Sunday, January 5, 2014

How To Draw A Pirate Treasure Chest Worksheet

How to draw a pirate's treasure chest drawing lesson and printable worksheet.

This fun project will help the young artist gain confidence in his abilities. The free worksheet below may be copied and printed for personal use. Parents and teachers will be able to use this in class and at home. It could be an activity to fill in extra time or given out as a take-home project for the kids to do on their own.

To print the worksheet just highlight it and send it to your printer or save to your device to print later. If you have problems printing this  CLICK HERE to visit the how to print page for some suggestions or try one of the updated links below.



How To Draw A Pirate Treasure Chest, Free Worksheet

Sometimes it takes me hours but I create these how to draw worksheets but I do it so that I can give back because I believe that when you have been given a gift it is so you can be a gift to others, and I hope these worksheets are a means of blessing to you. You are welcome to print as many as you like.


Thank you!

CLICK HERE for a link in a universal portable format- PDF.

If you like this project you might also like to see "how to draw a pirate ship.

YOU MAY PRINT THE PROJECT NOTES BELOW.

START
Begin with a light drawing so you can erase later.  The chest a wooden rectangular box, draw this with nine parallel lines. The lid is two sets of parallel lines and two curved lines they could be a half-circle.

DEVELOPMENT
The chest is made out of wood planks draw these as more parallel lines but they don't need to be perfectly parallel it will give the picture interest. There are metal bands wrapping the chest so draw these vertically over the planks.

DETAILS
Decide where you want to have things hanging over the side and lightly sketch them in. Add the handle on the side and the padlock on the front and the clasp on the top.

FINISHING TOUCHES
The wood has texture add the texture by drawing light scratchy lines across like the grain. The bands have studs; draw them as circles. Keep the treasure simple and just draw a few things and a lot of circles and ovals to indicate coins. Add a few coins on the ground around it. Shadow one side and use shadow inside the lid.


(c) Adron D. 1/5/14