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Housesketching

Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings

Albert Kiefer

Description

Explore creativity while learning how to draw lively, unique sketches of your favourite houses, shops, landmarks, and other buildings. Learning to sketch can be intimidating, especially when drawing subjects like architecture that seem to rely on perfect perspective, straight lines, and complex forms.

Housesketching shows how to go beyond representation to create sketches that are evocative, vibrant, and completely unique. With this encouraging guide, you will learn how to:

Find inspiration and choose subjects to sketch – either en plein air or from photos
Compose your sketch with placement, contrast, techniques for guiding the eye and balance
Use perspective – but only as much as you need to know! – to create a convincing sketch
Make a sketch your own through editing, exaggeration, point of view and creating a back story
Use colour and details to finish and embellish your sketches
Share your sketches online

Fifteen step-by-step projects take you through the author's process in detail, so you can sketch alongside him and learn what makes his drawings so dynamic. QR codes link to videos that provide further insight into essential techniques.