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How to Draw Swedish Meatballs

14 steps · Medium · about 11 min

Draw Swedish meatballs in 14 easy steps, about 11 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
Below the middle of your paper, left of centre, draw a wide flat oval. This is the dish's rim.
Step 2: The dish
Start at the oval's left end. Draw a shallow U and stop at its right end. Add 2 tiny handles.
Tip Swedish meatballs come with mash, cream sauce and lingonberry jam.
Step 3: The sauce
Inside the rim draw a second flat oval, a finger inside it, for the cream sauce.
Step 4: Mashed potato
On the left, in the sauce, draw a soft mound of mash with 3 round bumps, the middle one tallest.
Step 5: Meatballs
On the right, draw 3 meatballs in a row, each tucked behind the last, and 1 on top.
Step 6: Lingonberry jam
Between the mash and the meatballs, at the back of the sauce, draw a wobbly dollop of jam.
Step 7: Parsley
On the front of the mash's middle bump, draw 2 small pointed leaves joined at one end.
Step 8: Steam
Above the meatballs, draw 2 wiggly steam lines going up.
Step 9: A gravy boat
Right of the dish, draw a long pointy oval. From its point, draw a round bottom to the other end.
Tip The pointed end is the spout the gravy pours from.
Step 10: The boat's handle
Start under the boat's rim on the right. Draw a C handle, stopping lower down. Add a smaller C inside.
Step 11: The table
Draw a table line under the dish and the boat from left to right, just touching the bottoms.
Step 12: Cream sauce, sand mash
Go over your lines, then colour the sauce in the dish and the boat cream, and the mash sand.
Step 13: Sky dish, red jam
Colour the dish, its handles and the gravy boat sky blue, around the cream sauce. Colour the jam red.
Step 14: Green parsley, brown meatballs
Colour the parsley green and the meatballs brown. Your Swedish meatballs are done!