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How to Draw a Porcupine Baby
Draw a porcupine baby in 12 easy steps, about 9 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: round head.
Step 1: Round head
On the left, draw a big round head with a short, blunt nose bump low on the left.
Tip Go extra big: a baby porcupine is mostly head.
Step 2: Nose, smile and eye
Draw a small black nose on the snout front. Add a short smile under it and 1 big eye behind.
Step 3: Ear and first quills
Draw a curve from the head top, ending over the body. Add 5 quills and an ear with an oval.
Step 4: Round back and tummy
Start where the curve stopped. Draw a big dome over the back, round the bottom, ending under the chin.
Tip The spiky coat is like a cape over a soft round body.
Step 5: Long quills
Start after the fifth quill. Zigzag 7 quills down the back, shorter near the bottom, stopping at the coat edge.
Step 6: Near legs
Start under the chin. Draw a short chunky leg down to a plump paw, back to the tummy. Same behind.
Tip Short legs! The front leg sits right under the head.
Step 7: Far legs
Behind each leg, start on the tummy and draw a line down to a small flat paw on the ground.
Step 8: Toes and ground
Give each near paw 2 short toe lines. Then draw a ground line under all 4 paws, edge to edge.
Step 9: Inner quills
Inside the coat, draw a row of 5 short quill lines following the dome, well inside the edge.
Step 10: Sandy quills
Colour all the long quills a light sandy colour so they stand out from the brown coat.
Step 11: Pink ear and cheek
Colour the inside of the ear pink and add a little pink cheek under the eye. Leave the eye white.
Step 12: Brown coat, tan face
Colour the coat and far legs brown. Colour the face, ear, tummy and near legs tan, around the pink.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a porcupine baby, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
