Castle drawing for kids with pencil Snow Queen, medieval, fairy tale, old knight

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Teaching a child to draw beautiful castles with pencils is not difficult. Before conducting classes, adults need to know what tools and materials can be used, and they should also read several detailed descriptions of drawings suitable for working with children of different ages.

Selecting paper and pencils

What pencils can be used to draw castles:

Pencil type	Peculiarity
Simple	A tool with a hard lead (T) is suitable for creating sketches. To draw a beautiful, three-dimensional castle in black and white, you will need a set of pencils with different degrees of lead hardness (T, TM, M, M6).
Colored	You can create simple drawings using ordinary colored pencils for children's creativity. The more colors in the set, the brighter and more realistic the picture will be.
Acrylic	The lead of such pencils is much softer than that of ordinary ones. They are easy to shade, obtaining smooth transitions from one shade to another.
Wax	Leaves bold, bright lines. Suitable for creating simple but colorful drawings.
Pastel	With these tools, you can draw castles in soft, muted colors, or dark, gothic objects. Pastel pencils are well shaded, which allows you to create smooth transitions from dark to light colors.

What paper is suitable for drawing with pencils:

album sheets;
drawing paper;
sketchbook pages;
writing paper;
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The surface of the paper should be smooth. It is more difficult to shade pencil lines on rough sheets.

You will also need a quality eraser for drawing, which will not rub the graphite on the paper and crumble too much. A double-sided rubber eraser will do.

To avoid leaving debris on your work table after sharpening your tools, you can buy a sharpener with a removable container to collect wood shavings. Wax and acrylic pencils can be larger than regular tools. Universal sharpeners are sold for sharpening them, which have several holes of different diameters.

How to draw a medieval castle with a simple pencil easily and beautifully? Master class for children

A castle drawing for children can be done using 3 simple pencils:

hard (T);
hard-soft (TM);
soft (M).

The silhouette of the castle can be made from simple geometric shapes. The main condition is not to use a ruler. All shapes must be drawn by hand. In this way, the child will be able to learn to draw straight lines without additional tools. This skill will allow the beginning artist to learn to draw various objects realistically.

Before starting classes, it is advisable to show the child pictures of real castles. Explain what the features of such knowledge are, tell for whom these houses were built. You can read fairy tales about the Middle Ages, the characters of which live in castles, and then ask the child to draw the house of the heroes on paper as he imagined it. Further in the article there is a master class on drawing a simple castle.

Sketch

A sketch helps you navigate the paper easier and think through the small details of the image better. You will need a hard pencil for the work.

Procedure:

Place a sheet of A4 paper vertically on the table.
From the bottom of the sheet, step back about 2 cm and make a mark.
Determine the width of the lock. Place 2 more points parallel to the previous one.
Connect the marks with a straight horizontal line. This is the lower border of the castle.
Draw the sides of the first wall.
Finish drawing the top. The result should be a rectangle.
Find the center of the resulting figure. Make a mark on the top of the rectangle.
Step back from the set point about 3 cm in both directions.
Using the new marks as a guide, draw a rectangle. This will be the middle level of the castle.

Use an eraser to erase the missing line.

Towers

You need to finish drawing the towers with the same pencil.

Procedure:

Above the top rectangle, depict the base of a small central tower in the form of an elongated rectangle.
Finish drawing a narrow triangular roof.
There will be 2 more tall towers along the edges of the castle. To draw them the same height, you need to draw a thin, barely noticeable horizontal line across the entire drawing. It will serve as a guide for drawing the side towers.
Draw 2 narrow rectangles along the edges of the sketch.
Finish drawing the triangular roofs.

Use an eraser to remove all unnecessary lines.

Bricks

You need to draw the bricks with a hard-soft pencil.

Procedure:

Draw horizontal stripes across all 3 towers. The distance between parallels should be the same.
By analogy, fill the main parts of the castle with horizontal lines.
Bricks should be drawn from top to bottom. Short vertical lines should be placed at equal distances from each other.
In the next row, the short vertical lines should be centered relative to the bricks drawn on top.
Draw all the bricks on the tower in this way.

On triangular roofs, depict small tiles in the form of fish scales. Draw the half-arcs in the same direction as the bricks: from top to bottom.

Windows and gates

Windows and doors can be drawn with the same pencil.

Procedure:

First, you need to draw the door. It should be located on the bottom of the castle, in the center, under the 2nd level of the castle.
At the bottom of the lock, you need to put 2 marks. The distance between them will be equal to the width of the doorway.
By analogy, mark the height of the doors.
Connect the marks with straight lines to draw a square.
Round off the top corners of the square.
Use an eraser to erase the bricks inside the door outline.

Windows should be drawn by analogy. They should be smaller than the doors. To draw the windows on each element of the castle evenly, it is necessary to draw 2 thin lines, which will become a guide for drawing the lower and upper parts of all windows. Use an eraser to remove unnecessary lines, as well as bricks inside the contours of the windows.

Finishing up the elements

It is better to draw small details with a hard-soft pencil. In case of inaccuracy, it will be easier to erase it from the paper than lines from a soft lead.

Procedure:

Highlight the window and door frames by drawing small ovals along their outline. They will imitate stone trim.
Draw planks on the doors in the form of vertical lines parallel to each other.
Under the roofs of the towers, highlight small protrusions.
Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
On the upper borders of the 1st and 2nd levels of the castle, select rectangular teeth, 1 brick wide.

Use an eraser to remove excess lines.

Hatching

For shading you will need a whole set of pencils.

Procedure:

Using a hard pencil, highlight the shadows along the upper contour of the door.
Without pressing on the pencil, shade all the elements of the castle. The strokes should be applied horizontally, then the towers will acquire a more voluminous appearance.
Using a hard-soft pencil, highlight the shadows in those places where the towers adjoin the main part of the castle.
Highlight the shadows on the roofs.
Use a soft pencil to shade the windows in the castle.
Trace around the bricks and tiles.
Highlight window trim.

Trace the outline of the picture. Clean the background with an eraser.

Step by step instructions on how to draw castles with pencils

Castle drawing for kids can be black and white or colored. Drawing with simple pencils will teach the child to determine the position of light and shadow in the drawing. These skills help beginning artists draw three-dimensional and realistic pictures.

Using colored pencils, you can create bright and colorful drawings. This type of creativity is suitable for classes with younger children (4 to 7 years old). The child will be able to learn how to correctly combine colors, as well as distinguish monochrome shades.

Gothic knight's castle

The castle drawing above may seem complicated for children. However, simple geometric shapes and light shading will be used when creating the sketch. The picture looks complex and three-dimensional due to the correct placement of strokes and shadows.

Castle drawing for kids with pencil Snow Queen, medieval, fairy tale, old knight — Castle drawing for kids - photo of a gothic knight's castle.

For work you will need 4 pencils:

hard (T);
hard-soft (TM);
soft (M);
very soft (M5).

How to draw:

Place a sheet of A4 paper vertically on the table.
Draw the main part of the castle as a rectangle.
Add a side wall.
Draw a schematic of the central tower. Draw the roof.
Add a narrow tower on the left side. Draw the shape of its roof. Draw the roof of the tower behind it, which is not visible in the drawing.
On the right side of the castle, draw 2 narrow overhanging towers. Draw the places where they are attached to the wall. Add roofs.
Draw a narrow fence post with a sharp tip. Finish drawing the fence.
Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
Finish drawing the sloping roof on the rectangular part of the castle.
Use a hard-soft pencil to draw the roof shapes more precisely. Highlight the depressions on the roof of the central tower. Finish drawing the peaks.
Draw the outlines of the windows. Highlight the illuminated areas in each window, as shown in the figure.
Draw the wire on the fence.
Use an eraser to remove excess lines.
Use a hard pencil to shade the fence. The strokes should be applied following the slope of the fence.
Use a hard-soft pencil to highlight the shadows on the pillar and round towers. Apply shading horizontally, painting half of the object on the side where direct sunlight does not fall.
Select the shadow on the rectangular part of the castle. On the right side, you need to shade the wall more intensively.
Blend the strokes.
Paint the center part of the roof on the large tower.
Use a soft pencil to outline the drawing. The lines should be short and smooth. If you outline the drawing with long and intense stripes, it will lose its visual volume.
Highlight the shadows on the hanging towers, as well as on the right side of the pillar.
Draw the depressions under the roof of the central tower.
Show the shadows on the turns of the wire that is located on the fence.
With a very soft pencil, shade the right part of the large roof. Highlight all the recesses.
Paint over the remaining roofs of the castle, leaving the light sides untouched.
Shade the roof of the rectangular part of the castle.
Paint over all windows.

Use an eraser to clean the background of the drawing.

Residence of the Snow Queen

A drawing of the castle (for preschool children, when creating a sketch, you may need the help of adults) of the Snow Queen can be done in monochrome blue shades. A light blue pencil will highlight light shadows, and a blue one will highlight deep ones. This effect of shadow distribution can be seen on a sunny winter day, if you pay attention to the relief of the snowdrift.

How to draw:

Place a sheet of A4 paper horizontally on the table.
Using a simple pencil (TM or T), mark the lower border of the lock in the center of the sheet.
Draw 1 level of a building from ice blocks of any shape.
Finish drawing the next level of the castle, consisting of towers of different shapes and heights.
Add a 2nd level where the towers will be higher.
Draw 1 tallest tower in the center.
Draw doors and windows on each tower.
Schematically depict the ice bridge leading to the castle gates. In the foreground, the bridge should be wider than at the foot of the castle.
Finish drawing the base of the bridge. Highlight the vertical ice humps on it.
Finish drawing the pointed mountains surrounding the castle. They can be of any width and height. The main thing is not to try to draw them perfectly even, like geometric figures. The edges of the mountains should be slightly curved, have depressions and chips of various sizes.
Make the mountains in the foreground voluminous by drawing the right edges. To do this, draw smooth lines from the tops of the mountains to their base.
Use an eraser to remove all unnecessary lines.
Trace the outline of the drawing with a black pencil or marker.
Using a blue pencil, without pressing, densely shade the upper part of the drawing. Blend the strokes towards the center of the drawing.
Use a blue pencil to highlight the shadows on all the castle towers.
Highlight the shadows on the ice bridge and also on level 1 of the castle.
Paint the left side of all mountains.

Shade the central part of the bridge with a blue pencil, and highlight the shadows on the front sides of the ice mountains. Light shadows should be highlighted closer to the dark edges of the mountains. On the right side, the mountains should be almost white, so the pressure on the pencil should be smoothly reduced.

Bright, multi-colored fairytale castle

A castle drawing for younger children should consist of simpler geometric shapes. To make the drawing beautiful, it should be colored in bright and unusual colors. Wax crayons are suitable for this purpose.

How to draw a picture like this:

Using a simple pencil, draw the central tower without a roof.
Draw the remaining towers on the left and right sides. They can be of any shape, height and width. To draw semicircular towers, you need to highlight their base, drawing it not as a straight line, but as an arc. In the picture above, all the towers are drawn this way.
Add roofs to all the towers. You can add battlements to the tops of some of them.
Draw another, larger tower above the central tower.
On all parts of the castle depict windows. They can be of any shape and size. Let the child show imagination.
Flags can be depicted on the tops of the roofs.
Finish drawing the doors in the towers.
Use an eraser to erase extra lines.
Paint the walls of the towers in different colors. You can use pastel and bright neon shades at the same time. It is desirable that some towers, different in shape, be painted in the same colors. For example, 2 yellow towers, 2 green, 2 beige. This way the drawing will look like a single composition.
The roofs of the towers can be painted red, brown and dark blue.
The windows can be painted with bright colors. It is not necessary to use only a black pencil.
Instead of bricks, you can depict stonework on the walls of the towers. On light-colored towers, the masonry should be drawn with a darker pencil of the same shade.
On dark walls, you can draw the masonry with a black or dark brown pencil.
Draw all the small elements with a black pencil. Outline the windows and doors. Draw the tiles and boards on the roofs.
Trace all the towers along the outline.

Using a light-colored pencil (yellow, light brown, or blue), shade all the empty space in the drawing. The strokes should be applied without pressing on the pencil, in a chaotic manner. When conducting classes with younger children, parents should choose simple images of castles for copying, without small details. Black and white drawings, with small elements drawn and shadows applied, are suitable for working with children in middle and high school.

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