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How to Draw a Sugar Plum
Draw a sugar plum 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 plum.
Step 1: The plum
In the middle of your paper draw a big plump egg standing up, with a tiny dip on top.
Tip Make it nearly as wide as it is tall.
Step 2: The stem
From the dip draw a short stem of 2 close lines going up, leaning a little right.
Step 3: A leaf
From the stem tip draw a fat leaf pointing up to the right. Add a bowed line down its middle.
Tip The leaf is a fat almond, with one vein.
Step 4: The sugar top
Start on the left edge, a little way down. Draw 5 round scallops across to the right edge.
Tip A sugar plum wears a coat of white sugar.
Step 5: The crease
From the sugar edge draw a long line down to the bottom left edge, bowing like a backwards C.
Step 6: Sugar crystals
Below the sugar draw 5 small diamonds for crystals: 3 right of the crease, 2 left of it.
Tip Make them different sizes, and keep them off the lines.
Step 7: Sparkles
Beside the plum draw 3 small sparkle stars: 2 on the left and 1 on the right.
Step 8: Ground and shadow
Under the plum draw a flat oval shadow. Draw a ground line out from each side of it.
Step 9: Yellow sparkles
Go over your lines, then colour the 3 sparkles yellow.
Step 10: Green leaf, grey shadow
Colour the leaf green and the shadow grey.
Step 11: Brown stem
Colour the stem brown.
Step 12: Purple sugar plum
Colour the plum purple below the sugar edge. Leave the sugar top and the crystals white.
Tip White sugar on purple makes it sparkle.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a sugar plum, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
