Thursday, January 24, 2013

How to Draw a Cartoon Dolphin

Today we are going to learn how to draw a cartoon dolphin in only seven steps. It is a quick and easy drawing to do and very cute as well. It's a great thing to draw with only a few materials.

Materials
  • Paper
  • Pencil
  • Eraser

how to draw a dolphin for kids step 1

First, draw the body of the dolphin. It looks almost like a rain drop but it is slanted. Draw it large because how big you draw it depends on how big you want your dolphin to be.



how to draw a dolphin for kids step 2
Next, draw the dolphins head, nose, and beak. From the round side of the "rain drop," draw a line curving out which connects to the dolphins beak.


how to draw a dolphin for kids step 3

In addition, draw an eye on the round part of the "rain drop." Also, draw a small smile by the beak.




how to draw a dolphin for kids step 4Furthermore, draw two fins from the middle of the "rain drop." One fin should be from your angle and the other should be at the angle from the other side.







how to draw a dolphin for kids step 5how to draw a dolphin for kids step 6


More importanly, draw the dorsal fin on top which is almost like a curved triangle.









Now, you can draw the fin which is like two curved triangles facing down and touching each other.








In summation, erase all the unneeded lines like the lines in step one. When it is finished, it should look like the picture below.

how to draw a dolphin for kids step 7




HAVE FUN DRAWING YOUR DOLPHIN!


1 comment:

  1. Hey, Jenna I love your post and I actually tried it! But I don't think I did it right, since the pictures did show. Do you know what happened? Other than that, wonderful post!!!!!!!!!!!!

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