Little homes: Starting with simple shapes ✍🏻 (Step-by-step guide - Week 15) (Patreon)

Hi Patrons!! 🤗

For this week we will be drawing two little homes. We will be starting with the basics: simple shapes ✏️You will find my tips, base layers and final illustrations, together with the materials I used, down below 🤗🥰

When I draw little homes, I never start with details right away. Instead, I begin with very simple shapes to build the foundation of the house.

Breaking things down into simple shapes makes it much easier to:

Keep your drawing balanced

Understand proportions

And avoid feeling overwhelmed

For this week, try starting with:

Rectangles for the base of the house

Triangles for the roof

Simple blocks for extra parts

Little stripes & dots for the windows

A bit of greenery to create depth in your illustrations

Don’t worry about details yet, focus on the overall shape first ✨

Purple field house

I used the following Tombow brush pens as a base layer:

Tombow 126 (Light olive)

Tombow 553 (Mist purple)

Ecoline 374 (Pink Beige)

Tombow 133 (Chartreuse, Light Green)

Tombow 603 (Periwinkle)

For the second layer, I used the following Faber-Castell Pencils:

Faber-Castell 157 (Dark Indigo)

Faber-Castell 278 (Chrome Oxide Green)

Faber-Castell 133 (Magenta)

Faber-Castell 283 (Burnt Siena)

Green meadow house

I used the following Tombow brush pens as a base layer:

Tombow 126 (Light olive)

Tombow 553 (Mist purple)

Tombow 133 (Chartreuse, Light green)

For the second layer, I used the following Faber-Castell Pencils:

Faber-Castell 278 (Chrome Oxide Green)

Faber-Castell 157 (Dark Indigo)

Faber-Castell 108 (Dark Cadmium Yellow) NEW

Faber-Castell 283 (Burnt Siena)

I wish you all lots of fun with this week's reference, and don't hesitate to ask me any questions or show your illustrations in the group chat 🤗

Celyn 🌸