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How to Draw the Enormous Turnip
Draw the enormous turnip 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: giant turnip.
Step 1: Giant turnip
Draw a long ground line. From it, on the left, draw a big dome and back down to the line.
Tip Add a curved line across the dome, from side to side.
Step 2: Three big leaves
From the top of the dome draw 3 big leaves on stalks, back to the dome. Add leaf lines.
Tip One leaf leans left, one stands up and one leans right.
Step 3: Farmer's head
Right of the leaves draw an egg head. On its left side draw 2 oval eyes and a smile.
Tip Put a black dot in each eye. Add a small ear on the right side of the head.
Step 4: Straw hat
Across the top of the head draw a long thin oval brim. Draw a dome on top of it.
Tip Rub out the head line inside the hat.
Step 5: Leaning shirt
Under the head draw a long shirt leaning back to the right, with round shoulders and a flat bottom edge.
Step 6: Pulling arms
From the shoulder draw 2 long arms reaching out to the nearest leaf. End each arm in a round fist.
Tip The near arm bends at the elbow. Only a strip of the far arm shows above it. Draw 2 finger lines on the lower fist.
Step 7: Legs and boots
Under the shirt draw 2 legs spread wide. Put a boot on each foot, flat on the ground line.
Tip Both boots point at the turnip.
Step 8: The child's head
Behind the farmer draw a smaller egg head with 2 oval eyes, a smile and a cap of hair.
Tip The child is lower down than the farmer, and leans back the same way.
Step 9: Child's top and arms
Draw a small leaning top under the head. Draw 2 arms out to 2 fists on the farmer's shirt.
Tip Draw 2 finger lines on the lower fist. Rub out the shirt line inside the fists.
Step 10: Child's legs
Under the top draw 2 legs spread wide, each with a shoe flat on the ground line.
Step 11: Peach and yellow
Colour the 2 faces and the 4 fists peach. Colour the straw hat and the child's top yellow.
Step 12: Red and blue
Colour the farmer's shirt and sleeves red. Colour both pairs of trousers blue.
Step 13: Purple and green
Colour the top of the turnip purple and leave the rest white. Colour the 3 leaves green.
Step 14: Brown boots and soil
Colour the boots, shoes and hair brown. Colour the soil light brown, down to the bottom of the paper.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: the enormous turnip, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
