Sketching and Rendering for Interior Architecture

Catalog description

This course covers the introduction, exploration, and application of manual graphic communication techniques, essential skills from project ideation to presentation in interior architecture practice. These freehand drawing and rendering conventions are utilized as a vital means to imagine, develop, and represent design ideas through a variety of media including ink, colored pencils, and markers. Topics covered include rapid visualization drawing, ideation, basic perspective, appropriate point of view, composition, tonal contrast, light and shadow, color, textures, and details. Assignments not only encourage technical skill development, but also promote letting go of one’s fear of failure and fostering creative capacity, talents that inspire innovative thinking.