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How to Draw an Ichthyosaurus
Draw an ichthyosaurus 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: body and thin beak.
Step 1: Body and thin beak
Across the middle, draw 1 long body pointing left, with a thin beak, a round forehead and a narrow tail.
Step 2: Huge eye
In the front of the head, draw 1 huge round eye. Add a big black dot and 2 little shines.
Tip Ichthyosaurs had the biggest eyes of any animal ever.
Step 3: Long smile
From the beak tip, draw a line back along the beak, curling up into a smile under the eye.
Step 4: Fish tail
On the tail end, draw a big crescent moon tail standing up, with 2 points and a notch between.
Tip A fish tail, not a flat whale tail.
Step 5: Back fin
Start on the back. Draw a small rounded fin up and over, and stop on the back again.
Step 6: Flippers
Under the tummy, draw a paddle flipper hanging down and back. Draw a smaller one near the tail.
Step 7: Tummy line
Start on the smile. Draw 1 long gentle curve back above the flippers, and stop at the tail.
Step 8: Water and bubbles
Across the top, draw a wavy water line from side to side. Add 3 bubbles above the beak.
Step 9: Cream tummy, blue flippers
Colour the lower beak and the tummy under the line cream, and both flippers blue.
Step 10: Colour it navy
Colour the body and beak above the lines, the back fin and the tail navy. Leave the eye white.
Step 11: Blue sea
Colour the sea blue, from the wavy line down to the bottom, all around the ichthyosaurus.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: an ichthyosaurus, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
