How to Draw a Violin

Do you like to draw in your free time? Have you been searching for a way to learn how to draw a simple violin? Look no further than here! I love drawing in my free time.

I remember one time in high school when I drew a portrait of my violin. It took me quite a while to finish it. I only drew it with a charcoal pencil which you could smear to make shadows in the picture. There are so many details in a violin. In my directions for how to make a violin, it is a very simple way to draw it.

13 steps to drawing a violin:

Draw a 3 in. the line down the middle of the paper
Draw the body of the violin
Erase the line
Draw sides of the violin
Draw the fingerboard
Draw the end piece that holds the strings
Draw the bridge
Draw a slender letter S
Step 1 of the scroll: draw a leaning triangle
Step 2 of the scroll: draw the part that curls
Step 3 of the scroll: draw the pegs
Draw the strings
Color the violin

Supplies you will need:

In order to draw a picture of a violin, you will need a good quality pencil with an eraser and a rule to help draw straight lines. If you will want to color the picture of your violin, then you should get a set of crayons or colored pencils. Depending on how big you draw your violin, it might be easier to use colored pencils. They will be able to color in smaller areas.

Be sure to not put too much pressure on the pencil while you are drawing, so that it will make it easier if you have to erase it. While I was drawing, I realized that some of the parts I had to fix still showed a shadow of where I had drawn because I had been pressing too hard on the pencil.

You will not need too many colors for the violin unless you would like to use some colorful options. If you were going to color it to look like a real violin, then you would just need a couple of different shades of brown and a black for the pegs, fingerboard, chin rest, and end piece for the strings.

1. Draw a 3 in. the line down the middle of the paper

The first thing to do when drawing a violin is to draw a straight 3-inch line down the middle of the paper. You can use your ruler to keep your line straight on the page. It can be hard to draw a straight line on your own.

You can draw your line smaller or bigger depending on how big you want to make your violin. The body of the violin will take up two-thirds of the line. The last third of the line will be how long the neck of the violin should be.

2. Draw the body of the violin

This can be a very tricky step in the process of drawing the violin. You will want both sides of the violin to mirror each other so that they will look exactly the same. Take this step slowly to be sure you are drawing each side with the same measurements.

It is also hard to not let the violin be too thin or wide in this step of the process. If you begin to realize that the measurements are off, just erase it and try again. You could even use the ruler again by putting horizontally across the violin to make sure that each side of the violin is an equal distance from the line in the middle of the page.

Once you have one side in the measurements that you are wanting, then you can draw the other side slowly while trying to match it to the side that is already finished.

3. Erase the line

Now that you have created the body for the violin, you can now erase the line in the middle of the violin. You will also need to erase a small portion of the top of the violin. You will make an opening for when we start to draw the fingerboard or neck of the violin. Look at the picture above for an example of where to erase.

In some types of drawings, it is helpful to draw lines like this to help keep the symmetry in the pictures. We erase the lines because they are no longer needed in the picture. We just needed them in order to get the proportions right in the picture. These types of lines can be used in many different kinds of pictures to assist you while you are drawing.

It would be a lot harder for this violin if I did not have the lines to help guide me through the drawing process.

4. Draw sides of the violin

Drawing the side parts of the violin just gives this picture a different look. You do not have to draw this part of the violin. If you do not care about having this look, then you can just skip this step in the process.

I had to take this part slowly to make sure I was drawing it how it would look if I was looking at a real violin at a certain angle.

5. Draw the fingerboard

The fingerboard is a pretty easy piece to draw because it is just a long thin rectangle. You just want to be sure that the width of the fingerboard is consistent with the scale of the rest of the violin.

With this step in the process of drawing the violin, you might want to use the ruler to help you draw straight lines for the fingerboard. Using the ruler helps the picture to look cleaner. Pictures can look a whole lot better when they have clean lines.

It would be helpful when drawing a violin to have a real violin to observe. This will benefit you in knowing the correct length and dimensions of the fingerboard.

6. Draw the end piece that holds the strings

Drawing this end piece can be kind of tricky. You might want to use your ruler to help you draw straight lines. To begin drawing this part, you start out by making lines that slant towards each other but do not touch.

Next, you begin two straight lines that come out of the slanted lines. They only go up a short distance. Then, from the straight lines, you will begin to draw two lines that are slanting away from each other and then draw a straight line horizontally to connect the two lines.

For the last part of this piece of the violin, I drew a very thin rectangle at the top of this piece to give it more detail.

This piece is where you tune your violin. The strings stretch from the pegs to this piece to keep the strings in place to play. The other part of the violin where you can tune is the pegs. However, violinists usually tune with the small pegs on the end piece because your violin usually does not require much tuning. The pegs at the end of the neck of the violin are harder to tune with because even with turning them slightly, you can change the sound of the string pretty drastically.

7. Draw the bridge

This one of the easiest steps in drawing the violin! The bottom and top of the bridge will be slightly arched and then you just draw lines to connect the arches. Most bridges in real life are carved with designs. If you would like, you can add your own design to the bridge on the violin you are drawing.

You will want the fingerboard to run right down the middle of the violin's body. It is ok to erase when needed to fix parts of the drawing.

Above you will find a picture of a real violin. Look a the designs that are carved into the bridge. If you are wanting to draw in a design on the bridge, then you can look at this picture of the violin and copy this design or make up your own design.

I love how beautiful the bridge on a violin can be. It is not noticed very often because it is such a small piece of the violin. However, it is a very important piece of the violin.

Just have fun with this tiny piece of the violin! It will a lot of fun making it your own.

8. The first step to drawing side holes: draw a slender letter S

Drawing the side holes on the violin can be pretty tricky. They are a hard shape to recreate. Whenever I draw them, I have found it easier to start off by drawing a slender letter S. On one slide, the letter will be facing the correct way and on the other side, it will be a backward letter.

While I was working on this step, I had to erase and try again several times and that is ok. It is hard to make sure that these shapes are mirroring each other and that they look the same on both sides of the violin.

You will want to draw this letter so that it will look elegant. I tried to curve the ends of each side of the letter so that it would be ready for when I

9. Step 1 of the scroll: draw a leaning triangle

The end piece to the neck of the violin is one of the trickiest things to draw of the violin. To begin, you will want to draw a small tilted triangle. It will look kind of like a wizard's hat. Be sure that you do not tilt it too far. You just want it to be tilted slightly.

10. Step 2 of the scroll: Draw the part that curls

Next, you will want to draw the part that curls around at the end. This part is very tricky. I had to erase my work several times to get the dimensions right. Check out the drawing above to get an idea of what it should look like.

11. Step 3 of the scroll: Draw the pegs

I had a lot of fun drawing the pegs that go on the sides of the scrolls. They overlap each other because of the angle that we are looking at the violin. The pegs should not be directly across from each other in the drawing. On a real violin, the pegs are staggered from each other on the scroll. They cannot be directly across from each other because the pegs would hit each other when they are going through the scroll.

The scroll of the violin is a very interesting and unique part of the violin. The violin is such a beautiful instrument with all of its little details that go into the creating process.

12. Draw the strings

Now the last part to add to the violin is the strings! You will want to use your ruler for this part to make sure that the strings are straight on the violin. You will draw them all the way from the end piece to the end of the fingerboard on the violin.

There are only four strings on the violin called E, A, D, and G. Now you have your simple violin drawing!

13. Color in the violin

Now you the time to add some color to the picture if you would like! If you are not wanting to color in the picture, but wanting to add some more detail, then you can use your pencil to shade in different parts of the violin.

In fact, you could even draw outlines of the violin, like this one for kids to color in however they would like. For kids, I might be sure to draw the violin so that it will fill up the whole page for the kids to color in for fun.

If you like this tutorial and would like to have some other ones, let me know in the comments below! Drawing is such a fun hobby that I enjoy doing!

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