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How to Draw a Compost Pile
Draw a compost pile in 14 easy steps, about 11 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 bin front.
Step 1: The bin front
Below the middle draw a wide box for the bin's front, wider than it is tall, on the ground.
Step 2: Posts and planks
Draw a tall thin post at each end, poking up above the box, and 2 lines across it for planks.
Step 3: The heap
Draw a big soft hill over the bin, from the top's left end up and over to the right end.
Step 4: Apple core
On the left slope draw an apple core like a little hourglass: flat top, pinched waist, flat bottom, short stem.
Step 5: Banana peel
On the right slope draw a banana peel: a stubby stem with 2 pointed flaps hanging down and out.
Step 6: A leaf
Between the core and the peel draw a pointed leaf leaning up to the right, with a middle line.
Step 7: Eggshell
Under the leaf draw half an eggshell: a round bowl, wider than tall, with 3 small zigzags on top.
Step 8: Garden fork
In the heap's top, draw a garden fork: 4 prongs, a black bar, a handle and a D grip.
Step 9: Steam
Above the heap draw 3 wiggly steam lines, each from the heap wobbling up, stopping in the air.
Step 10: Two worms
Outside each post, on the ground, draw a little worm lying flat with its head up and a dot eye.
Step 11: Ground
From the bottom of each post draw a ground line out under the worm, nearly to the paper's edge.
Step 12: Cream core, yellow peel
Colour the apple core cream and the banana peel yellow, and leave the eggshell white.
Step 13: Pink worms, green leaf
Colour the worms pink and the leaf green.
Step 14: Brown heap, wood bin
Go over your lines, then colour the heap brown around the scraps, and the bin and fork handle wood brown.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a compost pile, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
