How to Draw a Shamrock for St Patrick’s Day
Learn How to Draw a Shamrock for St Patrick’s Day with this step-by-step drawing tutorial for kids. This easy art project can be used in all kinds of crafts, doodles, and DIYs!
Servings: 1 Shamrock Drawing
Cost: $1
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
- drawing paper or a sketch book
- a pencil or marker
- eraser
- colored pencils or crayons optional
Instructions
Draw three shamrock leaves
- It helps to watch the video when drawing the shamrock. The shamrock has three leaves, and each leaf looks like a heart. The points of the hearts meet in the center. So find the center of your paper. Draw a heart shape that goes up towards the top of your paper from that center area. But don't connect the two lines at the bottom. It might be easier if you turn the paper to the side to draw the next leaf. Draw another heart shape that goes towards one side of your paper. The heart will start where the last one left off. Don't connect the two lines at the bottom of this heart either.Turn your paper the opposite direction and draw another heart that goes to the other side of the paper. The heart will start where the first one left off. Don't connect the two lines at the bottom of this heart either.
Draw the stem
- The open space is where we are going to draw the stem. The stem is like a rectangle except it is going to curve to the side instead of being straight.Draw a line that starts where the last heart line stopped and moved towards the bottom of your paper at a slant. Draw a second line that starts where the other heart stopped. This second line will run fairly parallel to the first one but gets a little wider at the bottom.Next you will draw a line that connects those two lines, but it will be kind of in a smile shape (not straight). Lastly draw another line at the bottom of the stem that is a frown shaped line (t will connect on either end of the smile line). Then the stem looks like it's been cut off and you can see the bottom of it.
Add details to the shamrock leaves
- Draw a line that goes down the center of one leaf. The line starts in the middle of the shamrock but doesn’t go to the outer edge of the leaf.This doesn't need to be straight line. In fact a slightly curved line makes the leaf look more real. This is the vein in the center of the leaf.Small vein lines that go off from this center vein line on a shamrock leaf. Draw 3 or 4 small lines on each side of the center vein. The lines start on the vein and slightly curve outwards but don’t go clear to the edge of the leaf. Repeat this on each of the three leaves.
Color the shamrock
- Color the shamrock a solid light green color.Choose a darker green color and add some shading to the leaves. Lightly color around the edges of the leaf and over the vein lines, also around the stem. The dark color will blend into the lighter color so don't make hard coloring lines. Lastly, color a bit of yellow over the center areas of the leaves and stem, blending it into the greens.
Draw a shamrock flower
- The shamrock flower has five white petals. If you draw a group of shamrocks add a few shamrock flowers into the bunch of shamrocks. The video shows how to do this.
Video
Notes
There are tips, variations, FAQs for this craft on the website post.