Hello and welcome to my new drawing of a modern house, for this drawing I used
some gray paper, some dark pencils and at the end of the drawing I used some
soft white pastels, the first step in this drawing is to
make the basic cubes of the building, to do this I need to work out their shapes
and how they relate to each other so I'm drawing the big shapes first, the ones
that I can understand and then as time goes on I'll put in the smaller shapes
and make more connections as I understand structure more, in this
drawing all of the diagonals going left or right will be more or less parallel
to each other because the perspective isn't very strong, so they'll sort of
funnel together a little bit towards the left and a little bit towards the right,
but you could just, as I'm doing, make them more or less parallel and then the
verticals will all be upright, but I'm not worrying about the straightness of
the lines too much at the beginning, because I'm trying to understand the
structure of how the various parts fit together, a bit like a Lego model, indeed
you can you can get a Lego model of this building on the Internet, we're
looking up at each of the horizontal slabs of this building,
this house is called Fallingwater and was designed by the famous American
architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930's, the building hangs over a
waterfall and is balance for a cantilevered structure, the building
looks very modern, I think, but it also seems to be part of its natural
environment in which it is built, later on I'll speed up the drawing when
we get to the stage of adding some tone and with the tone I tend to try and do
just a few tonal grades, so the papers gray, and then I'll add two or three
tonal grades of two grays and then a really dark black, as dark as the pencils
ago and I'm using a 4B and an 8B pencil, so really dark pencils for this,
well, because the paper's gray, it's slightly gray, it means that towards the end, when
I use a little bit of a soft white pastel, that whiteness will show up in
contrast to the gray, and that will help create the sense of water in the
waterfall and make the bright parts of the building a little bit brighter,
I'm also going to add some trees in the background, just so that within the
drawing you can see how it relates to the landscape in which the architecture
is built, I hope you enjoy the rest this drawing
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