How to Draw Teeth Step-by-Step

Teeth are drawn in an oval shape.

Breaking it down into steps can make drawing teeth go quicker and more smoothly. As well, drawing the teeth as part of a mouth will generally make things look better to viewers of the drawing.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Eraser
• Paper

Instructions

1. Draw an oval that is narrow in shape, thus with a greater width than height. This will make up the outline of the mouth. As well, draw a vertical line down the middle of the oval, and then a curved line across the oval (the curved line should match the shape and direction of the bottom part of the oval). The vertical line helps make up the middle of the teeth, while the curved line across the oval helps divide the mouth into the upper teeth and the bottom teeth.

2. Draw a squiggly line of peaks and valleys throughout the top part of the oval (some of the peaks on the very left and right side of the oval might even cross slightly above the top of the oval). This will help create the upper part of the upper teeth, as well as the gums above that. Next, draw the bottom part of the upper teeth, fitting the bottom around the curved line you drew across the oval. Remember that teeth aren't usually perfectly straight across.

3. Draw a squiggly line of peaks and valleys throughout the bottom part of the oval. This will create the bottom teeth. The top part of the bottom teeth should be covered up by the upper teeth, so you shouldn't have to draw the top of the bottom teeth.

4. Erase the guidelines you created at the beginning of this process, which include the oval, the vertical line down the middle of the teeth and the curved line across the oval shape.

5. Draw the lip below the teeth. This will be smooth and round, getting bigger and fuller near the middle and smaller near the corners. As well, the bottom lip will cover up the bottom part of the bottom teeth you drew in step 3, thus you will need to erase the part that the lip covers up.

6. Draw the lip above the teeth. This will connect with the bottom lip and will also get bigger and fuller near the middle and smaller near the corners, except for the top center part of this lip, which will dip down slightly into a shallow valley before coming back up and then curving down to the side of the mouth. As well, the upper gums are more exposed, so we should able to see part of those, unlike the bottom gums.

References

• DragoArt: How to Draw Teeth

Resources

• Healthy Teeth