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Pencil portrait of my original design for an unusual luxury home, House #334. Features include classic English vernacular massing and styling accents combined with a light-toned multicolored barrel tile roof similar to those found in southern France. (Note: early versions of this and the floor plans are in my gallery.)[link]

Technique: this is a shaded version of a line drawing submitted a year ago or so. House is blocked out on rough paper, checking perspective lines, roof lines, etc. When satisfied, I put tracing paper over, retrace outlines, lift it off, tape to card stock, and detail it all out. Paper size is 8 and half by 11 inches. All drawing is by hand using imagination only, no computer models or other gimmicks. All materials are light-toned, so shading must be in the middle to light grays, using primarily H and 2H pencils with limited use of HB and 3H. Strategy was to emphasize house and only suggest trees with outlines. Challenges included capturing the mottled sunlight and shadow on the right part of the house behind the oak tree, capturing depth and drawing the eye towards the house with the stone walkway and steps to the front left, and doing a "reverse" for the half-timbering pattern, with a darker color for the stucco background and lighter tone for the half-timbering. Also, suggesting the tile roof without getting too carried away with drawing each individual roof tile. A sketch needs to be finalized when "it says what it needs to say, no more, no less."
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Mood: Joy ~summertrainn Apr 25, 2013
nice, love it! :D
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~Built4ever Apr 26, 2013
Thanks!
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Mood: Joy ~fetchingfeast Mar 1, 2013
Hello, your art is featured here: [link]
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~Built4ever Mar 1, 2013
Danke, my dear, very nice!
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~misterOD1980 Feb 18, 2013
These are outstanding! I really enjoy your drawings I wish these were real. Is there a hidden pocket of Greenville where these houses exist :)?
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~Built4ever Feb 18, 2013
No, but I have a few homes built in Greenville area that I designed. One of these days I'll develop a place my way with all these homes, but it takes patience...are you in Greenville?
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~misterOD1980 Feb 20, 2013
No, but I travel there often. I recruit for SCAD in North and South Carolina.
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~Built4ever Feb 20, 2013
The Scad football team??? HA HA HA HA... just kidding. Savannah rocks, love it.
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~misterOD1980 Feb 22, 2013
Oh dear lord, thank goodness we don't have a football team! haha! I recruit artists, actors, and designers.
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!enochfollowed Feb 18, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Awesome :)
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