What’s funny is that I made this drawing of an octopus below, sketching in three cheerful magenta heart shapes around the twisted tentacles - even before I learned octopuses have three hearts! I must have subconsciously known… Funny octopus Octopuses or Octopi? Meanwhile, octopus blood is blue colored, and it’s pumped by THREE different hearts inside the cephalopod. You may think I’m going a little to extreme with my rainbow octopus drawing, above, but in real life, octopi actually come in a surprising array of different colors - and can even change color! Many octopuses are a dark red, purple, or pink color (or colour, if you’re British), which I creatively interpreted in my drawing above to be hot pink. You can make octopus drawing easy and cute by putting the mouth up front - but it’s actually UNDER the body. There’s no octopus drawing police, so do what you wish. Do you want to be accurate and keep the mouth off the visible “face,” or do you want to embrace that we’re making creative drawings here, and just incorrectly place a smile front and center? It’s up to you. Read more about octopuses underside mouth and its beak (?!) here, including the fact that the beak is the only firm part of the animal, meaning the rest of its body is so squishy and malleable that it can fit through any tiny crack that its mouth can get past! There are some wild videos of this octopus Houdini action happening in real life.Īnyway, this is to say that you have a choice to make when you’re sketching your octopus. With octopuses, it turns out that the mouth is actually on the BOTTOM of its body, where the eight tentacles meet - not on the face, where I’d been putting it! Argh. Ok, so remember in my tutorial about snail drawing, it turned out that I was putting the eyes in the wrong place? Aw, well, turns out the same has happened with the way I draw and teach octopi, in that I was following cuteness, to the detriment of biological accuracy. Great job - you’re done! Now, let’s address some questions about what octopuses actually look like in real life. Color the ocean behind the octopus, adding lines for the wind-blown current, and bubbles to show movement. We’re drawing a funny octopus cartoon, after all, not an encyclopedia entry! Next, put in some circular-shaped texture lines along one side of each leg to indicate the suction cups on the tentacles.Ĥ. Add a color for the skin - be creative! It doesn’t need to be realistic. (Think of the graceful curves of our mermaid tail drawing.) Next, go in and out eight times for the tentacles! You may want to trace these lines with pencil, first, so you don’t run out of room.ģ. Begin your octopus’s body line in the left corner of the neck, then move upward to create the head, pulling it back inward for the right side of the neck. (We’ll discuss mouth placement in a subsequent section, because it’s more fraught than you might think for the category of easy animals to draw.)Ģ. Add two lines over the eyes for eyebrows. Start with the eyes, making two ovals that touch for the outer lids, then adding black circles in the middle with cute little white shines for the pupils. To create the simplest octopus drawing, I follow these steps:ġ. There’s something about their curves and tentacles that’s so adorable! Let’s explore four different methods of how to make these 8-armed creatures. I’m particularly psyched because octopi cartoons are my #1 favorite of all animals to sketch during my art time - just ahead of drawing sea urchins. Hello and welcome to the latest installment of cute drawing ideas… and this time it’s an octopus drawing (easy methods) party! I’m an artist and teacher named Lillie, and I have my pencil ready for you.
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