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How to Draw a Baobab Tree
Draw a baobab tree in 10 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 bottle trunk.
Step 1: The bottle trunk
From the ground, draw a fat bulging side curving in to a short neck. Do both sides.
Step 2: 5 thick branches
From the neck, draw 5 short thick branches spreading up and out. Leave each end open.
Step 3: Forked tips
At each open end, start on one edge, draw 2 rounded tips like a V, and stop on the other.
Step 4: Leaf clouds
Over the tips, draw 5 bumpy leaf clouds in a wide flat row, biggest in the middle.
Tip Rub out the bits of branch inside the clouds.
Step 5: Bark lines
Inside the trunk, draw 2 long bark lines curving like the sides, and 1 short line up high.
Step 6: A knot hole
Low on the trunk, left of the middle, draw a small egg for a knot hole.
Step 7: The ground
Start well left of the tree and draw a long ground line under the trunk. Stop well right of it.
Step 8: Grass
Start on the ground beside the trunk. Draw 2 short curved grass blades on each side.
Step 9: Green leaves
Colour all 5 leaf clouds green, right up to their bumpy edges.
Step 10: Brown trunk
Colour the trunk and branches wood brown, around the knot hole. Then colour the knot hole dark brown.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a baobab tree, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
