Expressive Architectural Sketching with Colored Markers
Composition and Thumbnails
A course by Albert Kiefer , Digital Visualization Artist
About the video: Composition and Thumbnails
Overview
“It’s important to make sure your sketch is well-constructed on the page. The placement of the different elements of your drawing is called composition. Here, we'll explore this notion by making a set of thumbnails.”
In this video lesson Albert Kiefer addresses the topic: Composition and Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Architectural Sketching with Colored Markers. Learn to create expressive sketches of buildings and landscapes filled with color and practice drawing by hand.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Composition and Thumbnails A sketch needs to be in the right place on the page, otherwise, it will look off. In this lesson, we'll look at some examples in my sketchbook. Here, I placed a building in the lower part of the page. That is because I want the building to breathe and want to have it see a lot of air. If I brought that to the top, it would bunch up to the top of the page and that wouldn't look quite as right. Same here. This, in my case, is the facing building. This is where it wants to look. By looking in that direction, I'll create a bit of space where it can look out of the p...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Architectural Sketching with Colored Markers
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching
Albert Kiefer
A course by Albert Kiefer
Digital visualization artist Albert Kiefer enjoyed drawing from a young age, taking inspiration from what he saw on TV to create fantastical alien spacecraft and superhero suits. He studied drawing and art history at the Maastricht Institute of Arts and, after graduating, began working at a computer graphics firm, where he learned techniques like 3D modeling and rendering. With over 35 years of experience, he now works as a freelancer in the field of visualization, taking ideas and concepts and transforming them into pictures or animations.
Albert later began to miss more traditional art forms and returned to his love for sketching. As the years passed, his style evolved into the expressive and colorful one that we see today. He has published Au Japon!, a collection of sketches of Japanese buildings, and created a series of workshop videos for Gerstaecker. He also showcases his work on his website and social media under the name Housesketcher.
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