GRID STEP. You can print out the base construction lines and start drawing on tracing paper, or you can draw the grid layout yourself using the following steps.Draw a square which will act as the frame of the hippo portrait.

STEP 1. Outline the general shape of the head, the mouth and the upper body of the hippo. Sketch the eyes.

STEP 2. Draw the ears and hippo fangs. Erase redundant lines of the mouth.

STEP 3. Add nostrils. Detail the mouth and the eyes.

STEP 4. Work on the whole figure of the hippo, adding more details to the eyes, the ears and the mouth.

STEP 5. Add whiskers above the upper lip.

STEP 6. Color the eyes and the nostrils. Erase all guidelines.