Printable How To Draw A Castle Drawbridge Worksheet

This is a free printable worksheet on how to draw a castle drawbridge. 

Here is a simple project, and it works best when combined with others in a larger project. This printable worksheet will give tips and help any artist.

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How To Draw A Castle Drawbridge Worksheet

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PRINTABLE NOTES

The drawbridge is like a door with a wooden road going to it.

BEGINNING
Draw a line for the bottom and a line for the top of the wall.
Draw an arch for the door in the castle wall. Use a vanishing point inside the arch for the lines of the drawbridge to reach. You do not draw all the way to the vanishing point it is just a reference point.
The drawbridge is four lines that are like a triangle with the top cut off. It is wider at the bottom than at the top because of perspective.
Draw guidelines for the pull chains.
Use a couple of lines to draw the half-open doors.

DEVELOPING FORM
Use guidelines for the stones that make the wall. The guidelines will go straight across the wall and around the arch. Draw lightly so you can erase later.
Draw circles on the guideline for the pull chain.
Draw a grid at the top of the arch for the Portcullis, (the bars that drop down from the top).
Draw circles for the pull rings and lines for the hinges.

DETAILS
Trace around the grid for the bars so they look thick and heavy.
The bridge has planks going across it. Use several vertical lines, but they get closer together nearer the top.
Give texture to the bridge and doors with short choppy lines.
For the moat use jagged lines from the bottom of the castle going down to the water.

FINISHING TOUCHES
Use shading technique to darken the inside of the doorway.
Give texture to the stones by using dots or smudges. Do not make the stones nearest the arch dark keep them light for contrast.
Make the bars a dark shade, the hinges chains, and pulls dark too.

Draw something like pillars or towers on each side of the drawbridge to separate it from the rest of the wall.

Draw something inside like buildings or knights.

Fill the moat with water, don't forget the crocodiles!

(c) Adron D, 1/13/16 

How To Draw A Castle Gate Worksheet

How to draw a castle gate drawing lesson and printable worksheet.

How to draw the castle gate project is helpful for the young artist to add perspective and realism to their fantasy or historical drawings and will give confidence in their artwork.

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How To Draw A Castle Gate Worksheet.

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LESSON  NOTES

The castle gate is a collection of geometric forms arranged on the drawing and then detailed to create the desired scene.

BEGINNING
Use basic shapes of cylinders, rectangles and half circles to organize the basic outline. The towers on each side of the gate are forward a little so the bottom will be lower in the scene than the walls. The bottom of the tower curves downward and the top curves upward.

Use guidelines to keep things even, draw the guideline for the top and bottom of the wall all the way across, even across the towers, so both sides of the wall are even, you can erase the lines later. Use three guidelines for the tops of the towers and the wall so you can draw the shapes that are at the top of the wall.

The gate entrance is an arch draw it like a half-circle over a square.

FILL IT IN
Once you have the basic design worked out then add the details. The top of the towers and walls have rectangles, draw them lightly using the guidelines and when they are even, then go over them to make it look good. The top has a series of supporting round arch shapes, draw them under the rectangles and add a little decoration like a square or circle at the bottom of each.

The towers have some windows they are rectangular and narrow. The windows have large stone tops and bottoms, draw narrow rectangles for these.

The towers have a guard's door in the bottom. It is a rectangle inside an archway, this door gives a reference so you get a sense of size.

The gate opening shows the thick wide walls on both sides. The bottom of these walls tilt up to the vanishing point, they are in shadow. There may be a door inside one side for the guard. Add shadow on the ground. Draw something inside the castle-like buildings.

STONES
The ground has a stone road. Use a grid that is wider at the bottom and narrower at the gate to give the perspective. Then draw over the grid some stones but not all the stones in the road.

The walls are stones. Use a grid to keep things even and then draw some of the stones.

The towers are round the stones wrap around so use curving guidelines to draw them.

Put something inside the castle that you can see through the gate.

(c) Adron D. 10/29/13

How to Draw A Castle Tower. Worksheet

How to draw a castle tower drawing lesson and printable worksheet.

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This free printable worksheet is ideal for drawing a background to a scene, adding to a larger piece, or as a stand-alone subject. Parents, teachers, and homeschool families can use this in class or as a do-at-home project.

How To Draw A Castle Tower Worksheet 

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The tower is a cylinder made out of stones.

START
Start with a basic cylinder shape, this is a rectangle standing up, but not flat on the top since perspective makes the top looked like a slight curve.

Near the top, the walls bend outward in a flair shape. At the top are cutaways in the walls, draw them like rectangles. The top has arches under the edge. The top of the cutaways slope outward, (so rain will drain down and out.)

Decide where you are going to put any windows and lightly draw them in.

FILLER DETAILS
The stones are wider at the bottom since many castles used stronger types of stone for the base and lighter smaller stones higher up. Draw guidelines across the tower making sure they arch slightly.  Divide the lines into stones by drawing vertical lines between them. Do not make a checker pattern but draw the lines so they skip a row. None of the lines need to be even. The vertical lines are spaced wider apart at the middle and closer together toward the edges so the tower looks round.

EXTRAS
The roof would be made out of wood to give the guards shade. It is a cone, draw it as a triangle with a curved bottom. The curve matches the curve of the tower top. The roof is held up by wooden beams, use straight lines to draw them.

At the top of the tower is the smaller "signal" tower, it is behind the roof. It may have two or three signal flags on it. Draw it with less detail since it is far away.

Add shadow to make the roundness look more believable.

The tower can be by itself, on a rock, connected to a castle wall, or connected to a bridge.

(c) Mr. Adron D. 10/1/13