How to Draw a Soccer Ball

Last Updated: March 12, 2023

Soccer balls are fun to play with but can be unfamiliar to draw. The traditional soccer ball is made from two flat shapes, pentagons and hexagons. A pentagon, of course, is a five-sided polygon, while a hexagon has six sides. The instructions here will help you to understand how a soccer ball looks so you can draw one. Let's begin!

Method 1

Method 1 of 3:

A Simple Soccer Ball

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Draw a circle.
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Draw perpendicular lines bisecting each other at the centre.

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3
Draw a modest-sized hexagon at the centre of the circle to form the first guide to the shape of the ball.
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Join further slightly squeezed hexagons from three alternate sides of the hexagon.
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Fill the gaps with lines meeting on the perpendicular lines to form three pentagons.
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Attach nine small joining lines to complete the guides to form the shapes of the ball.
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Based on the guides, draw curved lines to enhance the realistic shapes of the sphere.
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Clean-up all earlier guides.
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Color the ball applying shades and a drop-shadows.

Method 2

Method 2 of 3:

A Cartoon Soccer Ball

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Create a circle.
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Make two hexagons and a pentagon on three corners of the ball.
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Start joining more shapes to the earlier shapes.
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Complete drawing all shapes of the ball joining each other.
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Make a couple of overlapping ovals at the top of the circle to form the shapes of the eyes.
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Insert a smaller oval each inside the above-made eyes to form the eye-balls.
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Draw a smile of the ball-character at the base of the ball below the eyes.
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Make three vertical lines within the shape of the smiling mouth joining the top and bottom edges to form the teeth.
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Draw a couple of paddle-shapes to create the feet of the ball-character detached from the circle.
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Join a couple of tube-like shapes on each side of the ball to form the arms of the character.
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Add further lines to the tubes to indicate the hands.
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Complete the drawing of the gloved fists.
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Join further regular-shaped tubes joining the bottom of the ball to the paddle-feet to form the legs of the character.
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Add eye-brows on top of the eyes slightly edging out of the circle and spikes on the shoes with a line for the soles as well.
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Add the shoe-laces and color the ball-cartoon.

Method 3

Method 3 of 3:

A Traditional Soccer Ball

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Draw a circle.
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Create a pentagon with an inclined axis at the centre of the circle.
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Draw five straight lines from the five vertices of the pentagon.
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Join a couple of lines each from the five earlier lines drawn.
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Join the five open edges to complete the shapes.
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Join short lines to edges of the circumference to complete forming all the lines of the soccer ball.
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Finally, color the soccer-ball.

Warnings

If you are finished and it is so not perfect give it another go!

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Avoid drawing the shapes too small; they should take up a good amount of space on the ball.

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Don't make the pentagon too big or else the soccer ball won't look good

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Be sure that you aren't smudging your drawing.

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Don't draw darkly at first, just sketch it out your first try. You can fill out the lines after you finish.

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