![]() ![]() I use a 12″ wide x 50 yard long roll of trace paper, and an architectural scale (which is used to measure out dimensions as I sketch and I use the edge to tear the trace paper off the roll). I use the Sharpie Permanent Marker – ‘ Ultra Fine Point‘ for my thin lines and the ‘ Fine Point‘ for my profile (heavy) lines. While this might burst the illusion for some of you that I can actually sketch well, I think you’ll see that these techniques are easy to incorporate into your own sketches and before you know it, you’ll be fooling people just like me!īefore we get to the actual tips, let’s talk some tools of the trade real quick:Īlmost 100% of my sketches are created using two pens. Since I didn’t have anything else to write am such a generous person, I thought I would pull the curtain back today and share with everyone a handful of the techniques I use when sketching. ![]() I’ve even mailed off a few sketches to people who have requested them – a mind-boggling idea quite honestly – the people in my office get my sketches all the time and they end up in the recycle bin 100% of the time. Through these posts, I get a considerable amount of feedback from people who are kind enough to let me know that they like the way I sketch. Over the last four years, I have published a handful of articles where I share my thoughts and observations on the process and value that I believe sketching offers an architect. While I don’t think I am particularly gifted at sketching beautiful drawings, I do think that I have a style that has become recognizable as my own – and that is pretty awesome to discover. I’m not sure I would have made this observation had I not started writing this blog and posting my sketches for others to view. Looking back over 25 years of my sketches is kinda freaky to be honest. Now that I’ve been at this “architect” thing for a little while, I can look at my sketches, all the way back to my time in school, and see how my sketch technique has evolved and how that technique has shaped my architectural solutions. ![]() What it does mean is that we learned how to think and communicate our ideas in a slightly different manner from the students graduating from modern-day architecture programs. This doesn’t mean that everyone who graduated in my era could sketch – far from it. I graduated eons ago back in 1992, back in the days that pre-date computers being used in the studio. Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days. ![]()
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