House Portrait

I was lying in bed the other day thinking random thoughts and one particularly random thought came up, 'Gee...I just love pen and ink drawings.  I wish I could do something like that.' 

I opened up Photoshop and found a photo of my dad's farm where I'm living.  (It feels quite strange to write 'my dad's farm' because until 2 months ago this was 'my parent's farm,' but since my mum and dad have separated it's now just his.)

I used Photoshop to put a layer over the photo, and then I just started tracing everything I saw.  (I'd like to pretend I'm an amazing artist, but I'm not...I am a good tracer though!)

After I'd finished tracing and drawing (it took about three hours) I deleted the house photo and was left with just the tracing.  Here's what it looked like:

I quite like it. I love all the little details, like the  gate that's almost falling down.

 I'm thinking of getting it printed onto paper, just in a small size (around 4 inches long) and framing it for my dad for Christmas.