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How to Draw a Lion Sleeping
Draw a lion sleeping 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
On the left of your paper draw a fat egg face with fat cheeks and a flat chin.
Tip Leave a hand of room all round for the mane.
Step 2: Ears and sleepy eyes
On each top corner draw a rainbow ear on the face line. Add 2 sleepy closed eyes: short curved lines.
Step 3: The mane
Start outside the left ear. Draw a cloud of round hills down, under the chin, up to the right ear.
Step 4: Nose and cheek pads
Under the eyes draw a small black triangle nose. Under it draw 2 oval cheek pads touching in the middle.
Step 5: Smile and whiskers
Start under the left cheek pad. Draw a shallow smile, stopping under the right pad. Add 2 whiskers each side.
Step 6: Ground and front paws
Draw a ground line just under the mane. Under the chin draw 2 plump bun paws side by side.
Step 7: Lying body
Start on the mane. Draw a long low body hill back, down to the ground, and back to the mane.
Step 8: Back paw and tail
Draw a bun back paw and a thigh curve down to it. Curl a tufted tail up from the rump.
Step 9: Toes, ears and Zzz
Draw 2 toe curves in each paw and a smaller rainbow in each ear. Add 3 Z's floating up.
Step 10: Sand fur
Colour the face, ears, body, paws and tail sand, leaving the cheek pads and inner ears white.
Step 11: Peach pads, ginger mane
Colour the cheek pads and inner ears peach. Colour the mane and tail tuft ginger, around the face and ears.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a lion sleeping, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
