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How to draw a giraffe

Start with the whole outline and finish with the eye and the last spots.

Finished, it has 53 areas to color: 50th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the harder ones). Close to it: dragon and cupcake.

Main colors in the original emoji: yellow, brown and orange.

The six steps

1. The whole outline: long neck, body, legs and tail.
2. The far legs.
3. The first spots and the tail tuft.
4. More spots.
5. The ears, the horns and more spots.
6. The eye and the last spots.

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How to draw a giraffe: 6 steps

38 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

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How to draw a giraffe: 4 big steps

Steps of 4, 7, 12 and 15 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Giraffe to color

The finished drawing: 53 areas.

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Color and trace: giraffe

Color it, then trace the word.

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New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: heart with ribbon, helicopter, horse, house, ice cream, jack-o-lantern, koala, lion, monkey, owl, panda, penguin.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.