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Architectural drawing
3yr
@mil3s
Hi, Here are a few Architectural drawings I've done over the past few months, any critique would be welcome.
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Liandro
3yr
Hey, @mil3s! I really like your drawings, especially the clarity of the contour lines and the hatching shading pattern. You must have spent a bit of time on these! I see our fellows have given you some advice already. One thing that calls my attention in the second drawing is that there seems to be a very slight sense of distortion compared to the reference - maybe the vanishing points got a bit too close to the buildings. I also get a sense as if the two buildings don’t belong on the same ground plane - the edges of the smaller building seem to converge a little bit more than they should, so its horizon looks a bit more upward than the bigger building’s. I see the drawing looks pretty finished, so since I don’t believe you’ll be making changes to it anymore, I’d say this is something to watch out for in future works. One thing that has helped me a lot with perspective over the years, more than just tracking vanishing points, is to actually establish a perspective grid for the entire scene. It helps better see different objects in a same perspective context. If you’re interested, this series explains how it works (it’s a paid course, but I consider it a worthy investment): https://ctrlpaint.myshopify.com/collections/foundation-skills/products/perspective-sketching-1-the-basics Hope this helps. Keep up the good work!
@mil3s
3yr
Hi, Thank you for the advice! Ill definitely experiment with creating a perspective grid for my next architectural scene. Would you recommend the book Perspective Made Easy? I've heard that it goes into creating perspective grids. Thanks again!
Jose
3yr
I didn't check the other two but here I did find perspective errors. In the photo the Horizon Line is far below the page. Your Vps never reach that low. In the drawing the blue lines keep intersecting each other. Make sure both the left and right VPs converge at the same HL. Also in the photo, the green lines are converging upwards. Yours green lines are parallel. I don't know if you already do this but practice measuring two angles that are far apart from each other. this will give you the convergence of the VP. Extend those lines to see where they intersect. If the VPs are off the page like this one, just guess based on their convergence. You can then just put the other lines in between. Hopefully that makes sense. If not I can provide an example.
@mil3s
3yr
Thanks for the advice!
@paper
3yr
I really like the first drawing,I think you really nailed the perspective and composition.The second I don't think is as good as the first but it still has a nice composition of darks on the window .The third I also quite like just because I really half finish drawing that gives insight into the artist thinking. If I have to give critique,(and this may be very subjective)the second drawing do not have as interesting of a background as the first.I think you really put a nice vignette style with the clouds which remind me of Robert watts drawing (Here's the picture below).I advised studying artist who are great at interpretting clouds. (I recommend Franklin Booth and Edgar Payne) I also think you can make the foreground element more interesting,as in the original picture there are a lot of visitor in the ground.I think it can add interesting shapes variation.(Actually now that I think about it I also think you push the shape design further in the first one by adding in the bench and those small decoration in the ground,though obviously don't just copy the photo,and choose when to not put it in if the drawing became too clustered) Well I'm sorry I don't have more objectvie thing to say, but I hope it was atleast useful
@mil3s
3yr
Thank you for the critique!! ill try to do a few more architectural drawings tonight. ill take another shot at the second one, I must agree that adding in the foreground and background elements (even in a reduced design) would look much better. Thanks again!
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