How to Draw a Peacock (Easy Step-by-Step for Kids)
To draw a peacock, start with a pear shaped body and a round head. Add an eye, a beak and a crest of three feathers. Finish with a big tail fan, eight eye spots and two legs.
- Steps
- 6 easy steps
- You need
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Black marker
- Blue, green, yellow, dark blue and orange crayons
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Teaching this to a class?
Show one step at a time on the board and wait for the class before the next. The directed drawing for kids page explains how to run it.
How to draw a peacock step by step
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Step 1 of 6: Draw a pear shaped body with a round head on top, joined by a thin neck.
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Step 2 of 6: Add a round eye, a beak and three crest feathers with round tips. Erase the head line in the beak.
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Step 3 of 6: Draw a big half circle tail fan behind the body. Stop its line where it meets the head and body.
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Step 4 of 6: Add four eye spots on each side, each an oval inside an oval. Add a thin line to the lower three.
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Step 5 of 6: Draw two thin legs under the body, each with three toes.
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Step 6 of 6: Color the bird blue, fan green, spots yellow and dark blue, beak and legs orange. Eye stays white.
Tips for little artists
Tip: Press lightly with the pencil first. Trace the lines you like with the marker, then erase the rest.
Tip: Make the fan much wider than the body so the peacock looks proud.
Tip: Draw the eye spots in pairs, one on the left and one on the right, so both sides match.
Make it yours
Peacock with closed tail
Draw the tail as a long feather shape trailing on the ground behind the peacock.
Rainbow fan
Color each eye spot ring a different color for a bright party peacock.
Garden peacock
Add grass under the feet and a few flowers on each side.
Common mistakes and easy fixes
The fan covers the body
Draw the body first, then start the fan line behind it on both sides.
The eye spots don't match
Draw one spot on the left, then copy it on the right at the same height.
The crest looks messy
Use three thin lines that spread out, each with one small circle on top.
Fun facts about the peacock
Strictly speaking, only the male is a peacock; the female is a peahen, and both are called peafowl. (Source: Britannica)
Male blue and green peafowl have a train of tail feathers 150 cm (60 inches) long. (Source: Britannica)
Blue and green peafowl chicks hatch with all their feathers and can fly roughly one week later. (Source: Britannica)
Questions grown-ups ask
How to draw a peacock easy?
Draw a pear shaped body with a round head, then a face and crest. Add a big half circle fan, eye spots and two thin legs.
How to draw a peacock step by step?
Draw the body, the face and crest, the fan, the eye spots and the legs. Color the body blue and the fan green last.
How to draw a peacock for kids?
Use one pear shape for the body and one big half circle for the fan. Simple ovals inside ovals make the eye spots easy.
If your peacock's fan came out a little uneven, that's fine. Your peacock is showing off its own feathers. More easy drawings for kids are on the home page.