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How to Draw Coral
Draw coral in 12 easy steps, about 9 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 rock.
Step 1: The rock
Low on your paper draw a wide lumpy rock, like a loaf of bread.
Step 2: Branching coral
On the rock draw a thick trunk that splits into 3 branches. Each branch forks into 2 round tips.
Tip Make the tips different heights, like a little tree.
Step 3: Happy face
Low on the trunk draw 2 egg eyes with a black dot each, a U smile and 2 oval cheeks.
Step 4: Polyp dots
Draw 6 little solid dots along the branches, none on the trunk. Keep them away from the face.
Tip Coral is really thousands of tiny animals living together.
Step 5: Sandy floor
From the left edge of your paper, draw a gently wavy sand line under the rock to the right edge.
Step 6: Little coral
On the right, standing on the sand, draw a small coral with 2 round branches.
Step 7: Bubbles
Up on the left draw 3 round bubbles floating up: small, bigger, biggest.
Step 8: Little fish
On the right, beside the coral, draw a little fish: a pointed egg, a triangle tail, a dot eye.
Step 9: Seaweed
On the left, start on the sand. Draw a wiggly seaweed blade up to a point, back to the sand.
Step 10: Sand and fish
Colour the sandy floor light tan and the fish yellow.
Step 11: Pink cheeks, orange coral
Colour the cheeks pink, then both corals orange around them. Leave the eyes white.
Step 12: Grey rock, green weed
Colour the rock grey and the seaweed green. Go over your lines and your coral is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: coral, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
