How to Draw a Ship

Step 1: The waves

Below the middle of your paper, draw gentle wave bumps right across the page. Add a few ripple dashes below.

Tip Little hills, not spikes, about 12 of them all the same size.

Step 2: The hull

Start on the waves. Draw a tall round front and a sloping deck, down to the waves. Add a rail.

Tip Never draw the bottom of the boat: it is under the water.

Step 3: Porthole eyes

On the hull, draw 2 big round porthole eyes, one eye apart. Add a black dot and shine in each.

Step 4: The smile

Start a little below the left eye. Draw a small U smile, stopping a little below the right eye.

Tip Leave a gap: a smile touching the eyes looks like glasses.

Step 5: The cabin

Start on the deck. Draw a big upside-down U cabin with a domed roof, and stop back on the deck.

Step 6: The funnel

Start on the roof. Draw a fat funnel, wider at the top. Stop back on the roof. Add a stripe.

Tip Like a flower pot upside down.

Step 7: Smoke puffs

On top of the funnel, draw 3 round smoke puffs going up to the right, each bigger than the last.

Step 8: Cabin window

In the cabin, draw a wide pill window. Split it with a line from the top down to the bottom.

Step 9: Portholes

Draw 2 small round portholes, one high near the front of the hull and one near the back.

Step 10: Mast and flag

From a small oval on the deck, draw a tall mast up to a little ball. Add a pointy flag.

Tip The flag points backwards because the ship sails forward.

Step 11: Yellow funnel, pink cheeks

Go over your lines. Colour the funnel and flag yellow, round the stripe at the top. Add pink cheeks.

Step 12: Grey smoke, sky windows

Colour the smoke puffs grey and the window and portholes sky blue. Leave the cabin white.

Step 13: Blue sea, red hull

Colour the sea blue. Colour the hull and funnel stripe red, around the portholes and cheeks. Leave the eyes white.