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How to Draw an Onigiri
Draw an onigiri in 10 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 rice ball.
Step 1: The rice ball
Left of the middle draw a big fat triangle with very round corners, about as wide as it is tall.
Tip An onigiri is a rice ball pressed into a fat triangle.
Step 2: The seaweed
Start on the bottom edge, left of middle. Go up, across right, and down to stop on the bottom edge.
Step 3: A second rice ball
To the right, tucked behind the first, draw a smaller soft triangle. Start and stop where it meets the first.
Step 4: Its seaweed
On the small triangle, start on its bottom edge. Go up, across, and stop back on the bottom edge.
Step 5: Rice grains
Draw 4 little curved dashes, like tiny smiles, on the big rice ball and 2 on the small one.
Step 6: A plate
Draw a big flat oval plate under both rice balls. Its back edge hides behind them.
Step 7: Chopsticks
On the front of the plate draw 2 long chopsticks side by side, slanting down right, thinner at the tips.
Step 8: Sky plate
Go over your lines. Colour the plate sky blue, around the chopsticks. Leave the rice white.
Step 9: Wood chopsticks
Colour the chopsticks wood brown.
Step 10: Black seaweed
Colour both seaweed strips black. Your onigiri are done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: an onigiri, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
