How to draw a...

Dolphin

Shark

Octopus

Reproduced with permission from Draw Ocean Animals, copyright©1994 Douglas C. DuBosque

Draw a crescent shape.

Add a pointed nose, and two triangles for the tail flukes. Draw the curved line on the side, and the eye.

Add the dorsal fin. Draw the flippers (notice how you can only see part of the far one).

Make your dolphin jumping out of the water! Add shading. Sharpen outlines and details. Clean up any smudges with your eraser. Add this drawing to your portfolio!(What would it feel like to jump out of the water like that?)

Octopus

Class Cephalopoda (go ahead, try to say it!!), genus Octopus. Mollusk with eight tentacles with suction cups. Related to squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus, an octopus has no bones. It moves by squirting water out of the siphon, an opening under its head. Has three hearts, can change colors, and shoots clouds of black 'ink' in self defense. Size: varies among 50 varieties, from 8 cm (3 in) to 8.5 m (28 ft). Diet: clams, crabs, lobsters, mussels and other shellfish. Octopuses live along coasts; not just in coral reefs.

Draw an oval for the body. NEXT draw a cylinder shape for the head, with an eye at the end.

Draw the siphon. Add wild and crazy, curling, every-which-way tentacles.

Draw suction cups on the bottom of each tentacle. Go over your final lines with a fine-tip marker. Erase the pencil lines, add shading, and clean up with an eraser. Save you finished drawing in your portfolio!

Great White Shark

Carcharodon carcharias. (go ahead, try to say it!!) Size: 6 m (19.5 ft). Diet: fish, seals, dolphins, unlucky humans. Large and aggressive! The great white shark has protective eyelids that cover the eyes during attacks.

Draw a long, flat oval. Add a box at one end for the head, and two lines tapering at the other end for the tail.

Add mouth, teeth, eye, nostril and gill openings.

Draw fins. Look carefully at where they line up with other fins on the body. Make sure you get all of them!

Add shading. Make the outlines and details bolder. Clean up with your eraser. The shark hasn't yet spotted you swimming nearby, so add a little snack to distract him (or her). Add your drawing to your portfolio!