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How to Draw a Frogfish
Draw a frogfish 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: lumpy ball body.
Step 1: Lumpy ball body
Draw a big lumpy ball in the middle of the paper. Give it a flat bottom.
Tip Keep the bumps soft and shallow, like a potato with fins.
Step 2: Huge wide mouth
Start at the ball's left edge. Draw a mouth line slanting up to the eye spot. Add a bottom lip.
Tip The mouth turns up at the corner, like a happy frog.
Step 3: Eye and lure
Draw a big eye above the mouth corner. From the forehead draw a short stalk up to a tiny tuft.
Tip The lure is a tiny worm on a stick to catch dinner.
Step 4: Leg fins
Start at the ball's bottom left. Draw a bent leg down to a flat foot. Do the right one too.
Tip Frogfish walk on their fins, like little arms.
Step 5: Toes
On each foot draw 2 short lines for toes.
Step 6: Back fin and tail
Draw a small fin on top, starting and stopping on the ball. Add a round paddle tail on the right.
Step 7: Gill and spots
Draw a long C behind the eye for the gill. Add 4 round spots behind it.
Step 8: Bubbles
In front of the face draw 3 bubbles floating up. Make each one bigger than the last.
Step 9: Sand and seaweed
Draw a wavy line across the paper under both feet. Stand 3 tall wavy seaweed blades on it.
Step 10: Orange frogfish, red mouth
Colour the body and leg fins orange. Leave the eye and spots white. Colour the inside of the mouth red.
Step 11: Ginger fins, sandy floor
Colour the back fin and tail darker orange. Colour the floor under the sand line sandy, around the seaweed.
Step 12: Blue bubbles, green seaweed
Colour the bubbles light blue and the seaweed green. Go over your lines and your frogfish is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a frogfish, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
