Learn to Draw Sushi 🍣 in Procreate Digital Art #shorts

Follow along with this easy step-by-step drawing tutorial and learn how to draw Sushi 🍣 in Procreate Digital Art #shorts. Perfect for kids and beginners!

Materials You Will Need

  • Drawing paper or sketchbook
  • Pencil (HB or #2)
  • Eraser
  • Black marker or pen for outlining
  • Colored pencils, markers, or crayons

Drawing Tips

  • Start with light pencil lines so you can easily erase mistakes
  • Take your time with each step
  • Add your own creative touches to make it unique
  • Practice drawing Sushi 🍣 in Procreate Digital Art #shorts multiple times to improve

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How to Draw Sushi: Step-by-Step for Kids

Sushi is beautiful food — and it makes a gorgeous drawing subject with its clean shapes and bright colours. Here is how to draw a classic nigiri sushi piece!

What You'll Need

  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Paper
  • White, orange, red, and green markers

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Draw the Rice Base

Draw an oval or slightly rounded rectangular shape for the rice bed. The rice mound for nigiri sushi is like a small pillow — oval and slightly convex on top. This is the base everything else sits on.

Step 2: Add the Rice Texture

Cover the surface of the rice oval with small oval and irregular shapes to suggest individual grains of rice. Keep the grain shapes small and scattered — not too uniform. Use a mix of tiny ovals and slightly irregular marks.

Step 3: Draw the Fish Topping

On top of the rice base, draw the fish slice (neta). For salmon nigiri, draw a long, thin, slightly curved oval draped over the rice. The fish extends slightly beyond the edges of the rice on the long sides. The fish has a smooth surface.

Step 4: Add Marbling to the Fish

For salmon or tuna, draw subtle wavy lines across the fish slice to show the natural marbling of the fish flesh. These are thin, irregular curved lines in a slightly different shade. They should look organic, not geometric.

Step 5: Draw the Nori Band (Optional)

For some sushi (like tamago — egg sushi), a thin strip of dried seaweed (nori) wraps around the middle of the rice and fish to hold them together. Draw a thin rectangular black band encircling the piece.

Step 6: Add Wasabi and Ginger

Next to the sushi, draw a small mound of wasabi — a small rounded teardrop shape of green paste. Add a few thin slices of pickled ginger (gari) — pink oval slices fanned out next to the wasabi.

Step 7: Draw the Soy Sauce Dish

Below the sushi, draw a small rectangular dish for soy sauce. Show a shallow pool of dark liquid inside the dish. The soy sauce dish completes the traditional sushi presentation.

Step 8: Add Chopsticks

Draw a pair of chopsticks beside the sushi — two long, thin parallel lines tapering to a fine point at one end. Position them ready to pick up the sushi piece.

Adding Colour

Salmon nigiri: bright orange-pink fish on white rice. Tuna nigiri: deep red fish. The rice stays white or very pale cream. Wasabi is bright green. Pickled ginger is pale pink. Soy sauce in the dish is a deep brown. Nori band is black-green.

Tips from Parikshet

  • The smooth, clean shape of the fish topping contrasted with the textured rice below is the key visual tension in a sushi drawing.
  • The marbling lines inside the fish are what make it look like real fish rather than just a coloured oval — add them lightly.
  • Arranging sushi, wasabi, ginger, and soy dish together as a traditional set makes the drawing feel complete and authentic.

Try This With ChatGPT

With a grown-up, open a new ChatGPT chat and paste this prompt, changing [my age] to your age:

I am [my age] years old and I want to draw Sushi Procreate Digital Art. Give me 6 steps using only simple shapes like circles, ovals and lines. Give one step at a time and wait until I type "next" before giving the following step.

Exact steps, follow-up prompts and safety rules are in our parent-guided ChatGPT guide. More ideas: creative AI activities for kids.