How to Sketch an Easter Basket
Easter baskets remain one of the season's iconic images, whether they're brimming with colorfully decorated Easter eggs, baby chicks, holiday candies or Easter bunnies. Sketches of Easter baskets offer a variety of uses: household decorations, spare outlines for kids to color in as an Easter activity or a chance for adults to relax into a simple, rewarding art exercise. Learn how to sketch an Easter basket in a few easy steps. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sketching paper
- Lead pencil
- Gum eraser
- Charcoal pencil
- Black and gray chalk
- Photocopy machine
- Felt-tip marker
Instructions
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Purchase or gather together necessary sketching materials to draw an Easter basket. You'll need drawing paper, a lead pencil, and a gum eraser for simple sketching projects. If you plan to complete more complicated shading as part of your Easter basket sketch, you'll also want charcoal pencils or black and gray chalk.
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Map out the basic shape of your Easter basket by drawing a large circle shape taking up most of the page; this will become the bowl-like shape of the Easter basket holding Easter eggs and other items. Then draw a basic rainbow shape anchored on both ends by the top line forming the circle you just completed.
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Draw another, smaller rainbow shape beneath the first rainbow shape rendered in Step 2. Together these two lines will form your Easter basket handle. For a woven-basket look, sketch a swirling line along the handle shape, like a barber's pole or candy cane, to resemble the twined look of wicker Easter basket handles.
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Sketch oval shapes resembling Easter eggs within the basket's "bowl." For added realism, allow the top rim of the basket to cut off the bottom of each egg's oval shape so that it looks like they're lying in the basket. You can do the same thing with additional eggs, stopping their curved lines as they "bump" into the outlines of other Easter eggs for a heaped look.
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Draw rough, uneven squares within the outline of the basket's "bowl" so that it resembles a woven Easter basket. Squares should be outlined in a brick-like pattern, so that the coinciding sides of two side-by-side squares bisect the bottom line and top line of squares above and below.
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Tips & Warnings
For an added touch, sketch a decorative bow along the basket handle by drawing a small circle, then two petal or tear-drop shaped objects emerging from the sides of the circle.
If you're planning to photocopy and distribute Easter egg sketches for kids to color in, draw over the basket's line with a thick black line from a felt-tip marker.
References
- Photo Credit easter basket image by Liz Van Steenburgh from Fotolia.com
