Free Cartoony Drawing Lesson: How to Draw a Tea Cup (or Coffee Mug)

Drawing symmetrical cartoony tea and coffee cups is easy with this technique: mirroring. In Nit Wits #8 ("Tee Time") I drew one side of the cup and then mirrored (flipped) it to the other side. The result: a cup of equal symmetry.

After you draw the outline of your teacup, fill it with "tea" by coloring the inner circle with a brownish-red color. Then, add a little wispy steam line coming out the top with light-gray. Or are you a coffee lover? Make rounded mugs out of the tea service for two and slap a Starbucks logo on it instead!

Draw your own teacup (or coffee mug) by following my step-by-step drawing lesson below. And if you're in Britain right now, answer me this: is it time for tea and crumpets?

Now wasn't that just the bees knees? Wait — there's more! This sample fun cartoony lesson is published in my printable playbook, You Can Draw Cartoony Things! A Creative Drawing Book for Everyone. If you'd like to use my creativity-inspiring cartoony lesson for classroom projects and workshop exercises, please purchase and download the high-quality print-a-page e-book, which is dirt-cheap and formatted especially for printing and teaching purposes.
— Chris Dunmire, Cartoony Author