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Try your hand at drawing a humpback whale!

Each student can do this exercise individually or each student can add one part of anatomy to the whale.

1. Start with a lightly drawn torpedo-like shape (about 5 units long by 1 unit high), leaving the ends open. Adjust that shape to match the sample below.
   
   
2. Add the pectoral fins (about one-third the body length).
   
   
3. Draw in the mouth line.
   
   
4. Add a small bump indicating where the blowholes are.
   
   
5. Add the flukes.
   
   
6. Add the dorsal fin.
   
   
7. Add the mouth line.
   
   
8. Add an eye.
   
   
9. You've got yourself a humpback portrait!