How to Draw a Sphere in 5 Steps

Learn to Draw a Sphere for Beginners

Learning how to draw a sphere is one of the most important things for an artist to learn. You will likely need one for every drawing you do. Which is why I made this super easy to follow drawing tutorial. So follow along and get one step closer to being incredible at drawing stuff.

The sphere drawing for people who don’t wanna read the whole thing:

Step 1: Draw Circle

When you are learning how to draw a sphere, the first thing you want to do is draw a circle. Getting the circle perfect isn’t necessary unless you’re a perfectionist.

Step 2: Scratch up the Circle

This one isn’t 100% necessary, but it does help to add a little character to your drawing. I just randomly draw some lines and dots on the circle to make it look a little weathered.

Step 3: Do the Flat Colors

No bonus step today. When you are learning how to draw a sphere, you need to know how to color, shade, and highlight. So I’m going to walk you through it. So pick a color and fill in the circle. I went with green (my fav color).

Step 4: Shade the Sphere

The first thing you gotta do when you shade anything is pick the light source. Our light is coming from the top left of the page. With that in mind, I color the bottom right of the circle with a darker green in the shape of a crescent moon. Then I do a drop shadow by drawing an oval under the sphere and filling it in with a shadow color.

Step 5: Highlight the Sphere

Highlighting a sphere is pretty easy. Draw a white circle on the top left side of the sphere.

Then, you’re finished…

Good job!!

If you actually read this, that’s cool! If you only looked at the pictures, that’s cool too. I appreciate your time either way.

If you want some other fundamental drawing tutorials, check out How to Draw a Cube.

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