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How to Draw a Bighorn Sheep

11 steps · Medium · about 8 min

Draw a bighorn sheep in 11 easy steps, about 8 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: the head.

Step 1: The head
Draw a sideways egg head with a long nose. Curve a line from the nose's top down to the chin.
Tip Start near the top left, with the nose pointing down to the left. The line marks a pale nose patch.
Step 2: Eye and smile
Draw 1 big eye above the middle, with a dot and a shine. Add a small nose and a smile.
Tip Only 1 eye: we see the side of the head.
Step 3: Big curly horn
From the top of the head, draw a thick horn curling back, down and forward. Add 3 lines across it.
Tip Make it fat where it leaves the head and thinner at its round tip, like a big C.
Step 4: The ear
Under the horn, draw a small leaf ear pointing back.
Step 5: Neck and body
From behind the horn, draw a thick neck and a big bean body. Stop under the chin.
Tip The back is long and straight, and the bottom is round.
Step 6: Two legs
Draw a ground line. Add a front leg under the chest and a back leg under the bottom, with hooves.
Tip Each leg gets thinner down to a little doorstop hoof on the ground.
Step 7: Far legs
Beside each leg, towards the middle, draw a thinner leg peeking out, down to its own hoof.
Step 8: Tail and patch
Draw a short tail where the back ends. Curve a line from the tail's top down to just under it.
Tip The tail and the bit behind the line make a small pale patch.
Step 9: Cream and tan
Go over your lines. Colour the nose patch, the tail and its patch cream, and the horn tan.
Step 10: Colour it brown
Colour the head, ear, body and legs brown, around the cream and tan. Leave the eye white.
Step 11: Hooves and nose
Colour the 4 hooves slate grey and the little nose black. Your bighorn sheep is done!