You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less (28 page)

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was initially going to have this advanced-level house as the Bonus Challenge for Lesson 12. However, I realized there was such a high volume of educational content in this drawing that I decided to make it into a full lesson. Doing this allowed me to include an additional house drawing, my favorite “deluxe multiroof house,” as the Bonus Challenge. A win-win scenario, I get to wedge another one of my favorite lessons into this book, and you get to learn how to draw more intricate houses.

 

 

 

1. Redraw Lesson 12’s simple house up to this step here.

2. Using your direction SW line as the reference angle, draw the ground line for the left section of the house.

3. Keep your eyes checking the reference lines in direction SW. Now, dash out the next line in direction SW to form the top of the wall.

4. Draw the vertical line for the near corner of the house, and draw the bottom left side with a line in direction NW.

5. That line you have just drawn is now your reference angle line in direction NW. Use this to draw the top of the wall.

6. Draw the far left vertical wall. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the bottom of the wall.

7. Draw the vertical guide line up from your guide dot to position the peak of the roof.

8. Draw the peak of the roof, making sure the near edge is noticeably larger than the back edge. Complete the roof with a line in direction NE. Erase your extra lines.

9. Using the lines you have already drawn as reference direction lines NW and NE, lightly draw in guide lines for the shingles. Add the door, windows, and garage. Once again, make sure that each of these detail elements lines up with the direction lines NW, NE, SW, and SE.

10. Complete your brand-new house! How exciting, but we’ve got to hustle here—the moving truck is arriving shortly, and we still need to install the new carpeting. Draw in the shading, shadows, and very dark undershadows under the eaves. The sidewalk and driveway are drawn by strictly following your direction guide lines! Look at how much faith I have in you! This is a very difficult element, and I’ve thrown you out there on your own with no safety guide lines! You are well on your way to drawing houses with only a few guide lines. You are way out on an independent limb here, so you might as well sketch in a few trees and shrubs, and (why not?) let’s recycle our good ole mailbox from Lesson 12.