How to Draw a Rose

March 18th, 2005 | Categories: How to Draw, Illo Friday | Tags:

Learn how to draw a rose... step by step!
How to draw a rose

If you're looking for more great drawing lessons on how to draw roses and flowers, check out the great deals on the drawing instruction books listed below...

Here is a great video lesson tat teaches you how to draw a rose that is blooming. The colors are a little backwards but the structure of the rose and thorny stem are right on target. Enjoy!

  1. March 18th, 2005 at 13:43
    Reply | Quote | #1

    Great concept! I love to see how a rose grows beneath your pencil. My roses usually develop chaotically. Thanks to your pic I’m able to realize the body behind the petals. Gonna give it a try. Thanks for sharing it.

  2. patty
    March 18th, 2005 at 17:11
    Reply | Quote | #2

    yep – this is wonderful!
    -blooming blarneybytes

  3. March 18th, 2005 at 19:49
    Reply | Quote | #3

    Very cool, great concept.

  4. March 18th, 2005 at 21:26
    Reply | Quote | #4

    LOL ! Thanks for the lesson there teach ! That was a great idea, and a great sketch ! :-)

  5. March 19th, 2005 at 01:20
    Reply | Quote | #5

    this is so cool! mum used to buy me those “how to draw a horsie” books when i was a kid, but i tend to forget the basic principles! thanks for doing this!

  6. March 19th, 2005 at 09:52
    Reply | Quote | #6

    I just love seeing process.. and technique.. this is great..

  7. Farhad
    March 19th, 2005 at 18:31
    Reply | Quote | #7

    Exellent!!!

  8. ellen
    March 21st, 2005 at 20:12
    Reply | Quote | #8

    I rather like the simplicity of this!

  9. March 21st, 2005 at 20:45
    Reply | Quote | #9

    Wow! Thanks for the great feedback guys! I should do more of these if you find them helpful. Thanks for all the great comments!

  10. March 21st, 2005 at 21:08

    really nice.

  11. patty
    March 22nd, 2005 at 11:57

    oh please do more… really fun!

  12. March 31st, 2005 at 04:08

    Excellent tutorial. I’m just starting to try to learn to to draw and I was really pleased with how my rose came out. Some more like this would be great! I’ll be giving up the day job in no time.

  13. mike
    April 7th, 2005 at 09:44

    Really awesome. I’m suprised at how cool and simple it is. Keep up the good work! :-)

  14. Manuela
    April 22nd, 2005 at 15:32

    I love your rose :D

  15. britt
    May 8th, 2005 at 00:25

    this site is cool. i’m still a kid. people think that at my age i would still be makin macaroni-noodle pictures. i showed them thanks to you!! my mom was overjoyed with the mothers day drawing of this beautiful rose. thanks again.

  16. virginia
    June 4th, 2005 at 12:24

    really nice rose. i tried it and it came out well. thanks for sharing it…

  17. Ashley
    June 20th, 2005 at 14:00

    This rose shows great detail, its lovley.

  18. Shah
    July 5th, 2005 at 12:28

    Your way of expressing art in different stages, make it easier for us amatuers.

  19. adrian
    July 21st, 2005 at 01:01

    this is so cool :D ive been trying to learn how to draw since i was like 10 this is so cool

  20. July 31st, 2005 at 20:34

    IS REALLY HARD 2 DRAW!!!!!! I CAME 2 THIS SITE B-CAZ I NEEDED SOMETHING 4 ART CLASS!!! AND I FOUND IT HERE..THANKS COMPUTER TEACHER!!!!

  21. August 2nd, 2005 at 14:54

    LOVE DA ROSE :D!

  22. amuthan
    August 3rd, 2005 at 09:19

    whoa you made it look heaps easy.. anyway – i was wondering if u could add color to it.. should i just shade the outline dark red then upt some light red in the rose and the stem be green and watnot?

  23. D
    August 22nd, 2005 at 14:43

    Can you provide more guidelines for other objects?

  24. Keshia
    October 2nd, 2005 at 22:15

    Hi! I’m ten years old ans when I saw that drawing, It was so good that that I tried to draw it. I showed my mom it and, she liked it so much. I’m a good drawer and this drawing is perfect for me to learn more. It’s AWSOME!

  25. Keshia
    October 2nd, 2005 at 22:18

    I always wanted to learn how to draw a rose!

  26. Schareeka Lawrence
    October 19th, 2005 at 20:44

    I LOVE IT! Especially when I’m trying to draw and do my BEST

  27. Tess
    November 19th, 2005 at 04:20

    This sketch is great…simple 2 draw yet it looks so complex…Fantastic

  28. silvia
    November 20th, 2005 at 15:41

    i like roses very much so i draw them every day but i don t have any ideas please show me more pictures,

  29. Joe
    December 2nd, 2005 at 10:57

    The first stage looks like a stick figure with no arms, but he has a halo!! :)

  30. December 3rd, 2005 at 14:40

    wow,my roses look deformed, but thanks to your how-to’s i can draw a rose almost as perfect as it’s supposed to be. thanks.

  31. lucy
    December 14th, 2005 at 18:07

    WoW i really love this it’s so simple and easy!

  32. edy
    December 16th, 2005 at 11:47

    Cool..

    Pls give another one technique

  33. blouiee
    December 17th, 2005 at 23:30

    don’t quite your day job anytime soon. i draw better roses then that and i’m in 8th grade.

  34. March 2nd, 2006 at 02:46

    Nice rose….

    My cat loves roses… so learning to draw them and her together.

    ^..^

  35. brittany
    March 16th, 2006 at 11:02

    it a great way to teach people how to draw thanks alot i could never draw one b4 thanks x

  36. Megan
    March 18th, 2006 at 16:40

    hey thats a really good rose do you know anymore and if so plz share them

  37. March 23rd, 2006 at 01:16

    its great!

    ive ben searching on the web to find out how to draw a rose and this is by far the best result yet!!!!!!!!!

    (;
    wink

  38. Colton
    April 25th, 2006 at 07:30

    Thanks those are really good and hopefully i can get out of the ddoghouse with my girlfriend because of of it.

  39. Hannah
    April 30th, 2006 at 20:01

    Beautiful its really easy to draw by those easy steps!

  40. thankx i just used that drawing and got it tatood on my forearm!!!

  41. Laosx babii
    May 8th, 2006 at 21:33

    this one is magnificent easiest way i learned how to draw a rose my good sir

  42. JP
    May 9th, 2006 at 17:25

    This is awesome, my little sister wanted me to draw her a rose. Well, here it is! Thanks!

  43. adam
    May 10th, 2006 at 00:10

    Very nice now I can draw a rose :) Thanks

  44. June 19th, 2006 at 10:27

    Thanks for sharing this Fitz,I was looking for a stylistic rose for a brithday water colour, fits the bill fine.

  45. Victoria
    July 5th, 2006 at 17:16

    wow that rose is beautiful I am a pretty good manga drawer but i alway wanted to draw a rose and now i can

  46. Victoria
    July 5th, 2006 at 17:26

    when i drew it it di not look like what you drew but it was still beautifull

  47. kylee
    September 10th, 2006 at 11:26

    wow…im like the worst artist ever and my rose looks exactly like the one you did! i needed it for an art project…thanks a ton:)!

  48. whitney
    September 25th, 2006 at 03:01

    im only 9 and was trying to draw a rose and i had been copying(not tracing) a different picture and i couldnt draw the petas so i searched it and i found this.it’s fantabulos and pretyful.the only thing missin is what to erase.

  49. Israel Duran
    September 26th, 2006 at 13:25

    This is awsome this picture makes it seem very very easy now i can draw better roses than ever thaks a lot really thanks

  50. *~*sk8a-gal*~*
    September 27th, 2006 at 20:41

    HOTNESS!!!!!!!!!!

  51. kozmo
    October 9th, 2006 at 22:03

    wow, thank you very much! i have the hardest time drawing rosed, but now i can! =D

  52. Casey Jerome Hancock
    October 10th, 2006 at 21:32

    haha thanx to you ive managed to pick up so many chicks XD
    haha thanx bro this helped me alot

  53. kylie
    November 2nd, 2006 at 19:33

    i love your rose. I have never been able to draw them now you make it seem so simple. If u can get more rose drawings or anything of that sort can u send it to my e-mail
    [kylie-wilted_water@hotmail.com]
    i really do love this rose. And maybe can u draw a instructions to how to draw a rose with a skull for me, or any one else that wants that?? i would really appreaciate it

  54. induni
    November 9th, 2006 at 19:11

    thanks! i can draw a rose now.

  55. Jessica!
    November 12th, 2006 at 18:17

    Thanks! My family loves the drawings i make for them now!! Once again Thank You SO Much!

  56. November 14th, 2006 at 22:46

    magnifisont i love it. i ned to learn how to draw this whay

  57. joshua
    November 25th, 2006 at 00:25

    this step by step drawing was really helpfull i got it close to perfect following these steps..thnaks

  58. jes
    December 2nd, 2006 at 23:04

    nice, it helped me with my english project. thanks.

  59. ANERIS
    December 26th, 2006 at 22:30

    I love ure roses u shold put moRE!!!

  60. December 31st, 2006 at 03:32

    wonderful method. its so easy and beautiful that i use it whenever needed.i really like it

  61. January 11th, 2007 at 16:37

    i need a more full rose than that. please send me one at lexnblaze_319@myspace.com

  62. Amy
    January 12th, 2007 at 21:05

    I am only 12, and am definetly NOT an artist. This rose made it very simple for me to understand were all the line go and were to erase.

  63. Jamie
    January 16th, 2007 at 15:39

    this would be an awsome sight but … i dont like the way you dont breakm everything down …
    xoxox

  64. January 17th, 2007 at 18:48

    drawing is my new passion/hobby, and it appears that I have some talent. A point of reference or picture is most helpful…I wish I found this talent a long time ago…

  65. January 31st, 2007 at 12:36

    i like it but it was too! hard to draw!!!!!

  66. savannah
    February 4th, 2007 at 17:45

    thats great

  67. shayna maddin
    February 6th, 2007 at 16:28

    hey, this rose looks amasing and i followed your setps and i got and A+ on my art mark for drawing something plain but detailed thankyou for teaching me how to do that!

  68. February 8th, 2007 at 21:14

    Iv allways wanted to lern how to scetch.

  69. Rachael
    February 14th, 2007 at 23:18

    Hey, I love the rose, the steps were awesome and easy you should do WAY more of these tutorials.

  70. m0osh
    March 2nd, 2007 at 09:05

    k0oLneSs!!!!!!!!!
    i liKe

  71. chelsey
    March 2nd, 2007 at 19:57

    thanx for showing this it came it usefull

  72. im hott
    March 2nd, 2007 at 20:00

    thanx i LOVE IT!!!!! :) :)

  73. Jazzmin
    March 6th, 2007 at 20:11

    awesomely cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  74. Tatiana
    March 19th, 2007 at 21:45

    This is an awsome how-to it really helped me on a project

  75. Chong yoke lin (call mi ero)^^
    March 20th, 2007 at 08:49

    WoWWW!!! thanks really, it help mii to finish my postal and get pretty praise from my friends and teachers!! it’s really AWESOME!!!

  76. Chong yoke lin (call mi ero)^^
    March 20th, 2007 at 09:07

    Hii! l am ero here again, erm.. may l suggest : why don’t you have it coloured?

  77. Lara
    March 20th, 2007 at 22:07

    I love this! See , I was looking on how to draw roses for this poster contest. I loved it!!! It helped me so much. Thanks for the help , I really enjoyed it. 10/10 rating. Thanks again!!!!!!!!! ;)

  78. SoZ
    April 6th, 2007 at 09:19

    I loved the rose…It taught me a lot simpler way to draw it!!I love the rose very much and can’t wait to tell my friends all about it!!! Many Many thanks for that!!!:)

  79. ALLISON
    April 11th, 2007 at 17:43

    GOOD DRAWING I LOVE IT I WISH I COULD DRW THAT

  80. April 23rd, 2007 at 13:30

    hi just wanted to say that although it sounds funny, your rose drawing method has actually made it easier for me to understand how to break other stuff down into simple shapes and draw them.

    reall Cool

    thankx !!

  81. May 1st, 2007 at 20:11

    Awesome Rose!!!!

  82. Will
    May 2nd, 2007 at 21:02

    On holidays you can usually expect to get some sort of drawing from me. Mother’s day is coming up and I don’t have the money to go out and buy something. So this really helps. let me know when you get some more sketch patterns!

  83. kalli
    May 2nd, 2007 at 23:10

    i can draw it to!!!!!!!!!

  84. tina
    May 10th, 2007 at 21:47

    that concept was wonderful my first attempt at it was totally horrible but ill keep at it! i wanted to try it because i had an empty space on my wall and wanted to draw something like in the beauty and the beast.

  85. jadah (jay-dah)
    May 11th, 2007 at 09:35

    wow this was a great pic, i love to draw and this made me want to draw more than ever

  86. fiona
    May 12th, 2007 at 06:31

    this is relay cool!!!!!!!!!
    wowowowowwow don’t u just love roses???????

    i love roses!!!!!!!!!11

  87. riley
    May 13th, 2007 at 04:13

    yo this is rose got me sumthin good i drew it fo my girl miranda && damn sh3 said i love you && we made out all night long i lov3 her though she is my everything i hope we are together forever i love you babe

  88. May 14th, 2007 at 19:41

    i realli love the drawings of the rose….ha ha ha ha ha tanya wanganeen loves matthew baker

  89. daniela
    May 24th, 2007 at 16:42

    nice way of drawing this rose really helped me

  90. May 31st, 2007 at 15:45

    I just love to draw and I always wanted to know how to draw a rose, and finally I know how to do it perfectly well! thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!

  91. megan
    June 1st, 2007 at 10:51

    i think that is really kool but i think you should post a little bit more…:):):):):):):)

  92. shannon
    June 1st, 2007 at 18:04

    wow! this is so uhmazing!
    it really works!
    but i think you should definately have more drawings and sketches.

  93. jessica galvan
    June 3rd, 2007 at 04:39

    This is a great and simple drawing of a rose because i have been trying to draw one but they are all too hard and this is a perfect example.

  94. stacey
    June 5th, 2007 at 11:11

    you r the best drawers in tne world and by helping me (stacey) do my homework so thanks and cowa

  95. mori
    June 10th, 2007 at 22:15

    thaski thank =)

  96. sheenna
    June 11th, 2007 at 18:26

    hi. i LOVE it! i have always been wondering how to draw one and mine have always like a cup =P thanks for the help!

  97. June 13th, 2007 at 07:49

    cool rose!! luv it so much!!
    can eu draw other types of roses or flowers??
    ur drawing is so awesome!!

  98. KAT
    July 22nd, 2007 at 00:47

    hey i accually drew this….i cant believe i did…..it looks all most as good as yours…..lol…..^♥^

  99. Casey
    July 22nd, 2007 at 13:37

    this is really cool… i really drew it!! but it dident come out as good as yours…

  100. July 30th, 2007 at 03:10

    This is sooooo cool……. But i draw it realy ugly

  101. Avadhesh
    August 1st, 2007 at 19:08

    Execellent art and awesome concept!!

  102. August 12th, 2007 at 11:51

    This is awsome thank you so much. LOL :)

  103. August 20th, 2007 at 06:39

    This is really cool and i could never draw a car to save my life but now i can. LoL

    Thank you

  104. bryan
    September 14th, 2007 at 13:26

    GRATE rose i love how u show step by step

  105. September 16th, 2007 at 09:28

    excellent !!!

  106. November 16th, 2007 at 16:45

    i think that the rose doesn’t look natural…….. it just looks like a peice of paper folded up…. and not a rose.

  107. November 21st, 2007 at 21:28

    wow tht rose is sexilicious it was mad easy to draw oh yeah you should definetely make morre you should think about drawing a tulip cauz a lot of people cant draw one well me as an artist think it is easy well gotta go i love my husband austin and myyyy babeyyyyy gurl Adreana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  108. Erica
    December 11th, 2007 at 08:53

    You should be a little bit nicer because maybe they just started drawing!!!!!

  109. December 11th, 2007 at 11:25

    I remmeber subscribing to this ages ago and i think it just goes to show that your drawing must be brilliant because all it is, is a Rose and yet people are still leaving comments.

    The drawing IS good though regardless of what bad cooments some people decide to write on here.

  110. January 21st, 2008 at 18:05

    i thought it was ok. it needs a little more work on the rose like: lite and dark spots, shading, patterns and alot more but them are the three most things u got to do so its ok yeah ummm rockoutloud!!!!!!!!!

  111. January 21st, 2008 at 18:06

    yeah u know it rocks ur just jelouis

  112. Lizzy
    January 29th, 2008 at 20:55

    hey, thanks..my rose actually looks like a rose and not a crappy looking thing. thanks again!

  113. Daniel
    February 13th, 2008 at 09:57

    Thanks! Using this even I was able to draw a pretty rose. I drew it on paper first and traced it on to the glass in a picture frame, which was “etched” using a dremel tool. Mounted together with a red led it makes a perfect valentine gift.

  114. Claudia
    February 18th, 2008 at 04:15

    Cute and beautiful. Easy to draw for the first time in my life! Creative and looks like a rose and not some weird thing that looks like a scribble on my page.

  115. Lisa
    February 28th, 2008 at 20:07

    Thanks so much! The rose is so beautiful. :)

  116. March 23rd, 2008 at 09:50

    wow !! t was a gr8 help.i never knew how to draw a rose and this helped me loadz.i never actually knew it could be this simple.thanx a lot guys :)

  117. March 23rd, 2008 at 09:56

    This is a gr8 way to draw roses.roses are beautiful plants and people draw them with such great technique but this rose is soooo simple to draw and looks beautiful.i never actually knew how to draw them but i relli do know now.the rose looks so like reality i can jst smell the wonderful scent of it.it looks FABULOUS !!!!! great help . thanks so much !!! :D

  118. March 23rd, 2008 at 09:57

    wonderful .. fab drawing … who drew it by the way..thanx… a gr8 help

  119. Alexis
    March 24th, 2008 at 20:23

    I love this, very easy to do. It came out looking very real. lol

  120. April 4th, 2008 at 21:15

    Dude awesome so cool!!!!!!! Pimp sola

  121. chris
    April 11th, 2008 at 21:22

    This rose is amazing! I love to draw so much, and this is the best rose i’ve ever seen.

  122. Chuck Norris
    May 8th, 2008 at 08:56

    I eat roses for breakfast after I roundhouse kick the roosters off my fence in the morning.

  123. fatima
    May 8th, 2008 at 10:17

    i love this website.

    now i know how to draw a rose

  124. hayley
    May 10th, 2008 at 20:35

    that was an awsome drawing it really helped me with my mothers day card!!! Got any more flower drawings???

  125. May 20th, 2008 at 20:22

    this is nothing i can do better than this,
    you should see mine
    lol

  126. douglas
    June 11th, 2008 at 15:03

    this really works u shuld try it

  127. Tzara
    July 2nd, 2008 at 01:46

    Awesome!! It is so easy, Thankyou!!

  128. July 15th, 2008 at 13:12

    this was awesome i took it a lil farther and did a boque it turened out grate! i always had a problem with roses but not any more thanks so much!!

  129. Stacey
    July 22nd, 2008 at 12:32

    I was limited to drawing daisies before this and was trying really hard to draw a rose,but they were way complicated. this is amazing, and so simple!

  130. July 22nd, 2008 at 15:42

    Thanks for all the great comments… I’m glad this rose drawing lesson continues to help people. I actually just updated this post with a new video and some drawing book recommendations so if you haven’t visited in a while, come take a look!

  131. chelsey
    July 28th, 2008 at 23:49

    I totally love your rose!It reminds me of the rose in the music video “apologize” by one republic.If you shade it in dark and then fill the center in lightly it will make it look really good!Thanks for the great drawing!It looks awesome! :)

  132. Precious
    July 29th, 2008 at 08:52

    Wow this is so cool I am drawing this pic for a friend who looooooooves guitars so i drew her an electric guitar but it looked like it needed somthing more so i searched how 2 drw a rose and you came up thank u soooooo much mine turned out puuuuuuuuurrrrrfect!!!

    thanks again u r gr8

  133. Precious
    July 29th, 2008 at 08:53

    …plus i’m only 13 :-) and all my roses always turned out really bad!!!

  134. Lk247
    August 2nd, 2008 at 11:56

    This is a gr8t way 2 draw roses do you got anymore i would love to draw loads more flowers

  135. sarah
    August 15th, 2008 at 16:13

    these are really good … mine are dumb

  136. bana
    September 6th, 2008 at 13:56

    beautiful rose:D thankyou.

  137. shooblah
    October 14th, 2008 at 17:51

    i absolutly love this my mum says that its good for me to do this since shes to busy being a lawer but as long as im rich idc

  138. cayla
    October 15th, 2008 at 16:39

    i love roes i draw them eery day i am working on a rose[yellow rose]is my pawpaws favorite color rose now to put up on my wall in memory of my paw paw

  139. Kristine
    October 24th, 2008 at 22:38

    I love it! It’s so simple!

  140. duckman
    November 18th, 2008 at 19:25

    thanks im doin a pic for my girlfriend and needed this

  141. Jaci
    December 20th, 2008 at 12:50

    I was sooo jelous of my friend because she could draw a better flower. KNow that i know i taught all my friends an dthey thank me for it! now i know how to draw a really good flower! these steps were easy and fun! :)

  142. January 13th, 2009 at 09:33

    This tutorial will be useful this coming valentines day, will save lots of money, will give my girl a drawing of a flower, hope she likes it. :-) Thanks Fits..

  143. Vince
    January 19th, 2009 at 14:17

    thanks i needed to draw a rose 4 a project

  144. January 23rd, 2009 at 06:10

    That’s just beautiful. I do a lot of quilling and have to draw my own quilling patterns, so I’m trying to improve my drawing. This is one of the greatest sites I found, so thank you. Hope to see more from you real soon.

  145. Miguel
    February 4th, 2009 at 14:13

    Hi, my name is Miguel and I always wanted to draw a rose. This thing of drawing a rose is somthing i wanted to do before i started High School. And guess want I completed my goal. So let me tell you somthing ALWAYS think POSITIVE.

  146. Vicki
    February 12th, 2009 at 21:44

    This is ghud stuff man

  147. tyuji
    March 15th, 2009 at 16:06

    WOW!!!!

    (although, i isn’t all dat easy… :S )

  148. April 19th, 2009 at 13:58

    omg that is so easy even a hobbo can do that if it had a pencil!!!!!!!!

  149. Cassidy Nush
    May 5th, 2009 at 15:49

    this is soo cooool i love to draw and now i can draw 10x better than usual thnx!!!

  150. heather gracy
    May 9th, 2009 at 16:31

    this is so kool. i had to do a mothers day project the day b4 and it came out awesome!!! i love how you draw all the stuff you do.

  151. melody
    June 10th, 2009 at 14:50

    this is soo coool i love it so much

  152. cinthia
    June 15th, 2009 at 20:46

    thanks,I LOVE YOUR ROSES CAN YOU PUT MORE.

  153. July 2nd, 2009 at 17:52

    thanks fer the lesson it waz great!!!!! loved it :) :)

  154. July 2nd, 2009 at 17:53

    p.s can u put on more pic lessons