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How to Draw a Tomatillo
Draw a tomatillo in 10 easy steps, about 8 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 fruit.
Step 1: The fruit
Left of the middle, draw a squashed round fruit as big as a plum.
Tip A tomatillo is a green tomato that grows inside its own paper lantern.
Step 2: Left husk flap
From a point above the fruit, draw a papery flap down over its left side, curling out at the bottom.
Step 3: Right husk flap
From the same point draw the right flap, joined to the first down to the fruit, then curling out.
Step 4: The stem
On the top point draw a short curved stem.
Step 5: Husk veins
On each flap draw 2 veins from near the top point, stopping short of the curled edge.
Step 6: A closed lantern
To the right draw a second tomatillo still wrapped: a pointed egg like a paper lantern, stem on top.
Step 7: Lantern veins
On the lantern draw 3 veins from top point to bottom point: one straight down, one bowing out each side.
Step 8: The ground
Draw a long ground line just touching the bottoms of both, lifting your pencil where it would cross them.
Step 9: Papery husk
Go over your lines, then colour the husk flaps and the lantern a pale sand colour.
Step 10: Green fruit, brown stems
Colour the round fruit light leaf green and both stems brown, and your tomatillo is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a tomatillo, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
