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How to Draw a Sea Slug
Draw a sea slug 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: long body, frilly skirt.
Step 1: Long body, frilly skirt
From the bottom left, draw a long bean, round in front, down to a pointy tail. Add frilly bumps underneath.
Tip A sea slug has no shell, just a fancy frilly edge.
Step 2: Two big eyes
On the front of the body, draw 2 big egg eyes with a big black dot in each.
Step 3: Open smile, cheeks
Under the eyes, draw a line. Hang a U from one end down to the other. Add tongue and cheeks.
Step 4: Two club horns
On the head, draw a club horn, a thin stalk with a round knob. Add another peeking out behind.
Tip The horns are how a sea slug smells the water.
Step 5: Gill flower
Near the tail, draw a little flower of round petals on the back, well inside the outline.
Tip That flower is the sea slug's gills: it breathes through it.
Step 6: Spots
Scatter 3 round spots of different sizes over the body, well inside it, away from the face and flower.
Step 7: Sand and bubbles
Draw a long sand line under the skirt, right across your paper. Above the flower, draw 3 bubbles floating up.
Step 8: Pink tongue, sandy floor
Colour the tongue and both cheeks pink. Colour the sand under the line sandy yellow, right to the edges.
Step 9: Orange horns and flower
Colour the two horns and the gill flower orange.
Step 10: Orange spots
Colour the three spots orange too.
Step 11: Blue bubbles, red mouth
Colour the three bubbles water blue. Colour the inside of the mouth red, around the pink tongue.
Step 12: Purple body
Go over your lines. Colour the body purple, around the flower, spots, cheeks and mouth. Leave the eyes white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a sea slug, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
