Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw Garfield and a Garfield Coloring Page. He is often portrayed as a lazy and cynical orange tabby Persian cat.

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An easy drawing of Garfield, made with the help of a step by step tutorial.

Now fans of this cartoon character have some help in learning how to draw Garfield. He’s got a very distinctive look, that’s actually not that hard to draw.

Garfield is the main character in an American newspaper comic strip of the same name, created by Jim Davis in 1978. Garfield is a lazy, orange tabby cat who loves lasagna and sleeping, but hates Mondays, Nermal, and exercise. He is known for his dry sense of humor, and his ability to communicate with his owner, Jon Arbuckle, through cartoon “thought bubbles”. Garfield’s other pet is Odie, a dim-witted yellow dog.

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Garfield Coloring Page

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Materials

Drawing Paper

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Pencils

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Sharpie Markers Black

A permanent marker will give you a dark black color.

Colored Pencils or Crayons

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Directions

Time needed: 45 minutes

Step by step directions to draw Garfield

Start with a body shape like this.
Add most of a circle for the head.
Draw two oval eyes with dots.
Add the nose and mustache shape.
Draw two ears above the eyes.
Add the arm that is having down.
Draw two cartoon legs.
Add the tail. Lightly draw the triangle
shapes.
Fill triangles with thin black lines, trace
the rest with a medium marker and color.