Shark Drawing Step By Step

Need to instruct a child how to draw an easy shark drawing?

Enjoy this simple step by step lesson for learning how to draw a shark. This easy shark instruction guide is perfect for fairly young kids looking to learn how to draw.

All drawing steps are included here which make it fun and easy to follow! Expect this drawing to require about 20 minutes, but the art-making process may actually take longer if a background is included in addition to the subject matter.

Finally learn to draw your very own marine life by following this lesson at your own pace. …and now for the easy shark drawing lesson…

Materials

Pencil
Drawing Paper
Crayon or Colored Pencils
Black Marker
Easy Shark Drawing Printable PDF (see bottom of lesson)

Easy Shark Drawing: All Steps

This post will instruct you how to draw a shark. We will pay attention to the shapes of each part and types of outlines drawn so that the drawing looks convincing.

Time Needed: 20 minutes

Start The Body

Going from almost one end of the page to the other, draw two long curved lines.
Add The Mouth And Face

On the left side, round off the shark's nose, and give it a mouth with lots of sharp teeth.
Add Fins

Draw one fin on the top of the body, and two on the bottom. Erase some parts of the body where the fins touch.
Draw The Tail

Draw the tail in a curved triangle shape, but without connecting it to the ends of the body lines, go a bit farther than the ends. Add a few smaller fins close to the tail and erase where it's needed.
Draw The Smaller Details

Draw in the rest of the shark's face, the eye and nose, and give it some gills.
Add Color

The type of shark in this drawing has a gray-blue color to it with a white underbelly.

Easy Shark Drawing PDF Download

Click the link below to view or download this drawing lesson. The PDF is a printable drawing lesson for Easy Shark Drawing. The last page of the downloadable PDF includes a coloring book page with just the outlines and an extension exercise for prompting kids to get creative!

Shark Myth Busting

All sharks are not aggressive. The more common ones are harmless.

Sharks have been around for a long time. They are some of the oldest creatures on earth-their fossils date back to about 450 million years ago. For most of their existence, sharks have been swimming in the sea, hunting for prey and avoiding being hunted themselves.

Sharks don't just bite people because they are mean: They bite because they occasionally mistake people for food.

Shark attacks aren't more common than any other animal attacks: In fact, in the last fifty years the average number of shark attacks that resulted in a person dying are less than 8 per year.

Out of approximately 500 shark species, three types of sharks are mainly responsible for fatal attacks on humans – the great white, tiger-shark and bull-shark.