Drawing like an Architect

Today's post is a part 2 of topic - How to sketch like an Architect? Title of today's post is very similar to our topic. So today we again going to look at really good example of Life of an Architect's article - Drawing like an Architect. Bob Borson (creator of: Life of an Architect) received an email of his website's follower, which says: "How can I be an architect, I can't draw". The answer is very simple - You don't have to draw well to be an architect!

Architects communicate through drawing – they aren’t making art. Drawing – or sketching in the case of what architects need – is a skill that anyone can develop with a little training and some practice. 


Here is a page scanned in from Bob Borson's sketchbook. This is where he was sketching out some ideas – none of these are drawn very well but you can probably tell what most of them are – that’s the communicating part of drawing.

I will copy a picture from his post and I will put it in this article. It's a really good example which you can use!

• First thing he does is - sketching a wire diagram, where he blocks out a rough shapes.
• Second thing - lay a tracing paper over the top and go over the shape with a single line to clean it up a bit.
• Last thing - it is not needed if you sketching something not for t-shirt (as Bob Borson does with this picture) he uses photoshop in the last picture, you can just finish it in other way you want. 

One more thing that inspired me from his article was: " I am able to sit down with a client and with a pen and piece of paper draw in real-time in front of them the ideas and concepts we are discussing. It is a powerful communication device and one that I spend a bit of time working on – just so I don’t lose my 

touch."

That's the main points I want to share with you. Hope you will be inspired the same as me.

Link to full post: http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/drawing-like-an-architect/