26 Easy Solar System Drawing Tutorials for Kids
🖍️ 26 free tutorials
Ready to explore the cosmos? These 26 drawing tutorials are designed for young astronomers and artists ages 5+. All you need is paper, a pencil, and some markers to bring the planets to life while practicing essential hand-eye coordination.
Uranus
Learn to draw the seventh planet with its unique sideways tilt. Tip: Use a light blue base and add thin, horizontal rings to show its icy, off-kilter rotation.
The Solar System
Map out the entire neighborhood! This guide helps you practice spacing and relative sizing for all eight planets orbiting the Sun.
Satellite
Draw a high-tech space probe. Tip: Focus on geometric shapes like rectangles and circles to build the solar panels and communication dish.
Solar Eclipse
Capture the moment the Moon blocks the Sun. Use this to teach kids about shadows and light alignment in space.
Mercury
Mercury is all about texture. Use small, irregular 'c' shapes to represent craters on its rocky, gray surface.
Cartoon Moon
Give the Moon a personality! Add a simple smiling face to make this a fun, approachable character drawing.
Crescent Moon
Perfect for bedtime stories. Focus on drawing two overlapping circles to create that classic, elegant crescent shape.
Asteroid
Asteroids aren't perfect circles. Encourage kids to draw a 'lumpy' shape to make it look more realistic and rugged.
Easy Globe
Draw a classroom staple! Focus on the stand's symmetry to help the globe look like it's ready to spin.
Earth Hour Illustration
Combine art with advocacy. This drawing features a lightbulb and Earth, perfect for discussing environmental awareness.
Venus
Venus is known for its thick, swirling clouds. Use soft, curved lines to create a 'marbled' effect on the planet's surface.
Mars
The Red Planet! Use a mix of light and dark shading to show the dusty, rusty surface and faint crater outlines.
Sun and Moon
A classic celestial pairing. This tutorial helps you balance two different shapes and expressions in one composition.
Galaxy
Create a swirling spiral galaxy. Tip: Use long, sweeping lines to represent the arms of the galaxy rotating around the center.
Comet
Draw a comet streaking through space. Use a teardrop shape for the head and long, wispy lines for the tail.
Space and Planets
Create a full space scene. This guide helps you layer different sized circles to create depth in your drawing.
Saturn
The ringed planet! Tip: Draw the rings as two ellipses around the planet to give it a 3D effect.
The Sun
Make the Sun the star of your drawing! Add rays using simple triangles to give it that classic 'bright' look.
Sci-Fi Landscape
Imagine standing on another world! Use this guide to draw a horizon line and distant planets in the sky.
Neptune
Neptune is a deep, mysterious blue. Use light and dark blue markers to show the stormy spots on its surface.
Moon
Practice your shading! Use different sized circles to draw craters, then shade them to give the Moon depth.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the giant of the solar system. Use horizontal, wavy lines to create its signature striped atmosphere.
The Earth
Draw our home! Focus on simple shapes for the continents and add some fluffy clouds to give it a realistic look.
Meteor
Capture the speed! Draw a jagged rock with a long, glowing streak behind it to show it moving through the atmosphere.
Black Hole
Draw the ultimate space mystery. Use a spiral pattern to show matter being pulled into the center.
Cartoon Earth
A fun, stylized version of our planet. Add mountains and clouds to make your Earth look vibrant and full of life.
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