How to draw · Confident · about 25 minutes

Castle

You need: Paper, Pencil. Optional: Eraser, Ruler, Gray, blue, brown and yellow crayons, colored pencils or markers.

Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.

Finished
  1. center line

    1. Draw a light line straight down the middle of your paper and a light ground line across the bottom.

  2. towerswall

    2. Draw two light lines across: a high one for the tops of the towers and a lower one for the top of the wall.

  3. 3. Draw a round tower on each side, the same distance from the center line. Draw straight sides up to the high line and a curved bottom on the ground.

  4. 4. Draw a pointed roof on each tower. Make the bottom edge curve down a little, like the rim of a round tower, and let it stick out past the sides.

  5. 5. Draw the wall between the towers. Its top has square bumps called battlements: six bumps with equal gaps. Draw its bottom along the ground and leave a gap for the gate.

  6. 6. Draw the tall keep behind the wall, centered on the center line. Its sides start at the top of the wall, and it has three battlements on top.

  7. 7. Draw the gate in the middle: two straight sides and a round arch on top. It is about one third as wide as the wall.

  8. 8. Add flagpoles and flags on the two tower roofs and the keep. Make the two tower flags point the same way.

  9. 9. Draw arched windows: one high on each tower, one on the keep and one on each side of the gate. Check that each pair matches across the center line.

  10. erase

    10. Erase the guides: the center line, the ground line and the two height lines.

  11. 11. Draw the gate's bars: three lines down and two across. Add a path from the gate and a few bricks on the walls.

  12. 12. Shade the right side of each round tower and each roof with short slanted lines. The light comes from the left.

Practice here

Tip: A ruler helps with the long straight lines, but freehand lines look friendly too.