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How to Draw Tom Yum
Draw tom yum 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
Above the middle draw a wide oval for the top of the bowl, about a hand across.
Step 2: A shallow bowl
Start at the left end of the oval. Draw a shallow U down and round, stopping at the right end.
Tip Tom yum is a hot and sour Thai soup served on a tall stand.
Step 3: A tall stand
Start at the bowl's bottom left. Draw a stand flaring out to a wide base, stopping at the bottom right.
Step 4: The soup
Inside the rim draw a second oval a finger inside it, all the way round, for the soup.
Step 5: Two prawns
In the soup draw 2 curled prawns with fan tails and 2 stripes, big one left, small one right.
Step 6: Mushrooms
Draw 2 little mushrooms, half-round caps on short stalks: a small one left and a bigger one in the middle.
Step 7: Lime and chilli
On the right draw a lime wedge with 3 lines. Under it draw a chilli with a cap and stalk.
Step 8: Lemongrass and a leaf
Draw lemongrass from the soup past the rim, split into 2 blades. Add a leaf with a vein, bottom left.
Step 9: Steam
Above the left of the bowl draw two wiggly steam lines going up.
Step 10: The table
Draw a line under the stand from well left to well right, just touching its base.
Step 11: Tan and pink
Go over your lines, then colour the mushrooms tan and the prawns pink.
Step 12: Orange soup, red chilli
Colour the soup orange around the prawns and mushrooms, and colour the chilli red.
Step 13: Green bits, teal bowl
Colour the lime, leaf, chilli cap and lemongrass green, then the bowl, rim and stand teal.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: tom yum, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
