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This was a throwback! I was a draftsman for a long time and still miss it. A coupe questions/comments that I'm sure are due to the decades since I was paid to draw/design as well as the industry and instructors I interacted with. Were you lettering wish a pen? We didn't do that unless we were on vellum if I recall and it was a pain to erase. This looks like a felt tip pen. Also, I was taught not t push the lead but to always pull it. You seemed to push quite frequently. I assume it was because the pen could take it vs a .5/.7 might not. I was in the mechanical design industry, piping, plumbing, HVAC, etc. Our lettering style was block lettering so everything was vertical or horizontal. I do seem to recall we sometimes made the verticals strokes angled to the right as sort of an italics style for emphasis occasionally. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Hey ive done bsc honors in agriculture and ive studied horticulture all four years during my degree course,im interested in landscape architect and design career pls help
I am currently a (later in life) 2nd degree Bachelors of Horticulture student who wants to get into landscape design as a second career. I just found the draftscapes website and RU-vid channel. My Hort degree is completely online as I am a working adult who lives far out in the country, not in driving distance of any colleges. Because I cannot be an in-person student, my degree choices were limited. I was unable to find a fully online landscape design degree. I am having to search out other options and this website is SO VERY HELPFUL. I hope Mr. Tuccio will add to it when he is able. I would like to understand more on the different types of designs a landscape designer is responsible for knowing and completing, what they are called and how to draw them. Perhaps it will be in one of the other videos and the title just doesn't say that. Any and all information about hand drafting is important for me. Thank you so much for the website and video content already on here. It is amazing and has given me hope to learn this amazing creative field!
I would definitely recommend both as a double degree. But as a landscape architect who has worked in practice, sole practice and academia, I would most definitely recommend students veer towards architecture. Architecture is valued by the market far far more sadly, and that parlays into fees, professional respect, and a general sense that an architect is far more specialised and valuable. And that goes for architects from the top briefs type through to the suburban type, whereas outside the rock-star group of LAs, and the guns that clearly above the pack (few and far between), landscape design (civic) is seen as something anyone can do. (It’s not, but I’m talking about public and client perspective) An architect ‘doing’ external space design has far more respect… thus the recommendation for double degree, or even as an architect doing additional studies
I seen a perspective grid but didn't understand why when you could just use the vanishing points by themselves, but now I understand that it makes it faster to draw cubes and other shapes and it makes it possible to measure objects in perspective.
Rotring 300 works as any when using stencils rulers etc,however,when used by itself for free drawing,it's by far the worst,most imprecise pencil,I've ever seen. It's not expensive,it's the cheapest Rotring leadholder,however,the Faber Castell TK9400/TK4600 models,that cost half the price if not less,have the best performance of all the pencils,on both free or technical drawing.
I have a degree in Civil Engineering, I'm curious if you think I could change career paths fluidly? I understand that if I wanted an Architect title I'd need to go through a masters program and follow through with all the certifications and apprenticeships you mentioned. But I am hoping I could transition to a designer position without having to start as entry level. I do have an extensive knowledge of horticulture as well as land grading.
I am following a landscape design course and we use Vectorworks Landmark to make digital designs with, beside making manual drawings on paper. The main drawback is that it is not even sure if I ever going to use this software as a small independent designer/gardener after the study, because of the high price (lifetime licenses will not be even issued anymore from 1-1-'24 onwards). Can you tell a bit more in a future video about which software to use?
How do you open the opportunity for an internship, where you have the ability to work alongside a landscape architect, or designer, as an assistant to them, in order to get hands on experience and training?? I am a horticulture student in my final semester looking to get some hands on experience before I go forward with my bachelors in the future. I can't afford the tuition and time for the bachelors right now, maybe in the next 2 years I will. Thanks!!
Not easy or quick. Took me forever to find a calculator with arctan. Also I'm very confused. The way I've seen is (height/distance)x100 to get incline percent. So I have 60cm height, 6m distance= 10% incline... but when I did it your way I got 5.7% incline. Also I have rise, slope, and degrees on my triangle, and have no idea which one to use. Please help? I have 1 more day to figure this out. :(
Hi Chris, Thank you for the informative video. I studied Industrial Design at the bachelorette level in uni but right now I wish to go into Landscape architecture. would you recommend this and how feasible is this?
Excellent great list, thanks! I would like to add the information, that there are alternatives to Autocad, that will do the same (even use the same DWG Format) for a considerable less amount of money, in case anyone wants to go that route. Examples are: Draftsight, Bricscad, CorelCad, Highdesign. Some of this are even very similar in use to Autocad because they are trying to get the clients that can't pay Autocad but are already familiarize to the software. And for Photoshop there is Affinity Photo as an alternative, a lot cheaper.
Hello, thank you for this video. I have a question, I already have a degree in an unrelated find but I’ve realized that I would like to consider a career in landscape architecture. How does someone who already has a bachelors degree get this experience without having to go through a 4 year program from scratch? Thanks.
First, thank you for this video it was very informative and helpful. Question though- if you are using the 20 side and you want a 60 ft line, would it not be drawn from 0 to the 3, not the 6? I was confused at the 8 min 30 sec mark in the video. If you can please confirm, it would be greatly appreciated!
