Architecture pencil drawing. Drawing architectural details
Hi all! Please excuse me that there have been no new lessons for a long time. This lesson will be the first in the new year.
How to draw Paris with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's sketch out the main outlines of the structures. Draw the horizon line and background. Step two. Let's draw a bold line around the Eiffel Tower. In the foreground we will add the outlines of buildings. 
Step three. Let's detail the Tower, and draw skyscrapers in the background. 
Step four. Let's add some shading for realism. 
How to draw Big Ben with a pencil step by step
Step one. Draw the outlines of the building. 
Step two. Let's add a clock and the tops of houses. 
Step three. We draw elements of the city landscape, a street lamp with cameras, a fence, a road, and vegetation in the background. Let's shade it all. 
Step four. We detail objects. And let's add some more shadows. 
How to draw a house with a pencil step by step
Step one. We draw a small standard house, as it looks in the village, with a triangular roof. 
Step two. Let's straighten out the structure a bit, add some formal bushes around it and adjust the edges of the roof. 
Step three. Let's add design to this hut, a beautiful porch and facade ornament. 
Step four. Now let’s draw several windows in the front on both floors, as well as a few from the side. You also need some trees in the background and a path to the entrance. 
How to draw a miracle with a pencil step by step
Step one. We draw a rectangular high obelisk on a platform in the middle of the sheet, slightly narrowing it from bottom to top. 
Step two. We draw the lady a beautiful and safe pedestal. We take her gentle but free hand and lift her up, handing her a torch. Let him hold the sign in his other hand, for show. 
Step three. We outline everything beautifully with a thick line and put a crown on the head. We slightly adjust the statue’s dress so that it looks like it has folds and is fluttering in the wind. 
Step four. More passion, more emotions, more shadows on the female body. The pedestal should correspond to such a beautiful lady - we sketch it no worse than the statue itself, add a small entrance below, and windows a little higher. 
Step five. OK it's all over Now. Remove unnecessary lines, carefully outline the contours, put the tools aside, stretch your hands and rub your neck. The drawing is ready. 
How to draw a fortress with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's mark on paper the place where the fortress will stand. 
Step two. Inside the square, we draw rectangles in floors to the very top. 
Step three. We draw two large towers that come from the walls, strengthen the wall, create a large gate. 
Step four. The structure is ready, we remove the auxiliary strokes. Now, with all our imagination, we lean in and draw the buildings inside the castle, small windows in them, and other elements. 
Step five. All this needs more realism - add shadows, shade, make a sea under the castle or something like that. 
How to draw a bridge with a pencil step by step
Step one. The structure consists of two towers, between which there is a lifting part. But first we draw a long horizontal line, indicating the height (horizon line). Next, we add structure elements. 
Step two. Let's get closer to the towers. They need to be given a responsible appearance. Let's level their edges and make them straighter. We make the road and the rising span more voluminous. 
Step three. From each tower we gently and affectionately run large, stretched cables, decorate the tops of the towers with crosses, domes, and whatever else they stuffed into them. On the left we can see the entrance to the bridge - don’t forget about it, sketch it. 
Step four. Let's add the River Thames. Let's add windows and openings, lightly shade the background behind the bridge too. 
How to draw a palace with a pencil step by step
Step one. We carefully draw a template for the castle, draw a line for each wall, draw each tower as something like a rocket. Below there is a little forest, in the middle of which there is a palace. 
Step two. Now, using a thicker and neater line, we highlight the contours of the structure so that you can see what the entire castle will look like. We finish drawing several windows and the tops of the towers. 
Step three. The building must be voluminous and noticeable. We look at the main picture and draw the details of the castle so that it looks as similar as possible. All windows, balconies, small ledges. 
Step four. Now you just need to remove unnecessary lines from the first steps and clean up the drawing for the next step. 
Step five. It doesn't look bad, but what's not noticeable? That's right - shadows. We add shadows with shading to the roof and towers, as well as to the main wall. At the bottom of the picture, don’t forget to add tree tops with shading. 
How to draw a church with a pencil step by step
Step one: add the base of the building and some flora around it. 
Step two: now we finish drawing the walls and trees. Since this is a church, and there is always a cemetery near the church, you know what needs to be completed. 
Step three: we clarify the façade and architecture of the church, and also install a few more tombstones.
Step four: we apply even more details to the building itself, giving it a more adequate shape. 
Step five: everything is almost finished, all that remains is to correct the main window and some details.
How to draw a Buddha temple with a pencil step by step
Step one: add the main strokes and lines. At first it looks a lot like a regular cake, right?
Step two: we give our temple cake a more refined look by leveling the walls, the top, and adding a small tree nearby. 
Step three: we now more seriously draw out the elements of doors, columns, walls and nature around.
Step four: now we draw many, many windows throughout the temple. The temple should always be bright and spacious. 
Step five: now we draw an ornament on the windows, because there are always a lot of people in the temple. 
How to draw a city with a pencil step by step
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And for those who want to torture themselves greatly, I give you a more complicated picture. Try it painted night city:
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Look at the illustration for this chapter. Fantastic! This is a great exercise for practicing more advanced levels of angular perspective drawing. Practice is the key to successful drawing because it is almost impossible to learn and master new skills without intense, regular practice. Whatever it is: music, languages, reading, sports, and especially drawing... to master a skill and enjoy it, practice is necessary!
1. Easily draw a long horizon line across the entire piece of paper. Place two arch points.
2. Draw four vertical lines to represent the near corners of the four buildings. Please note that I have only two lines, both below and above relative to the horizon line.
3. Start with the building on the left. Easily connect the vault points to the top of the building. Notice that the bottom of the building is hidden behind the horizon, it is out of sight, hidden from your view.
4. Do the same with the next building to the right. Easily draw a guide line from the top and bottom of the building.
5. Repeat this process on all subsequent buildings, using vertical lines.
6. Next, using the overlap rule, draw the far right building, hiding it behind the nearest one.
7. Draw a few additional vertical lines from the tops of other buildings to create the illusion of depth to feel like you're in a crowded cityscape.
8. Now erase all the extra lines.
9. Easily draw guides to create the roofs of the buildings. Decide where you want the bottom edge of the building to be and draw a vertical line. This will create the near corner of the building.
10. Indicate the thickness of the building with two vertical lines.
11. Use a square to draw light guide lines from the rear right corner of the roof.
Do the same on the other side, and voila, you have a slightly open trapezoid. Now you can understand why you practiced drawing trapezoids so much in the previous lessons. The trapezoid is a perfect example of how angular perspective works. You can draw in 3D without understanding angular perspective, just like you can drive a car without understanding how a motor works, or use a computer without knowing how it works. However, understanding angular perspective opens up completely new ideas about the creative possibilities of your future drawings.
12. Start drawing the next skyscraper from the center vertical line.
Using a square, lightly draw guide lines to create the roof. For this exercise, let's just draw our buildings so tall that they drop below our field of view. Simply draw all the vertical lines for these buildings all the way to the bottom of the paper.
13. Draw vertical lines to determine the width of the building and connect the corners to the vault points to create the roof.
14. Draw all the remaining buildings, repeating this technique over and over again.
15. Determine the position of the light source and shade all surfaces opposite. Please note that you need to especially clearly highlight where one building overlaps another by applying “secret” shadows. This dark border that separates objects from each other is a very important tool that almost every illustrator uses. Now that you know what to look for, try to find one illustration in a magazine or comic that doesn't use this technique to separate objects.
LESSON 26: PRACTICAL TASK
This is a very interesting and fun hands-on activity: go online and find pictures of Neuschwanstein Castle (this is the romantic castle of the Bavarian King Louis II), a famous castle in Germany.
This castle is considered the inspiration for Cinderella's Castle in the Disneyland theme parks and the logo on Disney films you may have seen in the theater or on DVD. Look through several photos of Neuschwanstein Castle until you find one you like. Make sure to choose one where the horizon line or eye level is at the bottom of the castle and all the peaks reach towards the sky above eye level.
Print and place this image on a piece of cardboard, again making sure it is larger than the image itself by three inches on each side.
Use a ruler, black fine point pen, or soft sharpened pencil to find and draw the horizon line in the photo. Now draw a guide line from the highest point of the lock to determine the position of the vanishing points. Continue drawing guides from each corner you can see in the photo, connecting them at the arch points.
Notice how all the windows on each side of the main building are lined up under the dark roof angles, jutting spiers and windows. Look, even the smallest side of the castle and the tallest watchtower are in line with the vault point.
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Depicting architecture requires a lot of effort. For beginners, this is not as difficult as portraits, for example. This is because painted buildings are perceived differently from people we know, and here mistakes are less visible. I will show you how to draw the Assumption Cathedral step by step. I prohibit using a ruler or any other tools that make it easier to draw straight lines! Learn to draw by hand. When your hand gains experience and confidence, you can use any techniques. Now draw the cathedral on your own!
Step one. We will show on paper the place where the cathedral and trees will be located. 
Step two. We draw the main components of the building. 
Step three. Let's detail each of these parts. Take your time, carefully work out every detail: crosses, domes, windows and even trees. 
Step four. To make the landscape realistic, we will add a background and shadows. 
Check out my other tutorials on drawing buildings, they are even better:
Master class on drawing an architectural monument in graphics.
Dumler Tatyana Petrovna, fine arts teacher of MAOU gymnasium No. 56 in Tomsk
Purpose: for drawing lessons, for participation in competitions, exhibitions, interior decoration or as a gift.
Target: Drawing of an architectural monument in graphics.
Tasks:
- introduce you to an outstanding architectural structure;
- teach how to consistently draw a building structure without a ruler;
- develop the ability to work with a simple pencil;
- promote the development of accuracy, attention, and hard work.
Materials: white sheet for drawing and a simple pencil (it is better to have a hard and soft one)
Today we will get acquainted with the pearl of Muslim art in India and one of the masterpieces of the world heritage, arousing universal admiration.
The Taj Mahal is the most outstanding example of Mughal architecture, combining elements of Persian, Islamic and Indian architectural styles.
It is an architectural complex whose central and iconic component is the white domed marble mausoleum. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in 1653, and thousands of artisans and craftsmen worked day and night to create this miracle. A council of architects headed by Ustad Ahmad Lakhauri worked on the construction.
The fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan left behind many remarkable architectural monuments that are associated with the image of India in the eyes of the modern world.
Shah Jahan had several wives. In 1612, he married Mumtaz Mahal (translated as "Jewel of the Palace"). Poets praised her beauty, harmony and mercy. Mumtaz became a support, love and consolation for the emperor, an inseparable companion of her husband. Over 19 years of marriage, Mumtaz gave birth to 14 children, but the last, fourteenth birth became fatal for her. Mumtaz dies.
The emperor was inconsolable in his grief. In December 1631, Shah Jahan began building a mausoleum that would match the beauty of his beloved wife. The Taj Mahal stands as a clear testament to the extreme wealth and excess of its creator. 20,000 workers toiled for 22 years to make Shah Jahan's fantasy come true. Sculptors arrived from Bukhara, calligraphers from Syria and Persia, inlay was done by craftsmen from southern India, and stonemasons came from Balochistan. Materials were brought from all over India and Central Asia.
The tomb is the architectural center of the Taj Mahal complex. This huge white marble structure stands on a square pedestal and consists of a symmetrical building with an arched doorway, topped by a large dome. The height of the structure is 74 meters including the platform, and there are 4 minarets in the corners. Decorative elements were created using various paints, plaster, stone inlays and carvings. Twenty-eight types of precious and semi-precious stones were inlaid into white marble.
And the magnificent garden adjacent to the architectural complex stretches 300 meters in length. The architects came up with raised paths that divide each of the 4 parts of the garden into 16 sunken beds. The water channel in the center of the park is lined with marble, with a reflecting pond located in the middle, between the tomb and the gate. It reflects the image of the tomb. Early sources describe a garden with an abundance of vegetation, including exquisite varieties of roses, daffodils, and hundreds of fruit trees. But over time, the Mughal empire weakened, and there was no one to guard the gardens. During the reign of the British Empire, the garden's landscaping was modified.
Practical part.
Let's draw the drawing with a simple pencil. Let's start with the horizon line, which will run through the middle of the sheet.
Let's add a parallel line; this will be the platform on which the building itself will be located. We depict the front facade in the form of a rectangle.
Let's select the central part of the facade. Let's draw two vertical lines with the same distance from the edges.
Let's add a drum and a semicircular dome.
The side facades are not completely visible; we depict them with distortion.
In the central part of the facade we draw straight lines in the form of a rectangle - this is the place for beautiful patterned decorations. Inside we draw an arch - a sick niche in front of the entrance.
At the base of the dome we will draw a stripe - a place for beautiful carved patterns. At the top of the dome is a triangular crown, which ends with a beautiful Persian-style figurine.
Let's add small turrets at the corners of the building. They are identical and symmetrical.
Let's repeat the semicircular shape of the main dome.
Let's draw identical rectangles on the wall of the front facade.
Let's draw arched openings inside. Windows are visible in these niches; let's depict them as small rectangles.
The same arch appears in the central part. Add a window and door.
Now we need to draw arched openings on the side facades. The main architectural elements of the building are depicted.
We will definitely depict the minarets - from them they called the Islamic believer to prayer. We draw two identical columns on the sides of the main building.
The minarets also display perfect symmetry. We divide each tower into three equal parts.
We draw balconies. We complete the minarets with domes.
The time has come to depict part of the garden in front of the mausoleum. Let's start with the "magic" vanishing point, which helps artists cope with the depiction of space. From the point we draw the first two lines going down the picture (water channel).
Let's draw two more lines very close to the first ones. The distance between the lines increases slightly towards the bottom (We depicted the height of the marble banks). Another pair of lines along the outside is drawn from the point (We represent paths and lawns).
To draw the trees growing along the water channel, we will draw auxiliary lines from the vanishing point.
The height of the trees in our drawing is different, since we depict those trees that grow closer to us large, and we depict those trees that grow far from us as small. We draw trees in an oval shape.
The building is reflected in the water and we have to depict the reflection. Now we can say that the line drawing is complete!
Let's proceed to the second part of working on the drawing. We tint with a hard pencil. For the sky, select horizontal shading.
Both the Taj Mahal and the minarets are made of white marble, which means that the structures should remain the lightest in the picture. Having chosen which side the sun shines from, we can add a light shadow on the other side of the buildings.
We show the shadow on the towers with vertical strokes, and make the balconies darker. On all domes we show a shadow that smoothly turns into lighter colors.
The central part of the building is tinted differently. The large rectangle is the lightest; we put almost no pressure on the pencil. We make the arch-niche a little darker. And we paint the window and door in a darker tone. We paint the side parts of the center of the building in the same way.
Once the side arches are tinted, you can begin painting the reflection. The difficulty is that everything needs to be repeated exactly with the selected tones of the building itself.
We shade the surface of the pool in a horizontal direction, the tone is slightly darker than the sky.
When shading the marble “shores” it is important to show volume. We paint the upper surface of the bank with light horizontal shading, and the depth is tinted with darker shading. Let's add vertical bright strokes to indicate volume and height.
All that remains is to work with the vegetation. We do the grass with intermittent strokes, varying the pressure on the pencil.
A junior architect can easily and freely express his ideas on paper only if he knows how to draw without directly turning to nature. Completing some tasks and exercises to develop creative thinking and imagination is not enough. Only in synthesis with other educational disciplines of a special architectural and graphic direction, where the student becomes acquainted with orthogonal projection, design features of buildings, with the quests of architects in different historical eras, with the main functions of architecture, etc., will he be able to comprehend the music of frozen stone. But the main thing in this process of shaping a future specialist is the accumulation of visual impressions. A supply of vivid artistic images arises only through drawing from life. It is necessary to achieve a creatively active vision of nature, to cultivate one’s worldview and attitude towards the surrounding reality and architecture.
The initial stage of this process is through the study of architectural detail. It is known that an architectural structure has the strongest emotional and aesthetic impact on a person only in synthesis with painting and sculpture, gardening and decorative arts. By drawing plaster casts of the decorative decoration of architectural buildings, the student masters the laws of perspective construction of complex shapes, studies the plastic fundamentals and proportions of their artistic expression, constructive logic, and also improves his graphic skills. Familiarity with an architectural detail is the starting basis for drawing the entire structure during summer plein air practice - the main stage of working on an architectural drawing.
Architecture, being a human habitat, has an informational impact on his feelings. By studying the logic of the patterns of an architectural organism, the student should see a holistic image of the architectural composition in the combination of various structures, shapes and details. The ability to see not only geometric shapes and proportions, but also the position of the building in space, the general masses of architectural forms, the texture of the material, color and light and shade, connection with the environment in combination with knowledge of the principles and methods of constructive and structural drawing, skills in working with various graphic materials create fertile ground for the formation of professional qualities of a future specialist.
It is advisable to support long-term drawings of architectural and spatial forms with quick sketches and sketches. The laconicism of the sketch, the bold use of various materials and execution techniques develop the efficiency of the graphic language. When translating his creative ideas into subsequent professional activities, the student will constantly turn to quick drawing.
Execution of architectural sketches- this is the first and most important part in the drawing of the exterior of an architectural structure. The sketch is the basis for the future composition. During sketching, work is carried out on individual details of the architectural structure, its proportions, the choice of the most successful point of view and horizon line, which solves many compositional issues: a low horizon can emphasize the monumentality of the form, a high horizon is used when drawing a small structure (see Appendix 4). The distance of the point of view from the subject also greatly affects the image. The further the point of view is from the object, the calmer the perspective will be; the closer, the more distortion. The sketch also determines the scale of the structure, helps to find the correct proportions of the whole and parts, as well as environmental elements. The more carefully the sketch is made, the more accurately and better the final version of the drawing is subsequently completed.
After choosing the angle and horizon line in the sketch, you can begin lengthy work, which includes the following steps:
- arrangement of images, main volumes and shapes on a sheet of paper, reduction of complex architectural forms to corresponding simple geometric ones, marking the horizon line and main perspective directions;
- identifying the main parts of the building, divisions of facades, checking the correctness of the taken proportions, outlining the elements of the environment;
- drawing and construction of construction details;
- cut-off solution for work.
When working on a drawing of an architectural structure, a variety of graphic materials are used: graphite pencil, charcoal, sauce, sanguine, watercolor, ink and other art materials.
Drawing architecture using given orthogonal projections
The ability to depict an architectural structure (building exterior or interior) is necessary for an architect not only in the process of creative search, but also to explain his plan to customers.
The student must be able to use drawings of orthogonal projections (plans, facades, sections) to imagine the entire spatial composition and depict it in a perspective drawing.
As one of the exercises, students are asked to depict a building based on its plan and facade (sheets 92). The goal of the task is to teach the student how to construct a perspective drawing from an idea, and then from imagination. In the drawing you need to correctly convey the relationship and location of the forms indicated in the plan and other projections, their relationships.
The architecture drawing is performed in the following steps:
- the point of view and the horizon line, the picture plane are selected;
- on the sketches, the angle that is most advantageous for a given architectural structure is worked out;
- the main volumes and composition are transferred to a large sheet, the main promising directions and the horizon line are outlined;
- details of the architectural structure and the environment are being worked out;
- a cut-off solution is performed, shadows are constructed, volume and foreground are revealed.
