Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop

Adding the Foreground 2

A course by David Drazil , Architect

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2,048 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Adding the Foreground 2

Overview

“What I'll do here is add the shadow of a tree on the ground so as to frame the image and the tower, which is the main focal point.”

In this video lesson David Drazil addresses the topic: Adding the Foreground 2, 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

“ Adding the Foreground One more thing I want to add is the shadow of a tree that will be cast here in the foreground and that will help us to frame the image in our main focal point, which is the tower sticking out from the sky. I can do that by importing once again, a tree. What I want to do now is to turn it black. I can simply do that by using the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, clip it by holding the Alt or Option key just to that layer of the tree, otherwise, it would influence all the layers below. I want to use the Lightness slider, turn it all the way to the left to make it black....”

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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.