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How to Draw a Trout
Draw a trout 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: eye, nose and smile.
Step 1: Eye, nose and smile
Draw an eye on the left. In front draw a pointy nose, starting high and ending low, and a smile.
Step 2: Torpedo body
Start at the nose top. Draw a long low rainbow back; stop at the neck. Match the belly below.
Tip A trout is a long torpedo: fattest near the front.
Step 3: Moon tail
Close the neck with a curve. From its ends draw 2 lobes, up and down, that meet in a dent.
Step 4: Rounded back fins
Start and stop on the back. Draw a rounded fin behind the eye, and a tiny fin near the tail.
Step 5: Gill
A finger behind the eye, start below the back. Draw a short C toward the tail; stop above the belly.
Step 6: Side fin
Behind the gill, low down near the belly, draw a small leaf pointing back toward the tail.
Step 7: Side stripe
From the smile's corner, draw a long line under the eye to the tail. Add another below, from the gill.
Step 8: Spots
On the back above the stripe draw 2 rows of 3 little round spots. Keep them clear of the lines.
Step 9: Bubbles
In front of the mouth draw 3 bubbles floating up, small to big.
Step 10: Sand and seaweed
Draw a wavy sand line almost from edge to edge. Draw wiggly seaweed from the sand up and back down.
Step 11: Cream belly, sandy floor
Colour below the stripe cream, around the side fin. Colour under the sand line sandy, around the seaweed.
Step 12: Pink stripe, orange fins
Colour the stripe pink. Colour the tail and all the fins orange.
Step 13: Green back, black spots
Colour above the stripe green, around the spots, and the seaweed too. Leave the eye white. Colour the spots black.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a trout, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
