How to Draw a Paintbrush

Step 1: The handle

Right of the middle, draw a long handle leaning right, with a round top and a flat bottom.

Tip Make it about 4 times taller than it is wide.

Step 2: Metal band

Under the handle, draw a short box that pokes out on both sides. Add a line across near the top.

Step 3: The bristles

Under the band, draw the bristles like a carrot with a round tip, curving in on both sides.

Tip The tip sits right under the middle of the band.

Step 4: Two round eyes

Low on the handle, draw 2 round eyes a little apart, with a big black dot in each.

Step 5: Smile and cheeks

Under the eyes, draw a small U smile. Add a little oval cheek under each eye, outside the smile.

Step 6: Dip it in paint

Near the tip, start on the left bristle line. Draw a gentle smile across to the right line.

Tip Everything under this line is dipped in paint.

Step 7: Bristle hairs

Inside the bristles, draw 3 short hair lines. Start each on the band and stop above the paint line.

Step 8: Paint a line

Start at the bristle tip. Draw a long line to the left that dips, then swoops up to a point.

Step 9: Make it fat

Start on the tip, a bit higher. Draw a second line above the first that meets it at the point.

Tip The stroke starts thin, gets fat in the middle and whips to a point.

Step 10: Two drops

Off the point of the stroke, draw 2 small raindrops, with a gap before each, pointy ends aiming back.

Step 11: Sand bristles, pink cheeks

Colour the bristles sand down to the paint line. Colour the two little cheeks pink.

Step 12: Wood handle, grey band

Colour the handle wood brown around the pink cheeks, leaving the eyes white. Colour the band grey.

Step 13: Blue paint

Colour the tip under the paint line, the paint stroke and the two drops blue.