Have you ever wondered how to draw a house? With this article, you can illustrate a three-dimensional, simple house. Once you have this basic shape down, you can get creative with windows, doors, and roof lines. You can also combine and stack shapes to make interesting, modern houses. Here's how to get started.
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Draw a square. Try to keep the lines as straight as possible. If you want, you can use a ruler.
Draw another square. It should be congruent and behind the first square you drew. Make it about a quarter of the length away from the first one. Now you should have two squares overlapping each other. The further they are apart, the longer your house will be.
Connect the corners. Draw straight lines connecting the corners from each square. Make sure you connect it to the nearest corner, and that you connect it to the other square. This will make your squares into a three-dimensional cube.
Draw a dot above the cube. It should be pretty high, but not too high. This will determine the point of the roof.
Connect the upper corners to the dot. They should all be connected to the dot by a smooth, straight line. This will be the roof.
Erase the dot and all inner lines. Erase all of the inner lines except for the line that differentiates the roof from the base of the house. You can erase it if you want, but it will be harder to tell the difference of house from roof.
Draw a door and windows. The windows should be small and square, and not too close to the wall edges. The door is just a rectangle with a circle for a handle. If you want, you can even draw a window on the side of the house, but it needs to be a parallelogram, not a square.
Color it in. Create details and make sure you shade correctly. It works best if you choose a bright colour for the base of the house, and an equally bright colour for the roof. Then take darker versions of these colours, and colour in the other side with them. Then your house will be properly shaded. Draw a line in the background for the ground and sky.
Most houses do not have a roof that comes to a point. To draw a more accurate looking roof:
Place a dot above the "front" of the house - the distance from the upper wall of the square should be equal to approximately 1/3 of the height of the house. Use the dot to create a triangle above the "front" of the house.
Create a line parallel to the side of the house running from the dot toward the "back" of the house.
Connect the "back" end of this line to the "back" end of the sidewall of the house with a line that is parallel to the right edge of the triangle.
If you extend the "lower" edge of the roof past the sidewall a little bit, it will resemble eaves.
