How to Draw a Rainbow

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Here's how to depict an piece of cake rainbow, and then make full the foreground and background with lots of pretty flowers and butterflies.

How to Draw a Rainbow — A finished rainbow cartoon colored with crayons.

Rainbows really contain upwards of i 1000000 colors, but the limitations of our eyes pretty much turn them into seven curved bands that all softly blend from i to the adjacent. For those that are just learning how to draw though, making those bands as fifty-fifty as possible, and and so filling them in the right color order, are enough to practice for one lesson.

Rather than draw the unabridged rainbow, this tutorial will evidence students how to depict well-nigh iii/4 of i. The closer view means those bands tin can exist just a bit wider, which is always helps when drawing them. Plus, the slightly off-center composition creates a little more than interesting look than if everything was but centered on the page.

Preview of the Rainbow drawing step by step tutorial.

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