Easy Snowflake Drawing Tutorial
A snowflake doodle might seem simple, but they’re actually quite intricate!
Even the simple snowflake doodles don’t look magical if you don’t take the time to get them symmetrical.
If you want to learn how to draw a snowflake, this post is for you!
Read on for a step by step tutorial on how to draw different types of snowflakes.
Snowflake Bullet Journal Ideas
Before learning how to draw a snowflake, here are some bullet journal snowflake ideas:
- A snowflake cover page; this can be a large individual snowflake, or lots of small snowflakes.
- Snowflake doodles as illustrations in your weekly spreads throughout winter.
- Alongside other winter doodles, such as a Disney Frozen inspired spread.
- A Habit or Mood tracker made of snowflake drawings. You can create trackers (such as habit trackers, mood trackers, etc) and include snowflake doodles in your designs; e.g you can draw 31 snowflakes on a page for a mood tracker, and colour them in different colours to track your moods. You can use different shades of blue or grey for a traditional colour, or you can colour that better reflects your mood (such as red for angry, blue for sad, yellow for happy, etc).
- Alongside quotes about winter or Christmas.
I hope these snowflake bullet journal ideas are helpful!
Now let’s learn how to doodle a snowflake.
What You Will Need to Draw a Snowflake
Here is a list of what you need to draw a snowflake:
- Paper, a sketchbook or a bullet journal to draw your snowflakes onto.
- A pencil to plan out your shapes.
- Something small and circular to draw a circle around, or a compass to draw a circle.
- A ruler to help keep your lines straight.
- An eraser to rub out the pencil markings.
- A fineliner (black is suggested, but you can use any colour)
That’s everything you will need to draw a snowflake.
How to Draw a Snowflake – Step by Step
Below are step by step tutorials on how to draw different snowflakes:
How to Draw a Simple Snowflake
Step 1: Draw a small dot on the page.
Step 2: Using a pencil, draw a circle around the dot. You can use something to draw around to help your circle shape, or use a compass and put the point on the dot in the center.
Step 3: Using a fineliner and a ruler to help keep your lines straight, draw 3 straight lines through the point in the middle. Start at one side of the circle and draw through the point to the other side. Draw 1 vertical line, and then 2 diagonal lines.
Step 4: At the end of each line, draw two small lines in a V shape. Draw the point of the V on the line, and the top edges going out to the pencil circle.
Step 5: Halfway down each line, draw another V shape. Make them slightly bigger than your last set of V lines, but draw them small enough that they don’t connect to each other. Again, draw the point of the V on the line, and the top edges coming out and upwards.
Step 6: Rub out the pencil circle, and your snowflake is complete!
Below is a visual recap on how to draw a traditional snowflake step by step:
How to Draw a Snowflake
Step 1: Draw a small dot on the page.
Step 2: Using a pencil, draw a larger circle around the dot. Use a compass and put the point on the dot in the center, or draw around something circular.
Step 3: Using a fineliner and a ruler to help keep your lines straight, draw 4 straight lines through the point in the middle. Start at one side of the circle and draw through the point to the other side. Draw 1 vertical line, 1 horizontal line, and then 2 diagonal lines.
Step 4: At the end of each line, draw two small lines in a V shape. Draw the point of the V on the line, and the top edges going outwards towards the pencil circle.
Step 5: Along each line, draw two more V shapes. Keep them the same size as your initial set of V shapes, and keep each one evenly spread along the line.
Step 6: Rub out the pencil circle, and your snowflake is complete!
Here is a pictorial showing how to draw a snowflake:
How to Draw an Intricate Snowflake
Step 1: Using a pencil and ruler, draw 3 straight lines intersecting each other. Draw 1 vertical line, and then 2 diagonal lines.
Step 2: Where the lines intersect, draw a small circle around the middle point in pencil.
Step 3: Draw over this circle in fineliner, and add small straight lines through the center of each section starting from the fineliner circle.
Step 4: Draw over your initial lines with fineliner, but stop drawing when you get to the center fineliner circle.
Step 5: Rub out the pencil markings with the eraser.
Step 6: At the end of the longer fineliner, draw two small lines in a V shape. Draw the point of the V on the line, and the top edges going outwards.
And your snowflake drawing is complete!
Easy Snowflake Doodle Tutorial Summary
I hope this post has shown you different types of snowflakes you can draw!
And just how easy it is to draw a simple snowflake.
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