Porcupines hide and sleep in their burrows during the day and come out at night to find food to eat. They are excellent diggers, building their own burrows or appropriating and remodeling the burrows of other animals.

Porcupines are covered in spines. What are these spines for? When a porcupine is threatened by an enemy, it first puts up its spines and makes a sound to intimidate. If the enemy does not retreat, the porcupine will turn around and stab the enemy with the spines on its back and tail.

Porcupines are very timid, and despite their spines, these animals have little desire to attack. The reason why they can kill other creatures, rely entirely on the survival instinct plus good luck to do, and even a porcupine killed a leopard record.

Porcupines are related to rats, so you can see that its head kind of looks like a rat then! An adult porcupine's entire body alone is said to have about 30,000 sharp spines.

In the following drawing tutorial, we are going to learn how to draw a porcupine. It has a big head, eyes, nose and mouth, but its legs are thin and short, which makes it look very funny.

Do you like this cartoon porcupine? We will start with the eyes, then the nose, the mouth, the spines and finally the legs. If you are interested, let's draw it together.

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

√ Draw a Porcupine PDF (Click to download for free.)

√ Drawing Papers (You can get it easily and I would say almost any paper can be used.)

√ Pencils / Markers / Crayons / Watercolors (Remember to use a pen with a fine tip when outlining.)

FOR WHOM:

Preschoolers and kids of all ages

TIME NEEDED:

About 1 hour

INSTRUCTIONS:

How to Draw a Porcupine Step by Step

Step 1 Draw the big eyes and eyebrows of this porcupine.

Step 2 Draw the big nose of this porcupine.

Step 3 Draw this porcupine's big mouth.

Step 4 Draw the spines on this porcupine.

Step 5 Continue to draw the spines on this porcupine.

Step 6 Finish this porcupine's spines.

Step 7 Draw the belly and legs of this porcupine.

Step 8 Draw the other two legs of this porcupine.

Step 9 Finally color this funny cartoon porcupine.

Guys, have you learned how to draw a porcupine yet?