How to Draw a Martini

This is a step-by-step description on how to draw a martini, whether you have been drawing for years or have just started, or randomly want to know how to draw a martini. Drawing a martini, as many other objects, starts with basic shapes and moves onto more descriptive details, as many or as little as you'd like to play with. Keep reading and follow along, and you will have a great drawing of a martini at the end of the article.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil or pen
• Paper
• Martini reference (optional)

Instructions

1. 

   Drawing basic shapes. The basic shapes for drawing a martini are a triangle, a long rectangle, and an ellipse. The triangle is for the cup, the long rectangle for the stem, and the ellipse which looks like a smashed circle, or a coaster, is the base. Please see the image to see how they will fit together.

2. 

   To draw the first shape, the triangle, you will actually start with an ellipse. Because it is basically a cup, it will need this. Draw your ellipse, as the diagram shows, and then create a triangle starting with the opposite sides of the ellipse going into a point at the end. Now you have your cup and the main part of the martini.

3. 

   Drawing the stem. Just draw 2 lines from the triangle point and go down to where a martini stem would end. Try to keep the lines straight and as parallel to each other as possible.

4. 

   Just as you drew the ellipse for the cup part of the triangle in the beginning, you will draw a slightly smaller one for the base. Connect the rectangle and the last ellipse and there you have it. You have your martini glass.!

5. 

   Fill your martini with the drink. Draw a smaller ellipse inside the cup part, as in the diagram. You can color this in to give more of an appearance of a drink. The diagram has cross lines for this effect.

6. 

   Drawing the olive. This is optional, but is one of the most recognized icons of a martini. To draw the olive, you will draw an oval. Then you will draw another oval inside of it, towards the top of it. Shade in if desired. The stick through the olive can look however you'd like. This can even be just a thick line drawn through it. The diagram has more of a mini chopstick, or fancy toothpick through it.

7. 

   Shade the martini in or leave it simple.

Tips & Warnings

• Taking this drawing into illustrator and vectorizing it would make a great icon.

• Stay to the proportions in the diagrams as closely as possible otherwise you may get a very strange looking martini drawing.