How to draw the horse head wall

The painting method of the horse head wall is as follows:

Material preparation: a computer and drawing software.

Operating steps:

1, draw a gray shape.

2. Apply unevenly with a textured brush.

3. Color with the covering layer (need to be cut).

4. Create another layer for the brick joint.

5. Only use the texture brush to create unevenness at the joints of bricks (cutting is essential).

6, combined with brick layer and seam layer to add shadow.

7. Draw white parts, cracks in bricks, and dark or light bricks.

8. Add a shadow under the brick.

9. Paste the texture when necessary to complete the wall.

"Horsehead wall" is also called "embankment wall". As the name implies, the embankment is also fireproof. Ancient houses were mostly wooden structures with dense buildings. Once a fire broke out, it would spread like a forest fire, so a "stacking wall" was designed.

In densely populated villages, the density of residential buildings is high, which is not conducive to fire prevention. The high horse head wall can cut off the fire source in the case of fire in the adjacent residential building, so the horse head wall is also called the accumulation wall.

The tall and closed walls of the traditional houses in the south of the Yangtze River are patchy because of the design of the horse-head wall, and the static and rigid walls present a dynamic aesthetic feeling because of the horse-head wall. Seen from a height, in the villages where people live together, the ups and downs of the Horsehead Wall give people a sense of "Ma Benteng" visually, which also implies that the whole clan is full of vitality and prosperity.