Hello and welcome to my new video
How to Draw the Eiffel Tower
a simple step by step guide
where I show you one way of drawing the Eiffel Tower
using a black marker pen
to start this I draw one side of the Eiffel Tower
with a continuous line which starts to curve slightly as it reaches the bottom of the paper
and then I repeat the same line on the other side
coping the first line I drew in a symmetrical sort of way
so that I have two lines which are in symmetry to each other
so it is very wide at the bottom and quite narrow from about half way up
and at that point I draw two lines going across
one of the platforms of the Eiffel Tower
and then two lines below it, with a slight gap
and then for the next platform area slightly lower down
I draw another line
and this line can go slightly wider
than the width of the Eiffel Tower
and then I draw another horizontal line
and then a third line lower down as well
so now I have two sets of strips on the Eiffel Tower
and so the next step is to find
the half way point and to do that
I just draw a line down the centre
of the Eiffel Tower
and at this point here I will make it go
slightly to the right
at the last part it needs to be more straight
and then at this point here
I am going to repeat the line,
going to the left this time
and then again going to more of a straight line at the base
so that is the basic structure of the Eiffel Tower
and now I think it is time to draw the arch
at the base of the Eiffel Tower
and that goes between these two straight lines
we have just drawn
next I will devide this section up
with some more horizontal lines
and then I am going to put a cross on each one
which is just a simplified version of the
all the metal structure of the Eiffel Tower
because we are trying to keep this drawing as simple as possible
so I draw three crosses on one side and then
I just do three crosses on the other side
right I think next I will just add
the little parts of the crosses down on those bits
and then the next stage will be to add some
division lines between this little band in the middle
and then I will divide that one and that one again
and then I will put crosses in those rectangles
that I have just made, after I do a couple of lines there
and these crosses will represent the structure within that area of the Eiffel Tower
right so the next stage is to divide up the taller thinner part of the Eiffel Tower
which really does go quite high up
and I divide that up
and the lines get slightly closer together
as the get further up towards the top of the Eiffel Tower
but they stay a similar gap really
it is not like going away in perspective so much
so that is about right I think and
I will just put a cross in each one of the rectangles I have created
I will put just a simple cross in each one
and that will give quite a good impression of the
structure of the taller part of the Eiffel Tower
so just these crosses look
more complex because they are smaller than the crosses which are lower down
in the lower part of the Eiffel Tower
it is surprising how something so simple like a cross inside a rectangle can
seem like quite a complected drawing when
it is looked apon as a whole thing
so going right up to the very top here, I have
not drawn the very top yet
and now I have got all the crosses in so I will just work on the top bit a little bit
so there are a few small shapes and a point, lets keep it really simple
although I want to keep it simple I want to get it straight
so the next thing is to work down in this lower section now
and I will just work out how to divide these lines
I will just put two lines on each side
so two lines for the right and two lines for the left
and again in a moment I am goiing to put
some crosses on these lines
to show the structure of the Eiffel Tower
so one cross and then another
so that makes three crosses on each side
so whatever you do on one side just do the same on the other side
so it does not need to be precise but
whatever you do on one side it is best to do on the other side
so that is a basic Eiffel Tower
and then I am going to put another line here
so the arch has a slight thickness to it
and then there are various decorations on the Eiffel Tower
in ironwork which I am just indicating
so just to simplify it tremendously
and now I am going to divide this area up and these
lines don't go inwards so much they
are almost parallel and again we are simplifying it
and then we put crosses in again
to make them seem like a complicated structure
but they are not
so lots of crosses between these lines and all the lines are evenly spaced
so now with some of these lines it would be good just to thicken up a bit
so I put the pen over the top of a pen mark I have already got
now I divide up the next horizontal area
so it is not just a blank area because
any blank area will look like it comes forward
I don't want any empty spaces because they will come forward too much
so the next stage here it to get this platform to look a little bit darker
and now that is it so the
next step would be to do the other side, the back bit
of the Eiffel Tower so when you are looking at one side of the Eiffel Tower you
are going to see a little bit of the other side
of the Eiffel Tower
through some of the structure
between the two holes in the structure so the
back legs will be shown and the
and there will be two lines like this and then
the front part but just make them smaller
and then I will repeat the shapes we have
I am using the same pen throughout and the lines will be
closer together and therefore darker
and that darkness will be quite useful
to make the back seem different to the front of the Eiffel Tower
I think the Eiffel Tower is fun to draw in pen because
all the basic shapes and structure of the thing are things that
can be represented by a single black pen
and so just by drawing with a black line you are sort of
creating not just the basic shape but the end result
of the finished drawing, the structure of the Eiffel Tower
so here I can do some details in this area as well
and I will just add some small little parts just along here
and so again I want to make some of these small areas a little denser
so I am not shading but just adding more lines
and that will make it darker
I don't think I will shade this or put any tome in but maybe later on
I will just get some water and put a brush over it
because it is a pen which is not water tight
so if I just put some water on it a bit later on it will give some
indication of some of the tone
which will be quite useful
these crosses that we did earlier on I think it would be better to put a line
going through them following the line of the structure of the Eiffel Tower
because that is what the actual tower has on it
I will make this line here a little bit darker
so in your drawing just look at any areas that could be a little bit darker
It is best not to go over this lines too many times
otherwise it will look like a fussy drawing
so I think I will add a little bit of water
and the water is just going to push the pen and
dilute the pen to make a shade and
I am not really concerned if I loose some of the drawing
as it will unify the image into a more tonal image
so when doing this wash you need to work quite quickly
so I will just push the brush a bit down here
again it has just got water in it and it is just picking up the ink from the pen
and smudging it through and if it gets too blotchy I can
just get some kitchen paper and just dab it
as I don't want any pools of water in it
as that would not really work so well
the more I do the more I feel I have to do as
it looks a little odd leaving unworked areas
I will just work out where I need to put the water here
I think that is about enough
so the next step I think I will just get some kitchen paper and dab it
just press up and down
not sideways and that will just
pick up some of the water