How to Draw Donald Duck

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Last Updated: September 21, 2019

Donald Duck is a Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Even though at most time he is cranky, Donald is an all-time favorite Disney character. Learn how to draw this interesting and colorful character in just a few simple steps!

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These will serve as the guidelines for your drawing. Most of the shapes are fairly irregular, but you should be able to draw them with little difficulty by looking at the image to the right.
Add Donald's eyeballs, tongue, and hat (which is like a French beret with a tassel coming off of it).

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Give Donald his sailor suit, with a stripe on the shoulder and a full bow-tie. Make sure his collar encases his neck and don't forget to tuck his arms behind his back!
Do so by putting both an oval shape and some curves and jagged shapes to draw attention to this lower portion.
The back one should only be visible as a wide, webbed foot, while the leg in front extends from the body, bends at the knee, and ends in the same kind of webbed foot.
His feathers are white and his sailor suit/hat combination is a deep blue, complementing his red bow-tie so as to look very patriotic. Make his bill and legs approximately the same yellow-orange color, and his eyes a very light blue.

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How do I draw just his head?

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All you have to do is skip the steps involving his body. Draw the head a little larger than you would if you were including the body.

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You have to put the light color first and then put the darker color on top of it.

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Donald's most famous personality trait is his easily provoked and explosive temper, so although that aspect of him is not evident in this drawing, keep it in mind as you sketch him out.

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Draw lightly in pencil so that you can easily rub out mistakes.

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When done go round drawings with black felt tip or marker.

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