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The snowman is a simple yet cute design. Once you've got the hang of how to draw one (and it really won't take you long to learn), you'll be able to improve on this design by making it more three dimensional, more colorful or simply more innovative. This design is excellent for adding to cards, craft projects and painting onto winter scenes.
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Start with the guidelines by drawing a big ball near the bottom of the paper
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Draw a medium sized ball overlapping the top of the big ballAdvertisement
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Draw another ball on top of those that is slightly smaller than the rest. You can use more than three balls, just make sure the one you put on top of the others needs to be slightly smaller than the one before.
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Sketch in the carrot nose and circles for the face and buttons.
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Sketch a scarf below the smallest ball. Draw a hat that looks like a top hat for your snowman’s head.
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Sketch 2 branches for his arms. Finally, sketch extra snow under the biggest ball and add a snow floor.
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Finalize the outlines and erase the guidelines.
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Color your drawing to add life to the snowman.
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QuestionHow do I draw the scarf?Community AnswerSketch a band around its neck, then sketch two rectangles coming off the end of the band. Erase any lines going through the rectangles. You may add some lines off the edges for the fringe.
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QuestionHow can I draw this neatly?Community AnswerIt is not hard, but if you're finding it hard, you'll need to do plenty of practice to perfect it. Do a rough drawing first, with all the lines crossing over and erasing. Then, do a neat copy. Draw the shapes, but not overlapping them. Keep trying until you can do a marvelous job.
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QuestionHow do I color the snowman and what colors should I use?CraftsmartTop AnswererOne color that can be used is light blue around the edges of the circles, to simulate the snow. Other colors are black and red for the hat, brown or black for the eyes, mouth, and buttons, brown for the arms and orange for the nose.
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- Try to find something round like the bottom of a cup. You can trace around the bottom of the cup for the circles you will need for the snowman body.(But, you would need to find different sized cups, because each circle needs to be smaller than the one under it.)Thanks
- Don't do a wonky hat.Thanks
- Try gluing on objects from real life for a 3-D effect.Thanks
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- If you're drawing on a colored sheet of paper or a card, you can use chalk to color in the snow for a more realistic effect.
- If you're having a hard time drawing perfectly round circles, trace around a round object of the appropriate size.
- Erase any extra lines after you're done for a more polished picture.
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Things You'll Need
- Paper
- Pencil
- Cups or something round (possibly)
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Reader Success Stories
- "Kept trying to do the circles freehand and no luck. Read about using the cups, which worked like a charm. Did the nose a bit more like the How to Draw a Snowman Face and used those guides for the face and hat. Combine the two, and you have it!" ..." more
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"Kept trying to do the circles freehand and no luck. Read about using the cups, which worked like a charm. Did the nose a bit more like the How to Draw a Snowman Face and used those guides for the face and hat. Combine the two, and you have it!"
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