The ocean is full of amazing creatures, and this guide covers four favourites at once — a baby whale, a dolphin, an octopus, and a starfish. Drawing a variety of sea animals together builds your skills and makes a lovely underwater scene. Parikshet shows you how step by step.

🖍️ What You Need

  • Pencil and eraser
  • Blue, grey, purple, and orange markers
  • White for highlights
  • Black pen for outlines

How to Draw Sea Creatures Step by Step

  1. Baby whale — a large rounded body that tapers to a tail with two fluke fins, a small eye, a curved smile, and a blowhole with a little water spout on top.
  2. Dolphin — a smooth, streamlined body with a curved dorsal fin on top, a pointed beak-like snout, and a happy smile. Dolphins look sleek and playful.
  3. Octopus — a big rounded head (mantle), two large eyes, and eight curling arms with sucker dots underneath.
  4. Starfish — a five-pointed star shape with a bumpy texture and a small mouth in the centre underneath.
  5. Arrange them in a scene — place the four creatures at different depths in the water.
  6. Add the underwater setting — seaweed, coral, bubbles, and a sandy seabed.
  7. Add water details — rays of light coming down from the surface.
  8. Colour — blue-grey whale and dolphin, purple octopus, orange starfish, blue water.
💡 Parikshet's Tip: Drawing several different sea creatures together is great practice because each one teaches a different shape — the whale's bulk, the dolphin's sleek curve, the octopus's eight arms, and the starfish's symmetry. Arranging them at different depths in the water creates a lively, full underwater scene.

🌟 Did You Know?

The ocean is home to an incredible variety of life — and we've only explored about 5% of it, so there are countless sea creatures still undiscovered! Dolphins are so intelligent they have names for each other (special whistles), octopuses have three hearts and blue blood, baby whales drink up to 200 litres of milk a day, and starfish can regrow a whole arm if they lose one. The sea is full of wonders!

Four Sea Creatures, Four Skills

  • Baby whale — teaches large rounded forms
  • Dolphin — teaches sleek, streamlined curves
  • Octopus — teaches the eight curling arms
  • Starfish — teaches five-pointed symmetry

🎯 Try This: Draw a Full Ocean Scene

  1. Draw all four sea creatures from this guide.
  2. Add coral, seaweed, and a treasure chest.
  3. Draw rays of sunlight coming down through the water.
  4. Add a few small fish and rising bubbles for a busy ocean.