Summary
A friendly, follow-along drawing lesson: Wennie shows how to draw a cupcake step by step in Draw So Cute's cheerful cartoon style. This one is a little longer and adds more detail, so it suits artists who can work at a steadier pace -- pause and rewind as needed. Free on the official Draw So Cute YouTube channel -- a calm art-time activity or an early-finisher choice.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Draw along, then talk about the choices you and the artist made.
- What simple shapes did the lesson start with to build the cupcake?
- Where did you slow down or rewind, and what made that step tricky?
- How did you make your cupcake look "cute" -- the eyes, the size, the round shapes?
- What could you change to make your cupcake your own -- a new color, a pattern, or a background?
Quick work-a-long
Art words: shape, outline, guideline, detail, color.
Try it: 1) Follow along and draw your own cupcake, pausing at each step. 2) Draw a cupcake a second time and change one thing -- a new expression, color, or pattern -- to make it yours.