Easy How to Draw Uncle Sam Tutorial

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Learn how to draw Uncle Sam and add him to your upcoming patriotic celebrations. His colorful yet simplified suit is easy for artists of all ages.

Drawing of Uncle Sam

According to Britannica.com, Uncle Sam is a popular symbol for the United States who is usually associated with a cartoon figure having long white hair and chin whiskers and dressed in a swallow-tailed coat, vest, tall hat, and striped trousers. His appearance is derived from two earlier symbolic figures in American folklore: Yankee Doodle, a British-inspired nickname for American colonials during the American Revolution, and Brother Jonathan, a rural American wit who, by surprising displays of native intelligence, always triumphed over his adversaries in plays, stories, cartoons, and verse.

This tutorial will help students draw Uncle Sam with his trademark clothes that are full of red, white and blue stars and stripes. The suit has been simplified so that young artists can get in some body proportion practice while drawing this fun, patriotic figure.

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Materials for a Uncle Sam Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions to Draw a Uncle Sam Step by Step

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Draw Uncle Sam

  1. Start a simple head and hat.

  2. . Add the beginning of the coat below.

  3. Draw the pants below.

  4. Add the shoes and sleeves.

  5. Draw two hands as shown.

  6. Complete the face, hair and ears.

  7. Add the beard and hat details.

  8. Finish coat, tie and stripes on pants.

  9. Trace with a marker and color.

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