Easy How to Draw the Golden Gate Bridge Tutorial and Golden Gate Bridge Coloring Page

Learn how to draw the Golden Gate Bridge with this step by step tutorial. It gets a little easier when you keep it a silhouette.

Golden Gate Bridge Drawing

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the bay in San Francisco and is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of California. It is also possibly one of the most photographed bridges in the world.

At first glance, it might look a little complex to draw, until you think about it step by step. Basically, you will be drawing the road, adding the vertical posts, draping cables along the top, and finishing with lots of connecting vertical lines. Careful drawing is still called for, of course, which is true for any mechanical type of drawing, but the results will be well worth it.

When it comes to coloring, I recommend a permanent black marker and crayons. No need to worry about bleeding as the marker will make a nice black shadow even if crayons bump into it bit. And if you press hard and color carefully with warm colors over a deep blue ocean, you'll end up with quite a sunset drawing of this famous California landmark.

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Golden Gate Bridge Coloring Page

Materials for Golden Gate Bridge Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions to Draw the Golden Gate Bridge Step by Step

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Draw the Golden Gate Bridge

  1. Start with two slight arches for the base.

  2. Draw two vertical posts as shown.

  3. Add horizontal lines and Xs and a base.

  4. Draw two smaller vertical posts.

  5. Draw horizontal lines and Xs and a base.

  6. Draw cable lines draped on top.

  7. Start evenly spaced vertical lines.

  8. Finish the lines and add a horizon line.

  9. Trace with marker and color.

Student Art

Thank you girls! Those bridges are amazing!

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