How to Draw an Ant
Learn how to draw an ant using an easy drawing guide. By following the steps, you too can easily sketch a realistic ant.
Ants are amazing animals. You can learn how to draw an ant with this easy step by step animal drawing instructions. This is a fairly simple guide that can be used for school work.
Despite the fact that absolutely all types of ants are predators, they not only catch or pick up prey, but also breed mushrooms and keep livestock.
Ants’ livestock is aphids. Ants are the only creatures other than humans that are engaged in agricultural activities.
If we talk about the ant, it should be noted that it performs many functions that are useful both for nature and for humans. For example, it saturates the soil with oxygen. Hardworking people have always been compared to ants. These insects have proven themselves to be great workers, despite their size.
We hope you are as industrious as ants, and you will also sketch this ant drawing with the same great motivation as ants do their important business.
Time needed: 25 minutes
How to Draw an Ant
- Head outline.
Begin drawing the outline of the ant by drawing the head. Use an oval shape to draw the ant’s head as well as the insect’s eye.
- Add details.
Extend lines from the ant’s head, and form the antennae of the insect. In addition to the antennae, you need to depict a curved line in the ant’s eye. This is a form of reflection of light in the insect’s eye.
- Draw the jaw.
In this step, you need to draw the ant’s jaws, with which these insects carry various leaves, bite, and so on. Also in this step we start drawing the body of the ant, and this process start by add the neck of the ant as in the example. You need to depict an almond shape next to the insect’s head.
- Body details.
Now sketch a small part of the body of the ant—this is the middle part of the body of the insect, which is called the thorax. Besides the middle of the ant’s torso, draw the front leg of the ant, as in the example.
- Draw the abdomen.
Finish drawing the body of the ant by drawing the abdomen of this hard worker. The view of the abdomen of this insect is drawn in the form of a large leaf.
- Detail the legs.
First, depict the lower parts of the front legs. These parts are drawn narrower than the middle or beginning of the legs. Also in this step, you see the method of drawing the hind legs. Using curved lines, draw the initial part of the legs, then draw the wider lower parts.
- Drawing the hind legs.
Sketch the very back of the legs in the same way as the rest of the legs. Also add the narrow lower legs in the middle.
- Complete the outlines of your ant artwork.
In the final step of the artwork, you need to depict the lower parts of the legs of the ant as an example. Also erase all extra lines and strokes that are left from the pencil. The very last step in drawing will be the detailing of the body of the ant. You need to depict curved lines on the insect’s abdomen.
- Color your realistic ant.
Color your cartoon of an amazing ant. We’ve shaded our ant in an orange-brown color that is typical of many ants. You can color your ant gray or whatever color you like best.
We hope that this easy insect drawing lesson has become useful for you and for those with whom you shared your artwork and this step-by-step understandable guide. If you like our style of drawings, then you can try to draw not only insects, but also mammals, for example, a bunny.