How to draw · Confident · about 20 minutes
Rose
You need: Paper, Pencil. Optional: Eraser, Red, pink and green crayons, colored pencils or markers.
Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.
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1. Draw a light circle for the flower near the top of your paper. Draw a light curved line down from it for the stem.
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2. Draw a swirl near the top of the circle, a little flattened. This is the tightly rolled middle of the rose.
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3. Draw the two big outer petals. Each starts beside the swirl, flares out to a tip at the side, then curves down around the circle. They meet at a point at the bottom.
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4. Draw the front petal: a wavy edge across the front, from one outer petal to the other. Roll its left end over in a little curl.
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5. Draw a petal that wraps around the swirl: start at its top left, go down the left side and curve under it to the right.
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6. Draw a bigger petal that wraps the other way: down the right side and under the first one. Stop where it tucks in at the left.
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7. Draw the rolled-back edge of each outer petal: a short curve from each side tip in toward the wrapped petals.
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8. Draw three thin pointed leaves called sepals under the flower: one on each side and one in the middle.
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9. Draw the stem with two lines that follow the guide, close together all the way down.
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10. Draw a leaf on each side of the stem. Draw the middle vein first, then a curved edge on each side of it, so the two halves match.
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11. Erase the guides: the circle and the stem line.
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12. Add small thorns along the stem, pointing different ways, and short side veins on each leaf.
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13. Shade with short lines in the deep gaps between the wrapped petals and along the bottom of the flower. Light comes from above, so these parts are in shadow.
Practice here
Tip: Turn your paper as you draw the swirl so your hand can move around it in one smooth line.