Very Easy · about 5 minutes

How to Draw a Basic Flower

Start with the center, not the petals. If the petals touch that circle, the flower holds together. The stem is a line you add after the bloom already reads.

Materials Pencil, paper, eraser. A black pen is optional once the petals overlap the center the way you want.

Step 1

Draw a small circle, high enough on the page that a stem can hang below it. This circle is the center, not the whole flower.

Step 2

Add five petals as ovals around the circle. Each petal should touch the center. Leave a small gap between petals so they stay countable.

Step 3

Draw the stem as one line from under the bloom to near the bottom of the page. It can tilt a little. It should not start from a petal tip.

Step 4

Add two leaves on the stem, one to each side, at different heights. Each leaf is a pointed oval with the wide end toward the stem.

Finished

The finished flower is the center, five petals that touch it, a stem, and two leaves. No extra rings.

A common miss

Petals that float near the center without touching it look like a scatter of seeds. Push each oval until it overlaps the circle a little, then erase the line of the circle that sits inside the petal if it gets noisy.

One variation

Draw two more stems from the same ground area, each with a smaller center and five smaller petals. Same steps, less size.

Related: Simple cactus, Strawberry.