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How to Draw Mashed Potatoes
Draw mashed potatoes 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: the rim.
Step 1: The rim
A little below the middle draw a wide flat oval for the top of the bowl, wider than your hand.
Step 2: The bowl
From the left end of the oval draw a big U down and round to the right end, flat underneath.
Tip A deep bowl, wider at the top.
Step 3: The mash
On top of the oval draw a fluffy cloud of mash: 4 soft bumps from end to end.
Tip Keep the bottom of the mound inside the oval.
Step 4: Pat of butter
Just below the top bump draw a flat slanted square of butter, with a thin strip along its front.
Tip Keep the whole pat inside the mash, like a little box lying on it.
Step 5: A melty drip
From the bottom of the butter draw a melty drip with 2 round bumps, and back up to the butter.
Step 6: Steam
Above the mash draw 2 soft S-shaped steam lines rising up, one each side of the butter.
Step 7: A stripe
Below the rim, draw one curve like a smile across the bowl, from the left side to the right side.
Step 8: The foot
Under the bowl draw a short flat foot, a little wider at the bottom.
Step 9: The table
Draw a table line from the left edge to the right edge, touching the bottom of the foot.
Step 10: Mash and butter
Go over your lines. Colour the mash cream around the butter, then colour the butter and drip yellow.
Step 11: Blue bowl
Colour the bowl and rim sky blue above the stripe, then blue below the stripe and on the foot.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: mashed potatoes, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
