#drawing buildings

[stelar-time]

“Surely someone will come..”

Paratober day 3! Coward

[kitrixs]

1st one has motion blur btw

honestly thought this would take a lot longer but ive been avoiding school like the plague so its been finished

[dumthicc]

Art Tips;

Buildings

I have a really hard time drawing buildings, so I'm showing my process for anybody struggling out there.

Note: Don't do this for every drawing. This is simply for practice and should not be the norm.

First thing, find an image of the building you'd like to draw, or take a picture of your own (preferably the latter);

Next, trace the outline of the building and the windows. I would suggest using the line tool to get straight lines, and then freehand trace your own tracing to give the outline more life. Since this is just an example, I only traced the image once.

Using more than one color helps to identify what lines belong to what, so your drawing doesn't become a mess.

Next, either eyedrop the colors or use your own. You'll see by the end that the colors don't have to match the source.

Fill in to the best of your ability. For fading or mixing colors, I used the fluffy watercolor brush on MB paint. For realism, DON'T use a fade tool. A watercolor brush will work just fine. It's tempting to make things easier, but doing this makes the colors look artificial and flat.

As you can see, the drawing looks a bit bland and cartoonish. An easy way to fix this is to change the line art color and add overlay layers. I know this is almost impossible to do if you're drawing traditionally, but if you plan out where you want your colors to be before you ink, you can easily change the colors in your lines.

Changing the line color helps to soften edges and add depth, and the overlay layers add glow and more realistic lighting. It can make you feel like there's a real fire or light in your art.

If you're light colors aren't light enough, try making your dark colors darker with a dark purple or blue. Never shade with black.

This step is optional, but you can add filters or adjust color balances to your liking.

If you plan on tracing and posting someone else's photography, make sure you credit them or link where you got the image as to avoid any trouble. Again, this is just for practice.

As for the photo I used, I've linked the post I got it from.

They have the link to the original source.

Follow them btw they share really beautiful photos

autumn cozy aesthetics

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[art-tnt]

Do you have any tips on how to draw run down/old age/falling apart cottages? Houses would work too instead, it’s super appreciated and thank you for the amazing blog!

Artist Credit: Adron

Although this is a haunted house, the process would be the same for a similar run down looking building. Draw the basic shapes first and then fill with detail. The more decrepit you want it to look, just add more tiny details to emphasize the degree of neglect or damage. I know this is a very rough and stylized looking end result, but I think detail here is the key to showing the condition of the building you want to make.

[mahatka]

[cat-hesarose]

I need to practice drawing backgrounds and objects.

[mahatka]

I think I just threw up my soul