Howie Post House

I wanted to try some of the Howie Post houses because I'm not good at drawing that kind of things, like props, Backgrounds, etc... elements that is.
I've been reading the Famous Artist Course and they talk a lot about the concepts that John have been taught us. They talk about the FORM, to think about the FORM of the boject while you're drawing, not just the shape but thw whole form and draw even the parts that we cannot see to meake the form solid and well constructed.

I tried some of that at this house. The house has a rectangular and the roof is a cube rotated to fit within the rectangular box. The chimney has a cylindrical shape with two cylindrical tubes. The step of entry is also a rectangular shape and all wood in the house are reduced to this form.

After drawing the roof, I covered it with straw, trying to guess how this material would behave if placed on top of this roof that had already drawn. Having drawn first the roof without the straw helped so much because I had a solid form to dress.