{"title":"How to Draw a Bell","canonicalUrl":"https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/crafts/how-to-draw-a-bell","category":{"slug":"crafts","name":"Crafts"},"creator":{"name":"Art for Kids Hub","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XMF3Inoi8R9nSI8ChOsdQ","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrNp7rZD_Uw"},"tldr":"Draw a shiny gold jingle bell with a red ribbon in 9 steps. Easy marker shapes, then colored pencil shading that makes it look 3D.","totalDurationSeconds":721,"difficulty":"easy","tools":["black fine point permanent marker","pencil sharpener"],"materials":["drawing paper or colored pencil pad","colored pencils in yellow orange, brown, black and red"],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Draw a Big Oval for the Jingle Bell Body","text":"Start in the middle of your paper and draw a big circle. It can lean toward an oval, a little wider than it is tall. Make it large so it fills most of the page. You could trace a lid or a bowl for a perfect circle, but drawing it freehand is good practice, and a wobble here will not show once the bell is colored."},{"number":2,"title":"Draw the C-Shaped Seam Lip on the Jingle Bell","text":"A real jingle bell is two halves pressed together, with a little lip where they meet. Start at the top of the circle, a bit left of center. Draw a C shape that curves down and connects to the bottom. Draw a second C right next to it. The curve is what tells your eye the bell is round, not flat."},{"number":3,"title":"Draw the Round Sound Hole and Curved Slot on the Bell","text":"Near the middle, draw a circle for the sound hole, but leave one side open. From it, draw a curve that wraps around the bell to the right edge and flicks up at the end. Add a matching curve below it to make the slot. Then draw an inner C inside the hole for its depth and color the hole in solid black."},{"number":4,"title":"Draw the Knot and S-Curve Ribbon Straps on the Bell","text":"On the left end of the bell, draw a small oval for the knot and connect it back to the bell with a short tab. Now draw an S curve coming down from the knot. Draw a second S beside it, close at the top and further away at the bottom, then join the ends. Add a second strap behind the first so they overlap."},{"number":5,"title":"Color the Jingle Bell Gold and Save the White Highlight","text":"Pick up the yellow orange colored pencil. Draw a big circle in the top left of the bell and leave it white. That is the shine. Then draw a thin crescent along the bottom edge, thicker at the bottom and narrow at the top, and leave that white too. Color the rest of the bell, including the seam lip."},{"number":6,"title":"Shade the Bottom of the Gold Bell With Brown","text":"Switch to brown. Start at the bottom, right along the crescent, and press hard for a dark line. As you move up, press lighter and lighter until the brown fades into the orange. Turning the paper sideways makes the strokes easier. Shade the lip, the top of the slot, and the tab by the knot too."},{"number":7,"title":"Add a Dark Black Shadow to the Bottom of the Bell","text":"Switch to black for extra contrast. Add a small dark band at the very bottom of the bell and let it fade out quickly. Use less than you did with the brown. This little bit of black makes the gold look even shinier. Finish by lightly tinting the highlight with orange, fading to white at the bottom."},{"number":8,"title":"Color the Bell's Ribbon Straps Red","text":"Switch to red and color the knot and both straps in solid. Leave out any highlight here. The bell is shiny metal and the ribbon is cloth, so the ribbon should look dull. That contrast between shiny and matte is one of the secrets that makes the whole drawing look real."},{"number":9,"title":"Shade the Edges of the Red Ribbon Straps","text":"Back to black. Shade the bottom of the knot dark and fade up. Then draw a line down the edge of each strap to give it thickness, getting lighter as it turns the corner. Add dark shadows where the straps tuck behind each other and fade them out. Go back over it with red to smooth the texture."}],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-10-04T15:41:46.046Z","published":"2026-10-04T15:41:38.666Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit ShowMeStepByStep with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure."}