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How to Draw a Castle
Draw a castle in 13 easy steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the big tower.
Step 1: The big tower
In the middle of your paper draw a tall block with 5 square teeth along the top.
Tip Taller than wide. The teeth are square blocks with square gaps.
Step 2: Two tall towers
Leave a gap on each side. Start above the block's teeth and draw a tall tower down to its bottom.
Tip Leave the top open. Towers are wider at the foot than the top.
Step 3: Witch hats
On each tower's open top draw a flat hat band poking out past the sides. Add a tall witch hat.
Tip The hat brim sticks out a finger past the band on each side.
Step 4: Walls with teeth
From each tower, draw a wall with 2 teeth across to the block, a foot line and a skinny slit.
Step 5: Gate and bars
Draw a big rainbow gate that starts and stops on the block's bottom line. Add 3 bars down, 2 across.
Step 6: Island and moat
Draw a bowl from one tower foot, under the castle, up to the other. Add a bank and 2 waves.
Tip Keep a strip of grass between the castle and the bank.
Step 7: The drawbridge
Start at each foot of the gate. Draw a line down to the bowl's bottom. Add 2 plank lines.
Tip The bridge is a long plank road across the moat.
Step 8: Rainbow windows
Under each hat band, draw a rainbow window with a flat bottom. Add one more above the gate.
Step 9: Stone blocks
Low on each tower, under the window, draw 2 little rounded bricks, one a bit above the other.
Tip Just a few bricks, not a whole wall.
Step 10: Balls and flags
From a ball on each hat tip, draw a pole and flag back to it. Flag the middle tooth too.
Tip The flags all blow the same way.
Step 11: Stone castle, sandy walls
Colour the block, towers and bands grey and the walls and balls sandy yellow, around the windows and slits.
Step 12: Red roofs, wooden gate
Colour the 2 witch-hat roofs and the 3 flags red. Colour the gate behind its bars and the drawbridge brown.
Step 13: Blue moat, green island
Colour the moat, windows and slits blue and the grass green, around the drawbridge. Go over your lines!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a castle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
