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How to Draw a Whale Shark
Draw a whale shark 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: wide flat nose.
Step 1: Wide flat nose
On the left start high. Sweep forward into a broad flat front, curve back under, and stop below your start.
Tip Wide and flat like a bus, not pointy.
Step 2: One huge eye
Behind the nose draw one huge round eye. Fill it with a big black dot and a white shine.
Step 3: Back and top fin
Start at the nose top. Draw a hill up into a sail fin, then glide back to the tail.
Tip No dip before the fin: the back climbs right into it.
Step 4: The tail
Start on the tail neck. Swing up into a long fin, in to a notch, then a short fin down.
Tip Lopsided: long on top, short below. Stop under your start.
Step 5: Round tummy
Start at the chin. Draw one big round sag under the body, then curve up to the tail.
Step 6: Wide smile
Start on the nose's front edge. Draw one long wide smile back, sweeping up to stop under the eye.
Step 7: Rows of spots
On the top half of the body draw lots of little round spots in wobbly rows. Skip the eye.
Step 8: Gills
Just behind the eye draw 3 short curves side by side, like ) ) ), the middle one tallest.
Step 9: Tummy stripe
Start on the nose front, below the smile. Draw one long curve back along the side, stopping at the tail.
Step 10: Side fin
Start on the stripe behind the gills. Draw a fin sweeping down to a round tip, then back up.
Step 11: Cream tummy, pink cheek
Colour the tummy cream and dab a pink cheek by the smile. Leave the eye and spots white.
Step 12: Grey top
Go over your lines. Colour above the stripe and the side fin grey, around the eye, spots and cheek.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a whale shark, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
