How To Draw A Hippopotamus

How to Draw a Hippopotamus

As we all know, the Elephant and hippopotamus are two of the largest animals on the planet. Despite the fact that they eat only grass, Hippos weigh 1.5 to 3 tons. Hippos are always in the water. Only at night they go out on the land in search of lush grass, and they can eat up to 150 pounds of grass in one night. All hippos have stubby large legs, very large head, and a huge body. But this does not prevent them from running fast (19 miles per hour). Hippos typically live for around 45 years. Now let's learn how to draw a Hippopotamus step by step.

Step 1

First, draw the basic curved line. It help you right draw the body of a hippopotamus.

Step 2

Next we will draw four small circles for the legs and one circle for the hippo's head.

Step 3

Now we need to create the rough shapes of the legs.

Step 4

Draw the general outline of the hippo.

Step 5

Erase extra pencil sketches and draw the feet, head in detail.

Step 6

Once you're almost finished with drawing.

Step 7

Now you will add varying shades and darken the distant parts of animals with pencil. The shading will make your drawing more realistic.

Step 8

In this tutorial, we used the simple steps of drawing in pencil. If you want to draw a more realistic hippo, you can try to color in the hippopotamus with crayons or paints.

If you want, you can watch this lesson on YouTube.

How To Draw A Hippopotamus

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