How to Draw a Pig – A Cute Easy Pig Drawing From 2 Ovals

We will learn how to draw a pig by starting with the usual simple shapes to build the character. We will use just a few ovals for a really easy pig drawing.

Start by drawing a larger oval for the pig’s head.

Then add a smaller oval inside the head for the pig’s trademark – the snout. This oval is flatter at the bottom, almost like a rounded-off “D” letter shape. As our pig will be looking slightly to the left, we have placed the snout slightly off-center to the left as well.

Next, draw another large oval for the pig’s body. As you can see in the picture, the body crosses over the head shape. Also, the oval is slightly wider and more rounded at the back, and a touch more pointed at the front – sort of a slight egg shape.

Feel free to play with the size of the body oval – you can make your pig fatter or thinner, taller or smaller, depending on how you stretch the body oval.

Now it is time to give our pig some legs. They are made from two parts – the rectangle for the leg, and a small rhombus for the hoof. If you want to draw really simple shapes, both of these can be just regular rectangles.

But as you can see in the picture, the legs will look much better if you will make the leg slightly wider at the top and draw the tops of the hooves at an angle.

We have added a helping ground line to keep the legs the same length – and immediately broke the alignment with the front leg hoof sticking down to add some interest.

Time to draw another piggy trademark – big floppy ears.

Let’s start with the easy straight ear on the right. That one is drawn as a flat curve going up to the ear tip, and a bulked out curve returning back to the head, for kind of a leaf shape.

Now for the other folded ear. The base shape is the same as the straight-up ear. But then add a small curved triangle going down for the bent end of the ear. The bent-down end of the ear covers the lower line of the straight part of the ear – that is why we have left it out.

The sketching for our pig is almost done – let’s add a few final details:

Draw two small simple ovals for the eyes sitting just over the top center of the snout.

Then draw the nostrils in the snout – just two more small ovals at an angle, one on each side of the snout.

And finally, a small but very important piggy trademark feature – the curly twisted tail.

Next, outline the pig’s legs. There are a few subtle changes here:

Notice the two legs that are extended slightly over the body’s oval edge – this will make them stand out in front of the body and give the pig drawing some depth – a similar trick as we have done with the straight ear.

Another simple change is all the hooves are slightly rounded, for a more natural and interesting shape. Also, add a short line to each hove to separate the two pig’s toes.

Time to finish our easy pig drawing. Complete the body outline – break the body outline for the two legs that we have drawn as the legs in front of the body closer to us. Draw through the two legs that are behind the body, further from us.

Then draw out the twisted tail.

Oh, and a final improvement: Draw two short lines inside the ears, to suggest the fold in the ear.

Now that you know how to draw a pig, all that is left is to color in our easy pig drawing.

An adorable and cute cartoon pig needs to be the traditional pink color, of course.  We have used lighter pink for all of the body head and snout, with some darker pink for shading.

The hoofs and nostrils are rusty brown. We have also drawn some lush green grass for our pig to stand on.

And that is the end of our “how to draw a pig” tutorial. If you want to draw some more really easy animals, check out our spider, cat, bumblebee, turtle, chick, or easy mouse drawing tutorials – all of those are made from just one or two basic shapes.