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How to Draw a Ski Lift

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a ski lift 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 seat.

Step 1: The seat
A little below the middle draw a long flat bar lying sideways, round at the front, square at the back.
Tip Leave lots of room above for the arm and cable.
Step 2: The backrest
Start on the seat at the square end. Draw a tall thin upside-down U and stop back on the seat.
Step 3: Arm and cable
From the top of the backrest draw a thick arm up, almost to the top. Add a wheel and cable.
Tip The cable runs right across the paper, touching the wheel.
Step 4: The skier
On the seat draw the skier's body: up to the shoulders, a lap forward to the knees. Add a head.
Tip Big head, small body, knees forward.
Step 5: Face and hat
On the right of the head draw a big egg eye, a nose bump and a smile. Add a beanie.
Step 6: Safety bar
From the backrest draw a thin bar across the skier's lap, round a corner and down to the seat.
Step 7: Footrest and boots
From under the seat front draw a thin footrest bar. Hang 2 legs down to boots resting on it.
Step 8: Arm and mitten
From the skier's shoulder draw a bent arm down to a round mitten resting on top of the safety bar.
Step 9: A pair of skis
Under each boot, start on the footrest and draw a thin ski down to a round tip, and back up.
Step 10: Snowy mountains
Along the bottom draw 3 soft mountain peaks from one side of the paper to the other. Add snow lines.
Tip Leave a gap between the skis and the peaks.
Step 11: Peach face, yellow skis
Go over your lines. Colour the face peach and both skis yellow. Leave the eye and the hat band white.
Step 12: Grey mountains and bars
Colour the mountains stone grey, leaving the snow caps white. Colour the chair's arm, the wheel and both bars grey.
Step 13: Blue skier, red chair
Colour the hat, jacket, mitten and legs blue, around the bar. Colour the chair and boots red, around the legs.