How to draw wheat: 3 ways

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Wheat is an annual cereal plant grown in most parts of the world. It is used to make flour, cereals, pasta and confectionery, even beer, and this is not a complete list. And drawing wheat is not difficult at all. Below we will look at ways to do this.

How to draw wheat with a pencil: materials

Before you start drawing wheat, prepare the necessary materials. These are simple pencils (it is best to take one hard and one soft), a sheet of paper, an eraser and colored pencils (yellow, light orange, green, brown) if you want to color the drawing.

First way

First, let's look at one of the easiest methods to draw wheat in stages, which is suitable for drawing with a child.

1. On a sheet of paper, draw a few slightly curved vertical lines with a simple pencil. Their number depends on how many spikelets you want to draw.
2. Draw nine circles around the top of one of the stems.
3. Now make the circles into grains that look like drops in shape. In the same waydraw grains on the rest of the stems.
4. On each spikelet we draw several antennae. There should be few of them, 4-5 pieces on each spikelet. Draw long and narrow leaves from the bottom of the stems.

Now you know how to draw wheat in a simple way, you can try a more complex method. At the end, color the wheat using orange and yellow pencils for the spikelets and green for the leaves.

Second way

How to draw wheat in another easy way? This will also require a sheet of paper, a simple pencil and an eraser.

Draw thin, slightly slanted lines. At the top of each line we depict spikelets. We draw several grains on each side and one at the very top. Grains can be either in the form of droplets or in the form of small ovals.

Draw thick stripes on both sides of the ear, and draw a few short lines on top. We finish drawing a couple of leaves next to the stems. We wipe out unnecessary lines - and the drawing is ready. You can draw a few more spikelets and color the picture with paints or pencils using yellow and brown.

Third way

If you want to know how to draw wheat a little more realistic, then this method is for you.

1. With a hard pencil, draw the stems with slightly bent lines, and elongated ovals on top of them. At this stage, future spikelets resemble reeds. When sketching, do not press hard on the pencil, the lines shouldbe faintly visible.
2. Next, draw grains inside the ovals that look like drops. First, draw one grain slightly tilted, on the other hand, the second is slightly higher, the third is again slightly higher, opposite the second, and so on until you fill the oval drawn earlier. It's okay if you go a little beyond the outline.
3. On the tips of the grains, draw awns with straight lines.
4. Now add volume to the stems by drawing an additional line next to the existing one.
5. Draw leaves near the stems and erase the extra lines. To depict a folded leaf, draw an elongated triangle with the base up and at an angle another equally thin triangle.
6. Draw a drawing with a soft pencil and add a little shadow at the base of each grain. From above and below, lightly paint over the stem and leaves with a hard pencil. You can use a pencil of the same hardness, pressing it with different strengths to get different shades. You can also colorize the resulting picture.

In this way, you can draw one spikelet, or a whole sheaf or even a field. In addition, spikelets can be slightly modified by placing, for example, grains at a slightly greater distance from each other, or by drawing an additional row of grains on the side.