GRID STEP. You can print out the base construction lines and start drawing on tracing paper or you can draw the grid layout yourself using the following steps. Draw a square which will act as the frame of the cobra portrait.
STEP 1. Outline the general shape of the head and the body of the cobra.
STEP 2. Sketch the eyes. Connect the body with the head. Erase inner lines.
STEP 3. Sketch the hood. Add the mouth. Detail the body.
STEP 4. Sketch the tongue. Detail the hood and body.
STEP 5. Work on the whole figure of the body, adding more details to the eyes and the hood.