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How to Draw an Elephant

Grab a pencil (NOT a pen!) and let’s draw an elephant! Here’s how.

Step 1: Begin by drawing a large oval for the elephant’s body and then add a smaller circle for the head.

Step 2: Now draw two long, curving lines, coming down from the head for the trunk. Join them at the end.

Step 3: Draw a tusk coming from the bottom of your elephant’s head, curving across the trunk. Add the tip of the other tusk to the left of the trunk.

Step 4: Erase the overlapping lines inside the trunk and tusk. Draw the ear.

Step 5: Erase the overlapping lines in the ear. Draw two sets of ovals for the legs, and add semicircles at the bottom for the feet.

Step 6: Erase the overlapping lines and smooth out where the different shapes join. Add the other two legs.

Step 7: Erase the overlapping lines in the second set of legs, and smooth out where the different shapes join. Now add a tail. Try to copy the shape shown here as closely as you can.

Step 8: Add lines for wrinkles on your elephant’s trunk, ear, knees and tummy. Give the ear a wiggly edge, add toenail shapes to the feet and give your elephant an eye and lower lip.

Get this drawing project and many more in “How to Draw Animals” by Michael Garton. (Michael O’Mara Books, $14.99 softcover. Ages 6 and up.)

20 Comments on How to Draw an Elephant

  1. This made it so much easyer for my class to draw an elephant, thank you!😊

  2. Anonymous 😎 // April 14, 2019 at 1:15 am // Reply

    It was great for my mum’s birthday card.She loved it!😍

  3. thank you this was easier than the other elephant I was trying to draw!

  4. thank you!!😇

  5. xXmarshmelloDJXx // March 15, 2019 at 1:08 pm // Reply

    this is good

  6. UnicornPower // March 5, 2019 at 3:34 pm // Reply

    this is very helpful for what i am doing

  7. Well mine is good, but why the circles for legs??

  8. Very nice and very easy

  9. Very easy

  10. Anonymous Killer // January 17, 2019 at 8:08 pm // Reply

    This really helped! I had to draw an elephant for my homework so it helped a lot!

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