That wide-open beak and bulging eyes make Iago impossible to miss, and this tutorial walks through how to draw Iago from the Aladdin series step by step, capturing that exaggerated shouting expression in line art form.
What Goes Into Sketching This Loud-Mouthed Parrot
The guide runs through 15 steps and delivers clean black and white line art with no color fill, so the challenge is purely about line confidence and proportion. Iago is posed with arms raised and mouth wide open, which means the asymmetry of that raised-arm posture and the depth of the gaping beak are the two things that take the most attention to get right.
Iago’s Key Design Features
- Round plump bird body with short wings
- Large beak stretched into wide open gape
- Bulging round eyes with small head crest
- Small clawed feet with dark hooves
- Arms raised in expressive, animated pose
If you want to sketch more characters from the same cast, Princess Jasmine and Jasmine in a different pose are both covered on the site, along with Halloween Jasmine as a mummy for something a bit different.
Reading the Step Colors in This Tutorial
Each step uses a three-color system to keep things clear:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Iago: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished the Sketch? Show It Off
Once the drawing is done, drop it in the comments below. Seeing how different people handle that open-beak expression is always useful for anyone working through the same steps. All new tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video goes up every day based on existing guides, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. If you want to keep going with the Aladdin roster, the guides for Genie and the lamp and Abu are worth checking out next. Supporting the project on Patreon helps keep new tutorials coming and gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages made exclusively for supporters.