Bright Sunflower
Draw a sunflower with a textured center and broad leaves.
intermediate24 min
Seasonal
28 Summer Drawing Ideas
summer drawing ideas with construction order, self-checks, and easier or harder variations on every reference page.
Catalog status
25 ideas · 3 illustrated
Summer puts you in front of water, glass, and strong light — reflection, refraction, and hard cast shadows, which is a lot of useful practice hiding inside a beach scene.
Illustrated references
3 with a checked reference image
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Spiral Seashell
Draw a shell with a clean spiral and soft shadow.
intermediate18 min
Mandala Sun
Draw a symmetrical sun filled with simple mandala petals.
advanced36 min
More ideas
25 more, each with a starting point
These do not have an illustration, but each one names the shape to block in first and gives an honest time estimate.
Beginner
11 ideas
A jellyfish drifting with trailing tentacles
Bell as a soft dome, tentacles as loose repeated waves.
14 minbeginner
A seahorse with a curled tail
The whole body is one long S with a snout on the end.
14 minbeginner
A crab holding one claw up in warning
Body is a rounded rectangle; the raised claw is the focal point.
14 minbeginner
A bunch of lavender tied with string
Draw the string first, then let stems fan out from that knot.
14 minbeginner
A sunset with the sun half below the horizon
The horizon line must be dead straight or the sun looks wrong.
14 minbeginner
A melting ice cream cone with one drip
One drip only. Two drips and it reads as a mess.
12 minbeginner
A half-cut strawberry showing the inside
The inside pattern is a pale core with radiating flecks.
12 minbeginner
A lemon with a wedge cut and standing apart
Wedge segments are triangles pointing to one center.
14 minbeginner
A watermelon slice with uneven seeds
Scatter seeds unevenly; a regular grid kills it.
10 minbeginner
A desert with one lone cactus and a long shadow
The shadow is longer than the cactus is tall.
16 minbeginner
A wave pattern where every wave is slightly different
No two crests the same height; keep the rhythm, break the copy.
16 minbeginner
Intermediate
10 ideas
A flamingo folded into its one-leg standing pose
Find the S of the neck, then the single vertical of the leg.
18 minintermediate
A sea turtle gliding with front flippers extended
Shell first as a flattened oval, flippers as long paddles.
20 minintermediate
A sunflower head with seeds in a spiral pattern
The seed spiral runs two ways; suggest it, do not count it.
24 minintermediate
A tide pool with three kinds of shell
Draw the water line last so the shells sit underneath it.
24 minintermediate
A spiral seashell with growth ridges
Ridges follow the spiral; space them wider as the shell widens.
20 minintermediate
A pineapple with a diamond skin pattern
Draw two crossing diagonal grids, then round them over the form.
22 minintermediate
A mermaid tail disappearing under the surface
Cut the tail with a hard water line and shift everything below.
26 minintermediate
A lighthouse on a rock in rough sea
Vertical lighthouse against horizontal sea — keep that contrast.
28 minintermediate
A campsite with a tent and a low fire
Firelight comes from below — flip every shadow upward.
28 minintermediate
A beach with three sets of footprints
Footprints shrink and converge; the sand tone stays even.
24 minintermediate
Advanced
4 ideas
A dragonfly with detailed wing veins
Wings are a grid of long cells; draw the two main veins first.
32 minadvanced
An octopus with each arm curling a different way
Give every arm its own curve direction or it reads as seaweed.
34 minadvanced
A pier stretching out over the water
Posts repeat with shrinking gaps; reflections sit directly below.
30 minadvanced
A hydrangea head simplified into clusters of four-petal florets
Draw the overall dome first, florets only along the lit edge.
30 minadvanced
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