A Victorian house

A study of a Victorian house with steep gables, a bay window, porch and brick chimney on textured paper. Build the main house box and steep gabled roof in perspective.

A way into the drawing

1. Establish the construction

   Build the main house box and steep gabled roof in perspective.

2. Resolve the main structure

   Project the bay window and porch from the front wall.

3. Develop the detail

   Add coherent windows, chimney and selected timber trim following the wall planes.

4. Control the values

   Deepen roof eaves and porch shadows before adding smaller surface detail.

A small thing to tryKeep the windows on each wall aligned to that wall’s vanishing direction.