Drawing Houses in Pastel: Paint a Unique Realistic Portrait of Your Home

1. Welcome!: Hello, my name is Victoria Mikoart. I'm a portrait artist specializing in pastel medium. I have been working professionally as an artist for many years. I have created countless portraits of people, animals, and landscapes. I also have a passion for teaching and sharing the joy of art, which is why I would love for you to join me in this class where we will learn how to draw a traditional home. This class is best suited for artists on the intermediate and advanced level. We will go through all the stages necessary to complete this house drawing. We will learn how to use soft pastel sticks and blenders to create layers in our work, and how to use pastel pencils to draw details. We will begin with a sketch, and continue by creating a smooth background. Next, we will look at how to draw the roof and appearance of tiles. We will move on to the walls and learn how to mix the colors, and get the perfect cue, and accurately draw the shadows. Next, we will draw a variety of windows with different shapes and sizes. We will then draw the port and focus on capturing depth and dimensionality. Finally, we will create the landscape and learn how to draw beautiful floral bushes and grass. We will also take a look at the framing process to beautifully display our work. In this class, I will guide you for the entire drawing process. I would love for you to create this portrait with me as though we are working on it together. After this class, you will not only be able to draw a home like this one but take the skills learned to create other beautiful pastel drawings. I am confident you will enjoy this course, and master the techniques necessary to complete a portrait using the beautiful pastel technique. See you in class. 2. Materials: Hi, everyone. Welcome to the class. I'm very excited for you to be here. Before drawing, we'll begin by looking at the tools and materials we're going to be using. First, let's take a look at the surface we're drawing on. I use Clairefontaine Pastelmat in dark gray. You can get both the board and the card version of this. I always prefer the board, but both work perfectly. I choose the dark gray color because it makes all the pastels appear more natural as opposed to white paper which makes the colors appear too bright and vibrant. I also like this paper for pastels because it's very grainy, almost like soft sand paper. This holds the pastel very well and makes sure that the drawing lasts a lifetime. This is the kind I like but you can use any paper that has enough tooth to hold the pastel. The size I'm using today is roughly 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 35 centimeters. I usually buy the large sheets and cut out the size I like, as the size range of this paper is quite limited. You don't have to use the same size as I do, choose whatever you feel comfortable with. I like to tape this paper to my drawing board to give it a clean professional look at the end. Next, we have the soft pastels. I use these to create the background and the base layer of the subject. These are the sets I use. You do not need as many as this. I would recommend just having this set if you are starting out. All of these are relatively inexpensive and work perfectly for me. Next, we have the blending tool. I use this to blend the soft pastels into the paper. This allows me to create a very smooth layer. There are various shapes and sizes, but this is the one that I use. It's great for blending both small and large areas. Finally, we have the pencils. I use pastel pencils to draw the textures and details. This is the most important tool for creating pastel portraits. I use a combination of three brands; the Stabilo CarbOthello, Caran d'Ache, and the Faber-Castell Pitt pastel pencils. These sets get very expensive, so if you're starting out, I would absolutely recommend the Stabilo CarbOthello pencils. For the first few months of working as an artist, I only used this set and it was perfect. There are so many natural tones in this color range. Also, they are very soft and easy to blend. Especially the Caran d'Ache set can be particularly expensive, but the colors are very pigmented. So if you can, I would encourage you to buy just a few individual pencils. I would recommend this Chinese white in particular for the reflections in the eye. These are all materials I use. Next, we will be moving on to the drawing. Can't wait to begin. See you there. 3. Background - Cloudy Sky & Trees: Hello. Welcome to the first part of the drawing. I start each portrait by first creating the background. These other colors I will be using. The blues are for the sky, and the greens are for creating the beautiful trees in the background. I begin by covering the sky region with a light blue soft pastel. Be careful to leave room for the trees on the sides and not draw over this region with the pastels. I am creating just a thin layer not worrying if the paper is showing from underneath as this will all blend together. I am also taking care to stay within the lines and not draw into the silhouette of the house. Now that we have this first layer, we blend this all together with the soft blending sponge. Again, I'm being careful to stay within the lines. We do not want to cover our outlines of the house with blue because we will need to see these reference lines later. Here I felt that a little more blue was needed so I am just making another layer using the same color and proceed to blend this too. Now we are going to pick up a slightly darker shade of blue but still quite light and draw a few horizontal strokes. This helps to make the sky appears slightly more shaded and not just a flat blue color. We want the sky to be slightly darker higher up. If you are lucky enough to have a clear sky right now, you will observe that the sky blends from darker to lighter blue as it goes down. We also blend using a horizontal hand motion. Next, we're taking a white soft pastel to draw the clouds. We are first going to create an effect of very faint clouds and so we are creating little patches like this. Once we blend them in, they will resemble these faint clouds. Again, we're going to use a horizontal hand motion. I feel that they appear a little more realistic when they are blended this way. You can use your hand to press this pastel into the paper, just make sure your hand is very dry and clean. Now we are revisiting our blue color and we're just using this to make the sky appear more vibrant and to separate the clouds a little. Now we are creating the trees. These other colors I am using. Try to find a similar range in your collection. We are using three shades of green; light, medium, and dark, and black for the depths in the tree. I approach each portrait by first creating a base layer with soft pastels. After that, I use pastel pencils to draw the details. I am using the medium color first. Essentially, we are using little circular motions to create the leafy texture. I am looking back and forth at my reference photo and observing where these medium green colors are and I try to roughly replicate this shape and location. It's okay if it isn't perfect, we can go back to this color later if something is missing. We are picking up the dark green and following the same process. We observe and try to replicate where the dark regions zone. I am only loosely following the reference photo, I'm not trying to replicate the real tree exactly. The references are only there as a guide. We have a lot of artistic freedom in drawing the tree because it's very ordinary and nobody will notice if we made it different from the original. Next, we are using black to capture the darkest parts of the tree. This is mostly the lower area. Don't be afraid to apply this. Once we blend the colors together, the black won't stand out so much. I'm using my fingers to blend this tree. There is a bit of a difference between using your sponge and your fingers to blend. When using the sponge, we almost mix all the colors together into one whereas, with your fingers, the pastel tends to stay in place, just the transitions between the colors are more smooth. For the trees, we want to keep the appearance of leaves and not blend all the greens into one so I'm using my finger. Next, we're going to take the lightest green and work on creating the highlights. Again, don't worry too much to make this perfect. Once we blend it, it will all come together. Now we're going to pick up the pastel pencils. This is the range I was using. I have three shades of green; dark, medium, and light, and I have black to create depths. We are going to be using blue to create gaps between the leaves as though the sky is showing through. We are starting with the lightest green. I am drawing in circular motions to create the effect of leaves. The light green should be at the top where the light hits the leaves and the dark green will be below in the shadows. We are now using the blue to show the sky between the leaves. I just draw tiny random shapes. I like doing this because it makes the tree appear a little more convincing. Next, we are taking the dark green to draw below the tree highlights. I am using the same circular motion to create the effect of leaves. I go back and forth between the colors a lot as I work on the tree. If you are stuck, just move on to the next color and you can always go back if something is still missing later. Here I'm creating a few leaves over the sky to make the tree a little less even around the edges. Now we're working our way down the tree and applying the same techniques, focusing the light green on the top layers of the tree and the darker green where there is less light. We're moving onto the left side of the portrait and we get to practice drawing the tree one more time. I started by creating leaves with the dark green pencil, I am adding the lighter green to create some dimensionality so it appears as though some leaves are in front and some are in the shadows. Here I'm adding a layer of black to suggest that this part of the tree is in the shadow. I am using the dark green pencil to blend this with the rest of the tree. Now we're going to add some details and start building this leafy texture. There are some more details in the reference photo, but I am choosing to continue drawing the tree here because I would like to leave the focus on the house. That is the beauty of painting. A camera captures things as they are, but as artists, we can perfect these images. This is all that I do for the trees. I hope you like this technique and found the video not only informative but also fun. I really love drawing, and I hope you enjoy that too. In the next lesson, we will create the roof. See you there. 4. Roof - Drawing the Tiles: Hello, welcome back. We are now going to be looking at how to draw the roof of this lovely blue house. There are a couple of different sections of the roof. here we have the tower, we have the section in the back, and the port roof. We're going to be learning how to represent this particular material. There are also a lot of interesting shadows, so we'll have a look at how to portray those. We are going to start with soft pastel sticks. Here I'm just testing out to see which color works best. Sometimes pastels look different on paper than they do on the actual sticks so it's useful to test them out in this way. We will of course cover this patch test in a moment. I want the outlines of the roof to be very clear and very even, so I am first going over them with a brown pencil. I am still trying to figure out here what color works best and decided to blend two browns together. Here I am using blending stumps to work this pastel into the paper. I am not using the sponge because this is quite a small area, so I want more precision. Now, we want to bring out the shapes of this roof. We are going to lighten the size of the roof using a very light beige, almost like a gray pastel. We are drawing in-between the borders that connect the three sides of the roof. I don't want this to blend with the rest of the roof so I am just using my finger to work this pigment into the paper. Now, this looks good. The two borders are a little darker than the free sides of the roof. Now it's time to create the tiles on the roof. We're just going to represent the overall effect of tiles. The way that this works best for me is to first create horizontal lines about five millimeters apart, like this. I am using dark brown for this. Next, I take beige and draw rectangular shapes evenly spaced out like this. I'm just reinforcing the horizontal lines here. I also like to blend this other too with my fingers so the details don't stand out too much. Now that is done, I am adding details to the borders. This consists of just creating angled lines like so. Now the tower roof is done, we are going to move on to the next roof. This one is a little easier because it's just flat and front-facing. We begin by drawing the base layer. We only need the same colors as we did for the tower. Here we have a brown layer and I'm adding a bit of the slightly more green pastel to get the accurate color. I'm only doing this because I don't have a good soft pastel color in my collection, but if you do, you of course don't need to use two different colors like I am. We are picking up the blending stump and mixing the two layers together. I'm adding the beige, grayish color to lighten the roofs more. Again, we are creating horizontal lines pass and you can use a ruler for this to make the lines perfectly straight. Now, again, with the beige, we're just drawing small rectangular shapes to represent the tiles. Remember to space them out evenly. I'm just reinforcing the brown lines because sometimes they can get covered up by the new layers. As we can see, the tops of these roofs have a little border, so I am taking a blending stump and bending a little straight line together to remove the tiles and make it a little distinct from the rest of the roof. Now onto the final roof. As you can see, this one has a little shadow in the corner so I am creating the shape of the shadow using dark brown. This is the same brown I used to create the horizontal lines. I am going to continue drawing the lines onto the shadow using black. If we use the same beige to draw the tiles on the shadowy area in the corner, they will appear too light so we have to compensate for this and pick up a gray pencil instead to draw the tiles. There is another border along the side of this roof so we can take a ruler and create this. That is the roof lesson complete. I hope you found this enjoyable and useful. In the next class, we will be drawing the beautiful blue poles of this house. See you shortly. 5. Walls - Shadows & Borders: Welcome back. In this lesson, we will be drawing the blue walls of this home. I chose to use this particular blue as the main wall color. With this pencil, I draw a base layer of the wall. I'm being careful to not draw over the windows. That is not perfect color of the original house so I am using a very desaturated blue, almost gray to draw a layer over it. Here I'm also adding navy. Finally, I am adding a little white. I find that combination of these colors gives me the closest resemblance to the house. Here we are blending it altogether with our blending stumps. This right wall of the tower is a little darker so are the sections right below the roof, so we are going to use just the navy blue. Again, we are repeating these steps, adding all the necessary tones of blue to get the accurate shade. We are not worrying about the patterns on the walls just yet. For now, we just want to capture the color and the shadows. There is a little shadow here on the right, so we are looking at the reference photo and trying to copy its shape. It goes all the way down on the left side and then edges out towards the middle of the wall. I guess that must be the roof casting the shadow. If you draw over the outlines a little, don't worry, we will be adding the white wall trim soon so the little imperfections will be covered. We are almost at the end of this stage. We're just making sure that all the walls are colored and the shadows are in place. It helps to look at the house in sections to break it down. First, look at the tower and make sure all the shadows are represented. Then the next, then the wall after that and so on. Now we get to do the fun part of drawing the wall patterns. We will begin with this wall. This looks fairly simple. There are planks on the walls which are fun and easy to represent. All we have to do is draw a straight horizontal lines using the navy blue pencil. While I am making my way down off the ruler, I'm also drawing this pattern on both of these walls to make the process a little bit faster. If the lines are to permanently you can gently blend them with your finger. Again, don't worry about going out of the lines we will be adding the white wall trims which will clean up the marks. I am drawing this pattern on all the walls and checking the reference photo to make sure I don't miss anything. Here on the chimney there are little curves at the bottom of the planks. We are now moving on to the second pattern. These are also quite simple. I am drawing little curves in rows of two like so. Now I am making lines to connect to these curves to each other. I am just blending this a little into the paper to make it stand out less. Now, this is my favorite part of the lesson because it brings the walls together. This is pretty intuitive, we are just taking our radar with a white pencil to draw the lines. The lines are quite thick, so we might have to move the ruler around a little bit. I am using quite a firm hand. I want these lines to be very bright and apparent. We are using two colors for this. Some of the borders are lighter than the others because some are in the shadow and some are in the light so we use the slightly gray one for the borders in the shadows and the white ones where the light hits. We make sure that we keep checking the reference photo to see where all of these borders are and what shape they are as well. Also don't forget the borders underneath the roof, they are a little darker, so I am using the gray pencil except the very top of the border where a little bit of the light bounces off. There is a very nice detail here at the top of the house so don't miss that. First, I am drawing the border and the semicircle. Now I'm filling in the area of the wall using the same navy pencil we used to draw the wall in the shadow. Now using white, I am free handing the line details. I am using gray to capture some depth. This corner is not in line with the rest of the borders, it's a little bit further back, so I am using gray to capture some depth here and separate it from the border. We are now approaching the end, I am just adding some final shadows and details here so that's all. Thank you for watching the class. This is actually my favorite part when I'm doing a house portrait so I hope you liked it too and in the next lesson we will have a go at drawing the windows. I'm very excited, so see you then. 6. Windows - Different Shapes & Sizes: Hello, welcome to the lesson. I'm particularly looking forward to this one. Windows are very fun to draw and they bring the house together, so let's begin. There are quite a few windows here, let's start with the one on top. I like to start with the glass. We are using black to shade this all in. Next, we proceed to work this into the paper with the blending stump. When those are reflective so I'd like to add a hint of blue to represent the sky as though it's reflecting away from the glass. Now, similar process to how we drew the wall borders, we are going to take our ruler and outline the window frame using white. I am looking at the reference and ensuring I capture the right thickness of the frame. If you slightly draw out of line here, you can remove the pigment with the blending stamp. Don't forget to draw the frame inside the window. This is much thinner than the outside frame, so I am using a gentler hand and not pressing as firmly as I would for the outside frame. I'm very happy with this window, so I'm going to move on to the next. Again, I start with the black glass. I am using various colors here to represent reflections in the window. I am gently blending this in with my finger. Here the window has some depth in a frame, I am using gray to reflect that. There are details behind the windows like the shutters, but I don't think it's necessary to capture those. They're not very characteristic to the house, so we're going to simplify the windows a little bit and draw a clean black glass. Again, the process is the same here. We start with the glass, we shade it all in with black. Next, we add reflections. I am using a few different colors to faintly reflect the sky. The windows here are at a slight angle because they're on the tower. When drawing the frames, we have to make sure we capture this perspective. Actually, in retrospect, I think I over-exaggerated the angle slightly, so make them a little less angled, the bottom windows too. Now, onto the final window. This one is my favorite, so we're saving the best for the last. We continue with the same steps, starting with the glass then the reflections and finally the frame. This frame is a little rounded, so we have to freehand this curve. Can't really use a ruler here. Again, I am just cleaning up the edges with the blending stump. This is it for the lesson, I hope you find it simple and were able to follow along. In the next lesson, we will be drawing the porch area. See you there. 7. Porch - Door, Steps & Other Details: Hello, welcome to the lesson. Here, we will be working on the porch. We will begin by creating the walls at the back of the porch. They are very deep in the shadows so they are almost black. I'm using a black pastel pencil here to create a base layer. I will go over this using navy. The intention is to create a very dark blue wall, once they are mixed and that's what we will achieve. Here we are using the blending stump to integrate the two colors. As you can see, the wall is a very deep shade of blue, which is what we want. Now, we are drawing the door. Actually, the one I'm doing is a little bit different from the reference, that's because the owners of the home were changing the door soon after the drawing is created, so I want the drawing to be updated. This is a picture of the door I am drawing. You can draw either one. I'll start the door by drawing the basic shapes, the doors gray color and the black windows. I am also adding all the necessary details such as the doorknobs, the white borders, the lines in the window. Again, here we are drawing the white borders of the porch roof. I am using a white pencil and a ruler. Below is another border. This one is withdrawn a little in the shadows, so it's slightly darker from the one above. We are using gray to draw it. Here, I'm just fixing up the line so it is straight. I have also drawn the pillars that are supporting the porch roof. We can see some of the tree peeking through the sides of the porch, so we are going to complete this gap. I am using the dark green color and a bit of black to fill this in using the same technique as we did for the rest of the tree. There are these beautiful arches here in the corner. I am working on them of the same white I used for the pillars. First, I am doing the outer lines, making sure they are all even size then I will fill in the details. This is the floor of the porch. Here in the shadow is very dark, so I am using dark gray. I am creating a pretty thick layer of this. Now, I'm working on the porch fence. There is a little porch visible here on the side. Notice how it is slightly angled, that's because of the perspective. We want to replicate this to give it the porch depth, so make sure you angle your ruler. Now, we're doing the front of the fence. This is pretty straightforward. I am drawing the top of the fence at the same height as the fence on the side. This looks very good. The lines on the fence are evenly spaced out. Now, we will just complete the bottom of the house. Let's start with the tower. This right wall of the tower is in the shadow, so the bottom is a little darker too. I am using a dark gray pencil, almost black to fill this out. There is a little shadow on the top of the middle section, it's the same dark gray color, so we will add in this little shadow. The middle wall is a little lighter than the right, but still darker than the left, so I am going to create a color that is in-between these two. For this, I will draw a thin layer with the dark gray pencil, then a lighter gray pencil on top. Now, we will use the same light gray pencil on the left side and you'll see how it's just a little lighter without the dark gray layer underneath. Now, let's do the area underneath the porch. When we go about coloring this, let's take a look at the gray shades we've already used. There are only free shades in this whole area. There is a dark gray, which is the same dark gray as the right side of the bottom, there is a medium gray like the middle tower bottom, and finally a light gray just like the left side. You You don't just want to look at the porch and compare colors against each other, move out looking at anything else. We want to compare the colors on the porch against the rest of the drawing so that everything looks realistic and cohesive. I'm saying this because it's good to be consistent throughout the drawing, which is what makes the artwork more realistic. The area underneath the porch is roughly the same color as the medium gray, so I am using the same color to fill this in. We will draw the details over this in a moment but first, let's fill it all in with black to represent depth and shadows under the porch. There will be a bush here, so I am not taking this black all the way down to the ground. Now, I am capturing the pattern on the porch. I had initially spaced them out too much and later decided that the lines were too scars, so I added another set of lines between the existing ones. Finally, we get to do the stairs. They're all the same free shades of gray here. If we look at this as a pattern from top to bottom, the colors go light gray, dark gray, medium gray, and it continues. Light, dark medium again and again, so I'm using these colors in that order. The top of the step is light gray. The finish shadow underneath it's dark gray and then the side of the step, the pop facing us is medium gray. I am also looking at the reference to make sure I capture the right thickness of these steps. Here, I'm just drawing the handrail of the staircase. Finally, I will be adding these hanging flowers. I begin with the pot. I am drawing a very simple grade pot. We don't want this to appear flat, so we're adding a lighter gray on the side as there it is round and reflecting some of the light which is coming from the left side. Next I'm using green as the base. Now, for the fun part, we get to add the flowers. I am adding pink dots here. From a file it's difficult to distinguish the shapes of the flowers, so if we just draw little dots they represent flowers pretty well. I am using a couple of different colors here for variety. This is actually my favorite part. The flowers add such a beautiful touch. I am using a lighter green now to add leaves. I am repeating the same process now. For this one, I am making the flowers red and orange. I think this looks very nice next to the pink flowers. In the original picture, there's flowers one actually but they haven't yet bloomed at the time of the photo. But again, that's the beauty of art. We can optimize the pictures. I hope this was useful and that it inspired you to pick up your pencil and draw with me. In the next lesson, we will be trying the landscape. We will draw the grass and more flowers. We will add a lot of color to the drawing, so I'm very excited. See you shortly. 8. Landscape - Floral Bushes & Grass: Hello, welcome to the lesson. Here we are going to be working on the landscape I will begin by drawing the soil underneath the bushes. I am starting with a dark brown. I'm drawing a layer of this color over the whole soil region. I am working into the paper with the blending stump. I am adding a layer of brown, but focusing it in the areas that are darkest, particularly where the bushes cast the shadow I am going over these shadows using black. I want them to be a little deeper. Again, I am blending them in. Here I'm picking up my beige pencil and creating some texture in the soil. I'm making very small, gentle marks and I will press them into the paper with my finger. I'm going over the texture a little of the dark brown to make it more interesting. Now we're going to work on the bushes. I am drawing a dark green base layer Now, I am using the light green pencil to draw texture on the bush. I am keeping in mind that the light source is coming from the left, so I try to reflect this. I'm making the top-left area of the bush lighter than the bottom right. Now, we are drawing little flowers. I am using some artistic liberties and changing up the flowers a little. I like the way yellow looks here. The flowers look pretty and natural, so I'm blending them a little with my finger to make the flower stand out less. The process is very much the same as for the flowers on the porch. We are not drawing the exact shape of a flower, we're just drawing marks as though we are looking at the flowers from a distance, so of course, the shape is a little less clear. Here, I am adding a little bit of black in between the flowers to make the bush, appear a little darker on that side. Again, here I'm adding some texture and shadows to this bush. Remember we want it to look consistent with the rest of the drawing, so we have to form the shadows in the same places. If the light is coming from top-left, the shadows will most the angle to the bottom right, so we make the top-left of the bush lighter than the bottom right area. Now onto the flowers. For this bush, we are creating lavender-like flowers to add a bit of variety. First, I am drawing little downward spirals using pink, then I am adding a bit of dimension using purple. I am randomly spreading these out. I am also adding some white flowers to make this brush a little more interesting. I'm not creating a neat specific shape, just some random elongated shapes. I actually missed a little section of the background tree over here, so I'm completing it now. Again, we are working on the soil. We take the dark brown and draw a layer over the region. Next, we take black and establish the shadowy areas. We blend this all together. To finish off, we are creating some texture with a beige pencil. Moving onto the bushes, we are starting by drawing some black shadows. Then we create a thick dark green layer over the two bushes. We follow by drawing texture and light in the top left side of the bushes remembering that we have to make the side lighter to account for the light source. Next, we get to do the fun part, which is the flowers. We are creating clusters of small patches of color, then we draw using a lighter color over them. We are adding some green leaves to make this brush a little less even. Now, we are creating the lavender bush again. We are drawing elongated shapes, first in pink, then draw the shadows in purple. We add some white flowers and random leaves around the outside of the bush. That section is done and now onto the bricks. I am starting by creating the outlines of black, I'm drawing very thick shapes. Next, I am taking a beige color and filling in the rest of the area. Next, I am picking up a dark brown and adding some more shapes to the bricks. With this light beige color, I am adding some highlights in places where the light reflects a little. This represents the brick pretty well. Now onto the soil along the sides of the path. First, I am outlining the path so I don't draw over it. Just like with the previous soil, I am doing a layer of dark brown, leaving out the areas where the bushes will be. Next, I am adding some black to create shadows. Remember we create these below the bottom right of the bushes because the light comes from top-left. I felt that my layer of brown was not thick enough, so I am going over it here. Here we are adding some rough texture on the soil using beige. We will blend this into the paper a little so it will look more natural in the moment. Moving onto the grass. I also really like drawing this, so I'm excited to show you how I go about doing it. Ignore me making all these scribbles here. I figured out later they would just be best to draw an even green there. On the right side, the grass is a little darker, so I am creating some black patches. I notice it looks very scary, but once we draw green over it, the layer will blend very nicely and these black patches will just look like dark green. Here we are creating the green layer. As I said, you don't need those scribbles underneath. I was just experimenting I am adding some light green patches. For the right side, I am looking at the reference and trying to capture roughly where the light hits. On the left side, the grass has been a little dried out by the sun, so I'm working from my imagination for that section. We will be blending this all together, so don't worry if it's not neat. We just want to add different values in the grass. I want to make the layer a little more thick so I am applying the dark green a little heavier. I'm going over the same areas that were already dark green. Next, I am using a light green to go over the rest. Now, once that is blended, I began creating grass strands. I take a light green pencil, this one is current dash brown olive 50 percent, so it's almost a little yellow. I like that because it's a little more natural than the very saturated green. I'm using the pastel layer as a guide and drawing strokes over the areas that are light green. [NOISE] Now I`m taking a dark green pencil and creating strokes over the dark green areas. There were a little patches of grass here, so I am adding some detail to this using the brown olive. Here, I am using a bit of green to create strokes over the soil. We are drawing the set of bushes alongside the path now, we start with black and create the deepest shadows. Next we draw over the whole bush with dark green. Next we will add some definition using light green to show some light bouncing off the top left side. Now I'm actually drawing a dog. This was not part of the original photo, but the owners of this house had a really cute dog, and therefore it would be cute to show him laying on the path. Feel free to leave out this detail. I actually have another course where I drew a realistic dog. If you are interested, I would love for you to have a watch. It's a 45-minute class and I went through the whole drawing process, it's definitely worth watching and it would help me a lot too. Now we are walking on the path. This is fairly simple because there isn't so much in detail on this. I am starting out by filling in the path with light beige, almost white color. I'm adding some gray over this and some beige too. Notice how the path consists of tiles, I am drawing some dark gray lines to break up this path and represent the tiles. I wanted to make the corners of the tiles a little bit more round, so I am using some dark brown around the edges. We've almost made it. There are just a few final details left before the drawing is done. Fast, we want to draw the American flag hanging from the porch. This is quite small, I make sure to have my pencils sharpened. That is all, we've now finished the portrait. I really loved working on this. This was in fact the first house I had the pleasure of drawing and it was very fun. In the next video, I will show you how I frame the portrait and we will conclude the class and talk about the project. See you in the moment. 9. Framing - How to Beautifully Present Your Work: Hi everybody. This is the final lesson of the class. Now that our beautiful drawing is complete, we'll take a look at how to frame it. First we have to take the tape off the edges, I love this part. It's usually more satisfying when it doesn't rip like this one. Look at the perfect, clean even lines. They make the drawing look so much more professional. Here I am taking a mount or a mat. This is extremely important, especially when drawing with pastels. The drawing needs breathing space between the glass to prevent it from aging. Pastels are very dusty, so if the drawing is directly touching the glass, it will transfer onto the glass and we really don't want that. It's also a beautiful visual effect because it attracts attention to the drawing. Yes, make sure you use a mount. I am taping the drawing to the back of the mount. I want it to stay in one place in the frame and not worry about it moving around, so I just use small amounts of tape on each side of the drawing. Next, we're going to place our drawing into the frame. Here make sure you wipe the inside of the glass. You don't want to put the drawing inside, then find a small hair or dust. It happens to me all the time and I find it very annoying to fix this, so don't make the same mistake. I'm just writing my signature and sealing the frame. If this drawing is for you to keep, this is how I would leave it. However, as this is a commission, I want it to look really beautiful and presentable for the client, so I'm adding a few extra details. First, I am tying a little ribbon around the frame. I'm creating a nice bow here. You can make the packaging even more special by adding a little flower like this one. I also would like to write some nice words to the owner of the drawing and show my appreciation for the commission. I am tucking in this written note in the corner, and that's it. Very simple and elegant framing. I love how the drawing looks with the white mount around it, and the frame color beautifully compliments the drawing. This is it, you've made it through the whole class. Let's conclude all the lessons and talk about the class project. 10. Class Project & Conclusion : Congratulations on completing the class. This was not a simple portrait, so I really want to applaud you for doing it with me. To summarize, we began by drawing the background. We created a smooth cloudy sky and green trees. Then we drew the roof and focused on capturing the texture of tiles. After that, we attempted the walls. We looked at how to draw shadows on the walls and create dimensionality. Next, we learned how to draw windows of different shapes and sizes. After, we draw the porch where we focused on creating depth. Finally, we learned how to draw the landscape and created beautiful grass and colorful flowers. We finished off by looking at the framing where we discussed how to best present our very hard work. I hope that by breaking down the process into sections that is starting with the background, then doing the roof, the walls, windows and so on. It made the process seem a little easier. I also hope that by showing you how I created this portrait you feel more confident in creating your own. For the class project, I would really like for you to create this blue house with me or maybe do a drawing of another house perhaps as a gift to a friend or a family member. Follow the class and draw along as though we are working on it together. If you have more questions, please ask. I would be very happy to explain something further or give more guidance. I would be very happy to help. I would like to thank you again for joining me. I had so much fun creating this for you. I really love drawing especially with pastels, and I also have a passion for teaching. Thank you very much for being here. Here is my Instagram page and my website if you would like to see more of my work and support me. I also create portraits of people and landscapes and animals. If you would like to see those, that's where you'll find them. I also have other classes here on Skillshare, so if you enjoyed this one I would really like to encourage you to check those out. Thank you for being here and again, congratulations for completing the class. I am very excited to see your project. Bye.