Jasmine Drawing Ideas

How to draw a jasmine flower step by step

Jasmine is one of the kindest flowers to learn on. The bloom is small and flat with five simple petals, so there is no depth to work out and nothing overlaps. Most of the drawings on this page are the same small flower repeated in different arrangements.

1. Draw a small circle for the centre of the flower. Keep it tiny, because a jasmine centre is much smaller than the petals.
2. Add five petals around it. Jasmine petals are narrow at the base and widen into a rounded tip, a bit like a teardrop turned outwards. Space them evenly around the circle.
3. Draw a thin stem down from the flower. Jasmine stems are delicate, so keep the line light and single rather than drawing two lines for thickness.
4. Add the leaves in pairs on opposite sides of the stem. Jasmine leaves are pointed ovals, small and neat.
5. Add a few closed buds if you want the sprig to look real. A bud is a narrow pointed oval on a short stalk, and two or three of them make the drawing look much more natural.

Darken your final lines at the end and rub out any guide marks. Jasmine looks best with a light touch, so resist pressing hard.

Which jasmine should you start with

If this is your first flower

Start with the easy jasmine flower or the single bud. Both are small, face straight at you and take only a handful of lines. The big simple jasmine is also a good first try, because drawing the flower large makes the petal shape easier to control.

If you have drawn flowers before

Try the sprig with buds, the jasmine with a butterfly or the trailing vine. All three use the same small flower, but you are arranging several of them along a branch, which is a different skill from drawing one.

If you want a challenge

The mandala and the letter J are the most detailed. The garland and the wreath both need evenly spaced flowers along a curve, which takes a steadier hand than it looks.

What you need

An HB pencil, plain paper and an eraser. A 2B pencil helps for darker final lines. A round lid or a compass is useful for the wreath and mandala circles, though you can draw them freehand. Nothing here needs a tablet or special paper.

Three things that make jasmine look right

• The flower is too big. Jasmine blooms are small. If you draw them the size of a rose the whole sprig stops looking like jasmine.
• There are no buds. Real jasmine always has closed buds mixed in with open flowers. Adding two or three makes a sprig look far more convincing.
• The stem is too thick. Keep stems as a single thin line. A heavy stem makes a delicate flower look like a weed.

Using these for cards, borders and journals

Jasmine suits decorative work better than almost any other flower here, because the blooms are small enough to repeat. The corner border, the trailing vine and the garland are all made for page edges. The wreath and the letter J work as cards and name art. Print any of them and write inside.

Ways to use these drawings

Copy any of these by hand, or download and print them for yourself, for your children or for your classroom. They work as colouring sheets, tracing practice, a warm up before a bigger drawing, or line art for a card. If you want to use one in something you sell, write to us first.