Hi, Tom here, welcome to my new video: How to Draw a Balcony, in this drawing I'll
show you one way to draw a balcony, with the windows, some fabric and a shadow:
For this drawing I'm going to use a 4B pencil and a blue watercolor pencil and
some water and brush for the sky at the end, the first step in this simple
drawing is to draw a rectangle for our window in the middle of the page or
maybe slightly to the left of the middle,
next we can draw a horizontal line in the middle of this rectangle and this
will be for the top bar of the metal balcony, we can make this line a little
bit wider than the rectangle itself on the left and on the right next we could
draw a curve going down towards the rectangle, from the side of the bar,
so now let's extend the baseline of the rectangle as well, so it is wider, so it
is the same width as the metal bar that we've just drawn, next if we read the
width of the rectangle down we can draw a diagonal line to the left and one to
the right and a new horizontal line, so that we're sort of looking up at this
balcony, which is higher up than we are,
we can draw some thin vertical lines for the vertical bars of this metal balcony,
just evenly spaced vertical lines would be fine,
next we could add three rectangles for brackets for the balcony, down along here,
one in the middle, one on the left and one on the right,
next we could also add a long piece of fabric hanging from the balcony,
something longer than the actual base of the balcony, so that we can add a drop
shadow, a shadow later on that sort of goes further down and to the side of the
object that the shadow is created from, now we can erase these errors that we no
longer need, inside the areas of the fabric, next it's time to darken some of
our lines, for this drawing I'm using a 4B pencil, if you just pressed with a
pencil more firmly, you should get a darker line,
we can now shade in the base of the balcony with a dark tone,
next we can darken the top line and the right-hand side of the rectangle, as the
light in this drawing is coming from the top right,
they'll be in shadow, next we can add a shadow below the
balcony, going to the left, and a longer shadow for the fabric, and again the
fabric of the shadow needs to be to the left and lower down,
that's called a drop shadow, when it's to the side and lower than the thing that
the shadow is cast from, now the shadow, it'd be good if the
shadow was a mid-tone, so not the lightest thing and not the darkest thing,
but some in the middle, a mid-tone,
we could add a few softer tones to the fabric as well, next I think we could
draw the middle of the rectangle to create two windows, in our original
rectangle, and now we can add a wider shadow to the top, and then also to the
right of this sort of window frame, again because the light's coming from the top
right in our picture...
I think I'll make this shadow a bit darker...
now to draw a glass window we can just indicate that by shading a graded tone,
using a diagonal angle for the graded tone, a graded tone is just where you
change the pressure of the pencil, as you apply the graded tone, at an angle, so the
tone goes from dark to light and then back again, from light to dark, as you're
moving the tone across the page, in that way we can give an indication of the
reflective quality of a piece of glass, next we could use a side of an eraser to
lighten some of these lines and the glass had got a bit smudgy and dark,
now, on the left here we could add a shadow for the left-hand side of the balcony,
for the metal balcony, as the sun's coming on the right it will be cast onto
the left-hand side and again we'll use a mid-tone, so that it matches the earlier
shadow that we drew, next let's draw two parallel vertical lines for a pipe on
the left hand side, we could add a rectangle for a box here,
this pipe have a shadow on the left hand side, and so will the box...
so in a way we're making this rectangle turn into a box by just giving it a shadow!
this drawing is based on a painting by
the Welsh artist Thomas Jones, which is in National Gallery in London, it's one
of my favourite paintings and have taken the composition for this drawing from
that painting, now he could draw a horizontal line for a flat roof at the
top of the page and then add another line just below, it and then the darker shadow,
on the right here we could add window in the same way that we drew the
first window, with the diagonal lines to represent the glass in the window
using a graded tone,
in this sort of drawing there are lots of things that you might want to add
into the drawing, for example you could put a flower pot in the window or lights
within the rooms, that you're looking through the window into the room or
maybe even a cat walking along the flat roof or a ladder propped up against the
wall with its shadow casting along towards the left...
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on my online drawing courses, for this drawing I'll just color in the sky with
a blue watercolor pencil and then I'll make this watercolor pencil wet,
with just a wash of water, just sort of smudge it in...
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