How to Draw a Salamander

Learn how to draw a great looking Salamander with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial.

By following the simple steps, you too can easily draw a perfect Salamander.

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Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing a Salamander

How to Draw a Great Looking Salamander for Kids and Beginners - Step 1

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 1

1. Begin the cartoon salamander outline by drawing a curved line for the front of the animal's face.

Then, draw a gently pointed teardrop shape. Inside it, shade a small circle. This is the salamander's eye.

Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 2

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 2

2. Shade a small oval for the nostril. Draw a curved line above the eye, with a similar line for the back of the remaining eye.

Draw another curved line at the base of this eye ridge, then extend the line of the head.

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Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 3

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 3

3. Extend a long curved line from the front of the face to form the lower jaw. From it, extend a "Y" shaped line to form the front of the leg. Use a long curved line for the back of the leg.

Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 4

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 4

4. Extend loosely parallel curved lines from the back of the head and the back of the leg. These outline the salamander's body. Then, use a series of connected, "U" shaped lines to form the toes of the front foot.

Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 5

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: 5step

5. Draw the rear leg using two curved lines. Then, use a series of connected "U" shaped lines to draw the toes of the rear foot.

Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 6

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 6

6. Complete the foot using "U" shaped lines. Then, extend long curved lines on each side of the body.

Allow them to meet at a gentle point, forming the salamander's tail. At the base of the tail, enclose a half-circle shape on the side of the body. This indicates the rear leg.

Easy Salamander Drawing - Step 7

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 7

7. Contour the hip, shoulder, ankle, and neck with curved lines. Then, use wavy curved lines to enclose cloudlike spots on the salamander's head and body.

Add More Details to Your Salamander Picture - Step 8

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 8

8. Continue drawing cloudlike spots in two rows down the back and tail.

Complete the Outline of Your Salamander Drawing - Step 9

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 9

9. Draw more small spots on the face, legs, and tail.

Color Your Salamander Drawing

Salamander step-by-step drawing tutorial: step 11

Your cartoon salamander outline is now complete. Color your creature.

We've shaded ours green with yellow spots, but the green salamander isn't the only species in North America. The red salamander is red and orange with black spots.

Several species are mottled brown, and several more are black with yellow spots. The marbled salamander is black and white, and the northern two-lined salamander is bluish-gray with light blue spots.

For more great baby animals drawing tutorials, see the collection of How to Draw Baby Animals for Kids.

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Learn More About The Salamander Drawing

Leaping lizards and slimy salamanders! You can learn how to draw a salamander with the help of this easy, step-by-step animal drawing guide.

Salamanders look a lot like lizards - you can compare this one to our cartoon lizard drawing. But salamanders are not lizards. They are amphibians, just like frogs.

Scroll down for a downloadable PDF of this tutorial.

You can tell salamanders and lizards apart by the texture of their skin. Lizards have scales like the ones in this scales drawing.

Scales are dry and hard. Salamanders, on the other hand, have soft, wet skin without scales, much like the skin of a frog.

Salamanders have to live near water to keep their skin moist. Give your salamander a place to live by sketching this pond drawing. You'll even find a frog there!

For more easy and fun guides, see the How to Draw a Beluga Whale or Mandrill Drawing tutorials.

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