How to Draw Ashlee from “Good Cheese”
By Kelly | June 3, 2007
Here’s a quick look at how I approach drawing Ashlee from my webcomic Good Cheese.
1. Block out the head as a sphere, and figure out the center of weight by drawing a line down from the collar bone.
2. Roughly draw the proportions of the figure
3. Add details of the figure such as ears, tail, etc but still in a simple fashion. Notice that I’m using overlapping shapes for Ashlee’s breast, stomach, and hips to convey some sense of volume of form.
4. Using a mechanical pencil, I ‘ink’ over my light blue lines, finalizing the details.
This may look a bit weird, but you can use the head size as a measure to keep proportions consistent. Ashlee is roughly 5 heads tall. Of course, you can just use spheres instead of Ashlee’s whole head to figure out the proportions. 
Topics: Drawing tutorials | 23 Comments »
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I’ve starded reading your comic and tutorials long time ago. Good cheese is wonderful, suprising and designed story*. I’m very like drawing and i’m have got a big experience on this.I have trying draw Aschlee in mine poses, but I havent got perpective and propotion for your characters but I thing this is not a big problem now. Thist tutorial hepls a lot**. Thanks!
* Im still waiting for next tutorial’s and comic chapters all the time.
** I’m not from England or USA and Im sorry If I had create some errors in my comment.
Thanks for all Kelly!
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I have find some erros:
thing = think (I know it is funny if you reading)
thist = this
Sorry!
June 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Thanks for this tutorial. The technique “how many heads tall” part is a big help in getting my proportions right for my drawings. I also like how you showed the steps for the figure, I always had trouble getting a style down. Thanks a lot!
July 1st, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Whilst searching the net i stumbled upon good cheese, the art work and storyline are amazing, you ftw
August 14th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
i may have just started reasing your comic, but good job. And i have been wondering why you draw ashlee pudgy looking.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Ashlee is a dormouse. Dormice have round bodies, as you can find out by looking it up.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I love it! it helped a lot whit my drawings. could you do one like this for Jerome to? i would just love that! keep on the good work.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
this helps alot, especially for fleshing out my stick figure frames^-^
its just a shamet that if a guy made a webcomic like goodcheese (wich is awsome!) they’d be seen as some kind of weirdo :-(
ah well, i can’t do high school anyway(Igo to an all boys grammer school,butIhate single-sex schools)
November 30th, 2007 at 12:33 am
This really helps a lot. I love this website, and I read Good Cheese whenever I can! I would really love it if you could make a Mitch tutorial though, he’s my favorite character! ^^
December 19th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Hey,….I was just wondering……could you post something that said what animal the GC characters are? I know some are kinda obvious but others aren’t. Pretty PLEEEEEZ…….P.S. I totally LOVE your work ^_^
December 25th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Kelly, I discovered this site while surfing the Internet on 24 december, and I want to thank you because it’s wonderful! I appreciate the characters you created and the way they think and act (Ashlee above all), as well as this “how to” section (it’s really helpful!). I’m absolutely not a comic drawing expert, but from me you get out 10/10. Go on this way!
February 25th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ive just recently read Good Cheese and its really good because some of the characters resemble me and my friends but also its funny. I really hope the comic does well. p.s. I really like Calib and Gunther
May 15th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Like most of the other commenters here, I just started reading Good Cheese today while I was searching the net for random junk. And I gotta say, I love it. ^-^ The style is fantastic and the story sucked me in. I can’t wait to see how the story unfolds now!
I’ve been trying to get into drawing furries and such, but my style thus far has been a far more cartoony one than most. And I’m certainly no professional; I really only began to pick up art as a hobby a year or two ago. But all these tutorials could be a great help to me in finding a way to draw anthros. I humbly thank you for the help these are sure to supply me with. ^-^
Oh, and also for keeping me up late into the night reading through your whole comic series. That was pretty entertaining. Keep it up! =3
May 25th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I’ve got a big problem. I’ve loved reading the Goodcheese comics. I usually find it using google. The problem is that every time I click the google link I find myself on this weird and super confusing website called GoDaddy.com. It doesn’t even have the comic! It keeps giving me websites where I can buy cheese! I like the name of the comic, but it’s easily misread apperantly. HELP!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Shelby: Next time you hit the right site, add ot to you’r bookmarks / favorites :)
Asheel is pretty, she has curves :3
Very helpful tutorial, thanks for them, I like the way and style you draw.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Wow, I’m like that picture but it’s hard drawing :S
September 30th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Nice tutorial.
Thanks for that!
November 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
This site is the best. I learned proportions and how to make an anthro rabbit in about minutes. Keep it up. (my one key doesn’t work. that’s why there’s no exclamation points)
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I love your work…I Read Good Cheese ALL the time and I love your tutorials….I was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to draw the tails and ears?
June 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I’ve seen the comic and the art is great. I would love to try to draw her myself. I would really wish to keep reading the comic, but I couldn’t get back to my page that I left off on T-T
June 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I’d just like to say your work is absolutely stunning! :D
December 4th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Great tutorials but I can`t seem to get the lower body. I can get the upper body perfectly. Could you include a tutorial on legs. Great work.
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
im so glad that i found ur pages!! now i can finally learn how to draw better furries!!