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How to Draw Penne
Draw penne 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 rim.
Step 1: The rim
A little below the middle, draw a wide flat oval about a hand wide, for the top of the bowl.
Step 2: The bowl
Start at the left end of the oval. Draw a big U down and up to the right end.
Step 3: The foot
Under the bowl, start on the bottom left. Go down a little, across, and up to the bottom right.
Step 4: The sauce
Inside the rim, draw a second flat oval a finger in, for the sauce under the penne.
Step 5: Two penne
On the sauce, draw 2 fat tubes with slanted ends, the left one tilting up, the right one tilting down.
Tip Like little straws cut on a slant. Rub out the rim and sauce lines inside the tubes.
Step 6: One in front
In front, in the middle, draw 1 more slanted tube lying almost flat, covering the end of the left one.
Tip Lift your pencil on the back tube where the front one covers it.
Step 7: Open ends
On the slanted end of each tube, draw a long tilted oval for the opening, with a smaller oval inside.
Step 8: Ridges and basil
Draw a line along each tube for a ridge. On the right tube, draw a little pointed basil leaf.
Step 9: A stripe and steam
Draw a bowed stripe round the bowl under the rim, from left to right. Add 2 wiggly steam lines above.
Step 10: The table
Draw a long line under the foot, just touching its bottom.
Step 11: Yellow penne
Colour all 3 tubes and their ends yellow, leaving the leaf and the little holes white.
Step 12: Red sauce, green basil
Colour the sauce red around the penne, and the basil green.
Step 13: Blue stripe, white bowl
Colour the band between the stripe and the rim blue and leave the rest of the bowl white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: penne, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
