How To Draw  Entourage For Architectural Drawing - Get Better Graphics And Storytelling

It's a very delicate line drawing. Regardless, the skill set you get from drawing something like this is going to help you a lot. Vertical entourage, so you could have some shrubs like so. Let's have a look at some landscape design. So these are exercises that are kind of a welcome break from the usual, you know, right angles, you know, triangle, set square type of geometry, perspective and so on. Okay, because it's entourage, so it's meant to be something that complements all your designs. Okay, so we are starting off usually with the line drawing exercises, right? These four by four thumbnail sketches where you learn how to have a more expressive line drawing. A couple of examples here. These aren't bad, but they need to have a gradient from the line drawing itself. Okay, it's basically the gist of it. Yeah, stuff like this is really, really good. Like with a strong gradient, you kind of need to press more on the pencil then slowly lose the intensity of the line. Okay, so yeah, a couple of examples of that, of the thumbnail sketches. Perspective, yeah, this is good. Again, a gradient. Cool, so this is like point number one. Point number two would be drawing trees and facades. Okay, so something like this. See, you are going to use these for, you know, buildings, your 1 to 100 drawings and so on because they are decently detailed. This one here looks like it's kind of like a fishbone or something, so it's not the best. Maybe something more like this. You can draw it with markers or you can draw it with 2B pencil or line art, etc. Okay, one important thing is to understand that they are volumes, so they need to have shadows as a third, okay? And obviously, if we are drawing this in colored crayons, they are going to have the shadow done in colored crayons. Obviously, the cast shadow is behind this, okay, somewhere on the right-hand side. There we go. Cool, more of this, yeah. Then number three would be moving on to planar trees. Okay, so planar view trees. You see we got a couple of trees here, just normal trees, probably evergreens and, you know, some small shrubs. Okay, this is a good example here. It's kind of lacking variety. By the way, I hope you are taking notes on this because it's a quite important lesson. So what I would do is create more branches to effect my top view just to make sure this looks like an evergreen. And always keep in mind that trees need to look like spheres from the top view. Okay, let's move on. Yeah, this is good, this is good. Yeah, kind of always get used to drawing trees with a very strong contour. So you need to get the very strong contour lines together, right, and branches. A good idea would be to thicken the contour with the specific shrubs line drawing, okay, contour. So right, just like this weird line that goes, okay, around our shape. Cool, yeah, these are very good, very poetic, very sensitive. You can see like different styles of graphics. Some of them are more sensitive, some are more like rational. Okay, good, good, here as well, very good. Next up, number four would be studying some variations, okay. So those would be maybe rocks like these. Remember a couple of good ones here. Yeah, something like this. Right, so these rocks, this is very good. They're very good break from the usual boxes. Mostly because you still have straight lines and edges. But you need to show more of a polygonal shape, right, while still having cast shadows, okay, and shadowed faces. Tree bark is also a very good exercise for getting the graphics. This is number four, yeah. Yeah, these are slightly more rational graphics, which is good. The tree bark itself needs to have a bit more of a gradient, okay. So these individual pieces of bark need to have like a gradient going down. Okay, let's go for a little pecker here. This is good, this is good planar graphics. Imagine this with a simple house, like a simple rectangle. Something that's very geometrical, this is good as well. It's a very delicate line drawing. A very sensitive person did this drawing. This is slightly more rational, right, because it's lacking detailing, okay. And number five would be the foreground elements. So we did draw a lot of trees and shrubs. These are little shrubs. These can be used to hide the horizon line. Just like so, okay. But we do need to draw something that would be in the foreground. Something like this, okay. This is, by the way, again, this is very good graphics. Marker graphics, very nice. But we need to detail a bit of the large trees. One thing I really hammer on and point out to my students is that when you're constructing a tree, I recommend you construct it from ellipses. Okay, so you get like this weird shape that starts from ellipses. And also adding something like a tree branch in the foreground. I'll just sketch on there in the perspective to show you how it all fits together. Okay, again, the tree canopy needs to be a lot larger than the tree trunk itself. The branches sort of need to leave like this gap here, right, where they form the canopy. You can't really have, you know, if you're detailing this basically, you can't have a shape with just a tree trunk. It won't look good. It could look good for facade, but again, that's just a small scale drawing. This is actually a good tree. One second here. This is actually a really good one. Okay, so proper, proper proportions, right. And the tree trunk is slightly getting, you know, it's getting thinner as it goes up. This is a good example of a foreground. Although a bit too artistic, I could say, it could work. Regardless, the skill set you get from drawing something like this is going to help you a lot. This is very good for colored trees, for plainer view. Okay, just a couple more examples. A tree of stones, rocks could be used as a foreground element as well. Again, the classical top tree branch. This is good. It could have like a bit of a shadow on the inside at the third. Okay, there we go. This is a good tree branch as well. Kind of a stale plant if I'm looking here. It always needs cast shadows. And by the way, for all plainer view trees, I recommend you draw the terrain curves, right. So these are the terrain curves. Some of them have these funky lines, which basically mean the terrain is sloping. So if you are drawing a section like this, this part here would be, right, terraces and slopes. And obviously, you can throw in a couple of trees. If you have a building which is, I don't know, cantilevered like so. Okay, this is a good example. But if you're drawing trees like this, I recommend you draw a very strong ground line. Remember, there was a very good example of evergreens. I'll just take these one by one. So a very strong ground line. So this, let me just correct it here first. So we go like a strong ground line, then a thinner one next to it. Okay, and this is like a very good graphics effect because it shows you cut through the ground, so to speak. Okay, hopefully this is adding clarity for you to the drawing of entourage. It's not something that's the main focus for architecture. It could be if you are doing landscape design. We are going to have a couple of landscape designs where stuff like this is really going to be valuable. Okay, but for the most part of architectural drawing, entourage is used to create a story around your building. Let's see a couple more examples. So this one, the ranch. Yep, again, a strong foreground element. This could work as a foreground for perspective. You could add leaves as well, like little triangles or little banana-shaped things. Okay, first image. You can see this is kind of a ground line, but don't ever make them symmetrical. Let's just go for a black color. Let's make one darker than the other and thicker. So you get like this effect. Every time you're drawing symmetrical stuff, you are destroying the perspective. Okay, so let's say this is the building. Okay, so what we are going to do here is just add an alley, so you've got clarity to where you're heading. And this being a horizontal building with back edges, we're going to probably draw vertical entourage. So you could have some shrubs like so that cover up the horizon line. You could have one of those branches in the foreground. You could have another one of those trees detailed here. Shrubs and everything in the foreground as well. Okay. You could add stones as well, maybe some stairs here with stones and shrubs and everything. If you draw a... By the way, this is very important. This is case number one. We've got a horizontal building with vertical entourage. What happens if you have a vertical building? I recommend you draw horizontal entourage. So you go for more of a view that looks like this. It's a more horizontal one. Obviously, very strong foreground here. A lot of shrubs. The stuff that would create a horizontal that would compensate the building being a tower. Okay, so everything works in composition. You don't want horizontal entourage with a horizontal design. Okay. Looking back, these are kind of the elements of entourage that you need to know. Hopefully, you've taken notes. Three things you could take from this lesson and apply right now is the rule with the specific buildings and their type of entourage. These two. All right. Then the thumbnail sketches for the line drawing. These are very, very important. So you get the graphics for something like this. And then just play around with different types of geometry. Always remember, everything we are doing here is going to be used in a future lesson. So it's not just for study sake. It's for a red pine from I don't know where. No, no. It's something that you want. That specific pine, that specific evergreen or whatever it is, is going to be used in a future drawing. Okay, for a more advanced design. For color composition. Just go for something like this. Again, it depends on how the building is going to look like. These are good. This could be a bit thicker. And the gap a bit smaller. All right. This is it. Hopefully, you've taken notes. And I'll talk to you soon. Take care. Draw nicely. So if you want to take your architectural drawing and design skills to levels you never thought possible. Get that portfolio for architecture school. Get those skills that you can learn from going to university. Then visit me on my website. Freehandarchitecture.com I've got a fair bit of information here. You can see a couple of my students' drawings. What they did. How they progressed. You also have free videos, free lessons. This is me sketching here from the live lessons. 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