How to draw a turtle

In this lesson, draw a nice little turtle of your very own.

You will need:
- Pencil
- Pen
- Eraser
- Paper
- Colored pencils or crayons
- Ruler (suggested)


Jeff's Tips & Ideas : Use lightly sketched pencil lines first for the structure. After, use a pen to draw in the final lines. When you're finished, erase the underlying pencil lines to reveal your drawing. Then - color it!

Let's start! Follow step by step our easy indications below !

STEP 1

Draw a simple framework, composed of basic shapes. Be sure to keep your penciled lines nice and light. Later, you can go over your structure with a dark, permanent pen or marker. The penciled lines will easily erase with a kneaded eraser when you're finished. The cross over the head circle is helpful for positioning the features of the face.

STEP 2

Easy mapping out of the structure before-hand. Keeping things nice and simple as always!  :-)

STEP 3

Draw the face.

STEP 4

Sketch in the head and neck.

STEP 5

Draw the base of the shell first, then the top.

STEP 6

Draw in the front legs.

STEP 7

Next - go ahead and sketch in the back legs and tail. Notice how the back legs are just 'mirrors' of the front ones!?  Simple stuff!  :-)

STEP 8

Alas!... you're turtle is complete. And look - I changed the mouth a bit... you can too if you like. See what you can come up with.

Color it with the colors of your imagination. And there we are - an adorable little cartoon turtle.  :-)

Here is a drawing of a turtle made by Jeff Scarterfield ! For more lessons by Jeff, check out his website at How-to-Draw-Cartoons-Online.com.

Happy Drawing! :-)