This tutorial shows an easy way to draw a bow with an pointer in six steps. Information technology provides both line drawing and coloring examples along with quick explanations.

Bow and arrow drawing step by step
Bow and arrow drawing step by step

You can run across a preview of the drawing steps for the bow and arrow in the example higher up.

Commencement the drawing in pencil and make lite lines that you can easily erase. You can use a black pen or a thin black marker to darken them after on.

Step i – Draw the Bow

Bow drawing
Bow drawing

Brainstorm by drawing an outline of the bow. Depict it thicker towards the middle and narrower towards the ends. Make it's heart sections fairly straight followed by a pair of bends and then once more straight areas (on both sides) followed by small-scale curves (in the opposite direction of the offset two) nearly the tips.

Step 2 – Draw the Arrow Shaft

Bow and arrow shaft drawing
Bow and pointer shaft drawing

Going through the middle of the bow add the arrow shaft. You tin carefully erase the a tiny flake of the bow's outline in that area before drawing the shaft.

Make the arrow shaft fairly thin in comparison to the bow and position it so that it sticks out just a tiny scrap at the front and goes a long way back.

Footstep 3 – Describe the Arrowhead

Bow and arrow tip drawing
Bow and pointer tip drawing

At the front of the shaft add the arrowhead. These can come in all shapes and sizes merely for this detail drawing information technology will accept a pointy tip with slightly curved edges.

You can as well describe it'due south middle office that fits on top of the shaft slightly thicker than the shaft itself.

Step 4 – Draw the Fletching

Bow and arrow fletching drawing
Bow and arrow fletching drawing

Towards the back of the shaft add the fletching (the feathers or plastic that help stabilize the arrow as it flies). Describe the the feathers so that they have a sort of smooth "gradient" at the forepart and ab it of a curve in the dorsum (encounter example).

Step 5 – Draw the String & Finish the Line Cartoon

Bow and arrow fletching drawing
Bow and arrow fletching cartoon

Going from each terminate of the bow to behind the pointer add the string. As bow strings tends to exist fairly thin you can draw near of it with just one line. You can then add a pair of thicker lines to the areas where the string is attached tot he bow to show that it's wrapped around information technology.

One time done cartoon the cord you can trace over your lines with a black pen or a thin blackness marker to darken them. Alternatively you can also just practice information technology with the pencil.

Step half dozen – Color the Bow & Arrow

Bow and arrow drawing
Bow and arrow drawing

As this detail drawing has some fairly modest details an easy mode to color information technology is with colored pencils or retrieve markers.

Y'all can brand the bow chocolate-brown, the arrow tips greyness, the arrow shaft yellow (or yellow brown) and the feathers orange (or any colour you like).

One time washed coloring you should have a finished drawing of the bow and arrow.

Conclusion

This tutorial shows how to draw a adequately simple bow and arrow. Notwithstanding if you desire to try drawing a dissimilar type of bow or arrow you can still use pretty much the aforementioned drawing steps to practice information technology.

For drawing other types of weapons too see:

  • How to Draw a Sword Step past Stride
  • How to Draw a Spear Pace past Stride
  • How to Draw a Shield Step past Footstep
  • How to Draw a Dagger Stride past Step
  • How to Draw a Magic Staff Stride by Stride
  • How to Draw a Fishing Pole Pace by Footstep