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How to Draw a Lemon Shark

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a lemon shark in 13 easy steps, about 10 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: broad blunt snout.

Step 1: Broad blunt snout
On the left, start high. Draw a flat top forward, round a blunt nose, and sweep back under, stopping lower.
Tip Wide and flat like a rounded brick.
Step 2: One big eye
In the middle of the head, draw 1 big round eye. Fill it black with a white shine top left.
Step 3: Back with 2 fins
From the top of the head, draw the back: a fin up and down, a flat bit, another fin. Stop.
Tip 2 back fins nearly the same size: that is a lemon shark.
Step 4: Thick tail
Start on the neck. Swing up and back to a point, in to a notch, a shorter point, and stop.
Tip Stop under the neck: the tail is a sideways V with a soft notch.
Step 5: Round tummy
Start at the chin. Draw 1 round sag under the body, fullest near the front, and stop under the tail.
Step 6: Big smile
Draw the top lip from the nose to under the eye, then the bottom lip down to the chin.
Tip The bottom lip goes from that corner to the chin: a big open grin.
Step 7: Teeth
Under the top lip, draw 3 round teeth: U shapes that start and stop on the lip.
Step 8: Gills and stripe
Behind the eye, draw 4 short gill curves. From the smile corner, draw a stripe back, stopping on the tummy.
Step 9: Side fin
From the stripe behind the gills, draw a side fin sweeping back to a round tip, then back up.
Step 10: Bubbles
Just above the nose, draw 3 bubbles floating up: small, bigger, biggest.
Step 11: Cream tummy, blue bubbles
Colour the tummy under the stripe cream, and the 3 bubbles light blue.
Step 12: Pink mouth
Colour the inside of the smile pink, leaving the 3 teeth white.
Step 13: Yellow-tan shark
Colour the rest of the shark yellow-tan, around the tummy and mouth. Leave the eye white.