How to Draw a Sawshark

Step 1: The saw

Start in the middle. Draw a long flat blade left to a round tip and back. Stop under your start.

Tip A wide flat blade, like a ruler with a round end.

Step 2: Head

Start at each open end of the saw. Curve one line up and back, and one line down and back.

Tip The head opens out from the saw like a funnel.

Step 3: Eye and smile

Inside the head, draw 1 huge round eye. Fill it black, leaving 2 white shines. Add a short smile underneath.

Step 4: Saw teeth

Along the top of the saw, draw a zigzag: tall tooth, short tooth. Do the same underneath, leaving a gap.

Tip Leave the gap in the middle of the bottom edge.

Step 5: Two whiskers

Start in the gap under the saw. Draw 2 long whiskers hanging down, curving back a little.

Tip The 2 whiskers are how you tell a sawshark from a sawfish.

Step 6: Back and fin

Start at the top of the head. Draw the back up into a tall fin and down again.

Step 7: Second fin

Carry the back on. Draw a smaller fin, then slope down and stop where the tail starts.

Step 8: Big tail

Start at the end of the back. Draw a tall top tip, a notch, and a bottom tip back.

Tip No line where the tail joins the body.

Step 9: Round tummy

Start at the bottom of the head. Draw 1 long round tummy, curving up to meet the tail.

Step 10: Three gills

Just behind the eye, draw 3 short curves side by side like ) ) ). Make the middle one tallest.

Step 11: Tummy stripe

Start low on the head. Draw 1 long gentle curve along the body, stopping on the tummy near the tail.

Tip This line is where the sandy top meets the pale tummy.

Step 12: Side fin

From the stripe behind the eye, sweep a blade fin back past the tummy, then up to the stripe.

Tip Rub out the bits of tummy line and stripe inside the fin.

Step 13: Cream tummy

Colour the tummy under the stripe cream. Add a pink cheek. Leave the side fin white for now.

Step 14: Sandy sawshark

Colour the saw, body, fins and tail light brown, around the cheek. Leave the eye and the teeth white.