A crown is one of those drawings that looks like it belongs in a museum case, all gold and gemstones and fancy curls, but it's really just a band with a few decorative shapes layered on top. Once you see the scalloped arches and the central spike as separate, simple pieces instead of one complicated mess, the whole thing becomes a lot less daunting — and a lot more fun to draw. Let's get drawing!
In the lower-middle of your paper, draw a wide, flattened cylinder shape: a long oval for the top edge and a matching oval beneath it for the bottom edge, connected by two short curved lines on the left and right sides. This band is the part that wraps around the head, so give it plenty of width — everything else in this tutorial gets built on top of it.
Just above the top edge of the band, draw a second curved line tracing closely alongside the first one from one side to the other. This creates a slightly raised lip along the top, giving the band a finished, rolled edge instead of a flat cut-off line.
At the far left and far right ends of the band, draw a thin stem rising upward, with a small circle sitting on top of each one. These little ball-tipped spikes are called finials, and placing them first at the outer corners gives you a clear frame to build the rest of the crown's silhouette within.
Between the two finials, draw a series of dipping, scalloped curves that rise and fall across the top of the band like little waves. Add two smaller pointed leaf-like shapes partway between the center and each outer finial, and place a diamond shape right in the middle of the band's top edge. This crisscrossing arch pattern is what gives a crown its instantly recognizable outline.
Rising up from the diamond shape in the center, draw a tall, flame-like spike that flares out into two curling petals near its base. This classic fleur-de-lis shape is the centerpiece of the whole design, so let it stand noticeably taller than every other point around it.
Just below the bottom edge of the band, draw one more thin curved line running alongside it, the same way you did for the top edge back in Step 2. This second line gives the base of the crown some visual weight and thickness, so it doesn't look like a flat ribbon.
Along the front of the band, draw one larger oval gem in the very center, then add two smaller diamond shapes spaced evenly on either side of it, and finish with two more small oval gems placed further out toward each end. These five jewels running across the band are what really push the design from "metal headband" to "treasure."
Now for the part that makes it shine!
Once the gold and gemstone colors go on, the whole crown suddenly looks like it's worth a king's ransom. 👑
What's nice about a crown is that nearly every "fancy" detail is just a simple shape repeated or layered with the next one — finials, scallops, a fleur-de-lis, and a row of gems, each easy enough on its own. Once the structure feels familiar, you can change the number of points, swap the central spike for a cross or a single tall gem, or rearrange the jewel colors entirely.
Try making a second version with cooler tones — silver metal with sapphire and amethyst gems gives a completely different, almost icy feel compared to the warm gold-and-ruby look here, even though the underlying shapes stay exactly the same.
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