I’ve chosen a really common pic of the Durban City Hall to start my demo.

I didn’t take it myself so I have put in the Internet reference.

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I SHOULD ask the photographer for permission, but - as I am working on an educational category web presentation - I can get by with just acknowledging the source.

http://www.worldglobetrotters.com/Travelogues/88%20May%202011/4center.JPG

It’s a rather small image - < 200kb – so it is pixelated.

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That’s fine for the style I want to try – very loose and free.

I could mark the halfway lines in with a coloured pencil, but I have chosen Photoshop instead. Microsoft Paint will also work.

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Perspective in architectural drawings is very important �– see the LINKS to other presentations and blogs.

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There are other useful lines as well.

I like using Photoshop to mark my lines, but it works with pencil crayon on a print as well.

I have drawn the SHAPE of my rectangle (the ‘format’) so that it is the same proportion as the photo.

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It could be bigger or smaller BUT the proportions must be the same. (26:20 - i.e. 13:10)

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Rulers are essential for drawing buildings.

I have chosen to work on mid-tone brown paper as it is very flexible and tough.

Format edge

Use pencil guidelines to help you to observe where the parts go.

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MEASURE!!!

Now I start to ‘scribble-hatch’ in my tones with a 2B pencil.

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I ask – ‘where do the darks go? What should I leave light?

Very vague/rough ‘scribble hatching’ with a 2B pencil. �My eyes were glued to the photo and I WASN’T TALKING!

I decided to cut up an old map to make palm leaves.

Then I decided to paint in some opaque white paint – ‘gouache’ - to add ‘lights’ to the mid-tone brown paper.

Here I have worked into the 2B pencil with a black ballpoint pen to make the dark tones stronger.

(…still working …..)

Maybe now with pencil crayons???

I needed more details in the pictures so I looked at this website which I found using the Google Research Tool.

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http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?navid=1733

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