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How to Draw a Cheese Wheel

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a cheese wheel in 13 easy steps, about 10 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: the top.

Step 1: The top
Draw a big flat oval above the middle. Start at the front left, go round, and stop before the start.
Tip A flat oval with a bite out of the front.
Step 2: The sides
From each end of the oval draw a short line straight down and stop. Both the same length.
Step 3: The bottom
Start at the left line. Curve down and across to the right line. Leave the same gap at the front.
Step 4: The cut
From each gap end draw a line down to the bottom gap. Add one from the oval's middle, straight down.
Step 5: The cut faces
From the oval's middle draw a line out to each gap end. Do the same at the bottom.
Tip Now the bite shows 2 flat cut faces.
Step 6: Holes
On the cut faces draw 3 small round holes. Add one little hole on each curved side.
Step 7: The cut wedge
Draw the cut wedge at the front right: a low box, a triangle top, a curved end. Add 2 holes.
Tip Its point faces left, toward the wheel. The curved end is the rind.
Step 8: A board
Draw a flat board under the wheel. Start at its left, curve under the wedge, and stop at its right.
Tip Lift your pencil where the board goes behind the cheese.
Step 9: The table
Draw a long table line under the board, just touching its bottom.
Step 10: Yellow wedge, white holes
Go over your lines. Colour the wedge's top and front yellow. Leave all the holes white.
Step 11: Yellow cheese
Colour the wheel's top and the 2 cut faces yellow, going round the holes.
Step 12: Orange rind
Colour the wheel's curved sides orange, around the wedge. Colour the wedge's curved end orange too.
Step 13: Wood board
Colour the board wood brown, around the cheese, and your cheese wheel is done!