Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop

Creating the Sketch

A course by David Drazil , Architect

100% positive reviews (38)

2,048 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Creating the Sketch

Overview

“The first thing I will do is refine the sketch I made in the previous unit. With a pencil, I'll work on its composition, add details, and end by adding a layer of ink with fineliners.”

In this video lesson David Drazil addresses the topic: Creating the 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

“ Creating the Sketch In this lesson, we'll follow-up on what we created in the design principles lesson, we'll refine that sketch, and also add a layer of ink. Here, we have what we arrived at in the design principles lesson. I'm still not quite satisfied with some of the details. I want to create a refined pencil sketch of this. There are a few ways to do it. I can erase this with a soft eraser to create a ghost of this sketch and draw once more on top of that, or I can take a new piece of paper, and since it's see-through, I can trace it and add better details, which I'm fonder of. Optio...”

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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.