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How to Draw a Poison Oak

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a poison oak in 13 easy steps, about 10 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 stem.

Step 1: The stem
From near the bottom of your paper draw a tall thin stem up to the middle, getting thinner.
Step 2: Top leaf
On top of the stem draw a long leaf: 2 round bumps down each side and a round tip.
Tip The bumps make it look like a little oak leaf.
Step 3: Two side leaves
Just under it draw 2 more bumpy leaves, one pointing left and one right. That makes 3.
Tip Leaves of three, let it be! Never touch real poison oak.
Step 4: Left stalk and leaf
From partway up the stem draw a thin stalk out to the left. Put a bumpy leaf on its end.
Step 5: Smaller side leaves
Where that leaf joins its stalk add 2 smaller bumpy leaves, one pointing up and one down.
Step 6: Berry stalk
From the middle of the stem draw a thin stalk arching up and out to the right.
Step 7: Pale berries
Under the end of that stalk draw 6 little round berries in a bunch: 3, then 2, then 1.
Step 8: Tip lines
Across each of the 6 leaves draw a curved line, a little past the middle, to mark off the tip.
Tip The tips will be red: the leaves are turning.
Step 9: Leaf veins
Start where each leaf joins its stalk. Draw a line along the middle, stopping just before the tip.
Step 10: The ground
Start near the left edge. Draw a soft ground line under the stem, stopping near the right edge.
Step 11: Cream berries, green leaves
Colour the 6 berries pale cream. Colour all 6 leaves green, up to the tip lines.
Step 12: Red leaf tips
Colour the 6 leaf tips red. Poison oak leaves turn red at the ends.
Step 13: Brown stem
Colour the stem and the 2 thin stalks brown. Go over your lines, and it is done!