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How to Draw Braids
Draw braids in 13 easy steps, about 10 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 a big egg for the head, a little narrower at the chin.
Tip Make it big: the hair needs room on top.
Step 2: Big eyes
Below the middle of the head draw 2 tall oval eyes. Colour a black dot in each, with a shine.
Step 3: Nose, smile and brows
Draw a tiny U nose below the eyes and a wide smile under it. Add an eyebrow over each eye.
Step 4: Fringe
Start on the left side of the head, level with the eyebrows. Curve across the forehead, stopping on the right.
Step 5: Top of the hair
Start at the fringe's left end. Draw a big rainbow bulging past the head, down to the fringe's right end.
Tip The hair is bigger than the head: it puffs out at the sides.
Step 6: Hair over the ears
From the top left of the rainbow draw hair down past the cheek to the jaw. Do the right too.
Step 7: 2 braids
Under each side piece draw a braid down to the shoulder: a chain of 4 fat beads, getting smaller.
Step 8: Bead lines
Across each braid, at each pinch between 2 beads, draw a little smile curve from edge to edge.
Step 9: Ties and tassels
Draw a small band at the bottom of each braid. From it zigzag down to 3 points and back up.
Step 10: Neck and shirt
Draw 2 neck lines under the chin. From each, slope a shoulder down and out. Add a U collar.
Step 11: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Colour the cheeks pink, then the face and neck peach around them. Leave the eyes white.
Step 12: Yellow shirt, red ties
Colour the shirt yellow and the hair ties red.
Step 13: Brown hair
Colour the hair, the braids and the tassels brown. Go over your lines and you are done.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: braids, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
