Creative plan and layout drawing

Service Description

This course focuses on tricks and techniques for exploring different styles and ways of communicating your ideas to your clients via your plan drawings. We will explore how to make a variety of pen and pencil marks, look at ways of capturing textures, surfaces, different styles of planting and adding shade. And we will look at depicting the character of plants. There will be exercises to improve your confidence and you will be encouraged to explore different styles to find one that sits comfortably with your ideas. While there are conventions for graphic symbols, there is scope for creativity within these. We will look at adding colour but also simple graphic sketches. The aim of the course is to give you the courage to explore different styles and to have the confidence to present your ideas to clients using hand drawn sketches. Hand drawing can be more expressive than a computer drawing and being able to quickly sketch ideas allows you to explore a space and to be creative. With a bit of practice, you will be able to quickly sketch out ideas while on site when your ideas are fresh to refer to later. It is also a very useful skill to be able to sketch an idea when with clients. Materials: You will need pencils, fine liner pens, paper, a scale ruler, compass, circle templates and your preferred form of colour i.e. watercolours, coloured pencils etc.