You can have a ball drawing sports scenes in your sketchbook - quite literally when drawing sports balls. If you're feeling sporty, check out these easy, step-by-step sports balls drawing tutorials.
These sports-themed drawings are a great way to build your drawing skills and your confidence. They are easy to master because almost all of them begin with a simple circle.
Then, other geometric shapes or simple lines create the patterns that set them apart from one another.
All you will need is a pencil and a sheet of paper. You may also want to use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color your drawings. After all, the balls used in many sports have specific colors they are famous for.
Do sports make the world go round? They certainly bring people together. Often, millions of people from around the world tune in to watch the same games on television.
Is it any wonder, then, that planet Earth is the same shape as a sports ball?
It's time to bounce and get your head in the game. Are you ready?
12 Easy Sports Balls Drawing Ideas
Beach Ball
For the beach ball, you’ll draw a circle within a circle, then draw a spiral of curved lines between them. Note the dotted lines that indicate the seams of the ball’s colorful sections.
Tennis Racket and Ball
The tennis ball is simple - a circle with an “S” shaped seam. The racket itself is an oval with a handle. The oval is filled with a checkerboard pattern, indicating the mesh surface of the racket.
Cartoon Football
Unlike other sports balls, American footballs are not round. Their double-pointed shape is called a prolate spheroid. Most footballs have two stripes and a line of visible stitching.
Basketball
Basketballs have a very specific pattern of lines. Two of the lines are straight, encircling the ball at its equators and running perpendicular to one another. The others are curved.
Baseball
The baseball is covered in two peanut-shaped pieces of material. “V” shaped stitches join the material at the seams.
Basketball Hoop
The basketball hoop is round like the ball itself, but it looks like an oval from this angle. The backboard is rectangular.
Soccer Ball
Soccer balls are covered in an intricate pattern of pentagons and hexagons. Each pentagon is surrounded by five hexagons, and each hexagon is outlined with three alternating hexagons and three pentagons.
Football
The previous football tutorial drew it looking directly at the side with the stitching. This one takes it on from another angle. You can see the different segments of material covering it.
Cartoon Soccer Ball
Try your hand at drawing another soccer ball. Again, you will notice that it is covered in pentagons and hexagons. Note how they bend into the ball’s curved horizons.
Golf Ball
Golf balls are covered in 300 to 500 dimples that help control their flight. The triangle-shaped golf tee holds the ball above the grass so the golfer can hit it.
Volleyball
Volleyballs are covered in bands of material that run in opposite directions. The bands have depth that helps players grip the ball. This is illustrated by the “L” shaped lines in their corners.
Basketball Player
Get that Basketball moving! This player is ready to dribble. Can you learn how to sketch avid players of all the sports on this list?
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