Drawing Stars Freehand: From a Week of Practice
Drawing a star with even points sounds simple. The angles fight you. Here is what I figured out after a week of daily attempts. I spent a week trying to draw stars freehand. The motivation was a kid drawing project I was helping with, where the stars I drew looked lopsided and the ones the kid drew looked better. That does not sit right, so I decided to practice. After a week of daily attempts, I learned that drawing a star is a specific small skill with a few principles that take about an hour to find and a week to internalize. Here is what I figured out, in case you want to skip a few of the failed attempts. Five-Point Stars Hide Five Intersection Points The first thing I noticed when I slowed down is that a five-point star is not actually drawn as five strokes from the outer points. The classic five-point star is one continuous path: start at the top point, draw down to the bottom right, up to the upper left, across to the upper right, down to the bottom left, and back to the start at the top. Five lines, no lifts. More guides are on the Draw Perfect Blog.