How to Draw an Italian Chef

Learn to draw an Italian chef in no time.

Knowing how to draw a stereotypical Italian chef can take your average chef drawing to a whole different level. With an exaggerated, large, round body, flamboyant chef hat, and handlebar mustache, you're Italian chef will be as recognizable as Chef Boyardee, and more visually appealing than a plain, lanky, bare-faced chef. Just follow a few steps and you will be on your way to having the ultimate Italian chef in no time.

Things You'll Need

• Blank sheet of paper
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Crayons

Instructions

1. 

   Start with a sketch the basic shapes forming the body.

   Lightly sketch a large circle with a small circle at the very top. Sketch single straight lines for the arms with small circles at the ends for the palms and single lines for the fingers. Draw two straight lines for the legs with ovals at the end for feet. So far, it should look like a big bubble for a body with a small bubble for a head, and stick-figure arms and legs with small bubble feet and hands. These are the basic body shapes that will become your Italian chef.

2. 

   Note the cloudy nature of the top of the hat.

   Draw the chef's hat. Draw two lines spaced widely apart going upward from the top of the head. Add a cloud shape to the top of these lines in which the "bumps" interchange between larger and much smaller. Connect the bottom of the lines at the top of the head with a line slightly rounded downward toward the middle. Add straight lines going upward on the non-cloud portion of the chef hat spaced a little apart from one another all the way around the hat. These vertical lines are creases commonly seen in the rising chef hat.

3. 

   A classic handlebar mustache sets apart the Italitan chef.

   Draw a nose at the center of the face. Add two small beady eyes spaced a little up and outward from the nose and thick, bushy eyebrows above them at 45-degree angles. From the bottom edge of the nose, draw a handlebar mustache by curving the ends of the mustache up into semi-circles. Just below the mustache, add an open smile with crisscrossed teeth. Add a small rounded line a little below the mouth for a chin. Add some hair coming from underneath the chef hat. Add small circular ears at the sides of the head directly across from the eyes. Darken the sketched lines of the head to connect the parts of the face that are not obscured by the hat, hair and ears.

4. 

   Draw the arms and hands.

   Draw the two lines to form each sleeve-covered arm coming from the top of the sides of the body. Use the stick-figure arms you have previously drawn as a guide. Finish the sleeves just at the beginnings of the palm portions of the hands. Make cuffs at the end of the sleeves by adding what looks like a small collar. Create hands by drawing around the guides you have previously drawn (circle shape as palm and stick figures for fingers).

5. Draw an apron starting with the straps at the chef's shoulders, going down along the outer shape of your chef's torso until it hangs over the bottom of the chef's body. This should obscure the tops of what will eventually be the legs. Add a collar just below the chef's head. Add a set of two parallel close lines starting a little to the left of the center of the collar headed downward, to the top edge of the apron. Add a button to the right of these two lines just above where the apron begins. These lines and buttons are part of the buttoned-up chef coat underneath the apron.

6. 

   Color in your Italian chef if you'd like.

   Draw two parallel lines each for both pant-covered legs coming out from the end of the apron. These should be centered upon the stick-figure legs. Create shoes out of the round shape that you previously sketched.

7. Erase your guide lines. Carefully remove any sketch lines that should not be part of the final drawing.

   Color in the chef as you choose.

Tips & Warnings

• Draw the hair of the chef by drawing a continuous dark line with a curling motion of your pencil.

• Do not draw the handlebar mustache too thick or it will leave no room to see the chef's mouth.