How to Draw a Hammerhead Shark
This step-by-step tutorial will help you learn how to draw a hammerhead shark. Here you can see ten easy steps with description.
Our team has prepared for you this fascinating drawing lesson, in which we will tell you how to draw a hammerhead shark step by step. The hammerhead shark is one of the most unusual marine life.
By learning how to draw this creature with the help of this step-by-step instruction, you will be able to depict the underwater world by adding an image of a hammerhead shark to your drawing.
The hammerhead shark is so named because of the unusual shape of its head. The head of this shark looks flattened, widely elongated on the sides and resembles a hammer in its shape. The eyes of the hammerhead shark are located on the sides of the part of its head extended in breadth.
Right now, you can start following this step-by-step instruction. Don’t worry if you don’t have much experience as an artist yet, this tutorial is made especially for beginner artists and kids.
Time needed: 1 hour
How to Draw a Hammerhead Shark
- Add the basic markup.
To begin with, you need to indicate the dimensions of the body of the hammerhead shark, depicting one large oval.
- Depict the front and back parts of the torso.
On the right and left sides of the previously drawn oval, draw curved lines of different lengths, as shown in the figure.
- Draw the mouth and eyes of the hammerhead shark.
In front of the upper part and on top of the shark’s head, you should depict arcs of various sizes, as well as curved lines.
- Sketch out the teeth and gills of the hammerhead shark.
Inside the previously drawn mouth, draw many identical pointed teeth, add four identical curved lines on the side.
- Add the shark fins.
From the bottom of the previously drawn torso of the hammerhead shark, draw two fins pointing in different directions.
- Draw two more hammerhead fins.
Now you should draw two smaller fins, placing them closer to the back of the shark’s body.
- Add some more shark fins.
Draw two fins of different sizes on the top of the shark’s body, and add another fin on the bottom.
- Draw the tail of the hammerhead shark.
At the back of the hammerhead shark’s torso, draw the tail using curved lines, as shown in the figure.
- Correct inaccuracies.
Now that your drawing has all the elements you want, you can remove the guidelines with the eraser.
- Color the drawing.
To color the hammerhead shark, you should use black and various shades of gray. Add shadows and highlights.
On this drawing lesson, in which you learned how to draw a hammerhead shark step by step, came to an end. We hope you found this tutorial really helpful and that you had a great time. Leave your comment on this tutorial, so we know if you liked this tutorial.