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How to draw a whale

Start with the body and the tail and finish with the eye, the blowhole and the other flipper.

Finished, it has 28 areas to color: 37th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the harder ones). Close to it: house and helicopter.

Main colors in the original emoji: gray and tan.

The six steps

1. The body and the tail.
2. The belly.
3. The mouth line and the tail fin.
4. The grooves on the throat.
5. More grooves and the flipper.
6. The eye, the blowhole and the other flipper.

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How to draw a whale: 6 steps

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

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How to draw a whale: 4 big steps

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

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Whale to color

The finished drawing: 28 areas.

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Color and trace: whale

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: airplane, apple, bee, birthday cake, bus, car, castle, cat, cat face, cow, cupcake, dinosaur.

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