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How to Draw a Dosa
Draw a dosa in 12 easy steps, about 9 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
In the middle of your paper draw a big oval plate, nearly as wide as the page.
Step 2: The rim
Draw a second oval a finger inside the plate, all the way round, for the rim.
Step 3: The rolled dosa
Across the plate draw a long fat roll sloping down right. Make the left end round, the right end flat.
Tip A dosa is a big thin crispy pancake, rolled up like a tube.
Step 4: The open end
Over the flat right end draw a tilted oval, touching the top and bottom of the roll.
Step 5: The rolled edge
Start in the oval's middle and swirl out to its edge. Keep going along the top to the left end.
Step 6: Crispy spots
Draw 3 soft round spots spread along the roll, one low and two higher, for the crispy golden bits.
Step 7: Coconut chutney
On the plate above the roll draw the top bowl, a big circle with a smaller circle inside.
Step 8: Tomato chutney
Below the roll draw the bottom bowl the same way, but smaller than the top bowl.
Step 9: Tan dosa
Go over your lines, then colour the dosa and its open end tan, going around the spots.
Step 10: Blue plate
Colour the plate sky blue, going around the dosa and the bowls.
Step 11: Spots and bowls
Colour the crispy spots ginger, and each bowl's outer ring grey, around the chutney.
Step 12: White and red chutney
Leave the top bowl's chutney white and colour the bottom one red. Your dosa is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a dosa, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
