How to Draw a Tiger

1. Begin the cartoon tiger outline by sketching the tiger's face. Use curved lines that meet at jagged points to outline its furry rough. Then draw its eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers, and teeth using curved lines.

2. Sketch the ears and top of the head using curved lines. Use lines that meet at jagged points to draw the cat's furry shoulders.

3. Extend the line of the shoulder to encompass the back and rump.

4. Use overlapping curved lines to draw the tiger's hip, leg, and paw.

5. Draw the front leg of the tiger using overlapping curved lines. Notice the tuft of fur at the elbow, indicated by short lines that meet at jagged points.

6. Use overlapping curved lines to draw the remaining front leg and paw, and to indicate the belly and remaining read leg and paw.

7. Draw the tiger's long tail. Extend a pair of "S" shaped curved lines from the rump, and allow the parallel lines to connect at a rounded tip.

8. Without its stripes, a tiger is just a lion! Begin sketching the stripes on the ears, face, shoulders, and forelegs. Use thick curved lines for some of the stripes.

For others, use pairs of lines to enclose pointed shapes and shade between them.

9. Draw and shade more stripes on the tiger's back, hip, and tail. Color in the tip of the tail.

Your cartoon tiger outline is now complete. Color your tiger. Many tigers are orange with black stripes and white markings on their face, chest, and paws. Other tigers are solid white with black stripes.

Tiger's eyes are typically yellow or amber in color.