Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink
The Concept of Scale
A course by Dan Hogman , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: The Concept of Scale
Overview
“Another fundamental concept you will need to familiarize yourself with is scale. I will guide you in analyzing proportions by decomposing some street scenes in New York.”
In this video lesson Dan Hogman addresses the topic: The Concept of Scale, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink. Learn how to draw like an architect by exploring observational illustration techniques, including perspective, scale, and composition .
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Concept of Scale Now that we know a bit more about the concepts of perspective, vanishing point, and one and two-point perspectives, we can discuss in this lesson the concept of scale. I will discuss the concept of scale based on a couple of photos of New York City. This one happens to be a one-point perspective in Midtown. You can see here a number of buildings and it's a one-point perspective. I was told this one here is a building by Norman Foster while this one down the street would be a building by Zaha. I will use tracing paper to overlay over the photo as a way to have a base t...”
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Course summary for: Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink
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Architecture & Spaces, Illustration -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Dan Hogman
A course by Dan Hogman
Dan Hogman is an architect and illustrator with over 20 years of experience. He began drawing at a young age and always knew he wanted to become an architect. He later went on to study for a Master’s degree in the subject at the Academy of Art, San Francisco, and later at Harvard University.
Since then, he has created hundreds of drawings for everything from high-rise residential developments to hotels across the US, China, and South Korea. Dan also takes on drawing commissions in his spare time, and shares his work with over 120K followers on Instagram, alongside teaching architecture at a graduate level.
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