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How to Draw a Clock Tower

Midnight Clocktower from The Drawing Fix™. An easy step-by-step drawing for Grades 6–8. Draw it with your class in about 20 minutes, one step at a time. Free to use and print. No sign-up.

By Christopher Allen · Ontario elementary educator15 stepsAbout 20 minutesUpdated Nov 5, 2026
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A challenge drawing for older students. Structure first, detail last. Good practice for line control, proportion and slowing down.

Before you start: a pencil, an eraser, a sheet of paper and something to colour with.

Draw lightly at first. Dark lines come at the end, once the shapes look right.

Step-by-step: how to draw a clock tower

  1. Step 1. Tower

    Build the front tower and its angled side face.

  2. Step 2. Roof and spire

    Add the steep roof, spire and top cross-lines.

  3. Step 3. Clock rings

    Place the two large clock-face circles.

  4. Step 4. Clock hands

    Add the hands, centre and four hour marks.

  5. Step 5. Clock cracks

    Add two short broken-time cracks.

  6. Step 6. Tower windows

    Build the two tall arched tower windows.

  7. Step 7. Stone bands

    Add the three horizontal stone bands.

  8. Step 8. Side buildings

    Build the two side structures and pointed roofs.

  9. Step 9. Side windows

    Add the two arched side-building windows.

  10. Step 10. Moon

    Place the large moon behind the architecture.

  11. Step 11. Roof texture

    Add selective roof texture marks.

  12. Step 12. Mist

    Layer the drifting mist lines across the foreground.

  13. Step 13. Flying silhouettes

    Add two tiny flying silhouettes in the distance.

  14. Step 14. Ground texture

    Add a few short ground texture marks.

  15. Step 15. Create

    Make one part completely yours.

The pink line is the new part in each step.

Make it theirs

  • Add a night sky: a moon, stars and a few bats.
  • Give it a spooky face, or a silly one.
  • Colour it with only three colours.
  • Colour last. There is no wrong colour for a clock tower.

Teaching it with the projector

The projector version draws each step slowly on the board, pauses while students copy it, then checks in before the next step. Nobody has to talk, so you are free to walk around and help.

Quick Fix: 10 steps, about 10 minutes. Good for a brain break or the last few minutes before recess. Full Focus: all 15 steps, about 20 minutes, with the extra detail.

Open Midnight Clocktower on the projector → It works on any classroom screen. No accounts, no student names, no ads.

Curriculum connections

Visual arts: the elements of design (line, shape, space and proportion) and creating art for a purpose. Language: listening to and following multi-step directions. Directed drawing also builds fine motor control and focus.

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