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How to Draw Tempura
Draw tempura in 12 easy steps, about 9 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: a plate.
Step 1: A plate
In the middle draw a big flat oval plate, most of the page wide.
Step 2: The rim
Draw a second oval a finger inside the plate, all the way round, for the rim.
Step 3: The first prawn
Across the back draw a long curved prawn with small crinkly bumps, fat on the right, thin on the left.
Tip Keep the bumps small and the prawn long, like a banana.
Step 4: Its tail
At the thin left end draw a little fan tail with 3 round bumps, growing out of the batter.
Step 5: A second prawn
Below it draw a second long crinkly prawn the other way round: fat on the left, thin on the right.
Step 6: Another tail
At its thin right end draw the same little fan tail with 3 round bumps.
Step 7: A dipping bowl
At the back right draw a small oval. From its left end dip a U down to its right end.
Step 8: A leaf
Draw a pointed leaf peeking out from behind the front prawn, with a line from the prawn to its tip.
Step 9: Golden batter
Go over your lines, then colour both prawns golden orange.
Step 10: Red tails
Colour the fan tails red.
Step 11: Brown sauce, green leaf
Colour the sauce in the bowl brown and the leaf green.
Step 12: Blue plate, white bowl
Colour the plate sky blue around the prawns, the leaf and the bowl. Leave the little bowl white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: tempura, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
