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How to Draw a Potter
Draw a potter 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 head.
Step 1: The head
Near the top, in the middle, draw an egg for the head, a little narrower at the chin.
Tip Leave most of the page below for the body and legs.
Step 2: The face
Draw 2 oval eyes, a tiny nose and a smile. Start a C ear each side, stopping on the head.
Step 3: Headscarf
Start by the left eyebrow. Draw the scarf over the head, down to the right. Add a knot with tails.
Step 4: Neck and shirt
Draw 2 short neck lines. From the left one, draw a shirt with short sleeves, stopping at the right one.
Step 5: Apron
Draw an apron: a bib on the chest, wide from the waist down past the knees, with 2 neck straps.
Step 6: Bent arms
From each sleeve, draw the arm down, then curving in across the tummy, stopping at the wrist.
Step 7: Mitten hands
On each arm end, draw a mitten pointing in, with a little thumb bump. Leave a gap between the hands.
Step 8: Clay vase
Between the hands, draw a tall vase: flat rim, narrow neck, round belly behind the mittens. Add 2 ring lines.
Step 9: Clay smudges
On the apron below the vase, draw 2 small blobs for clay smudges, one low on each side.
Step 10: Trousers, shoes and ground
Start at the hem's left end. Draw 2 trouser legs, stopping at the right. Add shoes and a ground line.
Step 11: Cream apron, green shirt
Colour the apron cream and the shirt green.
Step 12: Tan vase, red headscarf
Colour the vase, the smudges and the trousers tan. Colour the headscarf and the shoes red.
Step 13: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Colour the face, ears, neck, arms and hands peach, with pink cheeks. Go over your lines and you're done.
Tip Keep the eyes white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a potter, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
