How to Draw a Hibiscus

On seeing colourful Hibiscus flowers, do you also think of engraving it on paper? But you don’t have any idea, how to draw a hibiscus flower? Scroll through this stepwise tutorial to get an overview of the process.

Here you will get a 5-step tutorial for drawing and coloring the butterfly.

Hibiscus flowers are of different types red, yellow, white. But generally, we think of the hibiscus as a red flower so, this tutorial would be about red hibiscus.

Supplies You Might Need

  • Pencil – I uses Artline pencils for my artworks, it comes with different grades.
  • Kneadable Eraser – For removing dirty stuff and lightning the value of shading these gummy erasers are very useful.
  • Sketchbook – A quality sketchbook.
  • Mechanical Pencil – 0.5mm mechanical pencils for drawing fine and precise lines.
  • Fixative Spray – For protection of art from smudging.
  • Blending Stump – Paper stumps for smooth blending.
  • Pencil Color – Its thick cores are perfect for shading and shadows.
  • Acrylic Color – This set of acrylic paint has all the necessary colors to paint anything.
hibiscus drawing featured image

Let’s move ahead to create it with the easiest steps possible.

Step 1 – To make hibiscus drawing start from a circle with a radius of 4.1cm.

circle for hibiscus drawing

Step 2 – In this step, draw the hibiscus’s petal’s outline with 2b pencil grade.

hibiscus structure

Step 3 – In the next step, draw four or five petals’ outlines then, draw its stigma, stamen, bud & four or five leaves.

hibiscus pencil sketch

Step 4 – Moving ahead, fill the light red colour in the flower’s petals, then use light green for leaves.

hibiscus flower base colour

Step 5 – In the last step, use dark red & green colours to make this flower more beautiful & attractive & add some details in the flower, same to this picture. Now, use yellow & orange colour mixture in stigma & stamen.

hibiscus final colour

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hibiscus drawing all steps

I hope, you have liked this step by step tutorial of the hibiscus drawing. Make sure to bookmark this page for future reference.

You can also check this post on “How to Draw a Spider Web

Keep Drawing!


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