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How to draw a monkey

Start with the head, the body and the long curly tail and finish with the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the other ear.

Finished, it has 13 areas to color: 17th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (about middle of the range). Close to it: rose and elephant.

Main colors in the original emoji: brown and tan.

The six steps

1. The head, the body and the long curly tail.
2. The legs.
3. The face.
4. An arm and a foot.
5. An ear, the other hand and the other foot.
6. The eyes, the nose, the mouth and the other ear.

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How to draw a monkey: 6 steps

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

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How to draw a monkey: 4 big steps

Steps of 1, 3, 4 and 5 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Monkey to color

The finished drawing: 13 areas.

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Color and trace: monkey

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: owl, panda, penguin, pig, pizza, rabbit, rabbit face, rainbow, robot, rocket, rose, shark.

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