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How to Draw a Medicine Bottle
Draw a medicine bottle in 12 easy steps, about 9 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 bottle.
Step 1: The bottle
Draw a wide tub in the middle of your paper: flat top, straight sides, round bottom, nearly square.
Tip Leave room above for the cap. Medicine bottles are short and chunky.
Step 2: Two big eyes
High on the bottle draw 2 big egg eyes. Colour a big black dot in each, leaving a white shine.
Step 3: Smile and cheeks
Under the eyes draw a U smile, with a small flat cheek beside each end.
Step 4: The wide cap
On top of the bottle draw a wide flat cap with round corners, poking out a little past the sides.
Step 5: Cap ridges
Draw 5 short lines down the cap, evenly spaced, for the grip ridges.
Step 6: The label
Low on the bottle, under the smile, draw a small rounded label with a chunky plus sign in the middle.
Step 7: Shine
Draw a short light curve up the left side of the bottle, beside the eyes, for a shine.
Step 8: Two pills
On each side of the bottle draw a small pill lying on the table, with a line across its middle.
Step 9: Table and shadow
Draw a flat oval shadow around the bottle's bottom, and a table line out from each end, under the pills.
Step 10: Pink cheeks, orange bottle
Go over your lines. Colour the cheeks pink, then the bottle orange around them, leaving the label and eyes white.
Step 11: Red plus, red pills
Colour the plus sign red, and colour the left half of each pill red.
Step 12: Grey shadow, white cap
Colour the shadow grey and leave the cap white. Your medicine bottle is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a medicine bottle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
