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How to Draw a Seed Sprouting
Draw a seed sprouting 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 soil.
Step 1: The soil
Start at the left edge, below the middle. Draw a wavy line right across to the right edge.
Step 2: A sleeping seed
On the left, inside the soil, draw a fat sideways egg for a seed, tilted a bit.
Step 3: A splitting seed
In the middle, inside the soil, draw a bigger rounder seed with a wiggly line from top to bottom.
Step 4: Root and shoot
From the seed's bottom draw a little pointy root down. From its top draw a fat shoot up, curling right.
Step 5: The sprout's stem
On the right, start on the soil. Draw a stem straight up and stop above the middle of the paper.
Step 6: 2 big leaves
From the stem near its top draw a round leaf out left and back to it. Do the right too.
Step 7: Bud and roots
On the stem's top draw a tiny round bud. From the stem's bottom draw 3 pointy roots into the soil.
Step 8: A rain cloud
High in the middle draw a little bumpy cloud, with 3 fat raindrops falling under it.
Step 9: The sun
Draw a small round sun with 8 short rays in the top left corner.
Step 10: Cream roots, yellow sun
Go over your lines, then colour the roots cream and the sun yellow.
Step 11: Blue rain, tan seeds
Colour the raindrops sky blue and the 2 seeds tan.
Step 12: Green shoots, brown soil
Colour the shoot, stem, bud and leaves green, then the soil brown, around the seeds and roots. All done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a seed sprouting, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
