How to Draw a Christmas Tree with Lights

I love Christmas.

And this year, I am adding multiple Christmas drawing tutorials and today I am going to teach you how to draw a Christmas Tree with lights.

All of these Christmas drawing ideas are for beginners.

I’ve already done a few tutorials including Rudolph and a Christmas Pudding and I covered another tutorial on drawing a Christmas Tree with Presents here.

This is what you’ll learn to draw today:

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I am currently using an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil to create my digital art.

But you can use any tool – a pen and paper or color pencils or Copic markers or Photoshop because the drawing method remains the same.

How to draw a Christmas Tree with Lights – Step by step for beginners and kids

We are going to be using very simple shapes for this drawing tutorial.

Let’s begin with a rough sketch of the tree – for this, we will first draw a very long pointy triangle – this is going to be our Christmas tree.

Next, we will draw a rough sketch of the star on the top – this is going to make drawing the Christmas tree really easy.

We are done with the rough sketch!

Let’s begin drawing the Christmas tree.

Next, draw the star outline using a marker or any drawing tool. We are going to erase the rough sketch later.

Next, draw 2 short lines at the side of the tree under the star.

Now, let’s complete the first row of the fig tree by drawing a wavy line connecting the two short lines like this:

draw the first row of the christmas tree

Next, repeat the same process and draw a second row.

draw the second row of the christmas tree

Easy, isn’t it?

Repeat this two more times and you’ll have finished drawing your Christmas tree.

Lastly, draw the bark of the tree.

Now, this isn’t a Christmas tree without decorations.

So, let’s draw some lights on the tree. I’m going to draw a wavy line in the first segment of the tree – note the pink arrow.

Now, add little bulbs (these will be our Christmas lights) all around the wavy line.

Repeat this for the whole tree – I am going to make some space in the 3rd segment, because I want to draw a small face here.

Once you’re done drawing all the lights, draw a small face in the 3rd segment if you like – I like making all my objects kawaii so I do this. You can skip it if you want a plain tree.

And we’re done!

Let’s color the Christmas tree and the lights now.

Erase all the rough lines before coloring your tree

First, we’ll start by coloring:

The tree green
The bark brown
And the star yellow

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Next, you can color the Christmas lights any color you want. I am going for red and blue because that’s what I used at home when I was little.

Congratulations!

You’ve learned how to draw a Christmas tree with lights!

You can draw this on a Christmas card or a sweet Christmas banner.

Drawing Resources

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you and you enjoyed drawing this Christmas Tree with lights.

If you want to see more tutorials on drawing kawaii animals and kawaii things, please leave a comment below on what you’d like to see next!

I will be adding more kawaii drawing tutorials (animals, food, and lots of things) to this blog, so keep a lookout!

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My old bud Ilaria (we’ve been friends on Instagram back when I had Instagram) created this course! I’ve watched her grow from 0 followers, and I’m so, so proud of her!

And believe it or not, there is not 1 single good online course about learning how to draw kawaii art and then making physical stickers on the internet. I’ve been looking for a course like this for a long, long time.

And it’s finally here!!!

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This is by far one of the best courses I’ve taken that is so cute and so educational.

The course is in English, and it’s amazing!

What do you need?

A sketchbook, Photoshop, and a graphic tablet so that you can draw the kawaii characters. If you want to make stickers, you’ll need a printer and sticker sheets.

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Sara teaches you how to draw anything in a nice kawaii style. I really love these kinds of courses because they’re so easy to learn and it’s very easy to get clients because this is a really relatable drawing style.

It is in Italian but it comes with subtitles and it’s really easy to follow.