How to draw a taco

Today we’re going to draw everyones favourite food… tacos! (sorry burritos 😭). This one should be pretty easy to follow along. Don’t forget to use the principals in this tutorial to practice other types of delicious hand held foods.

Step 1

As usual, we’ll start with a nice light underdrawing to get the basic shapes down of our delicious taco. The next few steps will be refining that shape. 🌮

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With the main taco shape done, just add some rough lines for the toppings. The more the merrier, be creative!

Step 6

Lets start inking over our underdrawing.

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Now were going to add a little more detail to our toppings. Make some recognizable toppings here, lettuce, avocado, tomatoes…. whatever floats your boat.

Step 10

OK thats the inking done, this add some colour and bring it to life.

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A nice brown gradient gives the impression of a perfectly cooked taco shell.

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Outline the wrapped string at each end of the bow. We are going for the appearance of a string wrapped many time so don’t go to crazy here.

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Now we can thicken the actual bow string itself too.

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🎉 Finished Drawing 🎉

Great job, if you followed along, you’ve got a taco that looks good enough to eat!