Diamonds may be forever, but learning how to draw one only takes a few minutes! And it’s a most versatile little doodle, this one.
After you get the diamond shape down pat, you can take it in quite a few other directions! For example:
- practice line drawing
- practice shading in a very low-threshold, no-stress way
- entertain yourself and experiment with pastel or bold color to fill in the facets in various ways
- make some fun instant coloring pages for kids in your surrounding
- vary with size: what’s it going to be, a
flockherdcollection of small gems on a page, or one giant sparkler? - use these shapes as a base, and fill the facets of your gems with creative zentangles. Get the free zentangle workbook for ideas & free printable practice pages!

The only things you need are a sharpie, maybe a pencil, some paper of course, and a little patience. You’ll be looking at a pretty, faceted diamond in no time.
Let’s get started!
Steps 1 – 5
Start with a flattened circle. The end result will be better if this first shape is solid, so take as many tries as needed to ensure this flattened circle looks at least half half decent.

Two lines go down from the ends.

Connect the bottoms of these lines with a curved one, following the curve of the flattened circle above it.

Now, you’re going to define where the bottom point of the diamond will be with a tiny dot. Eye-ball it to land right in the middle of the shape.
Alternatively, you can use erasable pencil lines to measure this out. That is, of course, the way to be completely sure.

With similar tiny dots to serve as markers, we now want to divide the flattened circle into three equal parts with two dots, and the lower rim into four equal parts with three dots.

Steps 6 – 10
Time to add the first facets to our diamond!

Keep connecting those dots into triangles.

With the third one in place, it’s starting to look like a real gem.

Now, we can connect the left side of the drawing to that small marker point below.

And it’s time to close the shape with a same line on the right side. How’s it looking so far?

Steps 11 – 15
This step is a little tricky.
It could help the draw another curved circle under the bottom one, to have a helpline. You want these four marker points to be on that (imaginary) circle, and they should be placed kind of in the middle of each facet.
For the left and right ones, this will be hard, so you have to pick a spot that is the smallest distance away from the side, while still having enough room to stand on its own.

Next, we connect those markers to the line above them, creating more facets a.k.a. triangles.

These facets look more or less squeezed, due to the perspective that comes into play. No worries, just keep going.

Add the last one.

It should look sort-of like the image below.

Steps 16 – 20
From the lowest point of each triangle, add a line down to the bottom of the gem.

When drawing lines, it helps to use your hand and lower arm as one, and move in a single, smooth motion.

Almost finished!

This is how your diamond drawing should look with the last line in place. Ready to add some color?

Color is the defining factor here – what will it be? An actual diamond, or a ruby, a sapphire, or an emerald?
I went with red and pink hues, so I guess that’s where it stopped being a diamond and turned into a ruby.

If it’s an actual diamond you’re going for, try coloring around the gem instead of inside its lines!
That sounds super fun, actually – I can’t wait to make one, too.

But first, nice job – it you got this far, I bet you’ve made a nice diamond drawing. I hope you found the step-by-step approach useful.
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