How to Draw a Rocket

An easy step-by-step drawing for kids and beginners: 11 steps, about 3 minutes, on paper.

This rocket is a tall, pointed body built from two matching curves, with a line across the top for the nose cone. Add a round window, two fins and a flame with a smaller flame inside it. It's the first drawing on the Space path, and it's simple enough for a young child to finish with a parent.

Step by step

Each picture shows the lines so far: the faded ones are done, the dark ones are this step’s.

1. Step 1: Draw the left side

   

   Start at the tip of the nose. Draw the left side, curving down to the bottom.

2. Step 2: Draw the right side

   

   Back to the tip. Take the right side down the same way, and close the bottom.

3. Step 3: Draw the nose line

   

   One straight line across, near the top. Everything above it is the nose cone.

4. Step 4: Draw the window

   

   The window is a circle in the middle of the body, with room all around it.

5. Step 5: Draw the fins

   

   A fin goes on each side at the bottom, like two swept-back wings.

6. Step 6: Draw the flame

   

   Under the rocket, hang a flame: wide at the top, down to one soft point.

7. Step 7: Draw the inner flame

   

   A smaller flame sits inside it, the same teardrop shape.

8. Step 8: Color the body

   

   Color the body gray.

9. Step 9: Color the nose cone and fins

   

   Color the nose cone and both fins red.

10. Step 10: Color the flames

    

    Color the flame orange, and the little one inside it yellow.

11. Step 11: Color the window

    

    Color the window blue.

Tips for drawing a rocket

• Make the body about three times as tall as it is wide. That gives the rocket a slim, fast look.
• Before you draw the right side, look back at the left one. Try to mirror its curve so both sides bulge out the same amount.
• Put the nose line about a quarter of the way down from the tip. That way the cone looks like its own part.
• Draw the window a little above the middle of the body. That leaves clear space between it and the nose line, and between it and the fins.
• Make the flame about half as tall as the body. Then draw the inner flame so it fills about half of the outer one.

Common mistakes

• The two sides don't match, so the rocket leans or one side looks fatter. Start both sides at the same tip and stop them at the same height. Then join the bottom with one flat line.
• The window is so big that it touches the sides of the body. Keep the circle to about half the body's width, so there is space around it on all sides.
• The fins stick straight out sideways, like arms. Angle each fin down and back toward the bottom. Let its lowest point sit at the base of the rocket or a little below it.

Make it your own

• Draw two or three windows stacked down the middle of the body instead of one.
• Swap the colors. Try a white body with a blue nose cone and blue fins.
• Make the flame longer and thinner so the rocket looks like it's speeding up.
• Tilt the whole rocket on the page so it looks like it's flying off at an angle.

Your finished rocket

Color it in as you like: the colors here are only a start.

All the steps on one page

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Updated 2026-10-23