How to Draw an Otter

Step 1: Wide head

Near the top draw a big wide head, as wide as your hand, with fat cheeks and a wide chin.

Step 2: Ears and nose

Draw a small ear halfway down each side. Low on the face draw a wide oval with a black nose.

Step 3: Eyes and smile

Draw 2 big round eyes above the oval. From the nose draw a short line down to a w smile.

Step 4: Whiskers

Start on the edge of the oval and draw 2 short whiskers out toward each cheek, stopping before the edge.

Step 5: Pear body

Start under the left cheek. Draw a pear body down and round, back up to the right cheek.

Tip Shorter than the head, with shoulders narrower than the cheeks.

Step 6: Left arm and paw

Start on the left under the cheek. Slope an arm in to a mitten paw, then back to the body.

Step 7: Right arm and paw

Start on the right side under the cheek. Draw the other arm the same way, facing the left paw.

Step 8: Clam shell

Start at the top of the left mitten. Draw a bumpy rainbow of 5 bumps over to the right mitten.

Step 9: Two webbed feet

Start low on each side. Draw a fat paddle foot tilting up with 3 toes, back to the tummy.

Step 10: Thick tail

Below the right arm, sweep a thick tail out and up to a small round tip, back to the hip.

Tip Fat at the body, thin at the tip.

Step 11: Water

From the left edge to the right edge, draw a wavy water line across the low tummy.

Tip Rub out the lines under the water, so the tummy and feet sit in it.

Step 12: Cream and tan

Colour the nose oval cream. Colour the tummy a light tan.

Step 13: Purple shell, brown fur

Colour the shell purple. Colour the fur brown, around the nose oval, tummy and shell. Leave the eyes white.

Step 14: Blue water

Colour the water blue, from the wavy line right down to the bottom of the paper.