Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop

Shade and Shadows

A course by David Drazil , Architect

100% positive reviews (38)

2,048 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Shade and Shadows

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn to apply shade and shadows to the composition in Photoshop. This will add plasticity and contrast to the whole illustration.”

In this video lesson David Drazil addresses the topic: Shade and Shadows, 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

“ Shade and Shadows In this lesson, we'll add more plasticity and contrast by adding shade and shadow. Next up, I want to add shade and shadow to the whole image but mainly to the architecture itself. We'll be adding shade to the sides and ceilings that are visible, and a cast shadow that we'll simply construct, especially here in the foreground. We'll be also adding some extra shade to the foreground to make it more detailed and darker, so that it nicely frames the architecture piece. Let's get into it. I want to create a new layer, which I'll call Shade - Side. I know that all the sides w...”

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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.