How to Draw a Rhinoceros

Larn how to draw a Rhinoceros. Their unusually shaped bodies get easier to describe when you lot follow easy footstep by step instructions.

Rhinoceros cartoon, finished with mark and crayons

The rhino is the 2d largest land mammal in the earth and is establish in both Africa and Asia. The five species, two in Africa and three in Asia, are easily distinguishable for their prehistoric features and the presence of 1 or two horns on their faces. The word "rhinoceros" actually ways "nose horn" in Greek.

Here are a few interesting facts nigh rhinos, found on Greentumble.com

  • A grouping of rhinos is called a "crash."
  • During their head-to-caput fights, rhinos make a sound that resembles honking.
  • Rhinos walk on their toenails because their feet are and then sensitive.
  • Rhinoceros horns are made of keratin, and tend to curve backward, toward the head, because the keratin in front end grows faster than the keratin in the back.
  • Their horns are fabricated of the same material as human fingernails.
  • Rhinos have terrible eyesight and struggle to meet further than thirty meters.
  • Female rhinos can exist pregnant for as long as 16 months.

One other sad fact? Since 2013, an average of iii rhinos have been poached every day.

Here's hoping this tutorial will help students describe ane of these amazing creatures with as much likeness as possible. Their bodies kind of defy the usual oval or rectangular shapes with legs attached. The main head and body shapes are not easy to describe with just words, but the shapes shown in each pace should brand things more clear.That'south the dazzler of step past stride diagrams.

Preview of Rhinoceros drawing tutorial

MATERIALS

  • How to Draw a Rhinoceros (click to download a PDF)
  • Drawing paper
  • Blackness marker
  • Crayons

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:25 minutes.

How to Draw a Rhinoceros

  1. Start the torso with the roundish shape shown.

  2. Add together another shape shown for the head

  3. Connect with a neck and add horns.

  4. Draw the optics, mouth and ears.

  5. Add two legs on one side as shown.

  6. Draw the two legs on the other side.

  7. Add a tail and leg details. Erase the gray lines.

  8. End the ear and fill up in a backgrounds

  9. Trace with marker and color.

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