How to Draw a Cracker Step by Step
This six step tutorial shows an easy way to draw a nice looking cracker with illustrated examples and short and simple instructions.
Because the cracker has such a basic shape with little detail this is a very straightforward and beginner friendly guide. However, at the same time it can help you create very nice and believable looking artwork that’s easily recognized for what it’s supposed to be.
You can see a preview of the drawing steps for the cracker in the image above.
It’s recommended that you start the tutorial in pencil and make light lines that are easy to erase in case you make a mistake. You can darken them later on with a black pen or marker.
Step 1 – Draw the Outline of the Cracker
Begin by drawing the cracker’s outer shape. You can pretty much make it a circle but deliberately give it a somewhat wavy/wobbly outline. Crackers tend to slightly warp when they are barked so their shapes generally aren’t perfect.
Step 2 – Draw the First Row of Holes
Crackers often have a series of small holes in them. Start by drawing a row of three running through the middle of the outline from the previous step. Try and position the row so that it’s centered inside the cracker and try and keep the holes evenly spaced.
Step 3 – Draw the Remaining Holes
Draw the remaining holes using the initial row as a guide. Add a row of two below it and a row of two above. Again, try and position the holes the same distance apart from one another in all of the rows.
Once you have all details of the crack outlined trace over your drawing with a thin black marker (or a black pen). If you don’t have one simply darken them with the pencil.
Step 5 – Color the Cracker
To color the cracker make it a light orange/brown and make the holes a much darker brown. Colored pencils can be an easy way to do this.
Once done with the above you may notice that the cracker looks a little bit plain but don’t worry that’s fixed in the next two step.
Step 6 – Darken the Edges of the Cracker
Darken the cracker around it’s edge as well as around the holes. These darker areas can be created from both shadows and as the cracker bakes. Make the darker parts and orange brown color that’s darker than the cracker itself but not as dark as the holes.
Darkening the edges like this will help make the drawing look less flat.
Step 6 – Darken the Edges of the Cracker
Finally, add some fairly random shaped darker spots of varying size along the cracker’s surface (as shown in the example). Again, these are usually created as a cracker bakes. Make these the same color used to darken the edge (again orange brown).
Conclusion
This tutorial shows how an easy way to draw a nice looking cracker. The line drawing portion of the guide is simple because you don’t have to worry about making making the shape perfect. The cracker actually looks better if the outline is somewhat uneven. The coloring part is also quite easy. At the same time it can be very effective if done right and will help otherwise plain an flat looking drawing stand out far more than it would otherwise.
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