Pencil Drawing of an English Tudor Revival House
 Pencil detail of bricks A recent pencil drawing I drew of an English tudor revival house (or mock tudor style). I particularly like drawing houses with lots of brickwork like here because it gives me the chance to use the hard / soft pencil relief method.
This involves drawing the mortar joints first, which are often lighter in colour, with a hard 2H pencil with just enough pressure to leave a slight indentation in the drawing paper. Because a 2H pencil is hard, it leaves a depression but with a lighter mark on the paper than with softer pencils. I then use much softer ( and darker) 6B to 8B pencil to draw over the top of these brickwork lines which only leaves a pencil mark on the higher relief areas of the paper and not in the mortar joint lines that were drawn with the 2H pencil. I hope that makes sense?... The problem is that sometimes the mortar joints appear darker than the brick, either because they were built that way or due to weathering or light conditions. This was the case with this house and it requires a second phase of sketching back through the mortar lines with a soft 6B pencil to make them darker where necessary. If you used a dark pencil at the beginning to make the indentation in the paper the results would be too overpowering and 'flat'. You can see in the image above that this technique has been used in the mullioned windows too, but this time they are lighter than the strong shadows of the glass panes and only a 2H pencil was used for the mullion. If you would like to see more examples of my house portrait drawings and paintings visit my portfolio page. http://www.portraits-online.com/art-blog/english-tudor-revival-house-pencil-drawing When painting windows you will often notice that the higher windows are are almost white because of the glass reflection from the sky. In the image above you can see the transition from light to dark in the glass. The darker shadows in window panes are often created because of trees or neighbouring buildings. Curtains, internal features and indoor lighting levels behind the glass also have an effect on the amount of reflection too. 
Custom watercolour painting of a house in Zurich
Another house portrait in watercolour paint, this time the house is located in Zurich, Switzerland. This Zurich House has typical green painted window shutters and the steep roof with dormer windows. The painting angle is slightly offset so that you can just see the side of the building and other houses in the background. This often makes for a more interesting composition for house portraits.  Watercolour detail Details such as planting in pots and stonework on the driveway for example often help to add more depth and interest to a house portrait painting.  Watercolour detail of window When painting windows you will often notice that the higher windows are are almost white because of the glass reflection from the sky. In the image above you can see the transition from light to dark in the glass. The darker shadows in window panes are often created because of trees or neighboring buildings. Curtains, internal features and indoor lighting levels behind the glass also have an effect on the amount of reflection too.  Watercolour detail of window pane The lower windows, as shown here, often have much darker window panes because there is no light reflection from the sky. The reason for this is that the angle of the portrait is mostly taken at eye level of a person standing at ground level. Because light travels in straight lines, so do the reflections that we see in windows, so the most likely reflections we see in a ground floor window are the street or garden trees behind you. http://www.portraits-online.com/art-blog/zurich-house-portrait-painted-in-watercolour
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