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How to Draw a Lion Roaring
Draw a lion roaring 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: the face.
Step 1: The face
In the middle of your paper draw a big fat egg face with a flat chin.
Tip Leave room all round for the mane. Fat cheeks, almost flat chin.
Step 2: Two round ears
Start on each top corner, draw a round ear, stop on the face. Add a curve inside each ear.
Step 3: Two big eyes
Across the middle of the face draw 2 big eyes, each with a black dot and a white shine.
Step 4: The mane
From the left ear draw cloud bumps round the face, a small one under the chin, back to the ear.
Step 5: Nose and cheek pads
A finger under the eyes draw a small black triangle nose. Add 2 plump oval pads under it, touching.
Tip The nose point sits in the little V between the pads.
Step 6: Big roaring mouth
Start under the left pad. Go across, down in a U, back to the start. Add tongue and 2 teeth.
Step 7: Whiskers and dots
Start on each pad, draw 2 short whiskers out, stopping before the face edge. Dot 3 spots on each pad.
Step 8: Roar lines
Past the mane on each side draw 3 curved lines like brackets, each one further out and longer.
Tip Leave a little gap from the mane. Now you can hear the roar!
Step 9: Sand face
Colour the face and ears sand, around the pads, inner ears and mouth. Leave the eyes white.
Step 10: Peach cheeks, pink tongue
Colour the cheek pads and the insides of the ears peach, and the tongue pink.
Step 11: Ginger mane, red mouth
Colour the mane ginger around the ears. Colour the mouth red, around the pink tongue and white teeth.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a lion roaring, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
