Easy How to Draw an Elephant Tutorial and Elephant Coloring Page

Learning how to draw an elephant gets easy when you start with a step by step tutorial. This lesson has a nice side view so you can see the entire body.

How to Draw an Elephant
Elephant drawing, finished with marker and crayons.

There's also a bit of a perspective lesson in that the two legs that are furthest away need to be just a bit shorter than the front ones. A small detail, but important one if you want to learn how to make animals look as realistic as possible.

Students that want to take things one step further, can add a bit of shadow to their elephant. Just decide if a source of light (the sun) is on the left or the right, and then darken those opposite sides accordingly.

Preview of the Step by Step Elephant Tutorial

Time Lapse Drawing of the Elephant

Elephant Coloring Page

Step by Step Tutorial for How to Draw an Elephant

Time needed:45 minutes.

Draw an Elephant

  1. Make guidelines. Draw an oval body.

  2. Add the head and trunk.

  3. Add a front and back leg.

  4. Erase lines. Add legs from other side.

  5. Draw two ears.

  6. Erase lines inside ear. Add two tusks.

  7. Erase inside tusks. Add trunk lines, eye and tail.

  8. Draw toes and a background.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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