Architectural Illustration: Humanize the Design of a Space
Vanishing points
A course by Marcelo Marttins , Architect, Urban Planner, and Agricultural Engineer.
Joined July 2020
About the video: Vanishing points
Overview
“In this lesson, I will address the importance of the vanishing point for illustration and how it influences the spatiality of the drawing.”
In this video lesson Marcelo Marttins addresses the topic: Vanishing points, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Illustration: Humanize the Design of a Space. Capture the essence of a space through humanized drawing and create an architectural plan by hand.
Partial transcription of the video
“Vanishing Point Now let's address the first steps to elaborate our perspective through the use of vanishing points. We will work with one and two vanishing points. Basically with two vanishing points you can represent everything you need within the architecture. And to show how it works with a vanishing point, I will show you an example that maybe is a really cool exercise which is the exercise of squares. The first thing we are going to do is put the horizon line on the board. This is also a very important thing, why? From the moment that I go down that horizon line a lot, necessarily i wi...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration: Humanize the Design of a Space
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Landscape Architecture

Marcelo Marttins
A course by Marcelo Marttins
Marcelo Marttins is a multifaceted artist. He studied architecture and agricultural engineering and turned his passion for nature and drawing into a career focused on bringing unique architectural projects to life.
He currently runs his own business and designs projects in Brazil and the rest of the world. His work has been featured in major industry publications and he won the digital influencer award in the architecture category at the 2019 Prêmio Microinfluenciadores Digitais Cecom in São Paulo.
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