How to Draw a Worm

Worms are best known for their ability to wiggle through mud or end up smashed on a sidewalk after a rain. They are also known to be slimy and somewhat gross. You can change that perception when you draw a worm that’s a tad more personable. This simple critter is easy to illustrate with a couple of pens and a few easy steps.

Things You'll Need

• Pen or other drawing instrument
• Paint pen, crayon or other coloring device
• Paper

Instructions

1. 

   Draw a single circle. This serves as one of the worm’s eyeballs.

2. 

   Illustrate his body. Make a C-shaped body with bumpy lines that meet at both the nose and the tail end.

3. 

   Finish his face. Draw a semi-circle next to his first eye to serve as the second eye. Place a dot in the middle of the first eye for a pupil. Give him a slight smile with a small line where a smile would be.

4. 

   Add details. Use a thinner pen to add curved lines throughout his body to create depth.

5. 

   Boost him with color. Take a paint pen, crayon or other coloring device and add color. Draw a border directly inside the lines that make up his body. Put more dabs of color around the thinner lines.

Tips & Warnings

• Your smiling worm with large eyeballs will not be anatomically correct, but he will be cute.

• He can have teeth if you wish, although this is not anatomically correct, either.

• Add variations to his body with designs, polka dots or even graffiti sprawl.

• Do not give a worm antennae or he will look more like a caterpillar.

• Do not give a worm a forked tongue or he will look more like a bumpy snake.

• Do not give a worm arms and legs or he won't be a worm anymore.