Fantasy Art School

Let's Draw some Siege Engines

Siege engines are a part of just about every fantasy world! Let's practice drawing some. For the most part you can draw some really good looking siege engines if you just remember the lesson on perspective and vanishing point. Siege engines are typically very squarish constructions. Here are some drawings I made of various siege engines so you can know the various types.

This sequence of drawings show you how to go about making a catapult drawing. You start out (1) with a parallelogram. This will be the base of the catapult.

Then you start creating the timbers of the catapult (2) It starts to take on a three dimensional shape.

Now continue to build the structure of the catapult as shown in (3).

An important thing to think about is that the catapult is made up of a lot of parallel lines and these lines tend to get just a little bit narrower the farther away from the viewer they are. And the structure gets a bit smaller the farther away from the viewer it is. This is good use of perspective and vanishing point.

Practice drawing some different siege engines and I have a bunch of different ones here on this page that you can look at so you can practice.

If you really want to get some good practice you can combine this lesson with lesson 20 by taking a good look at one of the catapults for a couple of minutes then looking away and trying to draw it from memory (lesson 20)

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Fantasy Art Lessons

1. lesson 1 - Holding the pencil and getting a feel for it and warming up with lines
2. lesson1c how to draw a straight line
3. lesson 2 - Drawing some simple geometric shapes
4. lesson 3 - Understanding and using Perspective
5. lesson 4- foreshortening in perspective
6. lesson 5- Drawing depth and distance
7. lesson 6-Using lines of varying thickness
8. lesson 7- drawing form and shape with a medieval mace
9. lesson 8- Drawing metal - We draw a medieval helmet
10. lesson 9- drawing our first human form
11. lesson 10- Distorting the human form to create fantasy creatures
12. lesson 11 - doodling and creativity break
13. lesson 12 - a Morning star mace - drawing textures
14. lesson 13 - how to draw chainmail
15. lesson 14 - How to convey action in your fantasy drawings
16. lesson 15 - How to draw sword shapes
17. lesson16 -draw an armored knight
18. lesson 17 - Draw a fantasy dagger using the Five-S method
19. lesson 18 - Creating space in your drawings - A Dragons Lair
20. lesson 19 - Practice by drawing dragons
21. Lesson 20 - Drawing from Memory
22. Lesson 21 -Draw a Catapult

Fantasy Art Lessons from Guest Artists

1. How to draw a magical genie using Corel and Photoshop

Art Books & Supplies

1. Art Kits
2. Art Books
3. Fantasy Art Books

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The Telescope Nerd
Epic Fantasy.com
The Medieval Armory
THe Fantasy Guide
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