I would've loved to get this shipped out worldwide, but the costs for the first round were tough for me to absorb as an independent creator. Hoping that round two will make it across the pond.
@@alphonsbretagne8468 thats how it was when I was in school. Everyone wanted to produce these sci-arc style renderings....essentially just centerfolds. I took analogue rendering and a lot of hands on classes with drawings and sketches. The projects were far more interesting compared to the digital classes. They had a story and lets just face the fact....nothing beats a good hand rendered illustration. They are a little magical. Theres room for your own interpretation. Digital is so dogmatic and people actually complain about paint colors on the wall....
My grandfather is an architect and your drawings remind me of his. He’s probably the best artist I know. It’s really cool to see that other people, like my grandfather, draw their buildings before they digitally create it. It’s a dying skill in the industry that is extremely important.
Just recently found your channel. I had always wanted to become an architect ever since high school. However, I couldn't get accepted to any schools right away. I ended up taking a detour and joined the Air Force for 6 years. Once I got out, I found your channel and it relit that spark. So I ended up applying to school again recently, and finally got accepted. So thank you. Keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you friend. Even when you want to sell a product you worked so hard on, you still do it in the most informative and polite manner. You are a gifted instructor (sharer) and businessman. I will definitely get a few of them because they are this good, and so are you. Can't wait for when you announce that FAIA nomination, you contribute a lot to the field, so selflessly.
Sketching is an art coming straight from your head, and yes improving skills may shine your piece of art... my believe is creation of sketch actually realizes how beautiful mind you’re carrying 🤓
So glad to see this. As an urban planner and draftsman, I have been sketching all my life--now retired at 70 I am so disappointed to see students in school who sit at their computers and have no sketching skills at all--on site they could not sketch an idea or a solution to an issue if it meant the success or failure of a project. You must sketch people; its at the heart of your profession. Thanks for this.
I’m an engineering student and I’m practicing freehand architectural drawings. It really helps for alleviating stress because freehand doesn’t require you to be perfect. It’s very therapeutic.
There’s pros and cons to every work but watching your videos makes me forget about the cons and gets me excited to learn. I’m only a sophomore in college who recently found an interest in architecture, and watching your videos is very inspiring!
I'm almost done my degree in architecture, before I go into my masters, and these are a few things that I didn't realize would be so important in architecture school or that other students didn't realize would be important: - digital design skills (organizing digital layouts for printing, photoshop experience, editing, etc) - woodshop experience (handling tools, using wood, which glues to use, how to cut and measure, etc) - artistic experience (as discussed here) - photography skills (not super important, but very useful in terms of knowing how to lay out scenes and compose pictures) - general tech smarts (you'll be learning multiple different softwares at a time) - construction smarts (if you've worked as a contractor, builder, or know how a building is made for whatever reason, that's *extremely* important and useful) - the ability to talk, make connections, and generally be a self-manager (architecture is all about convincing people that your project is the best out of all the other proposals or convincing others of your idea and sometimes, it's convincing the tax payers that it'll be beneficial) If you're in highschool, you should for sure take a digital design course if you have it, an art course, woodshop, geometry (ratios, slopes, areas, perimeters, scales, etc), and business courses are also super useful if you're hoping to start your own company. In regards to math, most of the programs that we use does all the equations for you, so don't feel scared of going into architecture if you're an artist and bad at math (like me). It's good to have an understanding but trust me, it's 90% business, design, and tech (unless you go into the engineering side of architecture, then it's a lot more math)
I'm approaching my 3rd year of studying architecture.. I've started taking interest when my ex convinced me to take up architecture, and ever since, I've always been coming back to this channel whenever I need inspiration.. It's been quite an experience, too. Many naysayers and doubters, but currently I'm at the top of my class, and recommended for Vice President of our Architecture Students Organization next school year.. This channel is one of the best ones I go to whenever I'm stuck on a project, or need some inspiration. Thank you so much for these type of content and God bless you for sharing all of these with us ❤
I've had the pleasure of interning in some of the top architecture offices in the country, one thing they all have in common is someone is always sketching through ideas to quickly solve problems. Morphosis in LA is one of the best digital firms on the planet, their projects still start with a sketch on a piece of trace paper. Sketching is a tool and a skill. Like anything else, practice makes you better, more confident and faster at solving problems. Thanks for the awesome content.
"Just allows me to think and process. People always say that it's way more efficient to work in the digital environment and that may be true, but that doesn't always yield the best results. There is this kinda feedback that happens from the page to the brain that I've found hard to replicate in the digital space." EXACTLY. Lots of people nowadays don't seem to get that. Subscribing.
learning to draw is more than learning to see, thats 33.333.% of it, is loving it, training and the rest is the motor skills(how to put in paper what you see, how you think and compose mentally, and the hand motions can achieve that mental goal).
Oh, i liked this simple but so "educative" video. It's so true, with your pencil you carve the paper, slowly, thinking just at the problem you are trying to solve. Drawing is a true form of 'awarness', when you are deep into it.
I’m nearing the end of my non architectural career! Long story short ...dreamt of being an architect at 14 but my working class background made education difficult - I got into a profession just not the one I dreamt of - but hey ho I’m happy enough and financially ok 👌 . I’ve always sketched and it’s been my sanctuary away from figures and contracts. Watching you sketch is fantastic and helps me to try and develop my sketching. I often take pictures of buildings and draw either sections of that building or the whole structure and its environment. Good luck all you students of architecture- have fun and a fantastic career.
I am not an architect but I admire architects who work hard to make our surroundings beautiful. I bet you inspire many young people who would consider architecture as a profession. Keep doing the excellent work.
I couldn't agree more, drawing is the most important skill for architects, designers basically any creative. We as humans have been drawing before we started to build architecture. Drawing is a skill that is deeply imbedded in us, as humans. Look at children, they all draw.Anyone can draw. But drawing is a skill that needs practice, so you should indeed draw every day. Again: anyone can draw, there are no excuses. The one thing to watch out for is what I call "The Pretty Drawing Syndrome", don't draw to get pretty pictures. Although it can be, but drawing does not always have to be a result in itself. Drawing is a tool to help you see what is there, to draw means to remember, to draw is a tool to not forgot. When you sketch a building you learn how the building is made, you step inside the architects' mind. Steven Holl says he starts the day with a drawing, and he says most of these water colour sketches are rubbish, but that does not matter, he's sharpening his skill. Architects should throw away their camera's and sketch as much as possible. The pictures of buildings on your phone you forget, the drawing you make of a building you will remember for the rest of your life.
I’m in year seven and have been wanting to be an architect, my dream is to make the family living the house express themselves through the building and bring their vision to life with a little help from me! Thank you for your videos they are so good and helpful
There is no substitute for the hand skill and the motor- brain connection. This hand drawing allows the creator to internalize the concept. Digital drawing is not the same. cannot even cone close. Beginning professionals - whether architects, landscape architects, engineers , industrial designers or sculptors - cannot skip this skill. If they do - their work will always be deficient in some quality . I am fluent in many digital tools and software - I have learned that the most important step in the inception of an idea is the first hand drawing or draft. Great educational video!
I think this is the best channel of architecture guide, comparison with my hemisphere, I'm south América, and here there is a lot of Architect teaching about the matter, but no one is so pinpoint like you. Sorry about my english is not too well, I'm learning it by you with your videos too. Thanks for All these kind of videos. Help a lot.
Gotta say, this was fantastic. As a blacksmith, I teach people to learn as much from my mistakes as my successes. And the #1 mistake I've made in my career at the anvil.... not learning how to sketch. Seriously. After more than 20 years in front of the forge, I can say with certainty that not sketching has cost me more jobs, more opportunities, and more ideas than anything else. Even if you don't deal with clients, being able to draw out an idea, to walk through the process on paper before you first swing the hammer, can save you a ton of frustration... never mind all the time and fuel wasted. Right now, I'm trying to get better at sketching, but it's an uphill battle because the old habits are deeply engrained.
I’m a retired architect who learned how to draw because there was no computer technology when I went to school. I’m ashamed to say that I have now let that skill slide. You have inspired me to get out my pencils and pens again. Ty
your wave lines reminds me my academic drawing teacher. He was 90 years old, very old, he carried a pencil heavily, lines he drew were very wavy but he always drew right
I like to share my experience in this: I draw a lot when I was young and I am good at it until I graduated a technician coarse and started to work in the industry for a decade. So I left the manual drawing for a long time and when I went back to college to finish my degree. I find my self struggling in manual drawing, instead of practicing drawing I started practicing my lettering. I noticed my drawing improve a lot faster than I expected. maybe because the lettering is more robust in the eye to hand coordination and has more strict discipline compare to freestyling manual drawing. Also in drawing, you have to have an idea of what to draw., unlike lettering you can just copy a text, manuscript, or in my case songs and poems. And its also easier to see your progress because you are doing the same shapes over and over.
I'm environment designer/ vis dev artist in film so a different field but I will share with u an exercise that helped me. When I first started I made many small lines instead of straight smooth dynamic lines & my director forced me to give him whole PAPER PAGES full of circles, squares and long straight lines each day. Then he added parallel lines/ hatching & concentric circles. I hated the guy until I'd been doing it for about a month and randomly looked back at a prior drawing & saw how much my lines had improved. I rec all new artists try this bc it helps physical control & also helps u to visualize the shape on the page, which like u pointed out, is a big part of it
Sketching ideas transcends many professions. As a tradesman, we were trained in drafting and it is one of the most important aspects of my trade. learning how to shade a drawing is a skill I have never acquired and is such a great addition to share information to whomever looks at a drawing. This is a great video.
I didn't get the chance to have a mentor when I graduated architecture school up until I passed our board exam bcos I worked in a company full of engineers. I feel like I'm a blind architect. But thanks to you, at least I got to see and learn things from someone who's experienced in my chosen field. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful that I can learn things on my own, but having a mentor who can guide you is really something else.
Hello Eric, Been watching your videos for a while, but have never had the honor of being first. As an aspiring architecture student, your videos are especially helpful. And amazing cinematography too. Thanks
Granite rocks, lowbush blueberry and black spruce sounds like where I live in Maine! And your design example would fit perfectly there. Perfect, eloquent elaboration of the creative process and rich in good advice. I am saving this. Thank you. Loved everything about it, except for the sales pitch at the end. Easy to forgive though.
@@30by40 I really AJ & Smart for professional and design content. Jesse Showalter is good for UX UI practices. The Futur, I think is a need to watch for any type of creative!
It's funny that my professor recommended this video to us not knowing that I have been following you for months already, I feel so validated haha, thanks for your help!
I so badly needed to watch something like this. Something that motivates without making it sound so damn exhausting. I miss sketching everyday and I don't know why I didn't prioritize it between work.
As a design student, I personally use a uni 0.2 Fineline pen, I find it has the perfect balance between the feeling of a pencil but the strength of a pan. Also, it forces me to think more before I put down any line on the paper.
I’m a freshman who’s currently undeclared and is trying to get into my university’s architecture program next year. I sketch stuff almost every day that I find interesting. I’ve always really enjoyed sketching imagery objects and iconic architectural buildings. This video was super inspiring, thankyou.
Another great video. Been away for a while. It's like butter on warm toast. Know what blew me away? Had to stop video and try it. Dividing a rectangle into thirds. Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know, but wow.
I just designed that way ... I sketch floor plans like that, but a soon as I have the layout done, I like I go straight to SketchUp to work on massing, elevations and refining the floor plans. I want to see the facades in perspective with shadows... Orthogonal views for proportions and composition is ok, but how you perceive them is in 3D.
I Began to be a Civil Engineer in a time without CAD. Everything had to be Draw by hand. My drawings used to be no only a group of lines with numbers, there were always a group of detailed hand drawings showing how a retained Wall o Footing foundation have must look like in the real world. It is What I do and Leonardo Da Vinci will do too.
Long time watcher and subscriber here!! Thank you for all of your inspiration! I am a fashion designer that has expanded my business into architectural rendering and design, so seeing an architect advocate hand drawn rendering is encouraging!
I’ve taught and practised Interior Architecture and design for over 25 yrs. My 90’s education was the last old fashioned way of its kind. - university of Manitoba. Hand sketching is the most valuable skill. It connects mind and thought and vision to page and in doing so a conscious connection to Materiality, line weight, detail, resolution, solution emotion is made. Sketching in front of a client upside down in perspective is my personal best skill. The kids are barely taught this now, and hence the industry is quickly losing credibility of true artistry. Hand drawing and sketching is the only way, Cadd is a tool only. A true designer sketches period.
You Eric, are the best thing I found on RU-vid !! And your voice sounds just perfect to be listening to. Much more love to you from India ! You are an inspiration.
If I had knew this from the beginning It would save me so much time. Wasted 2 years trying to be an architect, just to find out it’s not what I wanna do. Before anything an architect is a good artist, you have to have the art in you to do it. I changed to civil Engineering because It ended up being what I actually wanted to do.
I absolutely LOVE that pencil as well. You might also like the Zebra DelGuard. The strain-relief mechanism makes for a huge variety of line weights, if sketching is your thing. For me, it makes those fine little pt5 leads strong enough for marking my woodworking projects, which is pretty huge.
Hehe, great video, but it looks like you should have had a whisky before drawing. It makes the lines much smoother. As for the hands on paper vs digital editing. The best way for me personally to get anything accomplished, is hand draw first with rough sketches and basic measurements. Then fine tune with the digital environment that allows for easy changes, shareable content and dimensions and a just overall finished look and access to a 3d space for you and others to explore.
I've started studying architecture, but stopped very soon, as the place in university and the whole surrounding was not anything like I imagined. Yes, I knew, Architecture was going to be rough, it wasn't the amount of work to do which led to my decision, it was the lack of actual life in the very rare sparetimes. Everything was scheduled and it was very cramped, often we were not sure what was even required of us. As far as I know, every achitecture student has to go through that. But I lacked the part where I get to sit back and actually think about what I was doing. Time pressure barely allowed for that so we stuck to the (often poor) choices we instantaneously made. Again, 1st semester, we were of course unexperienced. Though I will persue quite a different carreer it makes me happy to know that it isn't all bad. I still like the art and creativity of architecture, just no longer the surroundings in which the skills required are learnt.
Thank you so much for making these videos. So great to have such a knowledgeable source on RU-vid for architecture. As an aspiring architect I am truly appreciative for your tips😊 I have always admired the time period of architecture in which my grandfather practiced where everything was done by hand in the mid century. I love going through his archive; my inspiration.
Wow. In Thailand, most of us see architecture being more related to art than Math, knowing people in the US think it’s more Math and less art surprises me.
dragunbwoi as an artist, i really appreciate this video, thank you. i hope pencil & paper drawings will always continue to be a trait no matter how much technology advances
Great video! as always,. It is a shame that shipment it is not available to Europe, I really love that sketchbook. As a product designer, I have a sketchbook addiction to satisfy and I'll be looking forward for to get my hands on this one.
