How to Draw a Rhinoceros

Learn how to draw a Rhinoceros. Their unusually shaped bodies get easier to draw when you follow easy step past pace instructions.

Rhinoceros drawing, finished with marking and crayons

The rhinoceros is the 2nd largest state mammal in the globe and is found in both Africa and Asia. The 5 species, ii in Africa and three in Asia, are hands distinguishable for their prehistoric features and the presence of i or two horns on their faces. The word "rhino" actually means "nose horn" in Greek.

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

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

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

Here'southward hoping this tutorial will assistance students draw one 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 master head and body shapes are not easy to describe with just words, merely the shapes shown in each step should make things more clear.That's the dazzler of step by step diagrams.

Preview of Rhinoceros drawing tutorial

MATERIALS

  • How to Draw a Rhino (click to download a PDF)
  • Cartoon paper
  • Black mark
  • Crayons

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:25 minutes.

How to Draw a Rhino

  1. Showtime the torso with the roundish shape shown.

  2. Add another shape shown for the caput

  3. Connect with a neck and add horns.

  4. Draw the eyes, mouth and ears.

  5. Add ii legs on one side as shown.

  6. Depict the two legs on the other side.

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

  8. Finish the ear and fill up in a backgrounds

  9. Trace with marking and color.

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