How to Draw the White House
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Start out by picking your pencils. I used a 4H pencil for sketching and light shading, an H pencil for slightly darker lines, an HB pencil for general shading, and a B pencil for dark lines/shading.
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Start out with some basic shapes. This was the only step that I used a straight-edge for but if you want to make your lines perfectly straight use a ruler throughout the drawing.
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Shade in the foliage using HB and B pencils. You can get as detailed as you want. Make sure that you can see a few limbs and twigs sticking out beneath the foliage.
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Sketch in the windows on the side sections using H and 4H pencils. After that lightly go over your building with a blending stump to smooth out your shading a bit. Make sure that the fountain is whiter than the building since the White House is’t per
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April 10, 2012
Description: Today I’ll be showing you how to sketch/draw the United States White House, home of the President.This is my first building tutorial and one of my first building drawings. I wanted to see if my regular drawing technique would work with more geometric subject matter. In a way it did, but after this tutorial expect some perspective tutorials in the future!
