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How to Draw a Boxwood
Draw a boxwood 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: top of the ball.
Step 1: Top of the ball
Start high on your paper. Draw 7 round bumps down the right side of a ball, stopping at the bottom.
Step 2: Rest of the ball
From the bottom draw 7 more bumps up the left side, stopping back at the top. Now it's a ball.
Step 3: Leafy hills
Inside the ball draw 3 rows of little hill bumps: short at the top, long in the middle, short below.
Step 4: The trunk
Start under the ball. Draw a finger-wide trunk that spreads out at the bottom. Stop a little way down.
Step 5: The pot rim
Under the trunk draw a wide flat box for the rim of a flower pot, as wide as your hand.
Step 6: The pot
Start under the rim's left end. Draw the pot down, across and back up to the rim, sides leaning in.
Step 7: Pot stripe
Start halfway down the left side of the pot. Draw a line across to the right side for a stripe.
Step 8: The table
Draw a long straight line along the bottom of the pot, from far left to far right, for the table.
Step 9: Green ball
Colour the whole ball leaf green, right to the bumpy edge.
Step 10: Brown trunk
Colour the trunk a wood brown.
Step 11: Ginger pot
Colour the pot and its rim ginger brown. Go over your lines and your boxwood is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a boxwood, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
