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How to Draw a Teacher

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a teacher 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 draw an egg for the head, a little narrower at the chin.
Tip Leave most of the page below for the body and legs.
Step 2: Face and glasses
Draw round glasses with a bridge, a big dot eye in each lens, 2 eyebrows, a nose and a smile.
Step 3: Hair and fringe
Draw the hair over the top of the head, just above the head line, with a fringe curve.
Step 4: Bob
From the hair by each temple, draw the bob straight down beside the cheek and round it at the jaw.
Step 5: Cardigan and buttons
Draw 2 neck lines. From one, draw a cardigan back to the other. Add a middle line and 3 buttons.
Tip Make the shoulders round, not pointy.
Step 6: Skirt
From the cardigan's bottom left corner draw a skirt sloping out to a wide hem, back to the right corner.
Step 7: Long sleeves
Draw each sleeve with 2 lines from the shoulder and the armpit down to the wrist. Add a cuff line.
Step 8: Mitten hands
Under each sleeve draw a round mitten hand, like the bottom of an egg, with a little thumb pointing in.
Step 9: A book
Under the left hand draw a tall book, its top behind the hand. Add a spine and a page edge.
Step 10: Legs, shoes and ground
From the hem draw 2 lines down for each leg, stopping above the bottom. Add shoes and a ground line.
Step 11: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Go over your lines. Colour the cheeks pink, then the face, neck, hands and legs peach around them.
Tip Leave the lenses white.
Step 12: Brown hair, red book
Colour the hair and shoes brown and the book red, leaving the pages white.
Step 13: Green cardigan, navy skirt
Colour the cardigan and sleeves green and the skirt navy, and your teacher is done.