How to Draw a Sloth

Step 1: Furry head

Above the middle, start on the left. Draw 5 fur hills across, round a wide cheek and chin, and back.

Tip Wider than tall, like a furry bun. No points, only soft bumps.

Step 2: Pale face

Inside the head draw a soft pear face: start under the middle hill, round the cheeks and chin, and back.

Tip Keep a gap from the head all the way round. The gap is fur.

Step 3: Dark eye patches

Above the middle of the face draw 2 teardrop patches, a round blob each, tails sweeping out to the edge.

Tip These dark patches are what make it a sloth.

Step 4: 2 big eyes

In the round end of each patch draw a big round eye with a black dot and a white shine.

Step 5: Nose and smile

Draw a black nose between the eyes. Under the patches draw a wide lazy U smile from left to right.

Step 6: Pear body

Start under the left cheek. Draw a round tummy hanging down like a U, stopping under the right cheek.

Tip One smooth pear, narrower than the head. No corners.

Step 7: The branch

Near the top draw a long branch like a gentle smile, rounded at both ends.

Tip Add a little twig on the right.

Step 8: 2 long arms

From each side of the body draw a long banana arm up past the cheek to the branch, and back.

Step 9: Hooked paws

On the branch above each arm draw a round mitten. Hang 2 hooked claws from it over the branch.

Tip Curl each claw down the front of the branch and hook it under the bottom edge.

Step 10: Legs and feet

From the tummy draw each short leg down to a plump foot, and back. Hang 2 claws from each foot.

Step 11: Cream face

Colour the face cream around the 2 eye patches. Leave the eyes white.

Step 12: Colour the fur tan

Colour the fur tan around the face: the head, body, arms, mittens and legs.

Step 13: Brown patches and branch

Colour the eye patches and all the claws brown. Colour the branch and twig wood-brown, around the paws.