How to Draw Cartoon Flowers

Cartoon flowers embellish signs and student notebooks.

Flowers are not often easy to draw realistically, but cartoon flowers are simple to reproduce, fun to make and almost universally recognizable. Cartoon flowers embellish signs and cards, and student binders and worksheets. When drawing a cartoon flower use long unbroken lines, rather than sketchy lines for maximum effect.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Paper

Instructions

1. Draw a circle. This is the center of the flower.

2. Draw a smaller half circle or half oval that begins and ends along the side of the circle you just drew. This is one petal of the flower. Repeat this shape along the entire circumference of the first circle. This is the head of the flower.

3. Draw a vertical line starting from the bottom of the head of the flower, extending to the ground. Make it any length; this is the stem. Draw a second line of equal length parallel to this line, either on the right or left side, to thicken the stem.

4. Draw several almond-shaped leaves along the stem. One pointy end of the almond shape will protrude from the stem, with the opposite end pointing out and away from the flower.

5. Draw a line through the center of each leaf, length-wise. This is the stem of each leaf.

Tips & Warnings

• Sometimes cartoon flowers have faces in the center--draw one if you wish.

• Color the cartoon flowers with colored pencils, markers, crayons or ink, depending on your preferences. Bright colors like reds, yellows, greens and blues make your flower stand out.

References

• Drawingcoach.com: Drawing Cartoon Flowers Has Never Been Easier