The profile, or side view, of a dolphin, is the easiest to draw but the most difficult to describe. ;P Hopefully i did a fair enough job in the following steps to help you out.
Step 1
Draw a guideline (naturally!) and define the head region. Sketch lightly!!!
Step 2
Block in the beak, making it as long or as short as you want (within the realm of nature... discussed in other parts of this tutorial). Mark in the eye in the desired spot... I prefer to make mine about one and half or two beak lengths away...above the guideline.
In Step 2, draw another guideline just below the horizontal line already in place, shown here in red. This line will serve as the mouth. On your original horizontal guideline, divide each half into thirds. Draw a small oval where the vertical and mouth guidelines cross and make it as wide as the inner 1/3 marks. Place the eyes at just outside of the outermost tic marks.
Step 3
Okay now it's going to get a little difficult. To draw the mouth, begin by drawing an arc that stretches from the innermost tic marks as shown. Then draw the rest of the "smile" as if completing a very flat "W". I also began to draw in a few form lines to define the melon and eye groove that parallels the mouth.
Step 4
Erase your guidelines and add details. To really make this view work it must be shaded to create the illusion of depth. Many dolphins tend to have stripes on their forehead. When defining the final structure of the head, remember that there is a slight bulge above each eye for the delphine equivalent of an eyebrow.
Related: Vantid's Dolphin Art Tutorial Part One
