Artists are entitled to use artistic licence. This may be a broad statement but you know what I mean. However, although many people change colours, change context and move items around in order to produce an interesting work, I often note that they over-do details when it comes to drawing buildings. You do NOT have to draw in every individual brick, block or stone, or even the coursing of same when illustrating a property. The same applies to roof tiles, ridges, pantiles and even thatch, etc. When drawing wood work, a few generalised lines will suffice. If you insist on drawing in every track of grain - then you may as well include the inevitable woodworm too! If you are not executing a technical illustration of a contemporary property then a ruler is not required to draw windows and doors in dead straight and rather boring lines. Draw items of construction randomly and lightly: let linear areas "sag" slightly and avoid unbroken, dead straight horizontal and vertical lines. Using these techniques, your buildings will look lived in and even loved! And so as to prove these points, have you ever noticed how, on even the most correct draughtsmanship of properties, the artist then tries to soften the harsh and uncompromising lines by the use of greenery? Enjoy drawing buildings and don't view this aspect of the artists' work as a chore, but rather as something that will give the viewer endless visual pleasure. Kind regards, ANNE.