Watercolour and ink doodle houses

1. Introduction: Doodling is one of the most relaxing and rewarding ways to draw. It lets your mind to be preoccupied with something else while you're drawing. Simply put, doodling is also called mindless drawing. In this class, I will show you how to draw cute little houses and cottages using a line and wash technique. And we will be using watercolor and ink to doodle. We're going to try our best to keep our hands really free as they move across the paper. And also to keep our sketches really simple and yet too colorful. I will show you a few tips that you can use to come up with your own style, as well as encourage you to try out your own style while you are drawing. I will also talk to you about where I draw my inspiration from. And also give you a little warm-up to the materials in case you are new to this medium. Later on, we will begin by doodling cute little cottages and terrorist houses. In the end, I will show you how I doodled a house from my local area. I will talk to you about how I used a photograph and what things are changed in it. And what I did include from the photograph. It was such a great fun creating cute little houses and cartridges in line and wash technique. I hope you will enjoy this course as much as I did. I see you in the next video where I will talk in detail about how I draw my inspiration from the things around me. 2. Things that inspire me: As a full-time mother, I always find myself stuck in my studio whenever I want to paint. It is really hard to get out and find things that I like to paint or even new plane sketches at all. And so I depend quite a bit on photographs, either photographs that I chose from the Internet or the photographs that I take myself while I am on my walks with my children. Most of, most of my doodle idea comes from the photographs that I have taken while I'm out and about for this class, particularly, I was also inspired by some of the books that I read to my children. It always inspires me when I read about little fairy tale houses. But occasionally, I also refer to pictures in some magazines that I find interesting. As we start doodling little houses, I will talk to you more about how I was inspired to draw these little houses. I will also be doodling from one of the photographs that I took of my local area. During this time. I will talk to you in detail about how I used the photograph and how I created a composition that I really liked. 3. Suggested Materials: Hello. Let me introduce you to all the materials that you require for this course. Let me start off with the sketchbook. It is one of my larger sketchbooks, A4 insights. I've also got smaller sketchbooks, which I like to use when I'm out and about. The weight of the paper in this sketchbook is 140 GSM. And I think that's more than enough for our line and watercolor wash. Next up is ink. Today I'm going to be using mapping pen with a mapping nib and Indian ink. That's for inking and for watercolor wash. I have a range of watercolor pans, as well as watercolor from tubes. I personally prefer using watercolors rum tubes, as they remain really fresh. But it's not necessary that you do for this particular project. And for the brush, I'm only using one brush today. This is a mop series. Brush size is zero, is somewhat similar to round pointed brush size eight. So that's the kind of size I'm looking for. You can even go up to say is ten if you are comfortable with it, or go down as size, it really depends on what you are comfortable with. But this one brush is more than enough for today's work. I am also going to be using one jar of water here just for my watercolor wash. I don't need it for anything else. And you can also keep some tissue handy in case you need something or lift out color. That's about all the materials for today. See you in the next video with more practice sessions. 4. Watercolour and ink warm up: In this video, we're going to try out our materials. Starting off with ink. This is exactly what we will be doing in our project as well. We will start off with ink for today's project. So I'm using mapping pen. If you're using a mapping pen or a dip pen like me, you can relate to what I'm talking now. I'm using a mapping pen. You are free to use a micro tip pen or a fountain pen, or any pen that you personally prefer, um, or even a brush pen should be fine. So with the pen, I'm going to try out different lines. Starting off with some squiggly lines for foliage. Just a way of depicting foliage without having to draw a lot of details. But at the same time, if you want to have a few details, you can also add leaf-like shapes as well. It might look nice for some sketches. But again, that's a personal choice. So that's one thing that we can do with ink. Let's also try doing some miniature versions of houses that we can draw for today's project. So you don't really have to copy what I'm doing right now. You can just do anything that gets your hand moving. So I'm just doing little versions of houses that I can include into today's project. Um, I'm also going to experiment a little bit with my lines. So especially if you're using a dip pen or a brush pen, this will work really well for you. So with the dip pen, if I am just lightly moving it across the paper, I get very light or very thin pen lines. But as I increase the pressure, you can see that they are thickening. And you can, you can get these thick characteristic lines with the one pen that you're using. So let's try something else. We are going to try a mixture of thick and thin lines. Going up. It's going to be thin and then I can make it thicker if I want. Thin, thick, thin and thick. And then you can keep practicing that until you get a hang of the pen you're using. You can also try adding thick and thin lines for the things that you're going to doodle. So e.g. if I am going to start doing a little window here. So I'm going to have thicker lines for the top where there is a chance of shadows. And you can shade an area with the pen using shot lines. And this is called hatching. Now let's try putting a little shutter window here. So that's just a shattered opening for the window. And the thick and thin lines really helps us to identify the light and dark areas as well. So I think that's enough practice with the pin onto. You can continue doing all your practices in pen until you're really comfortable with using the pen. Once you've finished with that, we can now move on to experiment with watercolors. I'm going to get my watercolor pan and my brush, and my water. I'm going to start off using any color for that matter. So let's start off with a nice red. Watercolor activates by just using water. You simply rub over it and it starts to activate. And I'm going to get it onto my palette. If I want to make it more diluted, I can add more water or if I want to make it more thicker, I can add more paint. So at this stage, this is very, um, it's not very diluted. It's kind of a medium consistency. I'm going to try that out on the paper. So that's a medium consistency. Now let's try adding a little bit more pigment straight from the pan. I'm going to start dropping that in to that swatch area. And you can see immediately the difference between the first layer output and the second layer of pure pigment that I put over it. Now, if I'd like to make it a bit more diluted, what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a few drops of water into this mixture that I have here. And if I try that here, you can see it's a little bit lighter compared to what I've painted here. I can keep adding more water to make it more light. And that way I get a gradation from a darker area to a lighter area. And you can bring it all the way down to very pale. And this is something that we will be using. This technique is something that we'll be using for our project today. You can also overlap one color with another. You can either do it while it's completely dry. You can do it while it's still wet and you can see the difference. It kind of spreads and feathers out. So these are, these are the different effects that you can do with watercolors. You can experiment and make sure that you are comfortable with the medium before you start the project. So we're just going to simply try out giving some color to the shutters here, I think which is dry now. I'm going to go into a color, Let's see, yellow, just straight from the pan. I just need to make sure that it is a medium consistency. So I'm going to try that out at the edge of the palette here. And I'm simply going to just add some color to that shutter. For lighter areas, you can leave light over here without painting that area. And for darker areas, you can choose to give a darker color. In this case, I'm going to give some brown. Because how much of a darker I make the yellow, it's not gonna get any more darker. I'm just going to add another color. In this case it's brown. But otherwise, you can also add the same pigment like how we did here with the red. So I just simply added extra pigment straight from the pan for making that swatch a bit more darker in this corner. So I think that's worth all the warming up with a watercolor. We're going to dive straight into doodling. Are little houses and cottages. 5. Watercolour and ink cottages: Hello, We're going to start off our project by sketching or due to link little cottages. I'm going to start off with I'm about four or five cottages on this page and we're going to make it about this size. So we can fill in the page width, a few more other cottages as well. The things that I'm going to draw here today are not from any photographs or references. This is purely my idea and you are free to include your ideas in your doodles. So starting off with the first cartridge, and I'm going to start off with the roof of that cartridge. You may notice that all my lines are very uneven and squiggly and I am deliberately making them like that. You asked to give a little bit of extra character to the lines. That way, my sketches are going to look a little bit more characteristic. So I've just done the roof off the cartridge. I've got little squiggly line on the left side. Maybe I'll develop that into a creeper later on. Now for the body of the house, with the details, you can decide to add as many details as you like or as little as you like. It's completely depends on your ideas and on your style as well. So here I'm adding a little bit of a roof detail. Details of roof tiles. As you can see, I'm not really defining each and every roof tile. They are merely some scribbly lines just to show or just to give the impression of roof tiles. Now with the body of the house. So I'm going to start off with placing a window on one side of the house. And perhaps I'll do another window on the other side as well. And adore in the center. Again with the window. You can see that none of my lines are really perfectly straight. In fact, we don't need to look for perfectly straight lines. All we need to remember is that when we are placing two windows, like how I'm doing now, I just need it in more or less same level of the house so that it doesn't look too wonky. So you can see, I measured or I looked where the first window was placed and, um, I have tried to place the next window in level with the first window. And now for the door in the middle. Just placing a nice rectangular shape in the middle for the door. Before finishing off the bottom of the house where the straight line, what I can do here now is to add details like bushes, flowers, anything that you like near to their house. Again, would you like a step for that door are not as completely your choice. You can add a step if you like, or just choose to leave it. Again. The window details, again completely your choice. I'm just adding some details here. And for the door, I think I'm going to make it into a wooden door. So I'm going to start drawing lines for wooden planks to depict wooden planks, that little peep hole, and then donor, then everything or extra details that you may want to add as well. Some nearly at the end of the first cottage, just finishing off with some doodles with some plants in front. And again, you can see that I haven't really defined the leaves or the flowers. Flowers. I've just scribbled around that area. Just to make it all look all come together. For that little squiggly line that I left at the left side of the roof. I'm now making that into a creeper that's going up the side of the house. Just another thing that I'm really interested in personally. I do look at little cottages and houses like this with a lot of foliage around them. And it's something that I really love to look at personally. And this is what I'm putting down in my sketch book as doldrums. Now moving on to the second cottage, I think I'm going to start off with a similar shape of the cottage, but maybe with little variations are differences. So this time I've started off with adding a chimney. And I think I'm going to go for attached to Ruth instead of Ruth details. So I'm not really sure how to go about it at the moment, but I think I got the idea from the fairy tales I read to my children. And I, as a little girl, I used to enjoy reading fairy tales, and I still do. And especially when I'm reading to my children, I like to imagine it visually. That is something that I really loved to do. And this cottage probably comes from one of the stories that I read to my children. So this house has attached truth. The structure of the House remains more or less the same. So like how we did in the first cottage, I've just done the roof as well as the body of the house. The extra thing that I have there is the chimney. Now for the windows. I think I can change the windows here. Maybe give a little bit more. Cottage like windows. Maybe not with the railing detail or anything to plane windows and a door in the middle. I think with this one maybe I can have a creeper just beside the door. I'm going to add that detail fast. So that area is completely covered with a nice, lovely creeper that's going up to the roof. And then I'm going to place the door just behind that so I can't really see some of the areas of the door because the creeper is covering it. Now for the bottom of the house, again, I can begin to add details or foliage before I do the bottom of the house. So I've just finished the door continuing with the creeper and then maybe add a little bit of bushes at the bottom there as well. Now, it doesn't have to just be plain creepers or bushes. You can even add details of flowers if you like. So if you look closely, I have added little impressions of flowers over there. It could be any flower, could be poppies, two lips, Butter Cups, anything is fine. It doesn't have to look like a flower. Merely some circular shapes or petal shape is more than enough for you to depict flowers. Especially because our illustration is really small and there is no room for details at this stage. And finally, to finish off, I'm going to place a little pavement in front of that door of the house. Just another little detail that I always like to include in these pretty houses. I can also add a little bit of dark and light in this illustration, especially with the creeper and the door, I'm sure that the area of creeper near the door would be a little bit more darker with all the shadows falling on it. I've just made that area a bit more darker with my pen. You can choose to do it with pen or with watercolor, whatever is best for you. And with the windows itself, I'm going to add a little bit more detail like window panels. And finally, before I finish off just adding a little bit of lines to show the texture of attached truce. And finally, before I finish off, I just wanted to add a little bit more dark area just under the touch truth, just to show the shadows falling on the windows and on the body of that house from the roof. And with this, we're finished with the second illustration. Moving on to sod cottage. I'm going to place it in the middle of the paper. I'm starting off with the roof of the house. This is just my personal way of starting off the doodle. But if you are comfortable with starting it off in any other way, you are free to do so. So this time, the house is going to look a little bit more different. Maybe a bit more longer. Perhaps have two stories instead of just one. This particular house or cottage is inspired from one of the little cartridges that I saw when I was listing Switzerland. I think this one particularly caught my eyes because it was on a hillside and there was green pastures all around it. And I really loved the way it was placed on that hill. Now I'm just finishing off the edge of the roof. And that area where I'm shading it in depicts that there is depth to that building and it goes beyond the facade that we're just drawing right now. Now at the top of that building, I have a little window. I can put foliage there. As always. That's what I love to two. And instead of a door, maybe I'm going to add another window. So this is just one side of the house. Maybe the door is on the other side. But I just particularly loved this particular scene that I saw, why I was walking along. And I think it might look better if I make it into like a little wooden cabin. So when I start painting, I might give a little bit of details for it to look like a wooden cabinet as well. And again, I'm just adding some extra bit of details like a small fence around that hot. You can also add more details of grass in front. And now for the little wooden cabin like look, I'm going to give details of wooden planks. Just straight lines depicting wooden planks. I'm going to leave it only at the top part of the house and the bottom part is going to be a plain color. So this house is purely from my memory. Just a glimpse of that house I got while I was just walking by. I don't remember what was near their house or anything. So I'm going to improvise and maybe add a little bit of foliage in the background, just so that it doesn't look too plain. I can also add a tree if I like, on the other side, just to make it look more beautiful. Just how I like it to be. You don't have to do the same things as I'm doing. It's just how I felt that it should be. So this is the time where you can add your own ideas into your doodles. If you are somebody who loves to look at little huts and houses like this. Or if you may have noticed a little hot like that, then feel free to add in any details that you would like in your illustration. Moving on to the next cottage. Again, I'm only going to give a slight variation from what I have been drawing so far. I think I'm just making up my own ideas of little cottages. For this one. As I started off with the roof, I realized maybe it might be good if I could give a little attic room for that little cottage. So I'm drawing like an other little roofs on the side of that heart. And also adding a little window for that little structure there. And now I'm going to carry on with the rest of the cottage. So before I do that, I'm just fixing the. Ruth. So that's the main roof and there is a little roof or Lewis structure on top. And obviously I can see the the end of that roof on the other side as well. Now for the main structure of the cottage, going to try and keep it quite simple. Maybe add a little bit different to this cottage with a different type of door. And maybe I'll add another potted plant here. That's something that I haven't done for the other cottages. So very simple. Just a few scribbles, not going into any details of flowers or anything. Just finishing off the side of the cottage. And now for a little window over there as well. And we finished with that cottage, I think. Finishing off with a little ventilation above the door and maybe some details of wooden planks on that little extension on the roof as well. I think we're done with our illustration. The next cottage is going to be slightly different. So I'm going to start off with a roof a little bit towards the center. So I can give like a little extension to the other side as well. When I do the roof, I'm also going to give a little extra layer just to show the depiction of roof tiles. Obviously, you cannot see the roof tiles in at this angle, but you can see the edge of the roof tiles. And now I'm going to draw another Ruth to the side of this one. So more like an extension of that cottage. And if you'd like, you can add details of roof tiles here as well. Or if you wanted to make it a two attached Ruth, um, or just a plain roof or even if you wanted to add in a different type of roof tiles, that is all possible. Um, it just depends on what you really want in your illustration. I'm going to add a door there. And maybe for the extension area, I'm going to add a window. I'm not doing the bottom bit of the cottage yet because I'd like to add in some foliage. So I'm not finishing it off with a straight line and probably finish it off with some foliage. And maybe at the doorway, I'm going to add a little bit of paved stones or a path just to show some details of the path at the doorway. That's just again, what I love to do. You don't have to do a path. If you are not too interested in that. You can just just leave it like that. Now just for the frame of the window. Those are like the extra details that you can add. And finally, a little bit more detail on the door going to go with the impression of a wooden door. And, um, I think we are done with the illustration. Again, just to add any sort of detail that you like. It could be anything. It can be a potted plant or just some flowers. It could be anything. You can even add a tree if you like. It's completely your choice. And with that, we're done with a cottage illustrations. Checking if they are dry. If they are completely dry, then I can go on and add some watercolors over it. I think I'm going to start off with the first cottage that we illustrated. That is the top right one. Come and join me in the next video, if you'd like to add a splash of color to these cottages. 6. Watercolour and ink cottages( watercolour wash): So I'm going to start adding watercolors to these illustrations. I'm going to start off with the first house, the top right. I'm going to use a pigment called aqua green. It's more of a blue-green color, which is one of my favorite colors and which is why I'm using it for the cartridges. So starting off with the main part of the house in aqua green. And you can notice that when as I paint the main part of the house, I'm going to leave a few white specks of unpainted areas just to reflect off light. And also, we will go back into these areas to make a few areas darker for showing light and shadow as well. And I am also using the tip of the brush mainly that way. I am able to leave unpainted areas. And I'm trying to go work around those bushes at the bottom as well. Now for the darker areas are the shadow areas. I'm going to use the same color, aqua green. But this time I have very little water, but more of the pigment. So I haven't used any water here. I've gone straight into the pigment and you can see the consistency is pretty thick compared to the first mixture. And I'm using that to define the area under the roof. So that definitely is going to be a little bit more darker because of the shadow falling from the roof and also a slight shadow under the windows as well. Now, I don't really need to stick to the inside of the lines. I can go outside the lines and get the color to spread to the other areas as well. That way, my watercolor wash will look a little bit more loose compared to being very strict to a particular area. So for that, I have used a little bit of water to just print that paint across to the outside of the hut and onto the roof as well. For the roof itself, I'm going to use venetian red or Indian red. Anything that's your palette has. Just gently giving a quick wash with the brush onto that surface. And you can see, I have deliberately let the blue and the Venetian red mix. And you can see how beautiful that transition is from blue to finish and red. And I'm using that same brush with a little bit of extra color green mixed with finished and read to add some deeper tones onto that roof tiles as well. So that way it's not just a plain color and it's got some dark and light areas, which makes it look more interesting and more realistic. For the door itself. I don't think I'm going to add a lot of color. So probably I can leave it white. But just with a wet brush, I'm pulling the color down from the blue areas so that the door has a little splash of color, but it will remain white largely. Now for the foliage around the cottage, I'm going to use sap green and only using the tip of the brush to do some stippling. Just to get the impression or haulage. I'm not going to go into any detail. The reason is because I like to keep it very simple. And the reason why I add watercolors is only because I like the flowing nature of it. And I would like to watch the colors blend into each other. So we always try to keep my watercolor washes quite simple. And for some final touches, I'm mixing a gray color with the two colors, aqua green, Finishing red. Just to add in some deeper color next to the door and on the foliage, just to show an extra sense of depth to the painting. This step again, is only my personal choice because I personally enjoy giving a little bit more depth to the painting. Another thing that I also like to do is to splash some color. Here I have used a bright red called Permanent red, just lashed some colors just to show or indicate that there could be some flowers. They're going to start off with the next cottage and mainly with the door. I'm going to give the same color, aqua green, which I used for the first cottage. Again, it's just my personal choice of using the same colors because I have about five cottages and the same page. I just thought it might look nice if I had a color to connect each of the cottages. So that's a blue door. And now for the touch truth, I'm mixing up a gray with vanish and read and Prussian blue or in, down through in blue. And I get this very grayish color. I can also add a little bit of Venetian red purely from the pan and let it mix on paper. And I'm going to use the tip of my brush to add shocked lines towards the end of that touch truth, just to show texture of touch roof. I think that looks good enough for me. So I'm going to stop there with the touch truth. Now for the foliage that's just above the door, again using a very deep green, this is a mixture of sap green and in-depth green-blue to give me a very deep green. So I'm just doing a little bit of scribble and also letting the color mix with the dashed Ruth, as well as the door, letting them bleed into each other. Only because I personally like the way it looks after that. It looks very flowy and this is exactly what I'm looking for. And finishing off the foliage or the vicious at the bottom of the cottage as well. Using sap green. If you want to leave some white unpainted areas, the best way to do is to use only the tip of the brush and also note the way I'm holding the brush. It is well away from the tip. And that way you get your hands to move a bit more freely. As I mentioned earlier, this is a doodle practice in our sketchbook, and we are meant to keep it quite simple, as well as experiment with the different things that you really want to try out. If there's anything that you wanted to try out with your doodles today, I encourage you to try, try it out and to add on any things that interests you in these doodles. For the main part of the house, I'm going to use a very light wash of Venetian red. And again, getting it to mix with the other colors as well. And with line and wash, the good thing is we can let the colors mix into each other a little bit more than just using watercolor. And this is mainly because we already have our subject defined by lines using that we did by using ink. So we have more freedom to get our colors to bleed into each other and enjoy the flow of watercolor. And finally, for some finishing touches, I'm going to add a little bit of color for the flower-like shapes that I sketched using my ink. And I've gone ahead and used some cobalt blue. You don't have to use the same color. You can use another color that you prefer. I'm also splashing a little bit of yellow as well, just to add some interests with some contrasting colors for the flowers. And I think we're nearly done with this cottage as well. One final touch would be to add a little bit of shadow under the attached roof. That again, is only my personal choice. Mainly because I am so used to having a light and shadow in everything that I paint and it just comes automatically for me. This does not have to be your case. If you do not prefer to add these shadows, you are free to leave it. Another area where I'm going to add shadow is just on the door where the creeper. And you can obviously understand that when there is a creeper that's going over the door, there is a high chance that area is going to be a bit more darker because of all the shadows. Moving on to the next house, which is the one in the middle. I'm going to start off with the wooden cabin like area. That's the top part of the house. And I've already given the detail of wooden planks using lines. And now I'm going to add some color to make it look more like a wooden cabin lake area. For this, I'm starting off with deep brown. Mixed with Venetian red and in-depth or in blue. You can see how deep that Brown is. It looks almost like a grayish color, which is very, very common color that you can see with old wooden cabin like buildings. And you can see I'm leaving a little bit off white areas just to show some reflection of light on those wooden planks. So I'm done with the top part of the house. And now I'm going to deepen the areas that has a bit more shadow that is just under the roof. Just adding a little bit of line and get it to spread with the the color that I gave for the cabin area as well. So it's the same combination of color, venetian red and green blue. But this time I've added a little bit more blue, as well as more pigment and less water. Now for the bottom part of the house, I'm just going to use aqua green again, just in line with the other two houses that I've already finished on the same page. So it's just adding that color in. And before that dries out, I'm gonna go ahead and add some color to the foliage as well. That way the foliage color will mix and bleed into the house color as well. Now for some color, for the foliage on the top window, I'm going to use very little paint because it is a tiny area to be painted and it's best to leave it quite simple. So just using the tip of the brush, I'm just adding a few dots for foliage, flowers. I'm using permanent red and another few dots of green for the foliage. It is going to mix into each other. So it doesn't really matter. Next for the inside of the window, I'm going to prepare some deep gray color. Again, the same mixture of finishing read and in-depth in blue will serve the purpose. Adding a little bit of shadow under the foliage on the top window and using the same color for the inside of the Windows as well. For the foliage in the background, I'm using cobalt blue with a tiny bit of sap green mixed with it just to make it less brighter. And that's it. I'm just adding a very light wash and a very quick one, not really worried about any details. And also for the tree in the background. If you did doodle these things for this particular heart, then you can add some color to it. For the tree, I'm adding a bit more sap green, so it's not completely blew. The use of blue color actually gives a sense of depth. Moving on to the next cartridge, starting off with the cottage on the left. And I'm going to use a mixture of Venetian red and green blue again, to create a very great deep gray color. Deep gray to brownish color. You can vary the amount of brown and blue to create the color that you like. And I'm going to use that for the little attic extension on that cottage. You might have noticed that I use very little color from my palate so far in this whole page, we have only used about three or four colors. I prefer to keep it that way, mainly because that way I don't need to worry too much about the color combinations. And I can enjoy, I can enjoy more of the flow of color on paper, which is one of the main reasons why I do these totals. So saying that, I also would like to encourage you to use your own color combinations if. You have a preference. You don't have to stick to mine. As I said, this is a session where we are trying to bring out our ideas on paper. And you don't really need to stick to the same colors are the same techniques that I use. And I haven't used the aqua green on this cottage yet. I realized. So I'm just going to add a little bit to the end of the roofs. I can't really see a lot of the roof here, but I'm just going to add a few lines and also a little bit of color for the pot, as well as the front of the house with a mixture of green and blue. Again, basically just a splash of color that could be any color that you like. It doesn't have to be the same colors. To finish off, I'm just going to add a little bit of gray for that little ventilation just above the door. And I think I'm done with this cottage. That was a pretty simple cottage. She didn't have a lot of color in it. And I'm moving on to the next cartridge. I'm going to add the aqua green for the main part of the house. I think I'm going to add a little bit of Venetian red for the door. Again, just placing the color there. Not too much of details. I can probably add a little bit of deeper color. I'm adding a little bit more extra in dense rain blue for that deeper color for the door as well as for the window. And I can add the same color combinations for the roof. Now for the shadows under the roof, again, I'm using the same vanishing red and in dancer in blue, butterfly vary the amount of pigments and they're using more of blue to create a more gray color instead of a brown. And finally, for the foliage, I'm just using plain sap green from the pan. Again also leaving a little bit of white unpainted areas. And I can also add some splashes of color for flowers as well. With this, we are finished to width of five cartridges. And in the next video we can move on to doodling more terrorists like structures and look at other types of houses for us to paint. I hope you enjoyed this session. If you really enjoyed this, please hop on to the next video. Do consider this as therapy that you can do every day and you do not have to finish this course in one go. You can probably choose to do one cottage a day or one little house a day, just to keep it very simple and enjoyable. 7. Watercolour and ink terraced houses: Hello and welcome to our next session of watercolor doodle houses. I'm going to just start off with a terrorist house. This one is inspired by one of the famous houses called the Charleston house. If you look, if you search for it, you can find the house. It is a very pretty pink house. And it's called the Charleston house in Charleston in USA. So this doodle is inspired by that house and it will look more or less similar to that house. So starting off with a roof of the house, I'd like to add a little chimney over there. Again. The chimney can be any sort of Germany that you like. You can have your own style of chimney if you like. So adding the roof of the house, you can add as much details are asked and details as you like. This is a fairly simple structure and which is why I chose to structure. And it definitely looks prettier when we add some color to it. So just finishing off the roof, I'm going to stop the roof halfway through because there is little tree on the right side of the building. And because of that, you are not able to see the other half of the building as much as this side. So I'm just finishing off the windows. And for the shutters as well, I'm going to add some shadow details. Now, I've done the window. I'm going to move on to the dole, which is right below that window. Again, along a rectangular shape for the door. And you can add any amount of details on the door. You can create a door of your choice. It doesn't have to be the same as mine. You can add all the decorative bits on the job if you'd like. And that is the bottom end of the house. And after that, there is going to be a little pavement or a little foot path right in front of that house. Now we've got this much of details. I'm going to start working on that tree that is in front of the house. Again, I'm not going to stick to the same shape of the tree as I saw in the picture. I'm just working from my own imagination, creating a tree. Like how I like it to be. So it's lots of branches and with a lot of foliage. Now for some details on that door, I'm going to start off with the frame of the door, just going around the rectangular shape, creating an extra frame. And also little knob and a little letterbox. Like a typical door off an urban structure. Now for the window, I can't really see a lot of it because of the tree in front. So I'm just going to add only the bits that I can actually see. The only thing that I need to be careful is that the window is in line with the window on the left side. So it doesn't look all too wonky. And then you can choose to add how much effort details you'd like on there. There is also another window just beside the main door. Again, I can see a lot of it because of the 40 age falling over it. But it is going to look similar to the windows on top. And now I can finish off the rest of the roof as well as the bottom of the house. Now that I know where the tree is going. So this looks very similar to the Charleston house. But if you'd like to change a little bit of the house, you are free to do so. Just going to add another extra feature on the roof, which I can see in the photographs as well. Adding that extra little detail of little window could be like. Room. And when I sketch the things, I automatically think about what could be inside that room. It could be a whole new other picture, if you like. But it is, for me personally, it feels cozy to think about things like these. Another little variation that I'm adding to this house is an extra touch him money on the left side as well. Again, just my personal view. I also like to add a little TV antenna on the roof. Only for the sake of these characteristic lines. It has. But if not, you don't have to add it. It's just because I like to use a lot of lines. With this. I'm finished with the house. I can now move on to 1 mol terrorist house, just at the bottom of the page. So moving on to the next one. The next house is inspired by one of the photographs I took when I was visiting Venice. That definitely has a water body in front, but we're not going to paint that today. It's just the terrorist house that we're going to paint. I haven't provided a reference picture for this, mainly because I'd like you to listen to what I'm saying and try and doodle a house of your own. You can obviously look at what I'm doing, but at the same time I encourage you to think of what types of things that you'd like on a terrorist house and bring that into your doodles. And other thing that you can do is to observe the different types of houses in your neighborhood or from some of the photographs that you may have taken when you were traveling and you can bring those ideas into your doodles as well. So here I've started off with the top part of the terrorist house, adding a little roof and a little structure. It could be part of a roof as well. It could be like a little attic extension of the roof. And now I'm going to draw the main roof, which is just below that little structure that we drew. And again, I'm going to add a little chimney. Now that I've finished the chimney, I'm going to finish off the roof as well. So just trying to figure out where the roof is going to end. And that's the end of the roof. I'm going to give another layer of another line just to depict a little gutters at the edge of the roof. Now for roof tiles, I'm going to draw a little curved shapes for the tile details and longer lines to show the root rho of roof tiles arranged neatly on the roof. Just finishing off that extension or the attic room with a little window shutters or the window openings. And I'm going to also place a little bit of foliage or like a little hanging pot by the window. I can't really see the hanging pot, but I'm just only going to give a little detail of foliage. You may have noticed that I did stop the detail of the roof tile halfway through and continued on with the little attic extension. This is only because this is some mindless doodling in my sketchbook that I'm doing. And it is so easy to just go along with what my heart feels right at that time. If you're finding it hard to follow along, I highly suggest that you try this mindless doodling or to create something off your own as you are drawing. Or if you just wanted to copy these little houses, I suggest that you watch the video first before you try it out. So you have an idea of how to go about it. And also when you have watched the video first and you're trying to do it yourself, there is a higher chance that you try and do it in your own style rather than copying what I'm doing. Which is why it's very important to try and observe first before you start drawing. Now I'm finishing off the main part of the house. As I started to doing those lines, I thought it might be a good idea to do like a little pipe on the side of the building just to add more character to it or more line work, which is one of the things that I personally love to do. So I'm just doing a little pipe along the side of the building, drawing a line right down the middle for differentiating between the top story and the ground floor. And I'm going to put some doors and windows on the building. Feel free to add doors and windows the way you like it to be. It doesn't have to be exactly like mine. So why not watch what I'm doing first and then you can carry on. After you have looked at what I've done. I'm adding a door and maybe to hanging baskets. The door. Now for an a window on the side with shuttered openings, which just drawing the window frame. And now the shattered opening which goes behind the hanging baskets. So I'm working my way around that little squiggle I gave for hanging basket. And another one on the other side. You can see again the rough lines. I'm not really worried about straight lines or too much of perfection. A little bit of wonky illness makes the illustration a bit more characteristic. In my personal view. Doing another window on the other side. The similar thing with shuttered windows, shuttered openings. Again, the other shuttered opening goes behind the basket. Now I'm going to add two more windows in the top story. Similar designed for the windows. Or maybe you can change the shutter opening. Just finishing off the bottom of the house as well. As I go along adding any more details or darker lines where I need it. And we're nearly done with our house. And adding a little bit of paved pathway front of the house as well. Just for extra details. There little knob on the door for final details, and we're done with the illustration. Now, in the next video, we can move on to adding some watercolor wash to this. Once it's completely dry. 8. Watercolour and ink terraced houses (watercolour and ink): We're starting off with a watercolor wash for these two terraced houses. And I'm using a rose color for the first house. So the color that I'm using here is a mixture of crimson, red and maybe a touch of permanent rose, but very diluted. And that's how I get this nice pink color for the house. Just giving a quick wash on the main part of the house, making sure to leave the area where the tree is a little bit blank. And I will come back to it with some green for the tree. For some highlights. I'm going to give a little bit of lemon yellow to begin with on the tree. And then add a bit of green as well. And let those two colors blend into each other. And you can see I'm only using the tip of the brush, **** some paint over the tree. And also I can use a little bit of paint splatter. Just to give it more dynamic look. Again, this is just my personal style. You don't have to do it exactly like this if you're not a big fan of splattering paint. Now for the roof, I'm using finishing read like how we've been using for the cottages as well. So just adding some finishing read, making sure to leave a few areas, unpainted, little little specks of areas, leaving them white and also darkening some areas where I think needs to be a little bit more defined. So for that I'm using in dancer in blue along with finishing read to get a very deep color, more grayish, and just adding it just at the bottom of the roof tiles, as well as the bottom of the roof where the shadow could fall on the main part of the building. I'm going to use the same mixture to add a little bit of shadow under the windows as well, where there could be a little bit of shadow falling. Again, using the same mixture for the inside of the Windows as well. Just a very neutral gray tint. That's all I need for the inside of the windows. Now for the window openings, I'm going to use another color. Before that, let me finish off the chimney area as well with the same rose color. Now for the Windows or the window openings, I'm using aqua green, the same green that we used for older cottages that we painted. I have kept my palette very limited. Again, just a personal thing. I didn't want to break my head over so many color combinations. But if you are somebody who likes to try another color for your windows and doors, you are free to do that. You don't have to stick to the same color as I do. Finally, using some industry in blue with the tiny bit of vanishing dream, vanished and read to create a very bluish gray to finish off the bottom of the house or the path. Mainly. I think we are done with our illustration. Before that, I'd like to do a little bit of splatter to fill in this space on the left side of the house. Just to create some kind of balance. I think we're done with the illustration now, moving on to the next terrorist house. I'm going to start painting it with some blue, very simple cobalt blue this time. Just filling that space in, making sure to leave a little bit of lighter areas if I can, because it's such a small illustration. Sometimes it might be harder to leave unpainted areas. Filling that bottom part as well with blue, as well as the topmost room, or the attic room as well, with the same color. Now moving on to the shutters, again, I'm using aqua green. Just keeping things simple, just enjoying the process of adding watercolors Institute. Now have to be a little bit more careful when I'm adding the color to the shutters behind the openings behind the hanging basket. While all of this is still quite wet, I'm going to start adding the other details as well. So starting off with the hanging basket itself, I don't have a large area to work with, so I'm going to keep it quite simple. Just adding some rose color and also letting that mix with the other colors in the background. We're going to do the same for that little potted plant at the window right at the top. And also adding a little bit of shadow at the bottom of that potted plant, as well as to hanging basket. I don't think I have room for sap green. It will not show and it will make a huge puddle. So I'm going to leave it that way. And again, some details of shadows. The same color, venetian red and blue mixed together to get a grayish shadow color. 9. Doodle houses inspired by local area: In this session, I'll be totaling and painting a house that I was inspired from my local area. So I'm going to start off with the roof. Again. It's quite a complex house and it's got a lot of foliage in front of the house. So I'm going to try and make it as simple as possible. Thinking only about the main parts of the house and thinking about the main shapes of the house. So the first roof is triangular in shape. It's got a little ornamental detail to it. So I'm going to place that here right now. Thinking of it in terms of simple shapes, I think the edge looks more like a zigzag lines. So I'm just going to place a zigzag line here. It may not look exactly the same, but in the end, we're only do tiling and just trying to get an impression of the structure doesn't have to be exactly the same. You can change it if you like. And the same sort of design goes on the other side as well. Now, moving on to some more details as seen in the picture. I don't know what it's called. Perhaps it's some kind of a frame that holds up the roof. So I'm just going to place that there as just simple lines or it could just be decorated as well. Just simply placing some lines there. No moving down, I can see two pillar like shapes on either side in between comes to Windows. So I'm just adding a very rough shape that looks like a pillow. Again, it the lines look kind of wonky. Um, and I haven't really done a neat line. It's a little bit scribbly in nature as well, which is okay. It adds more quality, more character to the doodle, and a little bit of detail of brick as well. Next I'm going to mark out to where the next pillar on the other side is going to be. And now I'm just doing the same sort of lines for this side as well and adding the brick detail. The only thing I am a bit careful here is to make sure that the two pillars sort of ended in the same level. And that one wasn't longer or shorter than the other one. And now adding the windows in the middle, they also have, the window frames also have a sort of ornamental detail. More like a pillar. All these extra details, all these decorative details of the building is what really attracted me to draw this big building. Just adding some details on the window as well. If you do not like adding so many details, then you can keep it quite simple. For me personally, it's all about adding these extra lines. Making it look as sketchy as possible is just one of the things I love to do, which is why I keep adding extra lines. So now moving down to the bottom part of the building, just a little area or plain brick or plaster. And then coming down, there's going to be more windows there. And the pillar like details continue there as well. So just adding onto those pillars, defining the bottom part of the building as well, there is a little bush that is there. So which means I can't really see the other side of the building. I'm just placing that big bush there and I'll work my way around. The bottom of that big bush is like a little planter. I think it's more like a stone planter. Just adding all that cobblestones details to it. Yet another thing that I personally love doing, a lot of details with lines. You can add the dark and light or the shadow area of the bush width pen, or you can just do it when you are painting. It depends on your personal choice of how much lines you like on your sketch. Now, I'm going to finish off that window now. They, they are similar to the windows on top. Again with that little pillow detail. I think that's all I can see on that window. So just adding the other details on the window. And obviously the other bits go behind the bush, so I don't need to add any details there. Now I'm going to draw the roof behind this main roof. There is also another extended part of the house, I guess, which is which we can see beyond the main roof. So that was the part that I drew first and then now I'm going to add the main roof goes behind the structure that we first drew. And this is actually part of a terrorist house. The house on the edge and there is a line of houses adjoining this house. So I won't be drawing all of that. I'm just drawing this one house. So just placing the chimney there. Maybe I'll add just because I like lots of lines. So I'm going to finish this side of the building first before I move on to the other side. Just adding a bush there. So it doesn't look too plain. And you can add any sort of details there. Now, finishing off the main roof, I think that's about where the housing and the other side is going to be the next house. But I'm not going to go into all that now. I'm probably going to stop the house here. And then only finished the details of this house. I'm going to add all the details on this part of the house now. So starting off with a chimney, just a little suggestion of one side of the chimney. Moving on to the main part of the house and placing a window there. So I think this is a pretty simple window. It doesn't have it after details compared to what is on the other side. But if you did want to make it a bit more ornamental, like the right side of the building. You can do that as well. But for now I think I'm going to keep that window pretty simple. So all that attention is on the right side of the building. And now for the main door of the house, there was a little roof detail there. Now for the main door part of the building, just placing that line, the vertical line, and the bottom of the house. Just trying to make sure that it is in line with the other side of the house as well. Because there is a bush there. It's really hard. It's easy for us to just get that line wonky. So the main structure of the building is finished. Now I'm going to add the front door. And it does look like a double door to me because it's quite wide. Though. That is quite interesting for me as well. So just placing these wooden planks and the rest of it goes behind the bush. So you're working my way around it. Defining that door a little bit more by adding central line. Or it could be like a double door where that is going to be the opening. And finally, for some details on the roof, just adding a little bit of framework on the roof. Because this is part of a row of houses. I'm going to add those lines on the roof just to suggest that there is there are more houses there. And now I can go ahead and add any details that I like. So just adding some brick details on the building. It's not necessarily you do that, but if you really like bricks, then you can add that. And finally finishing off that stone planter with the big push over there and there is a pavement right Nick in front of the house. So I can either choose to finish that off or just leave it like this. I think I'll add the pavement detail in front of the house, just the indication of a pavement by few stones. Now adding another line for showing the footpath in front of the house. And on the leftmost side, I'm going to add a little bit of a tall tree or a bush as well, um, so that I can cover up the area where there's going to be another house because as I said, it's part of a terrorist house there originally and other house adjoining this one. I'm and just to avoid that free empty space over there, I'm just going to balance it off by simply adding the detail of a tall tree or a bush in that area. So again, just scribbly lines for foliage. Not a lot of details. Just to indicate that there is a bush there. To finish off the page, driveway in front of the house. And also, I might add a little bit more of dark and light on the building itself. So I'm just starting off with the pipeline that's running down the building. Again, I'm adding this only because I like the amount of lines in an illustration. And also on the other side, there seems to be a little bit of shadow. So I'm just going to shade that area using sharp lines, pleased together. And it's called hatching. As you can see, I'm just literally coloring that area with my pen, making that area a bit more darker. It looks more like a shadow. And finally, adding some texture to the wall behind the house. And we are done with the pen doodling off this house. If you'd like to collaborate or add some watercolor wash to it, please go to the next video where I'll show you how to add a watercolor wash to this house. 10. Doodle houses inspired by local area (watercolour wash): So now we're going to start adding a little bit of watercolor to this house illustration. I'm going to start off with the roof. And again, I'm using finishing read and for darker areas, I'm going to mix it with a little bit of in-depth green and blue. So starting off with the top part of the house, with the chimney and the roof. And I'm kind of leaving it quite loose, trying to add colors on paper and letting it blend together on the paper. And also leaving some white areas unpainted. Just to bring in the flow equality of watercolor. Now adding some color to the big main part of the roof. Again, you can see it's the same combination of color in density in blue and Venetian red. This time it's very light and I think it's got more blue. But again, I'm going to mix it on paper, adding a little bit of Venetian red, just getting them mixed together on paper. And you can also see that there are lots of areas that's left white, little, little areas of white on the roof as well, just bouncing off light. I can also add any amount of detail on the roof. And it's best to add it wet in wet while the paper is still wet. That way it has sense of flowy quality to it. Moving on to the main part of the house now, I'm trying to pull the color down from the roof using the same colors. But as you can see, I did not mix it on the palette. I am mixing it on paper, or rather letting the two colors mix together. I'm also going to add some extra pigment onto that surface just to show texture of bricks. So I'm adding Venetian red straight from the pan in onto that area. And you can see that there is a little bit of texture that I was able to create here. And it does look very loose and flowy as well. Now, moving on to the other side, I'm using the same combination of colors. But as you can see, I'm not mixing it on the palette now. I'm mixing it on the paper. So rough place to finish and red first and then simultaneously played some indent three blue next to it. And the colors sort of bleed into each other. I have also left some areas white. So I'm painted areas bounces off light and it adds interest to the painting as well. Now for the roof, I'm just adding a plain color, just in dancer in blue. I think it's got a little bit of finishing red in it, but more of blue, so it's that deep blue color. Now, you may have realized that I have worked pretty quickly on this piece of artwork. It's mainly because I like to keep it quite fresh and simple, not overthinking the colors. So, so far we have just used dilution rate and in that frame blue. Now, for some parts of the house, like the inside of that Bruce, I'm going to give more vibrant color service time. I've used a little bit of raw umber. Again for the door, I am going back to Venetian red and in dancer in blue. Again, as you can see, mixing them on the paper, just getting the colors, both the colors on paper and letting them mixed together. And it's sort of adds interest when the two colors blend and bleed into each other on paper. Now for the foliage, I'm going to use a deep green. So it's a mixture of sap green and in, down through in blue. So it gives me a very deep green. Started off with the deep color. And I can use some water to make it lighter towards the edges. I'm adding some water with my brush and making it a bit more lighter towards the edge. And adding the same color, all the same green to that tree on the left side as well. Again, I can start off dark and then use some water to make it lighter and then build over it with darker color if I like. You can also vary the green that you're using at more sap green for a much brighter green, if you like. While that area is still quite wet, I can go into that area with some deeper pigment. So this time less water, more pigment. Place that color. On top of the wet area. You can see how nicely it blends into the lighter area underneath it. I can also splatter. Again, that's something that I love to do. Clustering helps me release a lot of energy and just enjoy that flow of color. Or just to be free with paint makes me feel so much more happier, which is why I always choose to splatter paint across my paintings. Now moving on to the window, I'm going to play some color there. This time, choosing cobalt blue, just making it nice and fresh. Also adding a little bit of deep blue or green, blue or indigo, anything should work. Just placing it at the bottom part of those window panes, just to add some interests to that area. So it doesn't look like a flat wash. If your window frame area has accidentally got some color to it, you can always lift it out using a very damp brush. I've washed my brush clean enough, taken out all the extra water on a tissue, and just use it to rub over the area where you want to take the color out. Finishing off the windows in the ground floor. Again, adding a block of dark color. That dark color sort of suggests that there is depth to the building. There's something inside the building. But we're not really going to define what's inside the building. We're just going to place that corner there. Let my mind imagine what's inside the building. 11. finishing touches and final thoughts: And finally, for some finishing touches, I'm going to add some more color to the pillar, like structures by the side of the window. And also add some shadow areas, especially under the roof, where it's going to be a bit more darker. Using again, the combination of Venetian red and green and blue. This time there's a little bit more blue, making it a bit more gray. And that is perfect for shadows. That shadowed definitely makes the whole thing I'm alive, just makes it look more natural. And just finish off a little bit more shadow on the side of the roof. And the ornamental structure of the roof as well. Just adding a bit of shadow under there. Just immediately makes it look as if it's popping out. And also a little bit on the chimney as well. And with that, I think we're nearly done with our illustration. I hope you really enjoyed illustrating this house from the photograph. What you can do is you can always take pictures of the buildings that inspire you in your local areas. It doesn't have to be houses. It can be on two buildings in yellow color areas. And you can give it a try working from photographs. Or if you are able to, The best thing to do is to work plain air that is on sight of that building. And it definitely makes a huge difference when you're working plain air. And besides that, it's so much more fun to get outside when the weather is warmer and to get to painting just to enjoy painting in your local area. Another way of doing it is also to find friends who are interested to do the same things with you. And you can sit around in your local area to paint. The good thing about doodling in your sketchbook is that you do not have to stick to the exact same composition as you see in front of you or in the photograph. You can ship and change the things and add on more elements that interests you in your doodles. The main idea is for us to enjoy what we're doing and to enjoy the process of creating something. Especially when they mean something to us or something that we can relate to. And sketching from your local areas, getting from the things that you personally prefer creates this opportunity for you to enjoy your own artworks and to also be proud of what you have created, especially when you can relate to it. I hope you have really enjoyed this project of doodling houses in your sketchbooks. And I really hope that you will try it out. I'd also love to see your work and just see what different people are interested in. You might be interested in completely new and modern buildings. And I'd love to see how that are turnout when you're doodling them. Or if you have even more older buildings than these, your local area or historic buildings such as love to draw from. I'd love to see them as well. It'll be really fun to see the different types of works that is produced by different artists. Also, please feel free to ask me any questions or doubts that you may have. Happy painting everyone.