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How to Draw a Ball
Draw a ball in 11 easy steps, about 8 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 ball.
Step 1: The ball
In the middle of your paper draw one big round circle. It fills most of the page.
Tip Go round slowly in one smooth sweep. Leave a finger of room below.
Step 2: Cap on top
At the top of the ball draw a flat little oval cap, about a quarter as wide as the ball.
Step 3: Eyes and cheeks
Above the middle draw 2 big egg eyes, a finger apart, with a dot and shine. Add 2 cheeks below.
Step 4: Big smile
Between the cheeks draw a wide smile like a D on its back, with a little tongue inside.
Step 5: Front seams
Start on the cap. Draw a long curve down the ball, bowing out, and stop on the bottom. Do both.
Tip Like ( ) brackets round the face. Leave a gap by the eyes.
Step 6: Side seams
Start at each end of the cap. Draw a curve near the ball's edge and stop low on it.
Step 7: Sand line
Start on each side of the ball, a little above its bottom. Draw a sand line out to the edge.
Step 8: Shadow
Start on the sand left of the ball. Dip a flat shadow under the ball, back up to the sand.
Step 9: Yellow sides, pink cheeks
Colour the 2 outside stripes yellow and the cheeks and tongue pink. Leave the eyes white.
Step 10: Grey shadow, red stripe
Colour the shadow grey and the left middle stripe red. Leave the front panel and cap white.
Step 11: Blue stripe, black mouth
Colour the right middle stripe blue and the inside of the mouth black, around the pink tongue.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a ball, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
