How to Draw a Strawberry Step by Step
This tutorial shows how to draw a beautiful strawberry in six simple steps with easy to follow examples for each of them.
The most interesting part of this particular tutorial is that it explains how you can give the berry a more three dimensional appearance just by properly drawing the little seeds along it’s surface.
Although this guide is created in a way where in an idea situation you won’t have to do any erasing, it’s still recommended that you start the drawing in pencil and make light and easy to erase lines until all parts of the strawberry are in place. You can then darken them with the pencil or a thin black marker.
For drawing a raspberry see:
How to Draw a Raspberry in 8 Steps
Step 1 – Draw the First Half of the Strawberry
Start by outlining the first half of the berry as shown in the example. Make it’s shape wider at the top and narrower at the bottom with a bit of an indent on the side.
Step 2 – Draw the Second Half
Add the second half as a reflection of the first one. For a nice looking strawberry you want the it to be fairly symmetrical but don’t worry if it’s not perfectly so.
Optionally, you can make a straight vertical line through the middle of the berry to help you see if both halves are even in width and erase it once you are done with this step of the drawing.
Step 3 – Draw the Crown
At the top of the berry add the crown. Show this as a set of little leaves of slightly varying shapes. Draw the leaves near the center and gradually pointing more sideways as they move towards the sides.
For a tutorial on drawing an actual leaf see:
How to Draw a Leaf Step by Step
Step 4 – Draw the Stem
Coming up from the crown add the stem. Draw it with a curve in it’s overall shape and make it slightly wider as it goes up.
Step 5 – Draw the Seeds
This last step is more complicated than the rest of the drawing. However, it’s also very important in giving the strawberry a more three dimensional appearance.
Draw the seeds in a way where those that are near the edges of the berry somewhat “flow” along it’s shape. Make them smaller and narrower the closer they are to the sides and smaller and shorter (vertically narrower) the closer they are to the top or bottom. At the same time draw the seeds farther apart near the center of the berry and closer together near its’ edges/outline.
Drawing in the way described above will help show the curvature of the strawberry and will make it appear more thee dimensional. If for example you were to draw the seeds to all be evenly spaced and of roughly the same size the berry would look flat like a piece of paper.
Step 6 – Color the Strawberry
You can use whatever medium you like the add the drawing. Markers, paints and colored pencils can all be good options.
Make the strawberry red, it’s crown and stem green and the seeds a light yellow. Also, when coloring the berry leave a little cluster of white spots (as shown in the example). These will show light reflecting from it’s surface and help convey that it has a smooth texture. You can either outline the reflections before coloring (with red or very light pencil lines) or create them as you color.
Conclusion
This guides shows how you can make a beautiful drawing of a strawberry and give it a somewhat three dimensional and smooth appearance without adding any shading.
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