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How to Draw a Baby Sea Turtle
Draw a baby sea turtle in 13 easy steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: big egg head.
Step 1: Big egg head
On the left of your paper draw a big egg on its side, fist-sized and wider in front.
Tip A baby turtle is mostly head. Leave room on the right for the shell.
Step 2: Eye, nose and smile
In the head's front half draw a big round eye with a black dot. Add a nostril and smile.
Tip The eye is huge, a third as tall as the head. Leave it white around the dot.
Step 3: Small round shell
Just behind the head draw a small round dome shell, like half an orange, with a nearly flat bottom.
Tip Only a little wider than the head. Rub out the bit behind the head.
Step 4: Rim and neck
Start at the shell's front bottom corner. Draw a band under the whole shell and stop at the back corner.
Tip Curl the band's ends. Add a short neck from under the head into the front of the band.
Step 5: Front flipper
Under the front of the shell draw a long flipper from the rim, down and forward to a round tip.
Tip It grows from under the rim, in front of the neck.
Step 6: Back flipper
Under the back of the shell draw a smaller flipper from the rim, down to a round tip.
Step 7: Far flipper
Just behind the front flipper, draw a strip of the far flipper peeking out, from the rim to its tip.
Tip Only a thin edge shows. The rest hides behind the near flipper.
Step 8: The tail
At the back of the rim, draw a tiny pointed tail poking out backwards, above the back flipper.
Step 9: The honeycomb
In the middle of the shell draw a hexagon. Draw 6 short lines from its corners to the shell's edge.
Tip Now the shell looks like it is made of tiles.
Step 10: Sandy beach
Start near the left edge. Draw a flat beach line under the flippers, to near the right edge.
Tip The flipper tips rest on the line.
Step 11: Sand and pink cheek
Go over your lines. Colour the beach sandy down to the bottom edge. Dab a pink cheek under the eye.
Step 12: Tan rim, green skin
Colour the rim tan, then the head, neck, near flippers and tail leaf green around the cheek.
Tip Leave the eye white.
Step 13: Dark green shell
Colour the shell and the far flipper dark green.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a baby sea turtle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
