How to Draw a 3d Heart Step by Step Easy

Everyone and anyone can draw a heart. It's fun and simple, fast and easy. Drawing a heart is so easy, people want to take it to the next level. The best way to do that is to make it 3D. Sadly, making a 2D figure look 3D is harder than it looks. This a simple, fun, effective guide to help you draw a 3D heart with ease. Let's get started!

If you would like to watch how to draw a 3D heart, watch this:

To draw a 3D heart, you'll need drawing paper, a pencil, an eraser, and a ruler.

First of all, draw your heart. You can do it with your naked eye, but I decided to get fancy and use a ruler for the perfect proportions on my heart. First, I drew a line vertically down the middle of the paper. Then I drew a horizontal line across the first line. Next, I drew a triangle as the base of the heart by drawing up towards the horizontal line from the bottom of the vertical line. Use a ruler to make the lines the same length (the length you choose). This is vital so that the lines are at the same angle. I choose a two-inch length, so both of my lines should be two inches from the bottom of the vertical line, to the horizontal line.

Now, put your ruler away and draw an oval/circle on either side of the vertical line. These ovals should just touch the vertical line and a corner of the triangle.

Then, go over your lines to make a full heart. Erase the extra lines.

Now it's time to make this regular heart 3D! Follow the curve of the heart and then suddenly go up and off of the course for about an inch. Do the same thing to the other side of the heart, attempting to make it the same length, curve, and angle as the first. It's alright if they're not exactly identical. Just do your best.

When you're done, go back to your first "hump" as I'll call it. Put your pencil where you left off and draw a curving line until it intersects with the other side of the heart. You are copying the curve below, so that the 2nd curve is above the 1st by the same amount.

Add the curve, then repeat on the other side. The other side is a little bit different though, because we don't end near as quickly. Take your ruler and make a light straight line at the bottom of the heart. Then continue the curved line until you reach the bottom line. Where it hits the bottom line stop and erase the excess line.

What is left of the bottom line trace over along with the curve it connects to. Go over all the lines you kept, and then we can move on to the shading.

First, decide where the light is coming from. When we are shading the heart, we have to remember that the side/depth of the heart (which is what we just drew) is round and curving, while we have a flat side, which used to be the 2D heart (which is the first thing we drew). This means that the flat side will be one shade, while the side will be many different shades. Where the two humps of the heart meet, this will be the darkest, because it's always blocked from the light, unless the light is directly above it. Shade it the darkest, and then as you move up, shade it lighter. When you get to the middle where the hump of the side is as high as it'll get, leave it just about white, then start shading darker again, until you get a really dark shade where the sides start to slope to where we can't see them.

Then do the same thing on the other side, but shade all of the side dark after the side stops curving and the side goes straight.

Once the sides are shaded, go to the flat side and shade it a nice, grey, middle tone. Then the last thing to do is add a shadow.

You're going to add the shadow at the same angle the light came at. The farther down your light source is, the longer and skinnier your shadow is, and vice versa. Just lightly draw a heart (which will be greatly distorted), and this will be your shadow. (My shadow traveled off the page, and I realized later it was at the wrong angle anyways. 😅 😬 🙊) Remember that the shadow is darker closest to the heart, and gets lighter farther away from the heart.

Then… You're finished! Congrats! Thanks for sticking with me and finishing your drawing! I hope you enjoyed and liked this guide. See you next time!

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