How to Draw a Baby Killer Whale

Step 1: Round head

Draw a big round C for the head. Start at the top, curve round the blunt nose and stop underneath.

Tip A killer whale has a round blunt head, with no beak.

Step 2: Bright eye

Low on the front of the head draw a round eye. Fill it black and leave a white shine.

Step 3: Back and little fin

From the top of the head draw the back, up over a small rounded fin, then down to the tail.

Tip A calf's fin is small and round. It grows tall later.

Step 4: Tail fins

Start at the end of the back. Draw 2 matching round tail fins, like a bow. Stop just underneath.

Tip Make the 2 fins the same size.

Step 5: Round tummy

Start under the head. Draw 1 smooth round tummy, curving up to meet the tail.

Step 6: Long smile

Start on the tip of the nose. Draw a long smile under the eye, curling up at the end.

Step 7: Eye patch

Behind the eye, a little higher, draw a tilted oval patch.

Tip Leave a gap between the eye and the patch.

Step 8: Tummy line

Start on the smile. Draw a line along the side, a little above the tummy. Stop near the tail.

Tip Everything under this line stays pale.

Step 9: Flipper

Start on the tummy line below the patch. Draw a round paddle down and back, then up to the line.

Tip Rub out the lines inside the flipper.

Step 10: Saddle patch

Start on the back behind the fin. Draw a curve dipping down. Stop on the back near the tail.

Step 11: Waves and bubbles

Near the top draw a row of wave bumps right across the paper. Add 2 bubbles above the head.

Step 12: Blue sea

Colour all the water under the waves blue. Go around the whale and the bubbles.

Step 13: Cream and grey

Colour the chin, tummy and eye patch cream. Colour the saddle patch behind the fin grey.

Tip A calf's pale parts are creamy. They turn white as it grows.

Step 14: Black back

Colour the rest of the whale black: head, back, fin, tail and flipper. Leave the eye white.