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Updated: Mar 28, 2020

Hello there, today we are going to be learning how to draw a dinosaur! I'm going to take you step by step through drawing your dinosaur with pictures and descriptions. Right then, let's get too it!

How to draw a dinosaur step 1
How to draw a dinosaur step 1

1. Firstly, we will draw a rectangle shape. This will be the Dinosaurs head so it doesn't need to be perfectly square


How to draw a dinosaur step 2
How to draw a dinosaur step 2

2. Then we need to git the dinosaur a body and tail. It's a bit of a strange shape we need to draw, but you will end up with the shape above. It looks like an elf shoe or the letter "J"with a pointy end.


How to draw a dinosaur step 3
How to draw a dinosaur step 3

3. To make the dinosaurs belly we draw another line along the bottom of our shape, following up the dinosaurs chest and joins back into the other shape under its head.


How to draw a dinosaur step 4
How to draw a dinosaur step 4

4. Time to start on the legs. The dinosaurs legs are made of a rectangular shape with zig-zags of the dinosaurs claws. As the leg is in from of the Dinosaur's belly, we will need to do some erasing of our previous lines here.

How to draw a dinosaur step 5
How to draw a dinosaur step 5

5. Next we will add the dinosaurs second leg. We do this using the same shape as last time.



How to draw a dinosaur step 6
How to draw a dinosaur step 6

6. For the dinosaurs arms we are going to use two curved lines with a zig-zag line for the its claws.


How to draw a dinosaur step 7
How to draw a dinosaur step 7

7. We are going to use the same shape for the dinosaurs second arm.


How to draw a dinosaur step 8
How to draw a dinosaur step 8

8. We are going to start adding some details now. Here we added some spikes on the dinosaurs back, two nostrils, a zig-zag for the mouth. We also added two bumps on the top of the dino's head, with two circles inside for his eyes.


How to draw a dinosaur step 9
How to draw a dinosaur step 9

9. Finally, we add little scales for some detail. These can be drawn with little "U" shapes. We also gave the dino pupils in its eyes and finished the mouth with a line across the top of the zig-zag. There we go, we're done!


Great job on getting this far, I hope you have enjoyed drawing your dinosaur. I have made a PDF worksheet for you to download, print off and keep if you would like. To find the worksheet click here to go to the resources page on my website. I hope you found this useful and had fun!

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