Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop

What Makes a Good Sketch

A course by David Drazil , Architect

100% positive reviews (38)

2,048 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: What Makes a Good Sketch

Overview

“Now I'll tell you about what I think is the most important image-making aspect: composition. I’ll put on my analytical hat and break down a number of examples so that you understand what I mean.”

In this video lesson David Drazil addresses the topic: What Makes a Good Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop. Learn fundamental drawing techniques to create hand-drawn architectural sketches and bring them to life in Photoshop with color and texture.

Partial transcription of the video

“ What Makes a Good Sketch In this lesson, I'll focus on what makes a good sketch or an image. Why do we like some images and illustrations better than others? Let's put on our analytical hat and break down some examples to discuss some image-making aspects. The number one thing that can make or break your image is composition. Let's see these examples and talk about structure of composition. Here we have a few examples that I'd like to go over and discuss them from a composition point of view. Here's the Charles Bridge in Prague, which is where I come from. I'd like to take this as an exam...”

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Course summary for: Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (38)
2048 students
5 units
22 lessons (3h 54m)
17 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration

David Drazil

A course by David Drazil

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Architect

David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. Through his social media platforms, he shares his passion for the visual representation of architecture with over 233K followers. By creating educational resources on architectural sketching, David is focused on helping other architects, designers, and hobby sketchers to use sketching as a tool to improve their design process and presentation.
As a trained architect with international experience, David holds a degree in architecture and building engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague and a master’s in architecture and design from Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. He also collaborates as a featured artist with the iPad sketching apps like Morpholio and ShadowDraw.