How to Draw a Cartoon Snail

1. Begin the cartoon snail outline by drawing the snail's head. First, draw two circles. These will become the snail's eyes. Draw a curved line across each circle. In the lower half of the circle, draw a pie chart or Pacman shape - a circle with a missing triangular slice.

What does a Pacman shape look like, exactly? Check out this Pacman pixel art.

Below each eye, extend two curved lines. These are the snail's eyestalks. Then, connect the stalks with an overlapping curved line, contouring the snail's face.

2. Continue the line of the face. This line should be long and wavy, outlining the bottom of the sticky, slimy foot.

3. Draw another wavy line roughly parallel to the foot, allowing the lines to meet at a point. Draw two curved lines across the face, forming the smiling mouth and the chin. Place a short curved line at the corner of the mouth.

4. Extend the remaining side of the head with a long curved line. Double the line back on itself at the end to begin constructing the base of the shell. Connect the tip of the foot to the shell with a curved line.

5. Begin the spiral shape of the snail shell by drawing a large "C" shaped line. Connect it to the snail's head with a short line.

6. Continue the line of the shell to enclose the circle. Continue the line past the point of completion to begin the spiral pattern.

7. Continue the spiral-shaped line.

8. Enclose partial circles all along the spiral line. Notice that the circles grow smaller near the inside of the spiral.

9. Fill the snail shell with more circular spots.

Color your cartoon snail. We've given ours a green and yellow body with a tan and brown spotted snail.

Throughout much of the world, garden snails are usually brown in color. But some snails - especially the ocean and marsh-dwelling snails - have vivid black-and-white patterns or unusually bright colors.