Q&A for How to Draw a Medieval Castle

Feel free to use a ruler, but remember nothing is perfect so do your best. If you still don't like it you can become better, practice makes perfect.

If you want your drawing to be accurate, look at some pictures of actual medieval castles and fortresses, either in a book or online.

Try sketching them in lightly with a regular pencil. If you want them to be very straight, use a ruler or another flat, straight-edged object to help you.

With the two rectangles beside it make them a little higher than the middle tower.

You can use whatever patterns you like - it's your castle after all. Bricks would probably look the most realistic, but your drawing doesn't have to be realistic if you don't want it to be.

Add curves and shadows to your flags to make them look wrinkled, and adjust the way they are flying based on what you choose to be the direction of wind.

If you want your drawing to be accurate, look at some pictures of actual medieval castles and fortresses, either in a book or online.

Make it look like the terrain is behind the castle by adding depth. Shade around the edges of the castle and around the bottom, making it look as if it is casting a shadow.

Try drawing it an angle instead of from the front. Make the back end of the castle visible, or at least the sides. If you give the drawing a little depth this way, it will look less flat.

Use a brick texture, it goes the best with the castle. Or use wood, as early castles were made out of wood.

It doesn't need to, but it can make the drawing look better and more impressive.

Use a very small circular motion without picking up your pencil between circles. This is the best way to avoid leaving white spaces in your coloring.

Draw two straight, parallel lines for the pole, and connect them with small lines or curves at the ends. Then draw the fabric part of the flag -- for a simple style, you can make it a rectangle. For a more realistic style, try using different curves and wrinkles to show the flag waving in the wind.