How to Draw a Pizza Step by Step (Easy, with a Cheesy Slice)

Pizza is round, flat and covered in small shapes, which makes it a friendly first food drawing. Here you'll find out how to draw a pizza step by step, from one squashed oval to a pepperoni pizza with a slice pulled out and cheese dripping off its edge. When I teach this, the tilted view is the part that wins kids over, because it makes the pizza look real enough to eat.

How to draw a pizza step by step - finished colored pizza drawing — Golden crust, red sauce peeking out and one slice already on its way to somebody's plate. This is where the 11 steps lead.

In every picture the part you add in that step is blue. Anything gray was drawn before, so you can compare it with your own paper. Thin pale blue lines are helpers only; keep them faint, since you rub them out in step 10.

Quick overview
⏱️ Time: about 30 minutes, coloring included
🎯 Level: easy to medium, good for kids around 7 and older
✏️ Steps: 11
🍕 You'll draw: a whole pepperoni pizza in a tilted view, with one slice pulled out and two cheese drips

Pencils and Colors for a Pizza Night Sketch

A pencil you can hold loosely for faint lines
An eraser that lifts pencil without smearing ink
A black fineliner or a thin felt pen
Colored pencils or markers: golden yellow, light brown, red, yellow, dark red, green and black
A sheet of plain paper turned sideways
A ruler for the cut lines, if you like them very straight

Only have a basic set of crayons? Yellow, red, brown, green and black already cover the whole pizza.

How to Draw a Pizza Step by Step

Step 1: Draw a big flat oval

Sketch a wide oval on the left two thirds of your paper, about twice as wide as it is tall. A flat oval is how a round pizza looks from a little above. Add a light cross through the middle; where the lines meet is the center.

💡 Tip: Leave an empty strip on the right side of the paper. The loose slice will need that room.

Step 2: Mark where the missing slice goes

From the center, draw two lines out to the right edge of the oval, one tilting up and one tilting down, like a narrow open mouth. That gap is the slice somebody has already taken. Then, to the right of the oval, sketch a long triangle pointing back toward the pizza. I place its tip just inside the gap so the slice looks like it was only just pulled away.

💡 Tip: Make the gap about as wide at the edge as one eighth of the oval's outline.

Step 3: Outline the pizza with a gap

Go over the oval with a firmer line, but stop at the two gap lines and travel along them into the center and back out. Skip the part of the oval that runs across the gap. It isn't there anymore, and drawing it would make the pizza look whole again.

💡 Tip: Turn the paper as you go around the oval, so your hand always draws the curve from the inside.

Step 4: Give the pizza a thick crust edge

A pizza has some height, and this step shows it. Draw a second curve just under the front half of the outline, from the far left around to the gap. Inside the gap, add a thin strip of the same thickness under the upper cut line. That's the cut side of the next slice.

💡 Tip: Keep the edge thin, roughly a finger's width. A tall edge turns the pizza into a cake.

Step 5: Add the crust ring and the cheese edge

Draw a smaller oval inside the outline for the inner side of the crust. I leave the crust a little wider on the left and right than at the top and bottom, because the tilt squashes the front and back. Inside that, draw a wobbly line for the edge of the melted cheese. The narrow space between becomes the sauce.

💡 Tip: Make the cheese wobble small and uneven. Big regular waves look like a flower.

Step 6: Draw the pulled-out slice and its drips

Turn the triangle guide into a real slice: a pointed tip, two straight sides and a curved crust end that matches the curve of the pizza. Give it the same thin edge underneath, then copy the crust line and cheese line onto the wide end. Along the front edge, let two cheese drips hang down over the side. I make one drip longer than the other, because matching drips look stuck on.

💡 Tip: Round off the bottom of each drip like a drop of honey. Pointy drips look like teeth.

Step 7: Cut the rest of the pizza into slices

Draw six straight lines from the center out to the edge, spaced evenly. Together with the gap, that makes eight slices. Where a cut reaches the front edge, add a tiny upright line through the thick crust so the cut goes all the way down.

💡 Tip: Draw the cuts that go straight up and down first, then split each half into thirds by eye.

Step 8: Add the pepperoni

Put one pepperoni in the middle of every slice, the loose one too. Draw them as flat ovals, not circles, since they lie on the tilted pizza just like the pizza itself. Keep each one well inside its slice so no cut line runs through it. Most beginners draw these too small; on this pizza each one fills about half the width of its slice.

💡 Tip: Match the pepperoni's tilt to the big oval. Round circles here make them look like they're standing up.

Step 9: Scatter green peppers and olives

Near the outer part of each slice, add one small curved strip for a green pepper and one tiny ring for a sliced olive. A ring is just a little oval with a smaller oval inside. Swap their sides from slice to slice, which stops the pizza from looking like wallpaper.

💡 Tip: Bend the pepper strips in different directions, the way real ones fall onto a pizza.

Step 10: Ink the lines and erase the guides

Trace every line you want to keep with your black pen: the outline, the thick edge, the crust ring, the cheese, the slice, the drips, the cuts and all the toppings. Wait a moment for the ink to dry. Then erase the cross, the gap lines and the triangle guide. Honestly, this is the step where it starts to look like food.

💡 Tip: Use a slightly heavier stroke on the outside edges than on the toppings. It makes the shape pop.

Step 11: Color the pizza

Start with the crust: golden yellow on top and light brown on the thick edge and the cut sides. Fill the thin ring between crust and cheese with red for the sauce. Color all the cheese, drips included, a bright yellow. Finally, I go dark red on the pepperoni, green on the peppers and black on the olives, leaving their little holes yellow.

💡 Tip: Press harder near the crust's outer edge and lighter toward the cheese for a baked look.

Slip-Ups That Make a Pizza Look Flat

Starting with a perfect circle. A circle shows the pizza from straight above, so the edge and the drips have nowhere to go. Squash it into an oval about twice as wide as tall.
Closing the oval across the gap. If the outline runs across the missing slice, the pizza looks whole with a line drawn on it. Stop at the cut lines.
Round pepperoni on a tilted pizza. Circles look like coins balanced on their edges. Flatten them into ovals.
Toppings sitting on the cut lines. A pepperoni split by a line looks like a mistake rather than a cut. Place toppings first in your head, then keep them inside their slice.
A crust edge thicker than the sauce ring. When the edge is too tall, the pizza starts to read as a pie. Keep it thin.

Pizza Toppings to Swap In

This pizza works with any topping you like. Swap the pepperoni for mushroom slices (a small dome on a short stem), try a plain cheese pizza with just a few basil leaves, or turn it into a pineapple pizza with tiny yellow triangles. If you liked the oval trick, the tiers in the birthday cake drawing tutorial use the same thinking, and the strawberry drawing tutorial makes a sweet follow-up for a food sketchbook page.

Pizza Coloring Page and Printable Step Guide

Rainy afternoon or pizza party? Print the free pizza coloring page: a small colored example and the color key sit at the top, with the big outline underneath ready for crayons. The step-by-step guide PDF holds all 11 steps and their tips, so you can draw without a screen. Both fit Letter and A4 paper.

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Free PDF

Pizza Coloring Page

1 pageUS LetterColor key

Black outlines with a colored example and the color names at the top. Ready to print and color.

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Step-by-Step Pizza Drawing Guide

7 pagesA4All 11 steps

Every step picture with its instructions and tips, to keep beside your paper while you draw.

⬇️ Download Drawing Guide

📱 On a phone? Tap a download button, then open the file and choose Share → Save to Files or Print. On a computer, the PDF opens or saves straight to your Downloads folder.

Keep All 11 Pizza Steps on One Pin

How to draw a pizza step by step - all 11 steps on one page (Pinterest) — One tall pin with every pizza step, handy for the next drawing session.

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Pizza Drawing Questions from Young Artists

What is the easiest way to draw a pizza?

Draw a flat oval, cut it into eight slices with lines through the center, then add round pepperoni. Leave out the missing slice and the thick edge if you want a very quick version.