Artist Baozi / 包子绘画教学 (33116298): Fun, Fast Drawing Tutorials of Everyday Life
A packet of spicy snack strips. A candied-hawthorn skewer, a Swiss roll, a roasted sweet potato — and, one memorable afternoon, a lovestruck brain. Behind the Douyin name 包子绘画教学 is a Liaoning art teacher who worked out that the best first subject in the world is the thing already in your hand.
The Artist’s Journey
包子绘画教学 — Baozi Painting Teaching — trained properly. There is a fine art degree from Dalian Polytechnic University behind her and, by her own reckoning, more than twenty years of study. That is the sort of background most artists spend the rest of their lives signalling.
She went the other way entirely. Instead of the still life, the plaster cast and the careful portfolio, she pointed all that training at a packet of latiao and asked whether she could teach a stranger to draw it in three minutes. It is a decision that looks like modesty and is actually strategy: she gave up the prestige of the subject in exchange for the attention of everyone.
A Trained Hand, A Popular Touch
The training is not decoration. It is what makes the speed possible. A drawing that reduces a familiar object to its essentials in a few clean marks is not a simplification a beginner could improvise; it is the product of someone who knows exactly which information can be discarded and which cannot.
That is the quiet joke at the centre of her channel. The lessons look effortless, and the effortlessness is the expensive part. Twenty years of study go into making a sweet potato look easy.
Mastering the Everyday Object
Her medium is bright, clean colour drawing in pencil and marker — no mystique, no specialist materials, nothing a viewer would have to go shopping for before starting. The results are crisp and immediately readable: the crinkle of a foil snack packet, the wet gloss on a candied hawthorn, the sweating sides of an iced bottle.
The format never varies, and that is a strength. Let me teach you to draw this. One object, a few minutes, a finished thing at the end. She has stripped a demanding craft down to the smallest unit that still delivers the satisfaction of having made something.
Latiao, Sweet Potatoes and the Comedy of the Familiar
Where other teachers reach for flowers and fruit bowls, she draws the food people actually eat: spicy snack strips, candied-hawthorn skewers, noodles, a mooncake, braised pork ribs, a roasted sweet potato, an iced cola, grapes, a little heart. Occasionally she abandons objects altogether for a pure visual joke — a lovestruck brain, drawn entirely straight-faced.
The captions carry as much of the teaching as the drawings do. She cannot cook a Swiss roll, she notes, but she can draw ten of them. That wry, self-deprecating register does real work: it removes the intimidation that stops most people from ever putting pencil to paper.
The Snack That Travelled
One lesson went further than everything else she has made: how to draw a packet of latiao. Not a landscape, not a portrait — a cheap, shiny, beloved packet of spicy snack strips that half the country grew up eating.
The reason it travelled is the whole thesis of her channel in miniature. Recognition does the work that technique cannot. A stranger scrolling past a rose keeps scrolling; a stranger scrolling past the exact snack in their desk drawer stops, because the drawing is suddenly about them. She keeps that instinct sharp by drawing along with whatever the country is talking about — a Black Myth: Wukong piece turned around in three hours, quick Olympics tie-ins — so the feed always has one foot in the present.
Teaching in Public
For all the comedy, this is a serious teaching operation, and the proof is that she publishes other people’s drawings rather than only her own. Her students’ finished pieces get pinned and celebrated — at one point a whole collection of latiao packets drawn by learners following along at home.
That is a more persuasive argument than any credential. A gallery of her own work would say she is good. A gallery of her students’ work says the method transfers, which is the only claim a teacher actually needs to make. The invitation that runs under all of it is four words long: you can do it too.
Innovation Within Tradition
Beginner tutorials are not new, and she has invented no technique. What she contributes is subject and tone. By aiming formal training at the funny, beloved, instantly recognisable objects of ordinary life, and delivering the lesson with genuine warmth, she makes learning to draw feel less like study and more like play.
It is a small reframing with large consequences: the snack in your hand as the ideal first subject, chosen precisely because you already know it by heart.
Teaching Philosophy
Three ideas hold her practice together. The first is radical accessibility — fast, fun, built for someone who has never drawn anything, using subjects that need no explanation. The second is encouragement, made concrete: the repeated you can do it too, backed by actual student work rather than a slogan. The third is humour as a teaching instrument, deployed deliberately to dissolve the self-consciousness that keeps beginners from starting.
Together they describe a formally trained artist who chose, on purpose, to meet her audience exactly where they already are — hungry, curious, and one funny lesson away from a first drawing.
Legacy and Continuing Influence
The significance of 包子绘画教学 is the scale of what she has made welcoming. She stands at the most generous end of art on short video: the trained teacher who traded gatekeeping for reach, and who measures herself by how many people picked up a pencil rather than by how impressive her own work looks.
Her contribution is already legible in every beginner who followed along with a snack packet or a strawberry and discovered, to their own surprise, that they could draw.
Explore her drawing tutorials on her Douyin profile.
Biographical note: 包子绘画教学 publishes under her teaching name. Her degree, location and years of study are as stated on her own channel; no formal exhibition or award record is publicly documented, and none is claimed here.