How to Draw Donald Duck

Last Updated: September 21, 2019

Donald Duck is a Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Even though at most time he is cranky, Donald is an all-time favorite Disney character. Learn how to draw this interesting and colorful character in just a few simple steps!

Steps

1
Create basic shapes for the whole body. These will serve as the guidelines for your drawing. Most of the shapes are fairly irregular, but you should be able to draw them with little difficulty by looking at the image to the right.
2
Refine and detail the head. Add Donald's eyeballs, tongue, and hat (which is like a French beret with a tassel coming off of it).

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3
Work on the upper body. Give Donald his sailor suit, with a stripe on the shoulder and a full bow-tie. Make sure his collar encases his neck and don't forget to tuck his arms behind his back!
4
Try to emphasize the feathers on his lower body. Do so by putting both an oval shape and some curves and jagged shapes to draw attention to this lower portion.
5
Draw Donald's legs. The back one should only be visible as a wide, webbed foot, while the leg in front extends from the body, bends at the knee, and ends in the same kind of webbed foot.
6
After making sure everything looks right on your Donald, outline and color him in. His feathers are white and his sailor suit/hat combination is a deep blue, complementing his red bow-tie so as to look very patriotic. Make his bill and legs approximately the same yellow-orange color, and his eyes a very light blue.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I draw just his head?

Community Answer

All you have to do is skip the steps involving his body. Draw the head a little larger than you would if you were including the body.
Question

How do I get dark color on a color?

Community Answer

You have to put the light color first and then put the darker color on top of it.