Transcript How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes

How to Draw a Baby Elephant
with Simple Shapes
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant
with Simple Shapes
All you need to get started is a
blank piece of paper and a #2
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Start with a small circle. This will be the elephant’s head.
Remember to keep your lines light so you can easily erase lines
you don’t need later.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Add another circle to the left of your first circle.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Then add another smaller circle inside that circle. This will
form the elephant’s trunk.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Draw a big oval to the right of your first circle. This is the
elephant’s body.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Add a square to your first circle. This will be the elephant’s
ear.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Draw a smaller square under the big oval near the front.
This is the start of the elephant’s legs.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Add another square below that square.
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To make the rest of the legs add some squares and rectangles
below the big oval. The next few frames will show you where to
place them.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Now add another small circle to the right of the big oval. This
will form the elephant’s tail.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Add a small, thin triangle at the bottom of the first circle you
drew.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Now go back and trace over the outside of the elephant with a
heavy line as shown above.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant with Simple Shapes
Just erase unnecessary lines and add an eye and some details
and you are finished! Be sure to color your elephant drawing
and display it proudly.
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How to Draw a Baby Elephant
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