Watch it draw itself · tap to replay

How to Draw a Sugar Glider

12 steps · Medium · about 9 min

Draw a sugar glider 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: teardrop face.

Step 1: Teardrop face
Near the top, in the middle, draw a round face like an upside-down teardrop, with a soft pointy chin.
Tip Leave lots of room below and on both sides.
Step 2: Big oval ears
On each top corner of the head, draw a big oval ear leaning out, with a smaller oval inside.
Step 3: Nose, smile, whiskers
Above the chin, draw a teardrop nose and w smile. From the nose, draw 2 whiskers, stopping on the cheek.
Step 4: Huge eyes
In the middle of the face, draw 2 huge round eyes, close together. Add big black dots with shines.
Tip Sugar gliders are awake at night, so their eyes are enormous.
Step 5: Egg body
Under the chin, draw an egg body hanging straight down, narrower than the head.
Tip The body is small: the stretched arms and legs do the gliding.
Step 6: Arms spread wide
From each side of the body near the top, draw an arm that gets thinner, ending in a round paw.
Step 7: Legs spread wide
From each side of the body near the bottom, draw a leg that gets thinner, ending in a round foot.
Tip The 4 paws make the corners of a kite.
Step 8: Gliding skin
On each side, draw a curve from the paw to the foot, sagging in toward the body like a hammock.
Step 9: Long thin tail
From under the body, draw a long tail that gets thinner as it swoops down and out to the right.
Step 10: Stripe and tummy
Between the ears, draw a short dark stripe pointing down the forehead. Draw a tall oval tummy inside the body.
Step 11: Pink ears, cream tummy
Colour the inside of the ears and the nose pink, and the tummy cream.
Step 12: Grey fur, dark stripe
Leave the eyes white. Colour the glider grey around the pink, tummy and stripe, then the stripe dark grey.