How to Draw a Snail

Larn how to depict a snail with a bit of a drawing twist. Information technology's fun to become creative when coloring in that shell.

How to Draw a Snail
A finished drawing of a Snail
How to Draw a Snail
A preview of the Depict a Snail PDF tutorial

Hither are a few fun facts virtually snails that your students might detect interesting:

  • Snails are born with shells.
  • Their two optics are establish at the tip of their tentacles.
  • Snails move using i muscular human foot.
  • A snail's oral fissure may exist the size of a pivot, only it tin take up to 20,000 teeth depending on the species.
  • When temperatures tin can get fatally dry, snails tin sleep for three years,
  • Garden snails are nocturnal. They roam at night to take advantage of libation temperatures.

This tutorial is made to continue the bones anatomy of the snail in place, namely the placement of the eyes and shape of the trunk, simply could encourage students to come up with their own colorful shell. Spiral shapes are fun to department off to make patterns, and with a niggling fleck of shading, can wait pretty dimensional too.

MATERIALS

  • How to Depict a Snail PDF Tutorial (click to open)
  • Drawing paper
  • Blackness marker
  • Crayons

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:1 hour.

How to Describe a Snail

  1. Depict the bottom curve of the trounce.

  2. Add the spiral shell on top.

  3. Draw the snail body.

  4. Heart ii circles in a higher place for the eyes.

  5. Connect the eyes to the head.

  6. Add the middle and face details.

  7. Draw the curved lines to brand sections on the shell.

  8. Add together a row of grass in the background.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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