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How to Draw a Swimmer
Draw a swimmer in 13 easy steps, about 10 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 of your paper, in the middle, draw an egg head, a little narrower at the chin.
Tip Leave most of the page below for the body and legs.
Step 2: The face
Draw 2 big eyes, a U nose and a smile. Add C ears, starting and stopping on the head.
Step 3: Swim cap and goggles
Start on the left side above the eyebrows. Draw the cap over the top, down to the right. Add goggles.
Step 4: Neck and swim shirt
Draw 2 neck lines under the chin. From the left one draw a shirt, back up to the right one.
Step 5: Arms
From each sleeve, draw 2 lines down to the wrist with a soft elbow, getting narrower.
Step 6: Mitten hands
At each wrist, start on one arm line, draw a mitten with a thumb pointing in, stop on the other.
Step 7: Armbands
Draw a fat, puffy armband around the middle of each upper arm. Rub out the arm lines inside.
Step 8: Swim trunks
Start at the shirt's bottom left corner. Draw trunks, pointed between the legs, back up to the right corner.
Step 9: Legs
From the trunks, draw 2 lines for each leg, getting narrower down to the ankle.
Step 10: Bare feet and ground
For each foot, start on one leg line, draw 3 toe bumps and a round heel, stop on the other.
Tip Then add a ground line under both feet.
Step 11: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Colour the face, ears, neck, arms, hands, legs and feet peach. Add pink cheeks.
Tip Keep the eyes white.
Step 12: Sky cap, orange trunks
Colour the cap and goggles sky blue, and the trunks orange.
Step 13: Blue shirt, red armbands
Colour the swim shirt blue and the armbands red. Go over your lines and your swimmer is done.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a swimmer, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
