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How to Draw a Sea Lion Balancing a Ball
Draw a sea lion balancing a ball 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: tipped-up head.
Step 1: Tipped-up head
Start low on the left. Draw a bean head, nose up top right, and stop low on the right.
Tip A sea lion lifts its nose right up to balance.
Step 2: Eye, nose and smile
Draw 1 big round eye with a black dot. Add a black oval nose tip and a short smile.
Step 3: Ear and whiskers
Draw a tiny curved ear line behind the eye. Add 3 short whiskers on the snout, above the smile.
Step 4: The ball
On the tip of the nose, draw a big round ball. Add 2 curved stripes side by side across it.
Tip The ball touches at one tiny point: that makes it look like balancing.
Step 5: Pear body
From each end of the neck, draw a big C down, wider than the head, meeting under the tummy.
Step 6: Two flippers
Start below the chin on each side. Draw a smooth paddle out and down, back up to the body.
Step 7: Tummy patch
Between the flippers, draw a big egg shape on the tummy, not touching them.
Step 8: Tail flippers
Start high on the right paddle. Draw 2 fat round lobes out right, back to the paddle lower down.
Step 9: The rock
From the left flipper, draw a big rock under the body, out past the tail, and back to the tail.
Step 10: Yellow and tan
Colour the middle stripe of the ball yellow and the tummy patch tan.
Step 11: Grey rock, red ball
Colour the rock grey. Colour the rest of the ball red, around the yellow stripe.
Step 12: Colour it brown
Colour the head, body, flippers and tail brown, around the tummy patch. Leave the eye white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a sea lion balancing a ball, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
