How to Draw Some Coffee Beans (Easy Step by Step)
Learn to easily draw coffee beans by starting with ovals and adding a wiggly line down the middle. You'll discover how to create a realistic pile using overlapping techniques and even add a small leaf.
- Use ovals as the base shape for your coffee beans.
- Draw a wiggly line down the center of each bean.
- Overlap beans to create a natural-looking pile.
- Add a small leaf for extra detail in your drawing.
Coffee beans are a fun drawing because they are really just ovals with a wiggly line down the middle. This pile has a big top bean, beans on the sides and in front, a few peeking out from behind, and a small leaf. Overlapping the beans makes it look like a real heap, even for beginners.
- Easy
- 12 minutes
- 7 steps
You need: paper, a pencil, an eraser, and crayons or markers for coloring.
Start drawing
In this article (7 sections)
How to draw some coffee beans step by step
How to Draw Some Coffee Beans · tinyhandscreate.com
Step 1: Top bean and first curves
Near the top of the page, draw a big, wide oval like a squished egg lying on its side. Then, starting just under it, draw a short line going down and a long curve bending off to the right. These begin the beans in front.
Step 2: Left bean and side line
On the left, draw a big curve shaped like the letter C, starting at the top bean and bending around to the bottom left. Then add a short wavy line on the right side of the top bean, going out to the right.
Step 3: Two front beans
Draw two ovals at the bottom, one in the middle and one on the right. Start each oval where it touches its neighbor and curve around to close it.
Step 4: Beans peeking from behind
Draw a small curve at the upper left that connects the left bean to the top bean. Then draw a big curve on the right that wraps around the side and ends near the front bean. These look like beans hiding behind the others.
Step 5: The little leaf
Draw a pointy leaf next to the top bean, like a lemon shape with one tip. Start at the top bean, curve out and up, then come back down to the bean.
Step 6: Top bean's crease
Inside the top bean, draw a wiggly line from the left to the right. Make it wavy like a gentle snake.
Step 7: Creases on other beans
Give the left bean and the two front beans each a wiggly line down the middle, following the long side of the bean. Add a tiny straight dash in the small gap between the left bean and the front beans.
All done!
Go over your lines with a marker, then color it in.
Finished your some coffee beans? Keep the pencils out and learn how to draw boba tea or how to draw a cupcake next.
Tips for drawing some coffee beans
- Draw the big top bean first and leave plenty of room, so the other beans have space to tuck in around it.
- Where two beans touch, stop one line when it meets the other bean. That makes the beans look like they are overlapping.
- The wiggly crease is the trickiest part. Practice it once on scrap paper, then draw it slowly with a smooth S-shaped curve.
Free some coffee beans coloring page
Want to go straight to coloring? Open this some coffee beans coloring page at full size and print it. It is the same drawing you just learned, with clean lines ready for crayons or markers.
How to color your some coffee beans drawing
Try warm browns for the beans, from light tan to dark chocolate, and a bright green for the leaf. For a creative twist, color each bean a different shade, like caramel, mocha and cocoa.
Some coffee beans fun fact for kids
A coffee bean is actually the seed of a small red fruit called a coffee cherry. Each cherry usually has two seeds inside, and those seeds are what we roast to make coffee.
Questions about drawing some coffee beans
What shapes do I need to draw coffee beans?
You only need ovals and a wavy line. Draw the oval first, then add a squiggly line down the middle for the crease.
How do I make my coffee beans look like they are piled up?
Overlap the ovals so one bean sits in front of another. Stop the back bean's line when it reaches the front bean.
How do I make the crease look right?
Start at one end of the bean and wiggle gently to the other end, like a calm snake. Keep it in the middle and not too deep.
