
Penguins are such adorable creatures! Looking at their cute shape and their distinctive waddle, you bet they are one of the cutest animals on earth. Penguins are what we call flightless birds and instead of having wings, they have flippers. Although they can’t fly they are actually excellent swimmers.
Before learning to draw a penguin with ease, you can first add colors to penguin illustrations by clicking here!
So, are you ready to draw your very own cute and adorable penguin?
How to Draw a Penguin

Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
Instructions
Step 1: Draw the Body
Let’s start with the penguin’s body. We do this by drawing a big oblong at the center of the page.
Step 2: Draw the Belly
Next, let’s draw a smaller oblong inside the big oblong we’ve previously drawn. While drawing, imagine that this would be the penguin’s cute white belly. Fun fact, Penguins have white bellies to help them blend in the ice to avoid predators. So make sure you color it white later!
Step 3: Draw the Eyes
Now let’s draw two small circles at the uppermost part of the smaller oblong we’ve drawn. Make sure you draw the circles right beside each other without a gap. Also, make it protrude a little bit out of the smaller oblong into the penguin’s body. This will make the eyes look cuter!
Step 4: Add Details to the Eyes
To add more details to the penguin’s eyes, we draw two smaller circles inside the ones we’ve made earlier. We then shade it black with a pencil to form the eyes. After that, we draw another smaller circles overlapping the bottom-right edge of the eyes. Then we erase the shaded part in the shape of the overlapping circles that we’ve made.
Step 5: Draw the Mouth
Let’s draw the penguin’s beak! We do this by drawing a small inverted triangle at the center of the body just below the eyes. Very easy right? Another fun fact, most penguins like to eat krill, squid, and fish.
Step 6: Draw the Legs
Penguins have cute little legs so we’ll draw just that. We draw the legs by drawing two blunted inverted triangles at the bottom part of the body.
Step 7: Draw the Flippers
Let’s finally draw the most iconic body part of the penguin, the flippers! To do this we draw a curved line from the upper body outward and downward. And then we reconnect the line to the penguin’s body forming somewhat like a triangular shape. Then we do this on the other side.
Step 8: Finish up!
We’re almost done with the drawing. Lastly, erase the line that divides the flippers from the penguin’s body. You can also color your drawing however you like. But make sure to leave the penguin’s belly white!