Learn how to draw a book step by step and easy enough for beginners, start a sketch with this tutorial. If you scroll down, you will see more detailed instructions and a step-by-step collage of this drawing.

Hi all! In this easy drawing lesson, you will learn how to draw a book. It is no secret that the book is one of the main treasures of useful information for children and adults. Also, with the help of books, you can have an interesting time reading about the adventures of brave travelers or sharing emotions with your favorite characters from the book.

Do you want to draw beautiful pages, a brochure or an encyclopedia, but don’t know how? Then our lesson will definitely come in handy! There are now a huge number of printed publications in stores, diverse in genre, illustration design and price, but this was not always the case. The original books were handwritten. With the advent of the printing press, they began to gradually spread and become more and more accessible to various segments of the population. Books really are real treasures—that’s why we appreciate and love them so much! Drawing books is a simple and useful activity. Let’s get started!

Time needed: 20 minutes

How to Draw a Book

Shape the papers.
Start by drawing the shapes of the book papers.
Add the gutter.
Using a straight dividing line, depict the gutter of the book.
Add an edge.
Sketch the book edge as shown.
Add the block.
Sketch the foot edge of the book.
Page lines.
Draw three curved lines on each side of the book. This way you will draw a block of pages on the book edge.
Draw the cover.
At the finish of the sketching of the book, you need to draw the book’s cover.
Color the book.
Now you need to trace and color your artwork with a marker or fountain pen. We hope that this instruction has become useful for you and that you were able to draw an open book the way you intended.