How To Draw Houses Step By Step

How To Draw Houses Step By Step Video

How To Draw Houses Step By Step Video Transcript

hello and welcome to this course of how
to draw house
this is the house that we're going to
draw this is the end result the photo of
the house which you can download from my
website is this photo and we're going to
learn how to actually draw this kind of
house in my technique we're going to use
various tools we're going to use pencils
and pens and different thicknesses we're
going to use white pans black pens and
we're going to smudge pencil with
cardboard smudges and all of that we'll
see in due course in the course you'll
be able to download from my website not

only the photo of the house and you can
be able to actually draw from it if you
print it out or if you put it on your
screen but there's also images of the
final house and some stages in the
middle and other images that belong to
the course itself so you can see all
that on my website the address is just
down here on the text section of YouTube
also to help you with the course I have
an e-book and an iBook and a real book
with different types of houses that you
can see both the photo of the house and
and the portrait and how I did it
and these are very interesting because

it's different materials used in old
houses a thatched roof or a house that's
actually an oast house and it's round
and how to do the round bits of bricks
or very big and complex manor houses so
in this ebook you have all the
information and the photos so you can go
and see lots and lots of other types of
houses not only this one to train and to
exercise other materials that our houses
are built off and the information where
to take that by book and ebook is again
down here in the text area in youtube so
you can use that too for your course
okay what I'm going to do is is try and

show you how to feel perspective not
really to study it like they study it in
architectural schools or art schools the
two-point perspective we're going to
show you here is just for you to kind of
feel yourself around a structure of a
house so the vertical lines of let's say
a cube the vertical lines are always
straight they will never change with the
horizon and then when you have your
horizon which is usually with always the
level of your eyes the eye level so if
you are standing here this is you and
this is your eye looking at the picture
excuse my little character here so where

your eyes are that's where your horizon
is so if you're looking at a house from
the middle and it's a cube so the
two-point perspective will look
something like this so these lines will
meet somewhere on the horizon these
lines here will meet somewhere on the
horizon and these this is called
two-point perspective but I'm never
going to use a ruler and I'm never going
to do it scientifically it's more about
feeling this so when I do lines that
mimic bricks or windows I will always do
something like this that will just feel
the perspective like a fan that's going

from that angle to that angle and then
you have a cube now if you go on and you
add all kinds of elements that are
basically around this structure let's
say a pavement here for a line of little
pillars again they will all go and have
the same feeling of going to the same
so everything you do that has to do with
this side of the structure it will go to
a point here on the horizon and
everything to do with this side of the
structure even if it's a pavement or
tiles of the floor they will all go to
the same at the same point so it's more
about feeling how this works and if you

build something a bit taller here like a
second floor again this will go to the
same point here and this will go to the
same point there and everything on this
side including windows doors tiles
everything will go and the angles will
be to the same point and what we will do
and we'll do some exercises and when we
also draw the real picture we will not
use a ruler and we will not do any any
scientific perspectives we will just
feel how it's supposed to be now in
order to get grips of this and to and to
train to feel this we'll do a few
examples now together so moving to a

more realistic exercise let's build this
structure here just from a box and a few
CD boxes and we take this piece of a
little book and we put it on top as if
that's the roof and we make a structure
that looks like a basic little house and
we want to draw this but from two very
different positions in this position I'm
sitting above the house so my horizon is
more or less over there above the house
so from this position I'm seeing the
ceiling I'm seeing the roof of the house
and this will be a position of looking
down into the house in this position
we're sitting beneath the house so
imagine there's a slope here where the
table finishes
and we're sad standing on the slope
looking up towards the house so in this
case the horizon is more or less here so
everything is going to come down in the
two point perspective all the lines are
going to come down to this level so this
is a position where the house is above
us very different from the position
before so let's start with the position
looking above the house so the horizon
will be more or less here and we will
try and build just by feeling the
perspective build the angles of the
house from this angle so all the lines
don't forget they're all going to the
same point on this horizon so if I
imaginary horizon goes on here and here
the lines are going to meet there
eventually so this line here this line
here the line of the roof on the top of
the roof are all going to go to the same
point and also this line here this line
here are going to go all to the same
point so this is what we're going to try
to do and show how it's going to happen
and all the lines are going towards the
horizon that way and that way so this is
what we actually see when we're
suspending and looking at a house from
above
also the tilted roof although it's
tilted the lines also go towards the
same point over there but when I'm
looking at the house from beneath the
house the perspective goes very
differently so our horizon that
level is more or less here so I can
imagine the horizon somewhere here yeah
and the house this part is actually
under the horizon that everything else
is above so the first level of the house
will already go down I don't see I can't
see the roof you see I can't see the
roof on top like before and everything
now is going to go very steeply down
again to the same points this this that
the roof they all go to the same point
somewhere here and all of these again go
to the same point somewhere there so
this is going to be a very different
picture from the first picture we did
when we were standing on the hill and
usually when you have something that's
very tall like the edge of the roof then
the angle is very steep because again
it's going to the same point that these
are going to so it will look something
like that
very crudely but it's more about to feel
how the perspective is very different
from the first one