Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching
Influences
A course by Pavel Fomenko , Architect and concept developer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My influences have a pretty wide range. Some of them are sudden, fairly mundane things I encounter daily. Others are more instrumental in shaping my creative philosophy and design approach. These influences typically comprise a book, movie, or a piece of design with the creator(s) behind it. In this lesson, you will get introduced to my influences, and you will get insight into how I let them inspire and inform my creative process.”
In this video lesson Pavel Fomenko addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching. Enhance your architectural design skills through freehand sketching. Learn how to quickly conceptualize and visualize your ideas through simple line drawings..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I would like to talk to you about my influences. I'm very fascinated by aviation design. So in my work, I always try to draw inspiration from the aviation and aircraft design. Be it a fuselage of A-10 Thunderbolt or hoisted air intakes of B-2 Stealth Bomber, or a nose section of Airbus 220. Those are extremely important inspirations to my work. The same can be said about automotive design, where I'm particularly interested in the suspension system and their mechanical components. Bridges, transportation design, and ladder structures are also extremely influential to my desig...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketching

Pavel Fomenko
A course by Pavel Fomenko
Pavel Fomenko is an accomplished architect and concept developer with over two decades of experience in the architecture and design industry. Currently leading a concept design division within AFRY Norway, one of Scandinavia's largest engineering groups specializing in infrastructural design, mobility, and transportation.
In his role, Pavel oversees the early stages of design development, ensuring that the team's creative outputs deliver relevance, inspiration, value, and innovation to a diverse range of projects, clients, and collaborators. His creative approach combines intuition and practicality, with exploratory sketching serving as a means to communicate the functional, technical, and emotional depths of his designs.
Pavel's project portfolio is diverse, spanning from private commissions to large industrial buildings and city master plans. He has been involved in groundbreaking projects like an 800,000 sq.m. industrial facility in Norway focused on next-generation research and manufacturing of high-density electrical battery cells. Pavel's expertise extends to transit hub development in Lugano, Switzerland, where he envisions a transportation hub at the heart of future master plan development.
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