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How to Draw a Chanterelle
Draw a chanterelle 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 cap.
Step 1: The cap
Near the top draw 4 waves from left to right. Join the ends with a line dipping like a bowl.
Tip The cap is a shallow dish with a frilly edge, sunk in the middle.
Step 2: The funnel
From the cap's left end sweep down into a narrow stem, round the bottom, and up to the right end.
Tip Let the stem get a little thinner near the bottom.
Step 3: Ridges
From the top of the stem draw 4 bendy ridge lines up to the dish edge, following the funnel.
Step 4: Forks
Split each ridge like a Y: draw a bendy line from the dish edge down to its middle.
Step 5: A little one
Draw a small one on the right: wavy top, funnel from the left end round to the right, 2 ridges.
Step 6: The ground
Start near the left edge. Draw a soft ground line through the bottom of the stems, stopping near the right.
Step 7: Grass
Flick 4 grass blades from the ground: 2 left of the big stem, 1 each side of the little one.
Step 8: A fallen leaf
At the left draw a long pointy leaf resting on the ground, with a stalk and a curved vein.
Tip Let its belly touch the ground and its tip lift a little.
Step 9: Yellow funnels
Colour the funnels and stems of both chanterelles yellow.
Step 10: Orange dishes
Colour the wavy top dishes of both chanterelles orange.
Step 11: Ginger leaf
Colour the fallen leaf ginger brown. Go over your lines and your chanterelle is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a chanterelle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
