How to Draw A Basketball – A Step By Step Instruction

As you know, Basketball is a favorite sport for many people, especially teenage boys, this is a good sport for children’s height. If you have a son, you should encourage him to play this sport, it will help him exercise and develop in the most comprehensive way. Today we will guide you to draw basketball in 6 easy steps. Learn these 6 basic steps and you’ll have your own ball unlike any other if you want. Now, you will learn how to draw a simple basketball icon design and a more realistic basketball. Along with the tutorial, we have also included a couple of free Basketball coloring pages that you can print off and give to your kids to color! Let’s begin with us!

Step 1- Draw a perfect circle and a straight vertical, horizontal line.


Here, you can use a protractor or a compass to guide you in drawing a perfect circle. Sketch a circle using a pencil first, and then trace the line using a marker. You can see our image and follow it. It is not difficult, everyone can draw this simple step

Step 2 – Draw a horizontal curve



Now your task is a bit more difficult, which is to draw a horizontal curve like our drawing. Please use a pencil and follow us. Be calm, just use a little ingenuity and you can easily complete your drawing at this step.

Step 3 – Draw a vertical curve



Similar to the horizontal curve in this 3rd step, you draw 1 more vertical curve for the basketball. You also use a pencil and continue to draw more strokes for the near-finished basketball, check out our drawing and follow along.

Step 4:- Add more a horizontal curve



In step 4 this is exactly the same as in step 2. You add 1 more horizontal curve to the ball. It’s very simple, isn’t it, be patient a little more because you are about to complete your task.

Step 5 – Add lines to show the actual shape of the ball.



In step 5, you will draw the final lines for the basketball, now you are almost done with the basketball. Let’s take a look at the overall picture and tweak it a bit to make the basketball more complete.

Step 6 – Color the basketball



So almost done with drawing basketball and this is the last step, coloring the basketball. Simple is not it.
The sketching process is over, now you can trace the contours of the sketch with ink. Then use your favorite coloring tools to color your artwork. Paint the ball a classic orange and the details dark brown or leave black or you can choose any colors as you lie to color basketball
Depending on your ability, you can complete the task of drawing this ball in about how much time. Normally, it takes about 20 minutes to draw a basketball, how about you try and see how far your drawing and coloring talent is?

You can read How To Draw to learn drawing more coloring pages