How To Make A Simple Snowflake Drawing
Snowflakes are the perfect winter subject matter. Once you get the hang of drawing one, you can make infinite snowflake drawings all year long.
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The best part of drawing or making a paper snowflake is that they can have different designs every time you make them. Have fun making gorgeous snowflakes all Winter season.
Whether you want a simple line drawing, a cartoon snowflake, or a more complex & detailed snowflake drawing, you can use our basic step-by-step instructions to help make a creative snowflake of your own.
Snowflake Design Ideas
- Look at real snowflakes for inspiration. Here are high-resolution realistic snowflake images from Smithsonian Magazine.
- Use simple lines and shapes to help create your six-sided sketch
Recommended Supplies
- Paper (we used 9 x 12″ 90 lb. white drawing paper)
- Pencil
- Ruler
Optional Supplies
- Permanent Marker or Pen
- Coloring Materials Of Your Choice-we chose to outline our snowflake with black, color with white crayon and paint the background for a fun watercolor paint resist. You can do anything you want with your snowflake drawing!
Need More Fun Drawing Ideas? Use the same simple drawing materials to create this easy black-and-white Op Art drawing.
Easy Snowflake Drawing With Simple Steps
Before you begin
Make sure you light sketch your pencil lines. You may not want to keep all the guide lines you sketch at first.
Step 1: Draw A Vertical Line
All your lines will be of similar size. The first line you want to draw is just straight up and down. We made our lines 7″ long.
Step 2: Mark The Center Of The Line
Put a small circle or dot on the line as close to the middle as you can.
Step 3: Draw A Flatter X In the Middle To Create Six Lines To Work With
Draw one diagonal straight line that intersects with the dot.
Add another line on the opposite side that is equal distance to create your x.
Your goal is to try to make six equal sections with the extra lines. You can even tell kids that you are trying to make every piece of pizza to be the same size.
If you want to really precise, you could use a compass to make sure that all the angles are equal. We are fine with ours not being 100% symmetrical.
Step 3: Design Your Middle Of The Snowflake By Repeating The Same Line
You could use a simple curved line, “v” line or straight line.
These lines will connect to each other to make a fun symmetrical shape.
Step 4: Create More Symmetrical Designs
To help understand this concept, you can look at real snowflakes from scientific places like.
Optional: Trace Around Lines
If tracing around a line design, you can create a thicker design by tracing on both sides.
Step 5: Repeat A Basic Shape In The Inside
You can add a fun diamond, or triangular shape inside of each one.
Step 6: Erase Extra Lines
Erase your sketch lines after outlining.
Step 7: Add Color
You can choose to use white crayons on the inside, trace with markers of different colors or just leave the drawing as is. Just have fun when making your drawing of a snowflake. You can see how we did an oil pastel resist with watercolor in this post.
Tips For Making Simple Snowflake Designs
- Start with adding lines and shapes to the existing 6 intersecting lines.
- Wherever you add something, you have to do it in the same spot. Don’t worry if you are not completely accurate, your snowflake drawing will still look cool.
- Try creating snowflakes on black paper with white drawing material (oil pastels, crayons or a white colored pencil)
- Consider using lines, dots, and basic shapes to complete your drawing.
- Younger kids can add short lines and small dots to create their snowflake shape
More Awesome Snowflakes
Here are some different ways we created hand-drawn snowflake doodles. You can see angled lines, series of circles, and our own designs.
Snowflake Drawing FAQs
Snowflakes are hexagonal or six-sided in shape. The ice crystals form patterns in a radial symmetry way.
You need to sketch lines to create 6 different sections to work from. Your goal is to have a six-sided snowflake with symmetry coming from the center point.
Try starting with drawing the “x” and then adding a horizontal line touching the middle.
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Equipment
- Pencil
- Ruler Optional: You can also draw by free hand.
- Pen
Supplies
- White Paper
Optional
- 1 White Oil Pastel
- Blue Watercolor Paint
Instructions
- Draw vertical line.
- Put a dot at the halfway point on the line.
- Create 6 equal sections by drawing two diagonal lines that intersect at the middle dot.
- Design the middle of your snowflake by repeating the same line in each section.
- Continue to create symmetrcial designs by repeating lines and shapes in the same spot in each of the six sections.
- Optional: Trace around the snowflake and lines with a marker. Erase extra pencil lines.
Notes
- Look at real snowflakes for inspiration.
- Use simple lines and shapes to help create your six-sided sketch
- Sketch lightly with your pencil because you may not keep all lines you draw.
- Using a ruler can help you set up your six sections as equally as possible.
- You can still have a fun snowflake drawing even if you eyeball it and it is not perfect.
