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How to Draw a Sleeping Face
Draw a sleeping face 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: the head.
Step 1: The head
Near the top, draw a big soft egg for the head: full round cheeks, a little narrower at the chin.
Tip Make it nearly two thirds of the page tall: a cartoon head is big.
Step 2: Two ears
Each side, draw a C ear: start on the head, bulge out, stop lower down. Add a smaller C inside.
Step 3: Sleeping eyes
Below the middle of the head, draw 2 gentle U curves for closed eyes, with a tiny lash each.
Tip Closed eyes are just little smiles.
Step 4: Nose and sleepy smile
Between and below the eyes, draw a tiny U for the nose. Under it, draw a small soft smile.
Step 5: Eyebrows
Above each closed eye, draw a short curved line like a little rainbow, nice and relaxed.
Step 6: Z z z
Beside the head on the right, draw 3 Zs floating up and away, each a little bigger than the last.
Tip Zs are for snoring: small near the head, bigger further away.
Step 7: Hair cap
Start above the left ear. Draw soft round tufts over the head, stopping above the right ear.
Tip Soft bumps, like a row of little clouds, not spikes.
Step 8: Hairline
Start at the same left point. Draw a gentle curve across the forehead, above the eyebrows, stopping at the right.
Step 9: Neck and shirt
Draw 2 neck lines under the chin, then 2 sloping shoulders joined by a flat line. Add a U collar.
Step 10: Pink cheeks, peach skin
Rub a soft pink circle on each cheek. Colour the face, ears and neck peach, around the cheeks.
Step 11: Brown hair
Colour the hair brown.
Step 12: Sky blue pyjamas
Colour the shirt sky blue for pyjamas. Go over your lines and your sleeping face is done.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a sleeping face, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
