Playing basketball is fun, but do you know what else is fun? Learning how to draw a basketball!
Our basketball drawing tutorial includes two printable pages with detailed steps on how to draw a simple basketball. We recommend downloading and printing them so you and your little ones can use them as a visual guide.
Grab your pencil and let’s get started!
Let’s draw a basketball!
How to draw a basketball step by step
If you are looking for a simple but FUN step by step how to draw a basketball, this is the right place for you!
This tutorial on how to draw a basketball easy steps is a perfect activity for children (and adults!) that love drawing and creating art. After you’re done, you can add fun details like a hoop or the court. Don’t forget to color it after you’re done with the drawing!
Easy steps to drawing a basketball!
Easy steps to draw a basketball
Follow this easy how to draw a cartoon basketball step-by-step tutorial and you will be drawing your own in no time!
Let’s start! Draw a circle.
Step 1
Let’s start! Draw a circle – don’t worry if it isn’t perfect, you can practice as many times as you want.
Add an arched vertical line.
Step 2
Add an arched vertical line slightly to the right of the center.
Now add another arched line. This time make it horizontal.
Step 3
Now add another line, this time make it horizontal.
Add a circle and erase extra lines.
Step 4
Add a circle and erase extra lines. We’re almost done!
Now add an oval and erase extra lines.
Step 5
Now add an oval and erase extra lines.
Wow! Amazing job. You can get creative and add different details.
Step 6
Wow! Amazing job! Congratulate yourself for creating such a cool basketball.
And that’s it! Hope you enjoy this easy how to draw a basketball tutorial as much as we did.
Download and print this tutorial to draw a cool basketball.
Download How To Draw A basketball Tutorial PDF File here:
How did your basketball drawing turn out?
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Gel pens come in any color you can imagine.
Don’t forget a pencil sharpener.
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Never left fully alone with a scary blank page!
Write and Draw Your Own Comics is full of inspiring ideas for all kinds of different stories, with writing tips to help you on your way. for kids who want to tell stories, but gravitate toward pictures. It has a mix of partially-drawn comics and blank panels with intro comics as instructions – lots of space for kids to draw their own comics!
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How to Draw a Basketball
Throw some hoops with us today! Learn how to draw a realistic Basketball the easy way! Follow along and learn how to draw a realistic basketball in this full step-by-step tutorial where we cover the very basic elements of detailing and coloring! This will be a great challenge for experienced and beginner artists.
Table of Contents
1 Step-by-Step Easy Basketball Drawing Tutorial
1.1 Step 1: Drawing a Perfect Circle
1.2 Step 2: Create Quadrants in Your Basketball Shape
1.10 Step 10: Applying a Base Color Coat to Your Basketball Drawing
1.11 Step 11: Coloring the Lines on Basketball
1.12 Step 12: Contouring Your Realistic Basketball Drawing
1.13 Step 13: Adding More Shading
1.14 Step 14: Begin Highlighting Your Easy Basketball Drawing
1.15 Step 15: Strengthening Your Highlights
1.16 Step 16: Finishing Your Highlights and Shadows
1.17 Step 17: Finishing Your Realistic Basketball Drawing
2 Video Tutorial on How to Draw a Basketball
3 Frequently Asked Questions
3.1 How Do You Draw a Simple Basketball?
3.2 How Do You Draw Basketball Texture?
Step-by-Step Easy Basketball Drawing Tutorial
Basketballs are a fantastic object to draw for beginner and experienced artists alike. The perfectly round shape and lines on a basketball can pose a challenge to all artists. A slightly oval ball with crooked lines will lack the realism that many of us crave. To help you create that perfect shape of a basketball drawing, we begin the tutorial with a series of construction steps. These initial steps will set up the round shape and help you plan out the path of the signature lines on a basketball. Take a look at the basketball drawing outline below.
As you will see from the outline above, the last eight steps of the tutorial involve coloring and shading. For these coloring steps, you can use any medium that you choose. If you prefer to work with a more physical medium like acrylic paints or coloring pencils, then you can simply adjust the instructions to suit your process.
A digital drawing tablet is also a great medium for this drawing tutorial.
Step 1: Drawing a Perfect Circle
The first step of this realistic basketball drawing tutorial is arguably the hardest. Once you have your circular base, you can build off of it to create the lines on basketballs with ease.
A quick note, if you are working with a physical medium, we suggest using a light and easily erasable pencil for the construction steps. If you are using a digital medium, draw the construction steps on a separate layer to the final outline and details.
Begin by locating the center of your drawing area. Once you have found it, you can now draw a large circle. If you do not feel comfortable drawing a perfect circle by hand, try using any round object that you can find. You can easily trace this round object to get a perfect base for your easy basketball drawing.
Step 2: Create Quadrants in Your Basketball Shape
In this step, we are going to divide our base circle into four different quadrants. These divisions will help us to place the lines of basketballs in later steps. You can easily divide the circle into four quarters by drawing a center vertical line and center horizontal line.
Step 3: Adding More Gridlines
Continuing to set up the gridlines, simply draw two vertical lines on either side of the central division lines. This step is quick and easy.
Step 4: Finishing the Foundation Grid
To finish the grid, begin by drawing a rectangle that lines horizontally, with the top and bottom line sitting alongside the middle dividing line. Where these lines meet the edge of the circle, draw two short verticle lines to join them. For the vertical grid lines, do the same, by drawing two shorter lines connecting the outer two verticle lines.
This will achieve a full grid on the circle that will help us wrap the pattern lines around the ball.
Step 5: Drawing the Lines on Basketballs
In this step, you are going to begin using the grid to help you draw the signature lines on basketballs. Begin with the first strip that wraps around the ball from the upper left side to the bottom right side.
Step 6: Constructing the Second Strip
You can now draw the second line, curving up and around the top left segment of the basketball drawing. You want this second strip to run from the bottom left corner of the horizontal rectangle, and meet the edge of the circle in the segment between the two grid rectangles on the top right.
TIp: you want these two lines to cross just around the top left overlap of the two grid rectangles.
Step 7: Drawing the Third Basketball Strip
You can now draw the third strip. This one should curve up and away from the bottom of the basketball drawing, with the top being almost parallel to the first strip, and then back down to the right side of the basketball.
Step 8: Finishing the Lines on Basketballs
To finish the lines on your easy basketball drawing, create a shorter, slightly curved strip at the top left corner of the ball. This strip should curve underneath the other strip at this point.
Once completed you are ready to erase any still visible construction lines, grid lines, and overlapping lines.
We now begin to add details and texture to our easy basketball drawings. Along the right edges of the basketball, and along the lines of each strip, use small dots to create a realistic basketball texture.
Try to make the dotting more condensed around the edges of the ball, as this will help create a more three-dimensional and realistic basketball drawing.
Step 10: Applying a Base Color Coat to Your Basketball Drawing
For the base color coat, find a slightly brown-orange shade. Use a large regular brush and apply an even coat of this shade to the entire shape of your basketball drawing.
Step 11: Coloring the Lines on Basketball
For the signature basketball strips, you will need a smaller fine brush and some black paint. Using these tools, carefully trace the strips and fill them to create an even and dark coat.
Step 12: Contouring Your Realistic Basketball Drawing
In this step, you are going to use a soft blending brush and some black paint to create some contouring on your basketball drawing. Contouring is a fantastic way to add more dimension to a drawing. Apply a light layer of contouring to the edges of the basketball.
The strips on a basketball are slightly indented, so you can also apply thin strips of light contouring around the strips to emphasize this.
Step 13: Adding More Shading
In this step, you are simply going to emphasize the contouring from the last step in certain places. Use a soft brush and a little more black paint and enhance the contoured areas, particularly around the edge of the ball.
Step 14: Begin Highlighting Your Easy Basketball Drawing
The very left upper right side of the basketball will catch the light, emphasizing the three-dimensional nature of your basketball drawing. Using a soft brush and some white paint, lightly color this area. Once you have applied the white paint, use a clean brush to gently blend all of your colors together.
This blending technique will create a much smoother and more realistic transition between all of your colors.
Step 15: Strengthening Your Highlights
Now that you have the highlighted base, you can begin building up the intensity of the white color. Again, using a soft brush, apply highlights to the part of the ball where all of the strips converge. You can also add highlights to these parts of the black strips.
Step 16: Finishing Your Highlights and Shadows
Just before we finish our easy basketball drawing tutorial, you can now further emphasize your highlights and shadows. Use a fine brush and some white paint to add final highlight strips between the black lines. Finally, use a soft blending brush and some black paint to add a final layer of shading around the edges of the ball.
Step 17: Finishing Your Realistic Basketball Drawing
To complete this step, make use of a fine sharp brush and the corresponding color to trace the outline and inner texture lines to create a final seamless result without any visible dark outlines or texture lines. This helps us achieve a more natural look.
Complete the step by using a soft brush and black paint to apply a ground shadow.
Hopefully, by the end of this tutorial, you will have created a realistic basketball drawing with texture and contouring. Drawing a basketball is actually very easy when you break it down into simple steps, although it can seem intimidating at first. You now have all of the necessary drawing skills to draw many more types of balls, including tennis balls, soccer balls, and cricket balls.
Video Tutorial on How to Draw a Basketball
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do You Draw a Simple Basketball?
Although a basketball drawing may seem intimidating, it is actually very simple when you can break it down into construction, detail, and coloring steps. In this easy basketball drawing tutorial, we show you exactly how to create a perfect realistic basketball drawing.
How Do You Draw Basketball Texture?
Basketballs have a rough, dotted texture. To create this texture in a basketball drawing, you can simply create a pattern of small dots throughout the ball.
How to draw Kuroko Tetsuya step by step 4 lessons
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CONTENTS:
learning to draw Kuroko Tetsuya
How to draw a portrait of Kuroko Tetsuya
Draw chibi Kuroko
How to draw and color Kuroko with glasses
In this photo tutorial you will learn how to draw Kuroko Tetsuya from the anime Kuroko's Basketball step by step.
learn to draw Kuroko Tetsuya with a pencil step by step
Step 1
Draw the outline of the face and ear, not forgetting the neck. We mark the auxiliary lines (in addition, I schematically sketched the approximate location of the hair on the face), as well as the nose and mouth.
Step 2
Let's take care of the eyes. On the auxiliary lines, we roughly outline the location of the eyes. Draw the outline of the eyes and mark the pupil and rim. Then we paint, adding shadows and highlights.
Step 3
More clearly select strands of hair on the face. We bring out the eyebrows. Shade Kuroko's nose and mouth.
Step 4
Erase auxiliary lines. We draw the auricle, shading it, as well as shading his cheekbone.
Step 5
Draw hair and individual strands.
Step 6
Let's start painting. Separate strands are highlighted with a darker color.
Step 7
We draw clothes. On the neck, add shadows and highlights. Done)
Lesson author: Rina-chan
How to draw a portrait of Kuroko Tetsuya with a simple pencil
Original
For the lesson, I used a regular landscape sheet (since I'm not going to outline the drawing with a liner or color with something other than a simple pencil, if you are going, this requires thicker paper, for drawing for example), a simple HB pencil (although I like to draw more soft), MILAN eraser (the erasers of this company do not tear paper) and the source - a screenshot from the series. PS: Like all the lessons, due to the lack of a camera, they were scanned.
Step 1
Starting with construction. Circle and auxiliary cross: a vertical line for the nose divides the face symmetrically in half, a horizontal line for the eyes.
Step 2
Add two vertical lines on both sides: start drawing the face.
Step 3
Finishing the jaw and chin. Pay attention - the drawing style is elongated faces like bisenens, and an almost sharp, but rounded down chin.
Step 4
Draw the neck, mark the muscles of the neck with lines.
Step 5
I did not immediately notice that Kuroko tilted his head slightly to the left in the frame 9 from his point of view). Therefore, we take a ruler and draw the first auxiliary line for the eyes quite a bit obliquely. We draw the upper eyelid of the eyes. We retreat a little, relying on the original width of the eyes and draw the bottom line. We draw the lower eyelid. The second line should be exactly parallel to the top one to make everything look nice. Be careful. Attention: the distance between the eyes = one eye.
Step 6
Draw the crease of the eyelid and the iris. We circle the contour of the iris and the upper edge of the eyes - this is required by the original drawing.
Step 7
Draw eyebrows (thickening towards the bridge of the nose, thin at the temples) and small pupils with small round highlights in them.
Step 8
It's time to draw the nose and mouth. I measured the length of Kuroko's nose: it's one and a half of his eyes. In order not to be mistaken with the length, measure in this way. We mark the nose with a small stick and a dot. For the mouth, I drew another auxiliary line so as not to draw it evenly. He, like the eyes, should be a little oblique and go parallel to them.
Step 9
We draw ears. I drew an additional auxiliary line for the ears at the tip of the nose (the ear starts at the top line of the eye, ends at the tip of the nose). Next, draw the ears. Strange image of the auricle for me, well, yes, I do not argue with the original.
Step 10
Start drawing the shirt from left to right. The collar is standing.
Step 11
We continue to draw a shirt.
Step 12
Bangs. It's pretty complicated for him. We start from the left ear moving to the right. Learn all the strands.
Step 13
Draw the outer edges of the hair and the back of the head behind the ears.
Step 14
We erase auxiliary lines, add hatching and shadows according to the sample. Correcting inaccuracies. Your Kuroko is ready. Thank you for watching this tutorial, I hope it helped you.
Lesson author: Soratoru-chan
How to draw chibi Kuroko step by step
In this lesson I will draw Kuroko in chibi style with pencils step by step. The lesson consists of 7 stages. Necessary materials:
pencil HB
Colored pencils
gel pen
marker (blue)
Step 1
Draw the base of the character with an HB pencil.
Step 2
Let's draw the hair, eyes and mouth of our chibi.
Step 3
Now let's draw Kuroko's body and his dog.
Step 4
Outline the drawing with a gel pen and paint over the desired parts.
Step 5
Now let's move on to coloring. We paint the hero's body with leather and orange colors, add shadows with a simple pencil.
Step 6
Let's start coloring the character's hair. We will need blue and blue colors.
Step 7
Almost everything! We need to circle our chibi with a marker or felt-tip pen around the office (optional). Now the chibi Kuroko drawing is ready!
Lesson author: RinaRoi
How to draw and color Kuroko with glasses
Original
To draw Tetsuya we will need:
Simple pencil and eraser.
Black pen.
White pen/corrector.
Colored pencils.
Step 1
First, let's draw a sketch or sketch of the head. We use a compass and a ruler. Draw a circle with a compass - this is the head. Next, carefully outline the line of Kuroko's face. Then, with the help of a ruler and perpendicular lines, we draw auxiliary lines, who does not know - perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at an angle of 90 degrees.
Step 2
Now let's move on to the body. We make a small sketch of the neck and shoulders. Next, “outline” the sketch by drawing the skin. Then we draw the clothes and detail them, erase the extra lines. The end result should be something like this.
Step 3
1. Based on the auxiliary lines, draw the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth. Let's not forget the eyelids. After that, we erase all extra lines. 2. Now draw the hair, try to draw each curl. The hair line should be above the head line. We draw glasses. This completes the work with a simple pencil.
Step 4
Use a black pen/pencil/marker to trace your entire drawing (I didn't trace the eyes, but you can trace them too) and erase the pencil lines, we don't need them anymore.
Step 5
Let's move on to painting. 1. Color the eyelashes with a dark blue pencil. Pale blue completely paint over the iris. 2. Color the eye with a blue pencil in a darker shade so that there is a highlight below. 3. Add blue to the very top. 4. Black draw the pupils. The eyes are ready.
Step 6
Color the skin evenly with a beige pencil. We make the shadows brown.
Step 7
Color Kuroko's hair with light blue. We make shadows with blue and blue colors, leaving highlights. Adding some black. Don't overdo it.
Step 8
Color the clothes. You can color in your own way or follow the original, the main thing - do not forget about the shadows. With a white pen / corrector, add highlights and the drawing is ready).
Author of the lesson: Appelsinri
90,000 terms in basketball, which should know every
these 11 concepts will help to better understand the game for the novice
, we decided to help begin to learn the basketball language for beginners in order not to get lost on the site and better understand experienced players.
RUNNING
Foul when a player with the ball takes too many steps without starting or after dribbling. The simplest and at the same time complex rule, because it has many nuances. This video breaks down the latest amendments and clearly explains what is possible and what is not:
RUNNING
Foul when a player with the ball takes too many steps without starting or after dribbling. The simplest and at the same time complex rule, because it has many nuances. This video breaks down the latest amendments and clearly explains what is and isn't allowed:
PENALTY (PENALTY)
A free throw that is taken after a foul in the "throw phase", a technical or unsportsmanlike foul, or overrun of team fouls. On the site it is easy to find the line from where the free kick is taken.
We have a free throw recommendation article. Read the blog: FREE SHOT IN BASKETBALL
AND1 (END ONE)
The exclamation and designation used by players after a foul shot is scored. Denotes "and one more", because after hitting in violation of the rules, it will perform a free throw, and this is an opportunity to score more points for attack.
PAINT (THREE SECOND ZONE)
An area on the court in which an attacking player cannot stay for more than 3 seconds, otherwise there will be a violation. The name "paint" was derived from highlighting it with color on set.
THREE / LONG / OUT OF THE ARCH (THREE-POINT SHOT)
A 3-point shot in big basketball and 2 points in 3-on-3 basketball. On the court, the 3-point zone is marked with a line in the form of an arc.
LAY UP
The most common shot from under the basket, during which the player usually moves towards the basket.
DUNK / SLAM DUNK
Overhand throw when the ball is released from the hands over the hoop and moves straight down.
ALLEY-OOP
A pass after which the receiving player throws the ball before landing. Most often, such a transfer ends with a dunk, and it looks spectacular.
To dunk and finish alley-ups beautifully, you need to have a good jump. We have a video with 5 top tips for this:
ASSIST
A successful pass that gets the player into the basket. In basketball, before throwing, he can perform one or two hits without beating the opponent, and the transfer will still be considered in the scoring column.
To give a lot of assists, you need to be able to make different passes. Read the article with types of passes: BASKETBALL PASSING
REBELLING
The event when a player receives the ball after a shot or block shot. Some players have made a whole art out of this element of the game. For example, Dennis Rodman:
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7 Step 7: Drawing the Third Basketball Strip
The perfectly round shape and lines on a basketball can pose a challenge to all artists. A slightly oval ball with crooked lines will lack the realism that many of us crave. To help you create that perfect shape of a basketball drawing, we begin the tutorial with a series of construction steps. These initial steps will set up the round shape and help you plan out the path of the signature lines on a basketball. Take a look at the basketball drawing outline below. 
Once you have your circular base, you can build off of it to create the lines on basketballs with ease. 
Using these tools, carefully trace the strips and fill them to create an even and dark coat. 
Using a soft brush and some white paint, lightly color this area. Once you have applied the white paint, use a clean brush to gently blend all of your colors together. 
Done) 
I measured the length of Kuroko's nose: it's one and a half of his eyes. In order not to be mistaken with the length, measure in this way. We mark the nose with a small stick and a dot. For the mouth, I drew another auxiliary line so as not to draw it evenly. He, like the eyes, should be a little oblique and go parallel to them. 
We make a small sketch of the neck and shoulders. Next, “outline” the sketch by drawing the skin. Then we draw the clothes and detail them, erase the extra lines. The end result should be something like this. 
The eyes are ready. 
This video breaks down the latest amendments and clearly explains what is possible and what is not: 
In basketball, before throwing, he can perform one or two hits without beating the opponent, and the transfer will still be considered in the scoring column. 
