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How to Draw a Bagel
Draw a bagel in 11 easy steps, about 8 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: a plate.
Step 1: A plate
Below the middle, draw a big flat oval plate, nearly as wide as the paper. Add a rim oval inside.
Step 2: The bagel
On the plate, draw a big oval lying down, about two thirds as wide as the rim: the bagel's top.
Tip A bagel lies flat, so its round top looks like a wide oval.
Step 3: The hole
In the middle of the oval, draw a smaller flat oval hole, about a third as wide as the bagel.
Step 4: The thick side
From the big oval's left end, curve out, round under the bagel and up to its right end.
Tip Make it round and puffy like a roll, not straight up and down like a tin.
Step 5: Inside the hole
Inside the hole, draw a curve from its left end, arching up under the top edge, to its right end.
Tip Above the curve is the inside wall. Below it you see the plate.
Step 6: Sesame seeds
On top of the bagel, draw 4 tiny thin ovals like grains of rice, each leaning a different way.
Step 7: More seeds
Draw 3 more tiny thin ovals in the gaps, each leaning its own way, not in rows.
Step 8: The table
Draw a long table line under the plate, just touching its bottom.
Step 9: Cream seeds
Go over your lines, then colour the seeds cream.
Step 10: Sky plate
Colour the plate sky blue around the bagel, and the see-through part of the hole too.
Step 11: Tan bagel
Colour the top, the side and the wall in the hole tan, around the seeds. Your bagel is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a bagel, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
