Portraits of houses, homes, buildings

How to Draw Buildings is full of exciting ideas to help you create your own professional-looking pictures. Follow the step-by-step instructions to draw everything from an Ancient Egyptian temple to a creepy haunted house. A summary of techniques, tools and materials will help you choose the style and equipment that suits you best.

How to Draw Buildings: A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners with 10 Projects...Aimed at absolute beginners, this essential guide provides the technical tricks of the trade...the building blocks needed to portray structures from country churches to city skylines. All it takes is 10 easy and fully illustrated lessons to master linear perspective, proportion, and composition, and to capture the texture of materials such as brick, stone, concrete, wood, glass, and steel. Draw a simple weathered wooden bungalow using graphite pencil. An old-fashioned church, with corner lines that converge at 2 vanishing points and different elevations, makes the perfect subject for illustrating 2-point perspective. Bring color into the picture in an image of a brightly painted Italian fishing cottage. Other demonstrations focus on architectural details, combining tools and techniques, and more.

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