How to draw a wolf + Free Drawing Printable

Step One: Wolf’s nose and face

We will be starting off by drawing an oval shape for the wolf’s nose. Once your child has drawn the oval shape, allow them to color in the nose with some crayons.

Now, does your child remember how a slide looks? I’m sure they do – it’s almost every little child’s favorite part of going to the park!  We will be drawing a slide-looking line to the left and right of the wolf’s nose. Don’t forget to make the bottom of the line a bit curved! This part of the step forms part of the face of the wolf, which we will be completing in the next step.

Now that you’ve drawn the snout let’s work on the wolf’s facial features.

Step Two: Complete the wolf’s face

Our wolf is no ordinary animal and has a detailed face, so we will be taking quite some time in this step. But don’t worry, just follow along with me and you will have no problem creating the wolf’s facial features.

Let’s start off by drawing a wide upside down U-shape at the top of the slide-looking line that we drew in the previous step. This will be the wolf’s head. Make sure that the bottom of the U is curved and ends at the end of the curve of our slide-looking line.

Now, draw sharp zig-zagged lines on the right and left side of the wolf’s face. You should have three sharped points.

Next, we will join the sharp points on either side of the face by drawing a wide curved line at the bottom. 

Okay, we are almost done with this step, but let’s give our wolf a mouth. This can be done by drawing two wavy lines at the bottom of our wolf’s nose.

Look – our wolf seems to have a very smiley mouth, just like the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood! You can add a bottom lip if you want it to appear like the wolf is smiling or laughing more.

Step Three: Wolf’s eyes and ears

Our drawing seems to be coming together, but there are a few facial features missing. Can your child guess what it is? Yes – the wolf still needs some eyes and ears!

Draw two long ovals for the eyes and two triangular-shaped pointed ears at the top of the wolf’s head.

Step four: Some facial detail and the wolf’s body

Let’s add some detail to the wolf’s eyes and ears that we just drew.

Draw two smaller long ovals into the eyes and color it in. Oooh, the wolf seems to be staring at us now! 

Next, draw another pointed triangular shape into the wolf’s ears. We have now completed the face of our wolf.

Okay, let’s give the wolf some fur now. Draw a curve going down from the left of the wolf’s face. Then, draw 2 wide zig zagged lines inwards that continue till you reach the halfway point of the wolf’s face. Do the same on the right side of the wolf’s face. The bottom of the fur should come together to form a “V”.

Step 6: Wolf’s body

We will now draw the body of our wolf. Draw a curve from the first zig-zagged edge to the bottom just above the wolf’s paw on the left side of the wolf’s fur. Repeat this step on the right of the wolf’s fur, but start your curve just below the zig-zagged edge. 

Did your child notice that little space between the wolf’s two paws? Draw a little curved line in between that space to give the body a fuller look.

Let’s add some detail to the wolf’s paw too! At the point of the wave on the wolf’s paw, draw small vertical curves facing each other (just as we did in the picture below).

Step 7: Wolf’s legs

Has your child noticed that our wolf only has two legs so far? In this step we will complete drawing the remaining legs of our wolf. In the previous step we left space to add a hind leg on each side (or rather, the feet.)

Draw a very wide U-shape coming out from the bottom of the wolf’s body. Now, round the edge and draw a horizontal line reaching the paw of the wolf. Repeat this step on the other side of the wolf’s body. 

Let’s add a bit of detail to the legs that we just drew, by drawing another rounded curve near the edge of the curved part of each leg. 

Yay! Our wolf now has four legs and appears to be sitting. Maybe he is sitting and thinking of his next sneaky way to trick people… what does your child think?

Step 8: Wolf’s tail

We are almost complete with our drawing and all that’s left to do is to give our wolf a tail.

Draw a large curved line on the right side of the wolf’s face going towards the space that you have next to the wolf. Try to make the curve as wide as possible. At the end of the curve, draw a wavy line ending at the halfway point of the wolf’s body. Complete the tail by drawing a curved line in the remaining space, extending from the wolf’s face, touching his fur and ending at the body.

Step 9: Add tail details

To completely finish off our drawing, let’s add a little bit of detail to the tail by drawing some zig zagged lines at the top of the tail from either ends of the tail.

Our wolf drawing is now complete! This is just a simple outline buy they can add more wolf steps if they’d like! Adding in shadows, fine lines, lips and nostrils, or even a chin on the front view are all options. They can even try to add long legs and have this wolf standing as well!

One other fun thing is to add a moon as a smaller circle at the top!

You can even make fur lines if they’re feeling even more creative.