How to Draw a Treasure Chest in 5 Steps

Learn How to Draw a Treasure Chest in 5 Steps

In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I will be showing you how to draw a treasure chest in 5 steps using basic shapes and structures. Knowing how to draw a cube will be especially helpful while drawing this chest.

The final treasure chest drawing for people who aren’t patient:

Step 1: Draw This Shape

The first step of drawing a treasure chest is to draw this shape. What would you call this shape? I’d call it a square with a half circle on top of it.

Step 2: Draw the Front of the Chest

Another weird shape. This is the front of the chest. Figure out the width that you want your chest to be and draw a line that follows the shape from the last step. Once you have that line, connect it to the top and bottom of the shape we drew earlier.

Step 3: Draw a Line Through the Middle

This is an easy step. Just draw a line through the middle of the chest.

Step 4: Draw Some Shapes

On the inside of the chest draw these shapes. Treasure chests are usually made from wood with some sort of metal trim. These shapes become the wood and metal trim.

Step 5: Draw the Details

It’s detail time. Give those shapes from earlier a wood grain pattern. Also add a keyhole to the front of the chest. After that you can add details and imperfections as usual. Make this chest look like it’s seen some stuff. I wonder what’s inside the chest, maybe a dagger?

Bonus Step: Color and Shade the Treasure Chest

First do the flat colors. Then pick a light source and stick to it as you add the shadows and highlights. Now you’ve learned how to draw a treasure chest, GOOD JOB!!

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If you enjoyed drawing this treasure chest you might want to try drawing a dagger, a goblin, or even a rocket ship next.

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