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How to Draw a Sundae

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a sundae 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 bowl.

Step 1: The bowl
A little below the middle, start on the left. Draw a big shallow U down and up to the right.
Tip As wide as your hand. A sundae bowl is a wide glass cup.
Step 2: The rim
Join the top ends with a flat oval for the rim, going all the way round.
Step 3: Stem and ground
Start under the bowl. Draw 2 short lines flaring down into a flat foot. Add a ground line under it.
Step 4: Two scoops
Draw 2 big round scoops on the rim. Start the right one where it meets the left, and stop there.
Tip The right scoop is tucked behind the left.
Step 5: Top scoop
Draw a third round scoop on top, tucked behind. Start where it meets one scoop and stop at the other.
Step 6: Whipped cream
Start on the left of the top scoop. Draw a plump hill of cream up and over to the right.
Step 7: Cherry on top
Draw a round cherry on the very top of the cream. Add a short curvy stem coming out of its top.
Step 8: Drippy sauce
Draw a line under the cream. From its left end, drip sauce down over the scoops to the right end.
Tip Rub out the scoop lines inside the drips.
Step 9: A wafer
On the right scoop, draw a slanted box poking up, with 3 short lines across it.
Step 10: Sprinkles
Draw 6 short fat dashes for sprinkles, 3 on each front scoop, tilted different ways.
Step 11: Sky bowl, tan wafer
Go over your lines, then colour the bowl and stem sky blue around the scoops, and the wafer tan.
Step 12: Pink and yellow scoops
Colour the left scoop pink and the right scoop yellow, around the wafer and the drips.
Step 13: Brown sauce, red cherry
Colour the sauce brown and the cherry red, leaving a little white shine. Leave the cream white.