How to draw a shark in pencil - 5 step-by-step master classes with photo ideas and examples

Dangerous huge predators of the seas are sharks, recently they began to be frequently spotted near the Sakhalin coast. However, children with pleasure and interest draw them on paper.

A simple method

This lesson will help children draw a sea animal step by step. It is better to start with an easy way, which even a child can handle.

It will require: a simple pencil, an eraser, a sheet of paper. To implement the creative process, you need to do the following steps:

Draw a long arc-shaped line along the sheet. At the top add a fin in the form of an irregular triangle with a smoothed angle. On the left side form a nose. Draw the upper part of the mouth with an arc, curved to the bottom. Give it volume, with a line that repeats the arc.
Draw the bottom part of the mouth, adding pointed teeth in the middle. From the lower jaw, draw an arc to the tail (belly).
In the proposed area to draw an eye in the shape of an oval and mark the pupil in it.
Near the mouth to draw five lines of different sizes of gills. Podrisovit below draw the front fins. The near will be visible in full, far - a little peek out from behind the body.
In the right side of the picture dorisovuyut: small fins (one above, two below) and the tail.
Blue color to give the eye, black to make the pupil. Torso paint gray-blue shades. Upper lip and abdomen are left unpainted.

Drawing ready! Bravo! As you can see it's easy enough to depict a shark, you can make the work a little more difficult.

Interesting drawing

This work seems complicated only at first glance. It is possible to get the desired result by following the following instructions:

In the left side of the sheet, draw a slightly curved segment. Draw a similar segment on the right side. Between them to form a triangle with a rounded apex (upper fin).
Take the tail at the end of the second segment. Upper tail triangle make about half as much lower.
Draw a nose and mouth. Mark the outline of the lower lip. From the lower jaw to draw a line to the middle of the picture with a downward slope. Here to draw a fin, starting from the middle of the body and slightly beyond. Then from the fin to the tail draw a wavy line.
Equip the mouth with sharp teeth. Draw a line from the tip of the nose, with an arc framing the mouth to the beginning of the front fin, next to the arc with dashes to indicate the gills. With another line separate the bottom of the belly. Near the tail, draw small fins on the bottom and top.
Draw a semi-oval eye and an eyebrow-like shape for a menacing look. In the corner of the eye, make a round black pupil.
Color the upper part to the dividing line and fins in shades of gray-blue. Mouth cavity painted pink.

Thus you can depict a large whale or, similar in form, a fish.

On the cell sheet

Such an image of a shark will be very pleasant for a child, as it will be closer to the cartoon image. Need:

In the middle of the sheet, draw a figure that looks like an unfinished infinity symbol. The left side of the figure will serve as the nose, the right side - the outline of the grin. Wavy line indicate the eye area.
Draw eyes and pupils. Doris frowning eyebrows. Outline the area of the grin with an additional line, fill the inside with teeth.
With a curved line mark the lower jaw and draw a line from it under the grin, curve in the opposite direction towards the bottom, stopping at the level under the near eye (lower part of the body). At the end draw a tail, pointing, like the muzzle, forward. From the tail, draw a large arc to the far eye (back and head). Separate the head and back fins.
Visualize the bottom fins: the far side is slightly away from the lower lip, near - from the grin, above it dashes to indicate the gills. Divide the dorsal part of the body and abdomen with an arc.
Color the finished drawing with appropriate colors.

Megalodon .

The largest shark existed in the era of the dinosaurs, and it was called - Megalodon. Draw the predator will help the following instruction:

From the upper right corner of the sheet to the lower left corner of a long arc. At the end of it form a fish tail. From him draw an almost straight line in the opposite direction, representing the back.
In the form of a square to form a mouth. Behind it, by dashes, depict the gills.
Arrange the fins. Upper - on his back, in the middle, closer to the head. Two small: the near mark the corner near the tail, far - a little closer to the belly. Two large: the far side of the mouth, near - behind the gills, along the body.
Draw eyes and nostrils. Equip the mouth set sharp teeth, detail the mouth.
Colors to color preferably take: gray (upper body), red (mouth), orange (middle of the mouth) shades.

Hammerhead shark

There is another interesting species of marine predators - hammerhead fish. The following lesson will teach you how to draw such an extraordinary individual.

From the top of the sheet of paper to draw down a short segment. From it to the left draw a horizontal line with a notch (small fin) closer to the end. At the end, form a tail.
From the tail, draw a line of the belly with two notches (posterior far and near fins), with appropriate dimensions. Finish the line with the front large fin.
Finish at the very beginning of the drawn segment with a diagonal line, forming the dorsal fin. From it make the outline of the head. In the nose area, make a figure resembling a hammer. On the edges of this figure draw eyes.
Behind the head with strokes to indicate the gills.
If desired, you can paint the fish.