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How to draw a shark

Start with the whole outline and finish with more teeth and the last gill lines.

Finished, it has 13 areas to color: 18th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (about middle of the range). Close to it: elephant and monkey.

Main colors in the original emoji: gray.

The six steps

1. The whole outline: body, fins and tail.
2. The white belly.
3. The eye and the mouth.
4. Two gill lines.
5. The teeth and a third gill line.
6. More teeth and the last gill lines.

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How to draw a shark: 6 steps

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

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How to draw a shark: 4 big steps

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

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Shark to color

The finished drawing: 13 areas.

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Color and trace: shark

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: snail, snowman, sunflower, t-rex, turtle, unicorn, whale, airplane, apple, bee, birthday cake, bus.

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