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Window Drawing Exercise

1. I drew a white box outline
with the sides a bit wider.

2. I outlined the inside of the
box in black.

3. I used the paint can thingy to
fill the interior with dark gray.

4. I outlined the interior again
with white.

5. I drew in the window panes
with light gray. Later I tried
white as you will see below.

6. Then I drew in the window
sash in white. This is thicker
than the pane dividers.

7. I drew the window sill below
    and that thingy above the
    window, lintel, I think. I left
    a space below the lintel as a
    shadow.

8. I drew black lines on
    either side of the window
     for the shadows for the
     shutters. I also drew a
     light gray line to show the
     sill separation.

9. I drew the shutters in as
plain white rectangles.

10. I drew the shutter louvers
in with dark gray.

11. I used light gray to show the
side boards of the shutters.

12. I drew a white box below the
window as a flower planter.

13. Then I did a lame job of
      adding flowers to the box.
      You are the real artist, Tiger.
      My stuff is pathetic.

14. Then I added curtains inside
      the widow, making them
      look grayish behind the
      window panes.

15. Here I changed the window
pane dividers to white and
I think this looks better.

16. Here I showed the window
      open a bit. The color of the
      curtains would be brighter
      and the interior of the room
      darker because the window
      panes are not in the way.

Here is a window-drawing exercise my friend Paul Roebling did
with a Paint program. An artist is sometimes required to render some
architectual aspect of a scene. Knowing the elements of how a
window is constructed would be helpful.

The music is "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" by B.J. Thomas.

B.J. Thomas receiving the keys to his
hometown of Rosenburg, Texas in 1998

Paul's efforts did result in an interesting way to show the glass of
the windows and the look of an open window in figure 16 above. All
this was done to produce our first attempt at a computer-generated
cover for Paul's first novel below. A better attempt is shown on the
Perspective-3 page of this site.

Paul said he liked my work which is the vegetation in the garden
of the house above, but he called the house he drew drafting and not
art. He also said that after lecturing me on perspective for months, the
house he drew was flat and without the correct perspective. Hey, the
birds were a nice touch.