How to draw a spider – simple cartoon style

Let’s get started drawing Wincy with a simple sketch.

Start with the circle for the body.

Add two slightly overlapping ovals to the top of the body for the eyes.

Next, draw some spider legs – four on each side of the body. We will make them just very simple bent lines.

A quick and easy sketch, but we can already tell this is going to be a spider.

Now that we have our sketch, we can start the drawing by outlining the shapes and adding few details.

Start with the eyes. Outline the googly eye ovals from the sketch. Inside each eye, add a smaller circle with yet another small oval patch inside that – that will be our eye’s pupils.

Next draw a big and friendly smile and two small fangs.

Finally, outline the body and trace the legs.

Notice that I have added simple little “feet” – just another short line – at the end of each leg.

Before you start colouring the drawing, use an eraser to clean up the sketch.

Here is our final spider – arguably one of the easiest drawings you have ever done.

While this is an extremely simple way how to draw a spider, our Incy Wincy is cute and ready to climb the spout.

If you want your spider to look even better, you can colour him in.

My spider is light blue, with yellow eyes. There are some really colourful spiders, so you don’t need to be shy with the colours.

I’ve also made him hairy on the sides of his body – he is a big grown up spider.

We will start our spider drawing with two overlapping circles – one larger for the body, then a second smaller one at the bottom for the head – that is because our spider is hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Then add eight spider legs – four pointing up, two each side, and four pointing down, again two each side.

We will sketch the legs as simple bent lines, just to understand where they will be.

Let’s add a few more guides before we start drawing: small ovals at the end of the legs for feet, and two ovals for eyes.

That is enough to start drawing our spider.

Start by outlining the eyes. Finish them by adding small black dots with a little white patch for pupils.

Next, draw simple fangs – just two half-moons opposite each other on each side of the spider’s mouth. Once the spider’s face is done, it’s time to complete and outline the head.

After the head, draw the legs. Draw two parallel lines, one each side of the leg guideline, for narrow skinny legs. Circle around the sketched ovals at the end of legs to draw simple feet and hands.

Now that the legs are drawn, complete the body outline.

Finally, add some hair onto the head and body to dress up our spider.

Finally one important detail – draw a string to hang our spider off the imaginary ceiling.

Since our spider is feeling a bit bare, let’s add some hair onto the head and body to dress him up a little.

Now that is a good looking cartoon spider!

Before we colour our spider, let’s clean up the sketch with an eraser. Here is our complete pencil drawing.

My spider ended up being purple with orange legs – that must be some exotic tropical species.

How did you colour in your drawing?

Here we start with exactly the same sketch as above – two overlapping circles and eight hair line legs.

Next, we sketch the arms and legs. This time they will be a bit thicker than our previous spider’s.

Also note that the lines are a bit bent, to suggest muscles on the thighs and arms.

Make the legs a bit fatter that the arms.

Let’s add simple ovals at the end of his limbs. Add slim ovals pointing in the direction of the arms at the end of the arms for the hands.

Then add a thicker ovals at right angle to the legs for the shoes.

And if our spider can have shoes, why not give him a pretty hat to wear as well? That is another oval and a rounded square at the top of the head.

That’s enough for the sketch, let’s start drawing.

First, let’s give our spider a face. Two small ovals for the eyes, with thick joint eyebrows. Two dots for a very simple nose. A big moustache hanging under his nose and a simple mouth complete it.

Next, add the hat. Draw a small oval for the top and two short sides for the crown. Add another large oval for the brim and the hat is done.

With the face and the hat drawn, complete the head outline.

Next, draw the arms and legs. Arms are bit skinnier, legs a bit thicker.

Add shoes on the feet.

Draw a little thumb and a palm for the hands.

Now it’s time to complete the drawing of the body. Don’t forget to add a waistline!

Finally, the all important string to hold the spider hanging from our invisible ceiling.

As usual, erase the sketching, and our humanoid spider – the third spider in our how to draw a spider tutorial – is done.

Oh, almost forgot that we can have more fun with colouring in our spider!

Let’s go: As spiders often do, our spider wears nice blue jeans. We have added some pockets and some knee patches – he is a hard-working spider.

He also wears a red striped singlet. That leaves his hands and face a human pink. Brown shoes, a hat and moustache and we’re done.

This Mr Spider surely looks like one of the circus folk – just about to start spinning the safety net for his next performance.