ORIGINAL DRAWING LESSON

Chef

This drawing shows the process of creating an illustration of a chef cooking pancakes. The step-by-step construction helps you understand how a lively, realistic scene is gradually formed from simple shapes and lines. Kitchen scenes are often used in many drawing tutorials to practice poses and gestures because they have a lot of movement and objects.

  1. Chef — step 1

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    Step 1

    Outline a simple figure of a person: a circle for the head, lines for the neck and torso, and marks for the shoulders and arms.

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  2. Chef — step 2

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    Step 2

    Add ovals for the future hands, as well as a line for the table as a reference.

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  3. Chef — step 3

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    Step 3

    Refine the hands and draw the shapes of the ladle and the frying pan.

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  4. Chef — step 4

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    Step 4

    Draw the hair and sketch the chef's hat to set the look immediately.

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  5. Chef — step 5

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    Step 5

    Outline the face: eyes, nose, and mouth. The head is tilted slightly down.

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  6. Chef — step 6

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    Step 6

    Refine the shapes of the face.

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  7. Chef — step 7

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    Step 7

    Start working on the hat with its folds, add hair and a beard.

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  8. Chef — step 8

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    Step 8

    Work on the shapes of the left and right hands with the ladle.

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  9. Chef — step 9

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    Step 9

    Add the utensils: a bowl of batter on the table and a frying pan in the right hand.

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  10. Chef — step 10

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    Step 10

    Refine the silhouette of the chef: draw the sleeve, the folds of the clothing, and the line of the table.

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  11. Chef — step 11

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    Step 11

    Add more lines to the apron, and add more folds to the clothing.

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  12. Chef — step 12

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    Step 12

    Make folds on the clothes.

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  13. Chef — step 13

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    Step 13

    Your drawing is ready, color it according to the example!

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