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How to Draw an Artist
Draw an artist in 12 easy steps, about 9 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the head.
Step 1: The head
Near the top of your paper, draw an egg for the head. Leave room below for the body.
Step 2: The face
Add 2 oval eyes, a U nose and a smile. Each C ear starts and stops on the head.
Step 3: Beret
On the head, draw a floppy beret drooping over one side, with a tiny stalk on top.
Step 4: Neck, smock, scarf
Draw 2 neck lines. From them, draw a long smock with round shoulders, back to the neck. Add a scarf.
Step 5: Long sleeves
From each shoulder, draw a long sleeve down to the wrist. The left hangs straight, the right bends in.
Tip Rub out the smock lines inside the sleeves. Add a cuff line near the left wrist.
Step 6: Mitten hands
Draw a mitten hanging from the left sleeve and one pointing in from the right, each with a thumb.
Step 7: Palette and brush
Behind one hand, draw a palette with 3 blobs. From the other hand, draw a brush up to a tip.
Step 8: Trousers, shoes, ground
Start at the left of the hem. Draw 2 trouser legs, back to the right. Add shoes and the ground.
Step 9: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Colour the face, ears, neck and hands peach, with pink cheeks. Leave the eyes white.
Step 10: Yellow and blue paint
Colour 2 paint blobs yellow and the middle one blue, and the brush bristles blue too.
Step 11: Tan palette, sky smock
Colour the palette tan around the paint blobs, and the smock and sleeves sky blue.
Step 12: Red beret, brown trousers
Colour the beret and scarf red, and the brush handle, trousers and shoes brown. Your artist is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: an artist, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
