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How to Draw a Cabbage
Draw a cabbage 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 head.
Step 1: The head
In the middle of your paper draw a big round head as big as your fist.
Step 2: Left leaf
Start on the head near its top left. Swing out wide and down round the bottom, stop on the head.
Tip The leaf hugs the head like a cupped hand.
Step 3: Right leaf
Same on the right: start on the head near its top right, swing out and down, stop on the head.
Step 4: A leaf in front
Start low on the left leaf. Dip under the head in a shallow U and stop on the right leaf.
Step 5: Veins on the leaves
On each side leaf draw one long bowed vein down its middle, from near the top to near the bottom.
Step 6: Little side veins
From each long vein draw 2 short lines out towards the leaf's edge, like branches, stopping short.
Step 7: Veins on the head
Down the head draw one bowed vein from the top nearly to the bottom, with 3 short branches.
Step 8: The ground
Draw a ground line under the cabbage, just touching the leaves, from far left to far right.
Step 9: Pale head
Go over your lines, then colour the head light green.
Step 10: Green leaves
Colour the 3 outer leaves dark green.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a cabbage, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
