How to Draw a Cemetery
Young artists will love learning how to draw a cemetery with 6 easy steps.
Sharpen a pencil and follow along with these basic 6 drawing steps. You’ll learn the basics for drawing a cemetery.
This lesson only takes about 20 minutes and has a PDF near the bottom of the lesson you can easily print or download. The pdf guide even contains a coloring book page with just the line art. This pairs perfectly with crayons or markers. It is ideal for very young children in the need of extra guidance and simply looking to fill in a cemetery.
Art making is much more fun when you have a easy to understand lesson to follow. Let’s get drawing!
Materials
- Pencil
- Drawing Paper
- Crayons or Colored Pencils
- Black Marker (optional)
- How to Draw a Cemetery Printable PDF (see bottom of lesson)
In today’s basic drawing lesson, we are going to learn how to draw a cemetery on paper. The shape and proportion of each part will be observed in each step of the how-to article here. Take notice that the blue outlines are used to show the current elements being created in each step.
Time Needed: 20 minutes
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Draw A Tombstone
Start by drawing a rectangular-shaped tombstone with an arch on top. Then, add the rectangular base of the tombstone.
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Add Another Tombstone
Next, draw the arch-shaped outline of the tombstone then add the rectangular shape of its base.
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Form A Cross-Shaped Tombstone
Now, form a cross-shaped tombstone. Then, attach a rectangle below it to add its base.
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Etch The Engraving
Etch the engravings on each tombstone by first drawing a cross on the left tombstone. Next, write “RIP” on the middle and right tombstones. Then, draw a line following the shape of the middle tombstone as shown.
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Add Grass
Surround the tombstones with grass by drawing lines with pointed edges sticking out.
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Complete The Cemetery Drawing
Let’s add some color to our drawing of a cemetery! First, color the tombstones with shades of gray. Next, shade the ground in front of the tombstones with a brown crayon. Then, fill the grass with a green crayon. Finally, color the sky with a blue crayon.
How to Draw a Cemetery PDF Download
Click the link below to view or download this drawing lesson. The PDF is a printable drawing lesson for How to Draw a Cemetery. The last page of the downloadable PDF includes a coloring book page with just the outlines and an extension exercise for prompting kids to get creative!