Do you love dinosaurs? If so, You are not alone. Most kids - and a lot of adults - do. Which dinosaur is your favorite? You may be able to find it on our list of cool dinosaur drawing ideas.
Below, you will find big dinosaurs and little dinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs and meat-eating dinosaurs. There are ancient beasts that ran, lumbered, swam, and even flew.
Some of the dinosaur drawings are cartoonish, while others look more realistic. As you draw, compare what is similar and different about each one.
What characteristics do all the carnivores share? How are the herbivores similar? You can even draw a fossil of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull.
What can you do with these dinosaur drawings? Put more than one together to create an exciting scene. You can even make a diorama for your next school science fair - draw the dinosaurs, cut them out, and create a three-dimensional prehistoric scene inside a shoe box.
Paleontologists use pickaxes and brushes to uncover fossil dinosaurs. Movie makers use computers to bring them to life. All you will need is a pencil, a sheet of paper, and perhaps some colored pencils with which to shade your finished drawings.
Get ready to roar - there is a whole herd of dinosaurs just waiting for you to draw them.
14 Easy Dinosaur Drawing Ideas
Archaeopteryx
Have you ever seen a velociraptor with feathers? That is what archaeopteryx is like. It is a small, bird-like dinosaur with sharp teeth.
Easy Dinosaur for Kids
If you're a beginner artist, start here. This cute long-necked dinosaur is made up of easy overlapping lines. As your skills grow, you can tackle more detailed sauropods.
Cartoon Velociraptor
Want to try your hand at training Blue from Jurassic World? Draw her! This easy dinosaur is made up of simple lines. After you've mastered this drawing, check out the more detailed velociraptor below.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
This T-rex looks like a sharp tooth that stepped out of The Land Before Time. As you draw the muscles and teeth, you will see why he is known as the king of the dinosaurs.
Dilophosaurus
You will recognize this frilled dinosaur from Jurassic Park. Did you know? Real dilophosauruses had the two crests on top of their heads but not the neck frills. Can you draw this one realistically?
Cute Dinosaur
Did you draw the easy dinosaur, above? Here is another, slightly more complex long-necked dinosaur for you to try. Then, you can move on to the Apatosaurus, below.
Ornithomimus
Ornithomimus might look a bit like a velociraptor, but it doesn't have any teeth! Built for speed, this therapod ran swiftly to keep from being another dinosaur's dinner.
Plesiosaurus
Your collection of long-necked dinosaurs would not be complete without a swimming plesiosaur - even though it was technically a marine reptile and not a dinosaur.
Saurolophus
Saurolophus was a plant-eating dinosaur with a crest or horn on its head. It walked on two legs like a Tyrannosaurus, but it had a beak-like mouth instead of sharp teeth.
Apatosaurus
This apatosaurus is the apex of your long-necked dinosaur drawings. Take note of the contours of its neck, back, and tail, and the wrinkles on its knees.
Dinosaur Skull
All good things must come to an end, and the dinosaurs did - they became extinct millions of years ago. But they left behind their bones in the form of fossils like this one.
Velociraptor
Velociraptors traveled and hunted in packs, as many animals do today. Give the velociraptor you drew above a companion.
Dinosaur
This parasaurolophus resembles the saurolophus above, but it has a larger head crest. Both dinosaurs walked on two legs, ate plants, and traveled in herds.
Triceratops
The three-horned triceratops is an iconic dinosaur. It also had a bony crest on the back of its neck that it used as a shield.
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