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How to Draw a Pomelo
Draw a pomelo 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 pomelo.
Step 1: The pomelo
On the left draw a huge round, as big as your fist, with a small soft point on top.
Tip A pomelo is the biggest citrus fruit of all, like a giant orange with a little point.
Step 2: Stem and leaf
From the point on top draw a short stem leaning up right, with a fat leaf on its tip.
Step 3: Leaf vein
Start on the stem end of the leaf. Draw one bowed line up the middle, stopping short of the tip.
Step 4: Dimples
Dot 5 tiny dots on the pomelo for its bumpy skin, spread out, none touching the edge.
Step 5: A shine
Inside the upper left of the skin draw a thin oval sliver for a shine.
Step 6: A half pomelo
In front, lower right, draw a round as big as your palm for a cut half facing you.
Tip The half shows the thick white pith and big fat wedges.
Step 7: Skin and pith
Just inside the half draw a thin skin ring. Leave a wide band of pith, then draw a smaller round.
Step 8: 3 wedges
Inside the inner round draw 3 fat wedges like flower petals, from the middle out to the round and back.
Step 9: 3 more wedges
Fill the gaps with 3 more fat wedges, so the 6 together make a flower.
Step 10: The ground
Draw a ground line under the pomelo and the half from well left to well right, skipping the fruit.
Step 11: Cream pith, peach wedges
Go over your lines. Colour the pith cream, going around the wedges, and the 6 wedges peach.
Step 12: Green and brown
Colour the pomelo, the half's thin skin and the leaf green, around the pith. Colour the stem brown.
Tip Leave the shine white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a pomelo, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
