Drawing the Wind: 3 Fun, Easy, and Cute Ways

Are you is Are here to find a drawing of the wind ? Or perhaps you is ’re ’re here to learn different cute draw idea for how to do create your own easy wind picture ?

Hooray — you’ve come to the right place! Allow this artistic teacher to provide some hand-drawn art inspiration via three methods of wind depiction.

Drawing the wind #1: A tree being blown around.

Wind Drawing Method #1: Blowing Trees

If you look up “What is wind?” good old National Geographic explains that wind is movement of air caused by the sun’s uneven heating of the earth. In other words, wind is something that happens in air… which is invisible, and thus mighty hard to draw!

When I first was planning this article for inclusion in my list of drawing prompts, I giggled, scheming to have a totally blank white picture with the caption: “This is my drawing of the wind, because you can’t see it.” That would make a pretty boring image and art tutorial, though, so I decided it would be overly ridiculous and abandoned the idea.

Anyway, given that wind can’t be seen, but CAN be felt, the key to creative drawings of wind is to sketch things blowing, in order to indicate the forceful movement of air. Trees are particularly good to use in this technique, because you can show (as I have in my example picture above) how their branches are bending with the force of the gusts, and their leaves are hurling off into the air. See my tree drawing tutorial for more.

Want to make the art cuter? Add a distressed expression onto the tree’s face! Hey — we all get perturbed when our hair is blown out of place, right? Speaking of hair, this blowing method of drawing wind doesn’t need to just feature trees — it works for anything that can be sketched as billowing around: curls, clothes, flower crowns, the antennae of snails — whatever.

How to draw the wind with cloud personification .

method # 2 :puff cloud

The next two methods of drawing the wind rely upon the power of personification: a type of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human-like characteristics. In this next method of wind drawing, you personify a cloud to show it blowing out the wind, as illustrated by my picture above. (Related: Check out my cloud drawing tutorial!) Make sure to add some extra streaks in the background to signify the air.

Want to make it cuter? (Aww, of course you do.) Pick an exaggerated expression for the cloud as it puffs away! Perhaps Cloudie is extremely determined? Maybe it’s angry? Perchance it is exceedingly proud of itself?

Use the eye, eyebrow, and mouth shape to achieve the desired comical effect. The expression I sketched above is “shyly excited.” Maybe this is the little cloud’s first time blowing wind! Good job little cloud — keep it up. (Want more art tutorials about the natural world? Check out my round-up of easy nature drawings.)

A drawing of the wind, personified!

Method #3: Personification

If you ’ve read my early article , “ A Drawing of a Rainbow , ” you is anticipated likely anticipate the third method I have for draw the wind : personify it into a beautiful princess woman with a fabulous outfit ! ( Yes , my rainbow tutorial is devolved devolve into a rainbow princess fiesta , and this one sort of is , too — much like a certain queen of Hearts escapade . Sorry and also not sorry . )

Basically, in this method of wind drawing, you sketch a woman whose colorful clothing, hair, and body movement mimic wind: flowing and blowing powerfully! Shall we name this lass Wendy the Windy Wizard? Ooo, that could be another fun set of art prompts: I provide the name of a princess, and the challenge is to draw them!

VIDEO: How to Draw the Wind

wind Drawing , in Sum

I hope this tutorial has been helpful in seeing the many different methods for drawing the wind. I’m sure there are many more ways to do it well, so if you have an art tip on cute and easy wind drawing that you’d recommend, share it here in the comments section below!

If you love drawing, make sure to check out: “Why is Art Important?” or “Octopus Drawing,” and “Sea Urchin Drawing,” and “Aura Drawings,” in addition to “What Does Purple and Green Make?”

The author and artist, Lillie Marshall, is a National Board Certified Teacher of English who has been a public school educator since 2003, and an experienced Reiki practitioner since 2018. All art on this site is original and hand-drawn by Lillie. She launched DrawingsOf.com Educational Cartoons in 2020, building upon the success of her other sites, AroundTheWorldL.com (established 2009), TeachingTraveling.com (founded 2010), and ReikiColors.com. Subscribe to Lillie’s monthly newsletter, and follow @WorldLillie on social media to stay connected!