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How to Draw a Flame Tree
Draw a flame tree 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 trunk.
Step 1: The trunk
Start low on your paper. Draw up the left of the trunk, stopping where it forks. Do the right too.
Tip A flame tree in bloom looks like a wide red umbrella on fire.
Step 2: 3 branches
From the top of the trunk draw 3 branches up and out, getting thinner and stopping in round tips.
Step 3: The umbrella top
Over the branches draw a wide, flat umbrella top of soft round bumps, covering the branch tips.
Step 4: Blossoms
On the top draw 4 little flowers, spread out, each with 4 round petals.
Step 5: More blossoms
Add 3 more little flowers in the gaps, never in a neat row.
Step 6: Ground and grass
Draw the ground line from far left to far right through the trunk's bottom. Flick grass up each side.
Step 7: Fallen petals
On the ground under the tree draw 4 little teardrop petals, pointing different ways.
Step 8: Orange and red top
Go over your lines, then colour the little flowers orange and the umbrella top red around them.
Step 9: Brown trunk
Colour the trunk and branches brown.
Step 10: Red petals
Colour the fallen petals red, and your flame tree is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a flame tree, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
