How to Draw a Dad Holding a Baby

Step 1: The head

Near the top of your paper draw an egg head, a little narrower at the chin.

Tip Leave the middle of the page for the arms and the baby.

Step 2: The face

Draw 2 oval eyes, a U nose, a smile and eyebrows. Add C ears, starting and ending on the head.

Step 3: Short hair

Start beside the left eyebrow, draw soft tufts over to the right one. Join the ends with a curved hairline.

Step 4: Neck, shirt and collar

From the chin draw 2 neck lines down to a boxy shirt with round shoulders. Add a small collar.

Step 5: Arms bent in front

From each shoulder draw a bent arm: down, round the elbow, in across the tummy, back to the armpit.

Step 6: Two hands

On each wrist draw a round mitten pointing in toward the middle, with a gap between.

Step 7: The baby's blanket

Draw a big rounded loaf on the arms, going behind the hands. Add a fold curve near its left end.

Tip The fold starts on the top edge and stops at the mitten.

Step 8: The baby's head

At the blanket's left end draw a round baby head inside the fold, with 2 big eyes and a smile.

Step 9: Trousers

Start at the shirt's bottom left. Draw 2 long trouser legs with a point between. Stop at the bottom right.

Step 10: Shoes and ground

Under each leg draw a shoe with the toe pointing out. Draw a long ground line under both shoes.

Step 11: Peach skin, pink cheeks

Colour dad's cheeks pink, then both faces, dad's ears, neck and hands peach around them. Leave the eyes white.

Step 12: Sky blanket, grey trousers

Colour the blanket sky blue around the baby and the hands, and the trousers grey.

Step 13: Blue shirt, brown hair

Colour the shirt and sleeves blue around the blanket and hands. Colour the hair and shoes brown.