How to Draw a Shrimp

1. Begin by drawing the shrimp's head. Use a series of straight and curved lines to enclose a rough teardrop shape. Notice how two of the curved lines overlap, forming the mouth. Draw a short curved line at the corner of the mouth. Note, too, the short lines that form a zigzag shape at the nose.

2. Draw the shrimp's eyes. Contour the cheek with a curved line. Above it, enclose the eye using an inverted "U" shaped line. Shade an oval within it to form the pupil. Enclose a second eye above the side of the face. Then, use curved lines to draw the eyebrows and eyelashes.

3. Erase the lines from behind the eyes. Then, begin drawing the segments of the crustacean's body. Enclose the partial oval shapes using curved lines.

4. Continue to enclose segments of the shrimp's body using curved lines.

5. Draw the final segments of the shrimp's body. Enclose them using curved lines.

6. Draw the shrimp's tail. Enclose the fins using a series of curved lines that meet at points. Texture the tail with curved lines.

7. Draw the shrimp's legs. For each leg, draw a pair of narrowly spaced parallel lines, and connect them on each end. This forms the upper leg. Then, extend a pair of curved lines from the tip and allow them to meet at a point. This completes the lower leg.

8. Draw small legs near the shrimp's tail. Enclose a narrow teardrop shape for each.

9. Draw two long, curved lines extending from the face and arching over the head. They may resemble a mustache, but they are actually the shrimp's antennae.

Color your cartoon shrimp or prawn. When we cook shrimp, they often turn pink or white. But in the wild, shrimp come in many colors, including red, white, blue, black, green, grey, brown, and orange.