How to Draw a Puffer Fish

A puffer fish's spikes act as a defense against predators.

When learning how to draw, following a step-by-step tutorial will help you learn a variety of techniques and develop your artistic style. If you're learning how to sketch animals, start with simple-shaped creatures that are based on a geometric shape, such as the circular puffer fish. When a puffer fish feels threatened, it inflates itself to make it too hard for predators to swallow it.

Instructions

1. Draw a circle on your paper. Either freehand sketch it or use a compass to make a more accurately shaped circle. This is the fish's body.

2. Add a straight line extending about two inches from the left side of your circle. This will become the tail.

3. Sketch an eye shape -- a larger circle with a smaller circle inside it -- in the top right-hand corner of the fish's body. Color in the inner circle to make it look like a fish's eyeball.

4. Add small fish "lips," on the right-hand side of the fish's body, that are parallel with the tail line you drew.

5. Draw a small fin on the inside of the puffer fish's body, in the center.

6. Use the tail line you drew as a guide to create the fish's tail. Draw a curved line from the top of the fish's body -- just above the tail line. Draw a second curved line from the bottom of the fish's body -- just below the tail line. Connect the two lines with a slight "C"-shaped back.

7. Add two curved fins on the tail.

8. Draw in spikes all along the puffer fish's belly.

9. Color in and decorate your fish as desired, to complete your drawing.

References

• Hello Kids.com: How to draw a pufferfish