draw? Try sketching these 32 cute little animals!

This diverse collection of creatures includes everything from woodland favorites like foxes and rabbits to pets like dogs, cats, and hamsters. Whether you’re a beginner seeking easy animals to practice drawing or an experienced artist needing fresh inspiration, these fun sketches will spark your creativity.

So next time you find yourself with nothing to do, grab a pencil and paper and create mini masterpieces with these boredom-busting little animal sketches!

All artwork provided is original and can be used as a reference for your own drawings.

Cuddly Hamster

Drawing such a cute creature is always a pleasure. Don’t make it too difficult, keep the lines simple and bold. You could even try drawing several hamsters side by side in different positions and with different expressions. As you progress along the line, you will start to see improvements.

Happy Turtle

You can experiment with expression and create a family of turtles. Make some of them happy, some of them sad and you could maybe try some other expressions like surprise or shock.

Cartoon T-Rex

Dinosaurs are always great fun and even the mighty t-rex can make a playful drawing.

Happy Pig

Pigs are one of my favorite animals, so I never tire of drawing them. You can humanize a pig quite easily, just by standing him on his two hind feet like in the cartoon above.

Adorable Baby Cow

Sometimes you will draw a face and it will just look adorable. Go with the flow and make it as adorable as possible.

Shaggy Highland Cow

Not every sketch will go exactly as you planned. This highland cow ended up looking a little confused, but I love him anyway.

Fat Cat Watching a Mouse

Sketches don’t need to be complicated. A simple sketch like this with bold lines is easy to draw fast and it is another opportunity for you to experiment with facial expressions.

Anime Rabbit With Butterfly

This cute little rabbit is another simple sketch with fairly minor shading. What makes it special is the large eyes which give it a thoughtful expression and a a certain anime style.

Cute Frog With Mushroom Hat

Sometimes simple really is just best, especially when it comes to cartoon animals.

Duckling With Bread

Here you can see how the use of shading can help you to create both depth and shape within any drawing.

Happy Duck

You can see the bold, confident lines of this drawing from across the room. It really does jump out from the page.

Snail On A Mushroom

With a drawing like this, you should decide first if you want to make the mushroom or the snail the main focus of the sketch. Here by keeping the lines of the snail sharper, showing the detail, it becomes the focus of the image.

Big Eared Mouse

Cartoon sketches don’t have to stick to accurate proportions. Making any parts of the body larger or smaller than they would be in real life can add character to your cartoon sketches.

Panda Bear Waving

Learning how to capture movement is a fascinating subject and doing it with simple animal sketches is probably the easiest way you can learn.

Friendly Crocodile

A crocodile might be a fierce and scary animal, but your sketches don’t have to be.

Smiling Rabbit

A smile can tell a story better than a thousand words.

Big Eyed Hamster

Capturing feeling within a sketch can seem difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Experiment with different views of the animal you’re sketching and remember, perspective means the part of the animal closest to you will always appear largest. With a cartoon, you can exaggerate the features of the animal in any way you want to.

Friendly Tall Crocodile

Try and capture movement within your sketches. It isn’t always easy, but as with anything, with practice your sketches will improve.

Anime Frog

You can see from this sketch that much shading isn’t always necessary.

Cute Fox

In this sketch, it is the darker shading that actually forms the lines of the sketch. This can make the drawing look more realistic as in reality, no animal with fur has a clean, single line forming its outline.