How to Draw an Inflatable Boat

Step 1: The waves

Below the middle of your paper, draw gentle wave bumps right across the page. Add 4 ripple dashes below.

Tip Little hills, not spikes, all the same size.

Step 2: Fat rubber boat

Start on the waves. Curve up round a fat nose and back along the top. Stop in the waves.

Tip Make it fat and round, like a long balloon. The nose lifts out of the water.

Step 3: Inside the boat

Inside, near the top, draw a long thin opening: round at the nose end, flat at the back.

Tip Leave a thin tube above it and a fat tube below it.

Step 4: Bench seat

Inside the opening, rule 2 short lines for a seat. Start each on the top edge, stop on the bottom.

Tip The plank between them is the seat.

Step 5: Outboard motor

Behind the back end, draw a tall motor box with round corners. Add a line across it.

Tip The bottom corner of the motor hides behind the boat.

Step 6: Motor leg

Start under the motor. Draw 2 lines straight down and stop in the waves.

Tip The propeller is hidden under the water.

Step 7: Steering handle

Start on the motor's front. Draw a long handle forward to a round tip. Stop back on the motor.

Step 8: Tube seams

Start on the opening's bottom edge. Draw 2 curved lines down across the fat tube, one near each end.

Tip Rubber boats are made of sections joined together.

Step 9: Rope loops

Start at the front seam's top. Draw 4 loops of rope hanging from the edge. Stop at the back seam.

Tip The rope is for holding on tight.

Step 10: Orange tubes, yellow seat

Colour the tubes orange, all round the opening and down to the waves. Colour the seat yellow.

Step 11: Grey motor and floor

Colour the motor, its leg and the handle grey. Colour the floor inside grey, around the seat.

Step 12: Blue sea

Go over your lines. Colour the sea blue, from the waves down to the bottom of the page.