How to Draw a Sleeping Lioness

Step 1: Resting head

Start on the left side of your paper. Draw a big head like a soft, wide egg.

Tip The long body will go on the right.

Step 2: Two round ears

Draw a round ear on each top corner of the head. Add a small curve inside each one.

Tip The ear on the left is a little smaller.

Step 3: Sleeping eyes

Halfway down the head draw 2 curves shaped like the letter U. These are her closed eyes.

Tip The eye on the right is a little wider.

Step 4: Nose and mouth

Below the eyes draw a wide oval and a black nose. Start at the nose and stop in a smile.

Tip The oval sits a little to the left, so her face turns towards you.

Step 5: Long low back

Draw a ground line below the chin. From behind the right ear draw a long back, curving down to it.

Tip A lioness has no mane, so the back joins straight onto the head.

Step 6: Paws under chin

Along the ground under the chin draw a flat front leg with a round paw. Add a second paw beyond.

Tip Her chin rests on the legs. Add 2 toe lines on the near paw and 1 on the far paw.

Step 7: Round thigh

At the end of the back draw a big round thigh sitting on the ground.

Tip The top of the thigh is a little hill at the end of the back.

Step 8: Back feet

From under the thigh draw a foot lying flat, pointing left. Peek a second foot beyond it.

Tip Add 2 toe lines on the near foot and 1 on the far foot. Now she has 4 legs.

Step 9: Tail and tuft

Behind the thigh draw a thin tail that curls up from the ground. Put an egg-shaped tuft on its tip.

Tip The tail is thickest where it leaves the body.

Step 10: Cream muzzle, peach ears

Colour the muzzle cream. Colour the middle of each ear peach.

Step 11: Sandy fur

Colour the head, ears, body, legs and tail sandy yellow, around the muzzle and ear middles. Leave the tuft white.

Step 12: Brown tuft

Colour the tail tuft dark brown. Your sleeping lioness is done!