How to draw · Growing · about 15 minutes

Rocket

You need: Paper, Pencil. Optional: Eraser, Red, blue, gray, orange and yellow crayons, colored pencils or markers.

Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.

Finished

  1. 1. Draw a light, straight line down the middle of your paper. It helps you make both sides of the rocket match.

  2. 2. Draw a tall, thin oval on the line. Start near the top of your paper and stop about three quarters of the way down. Press lightly.

  3. 3. Draw the left side of the rocket: start at the pointed top, curve out along the oval, then come in a little at the bottom.

  4. 4. Draw the right side the same way, like a mirror. Check that both sides are the same distance from the middle line.

  5. 5. Draw a curved line across the top part. It shows where the pointed nose of the rocket ends.

  6. 6. Draw a round window on the middle line, with a smaller circle inside it for the glass.

  7. 7. Draw a curved fin on each side near the bottom. Make the right fin a mirror of the left one.

  8. 8. Draw a thin fin in the front, right on the middle line. It hangs down past the bottom of the rocket.

  9. 9. Draw the flat bottom and a small nozzle under it. The front fin is in the way, so stop each line at the fin.

  10. erase

    10. Erase the middle line and the oval.

  11. 11. Draw big wavy flames coming out of the nozzle, with a smaller flame inside.

  12. 12. Finish with a few twinkling stars around the rocket.

Practice here

Tip: Use the middle line to check: each point on the right side should be as far from the line as the matching point on the left.