How To Draw A Tyrannosaurus Rex

Easy How to Draw a T-Rex Tutorial and T-Rex Coloring Page

Learn how to draw a T-Rex, probably the most famous of all the dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.

Students that have a fascination with dinosaurs will most likely also be fascinated with drawing them. After all, once those ferocious looking bodies are complete, there's no end to the fun background that they can add. A smoking volcano is just one idea.

This T-Rex has his head is turned, for a little more active look, but it doesn't add any complexity to the step-by-step tutorial. The body still begins with an oval for the torso, and all the extremities are attached to it. Students just draw his head looking over his back instead of looking forward.

For some extra TEXTURE (one of the Elements of Art), try having students place something bumpy under the T-Rex when they are coloring. I used a plastic woven placemat, but anything similar will do. If they start with a brown crayon to get the bumpy look, and then go over everything with green, students just might get a very unique kind of skin for their prehistoric drawing.

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T-Rex Coloring Page

Materials for How to Draw a T-Rex

Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.

Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.

Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.

Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.

Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.