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How to Draw an Elasmosaurus
Draw an elasmosaurus in 10 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: little head.
Step 1: Little head
Near the top left, draw a small smooth egg for the head, lying on its side, rounder end left.
Tip The head is tiny, no bigger than your thumb. The neck will be huge.
Step 2: Eye, nostril, smile
Draw a big black eye under the brow with a shine. Dot a nostril. Smile from snout back to cheek.
Tip Even a tiny head gets a big eye.
Step 3: Long neck
Draw 2 long neck lines sloping down right: from behind the head, and from the chin down to the water.
Tip As long as the whole body: thin at the head, wide at the shoulders.
Step 4: Round back
From the end of the back neck line, curve up over a big round back and down to the water.
Tip Only the head, neck and round back show above the waves.
Step 5: The sea
Under the neck and back, draw a row of wave bumps right across the paper, edge to edge.
Tip The waves hide the rest of the body.
Step 6: Leaf flipper
Low on the side of the body, just above the waves, draw a long leaf flipper pointing back.
Tip Round at the front end, pointy at the back end.
Step 7: Bubbles
In the sea in front of the neck, draw 3 round bubbles: big, medium, small.
Step 8: Cream throat
Draw a line inside the front of the neck, from the chin to the water. Colour that stripe cream.
Step 9: Blue water
Colour the sea blue, from the waves down to the bottom of the paper.
Step 10: Teal body
Go over your lines. Colour the head, neck, back and flipper teal, around the cream throat. Leave the eye white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: an elasmosaurus, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
