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How to Draw the Chrysler Building
Draw the Chrysler Building in 12 easy steps, about 9 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 wide base.
Step 1: The wide base
Low on your paper draw a wide, short box for the bottom of the building.
Step 2: Block and tower
On top draw a narrower short box. On that draw a tall, thin box for the tower.
Step 3: The first crown arch
Start at the left end of the tower top. Draw a wide upside-down bowl and stop at the right end.
Tip The crown is a stack of shining arches, like a sunrise.
Step 4: 3 more arches
Stack 3 more arches on top, each one smaller. Each one starts and stops on the arch under it.
Step 5: Sunburst lines
Inside the 2 biggest arches draw 3 short lines fanning up from the bottom middle, like rays.
Step 6: The spire
From the top arch draw a tall thin needle pointing straight up, almost to the top of the paper.
Step 7: Doors and windows
At the bottom draw a box split down the middle. Add a row of windows on each short box.
Step 8: Tower lines
Draw 3 rows of 3 short lines down the tower for its tall windows.
Step 9: Ground and cloud
Draw the ground line across the bottom of the page, and a puffy cloud on the left.
Step 10: Tan building
Colour the base, the block and the tower tan, going around the windows and doors.
Step 11: Blue windows, white cloud
Colour the windows sky blue and the cloud white.
Step 12: Grey crown, dark doors
Colour the arches and spire grey and the doors dark grey. Your Chrysler Building is done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: the Chrysler Building, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
