Drawing

1. When drawing a line, emphasize the beginning, the end, and where lines intersect to make corners appear sharp and not rounded. Also, don’t chicken scratch your lines
2. Draw hierarchically, go from general to specific elements and levels of detail.
3. Handwriting should be legible, consistent, and uniform.
4. Soft lines for free thinking. Hard lines for decisiveness. Fine lines for nuanced, resolved plans.
5. Drawings with shade and shadow tend to convey emotions better than line drawings. Line drawings feel flat. Value adds a dimension of expression.
6. The foundational principles are very important, as simple and trivial as they are. They are the building blocks of the piece.
7. Understand how to draw in perspective
8. When drawing a complex non-rectangular object, draw the bounding box first as a guide.
9. Have fun with blocking letters. ¹
10. Gently suggest material qualities rather than draw them in a literal manner.
11. Roll drawings with the image side facing out so they are flat when displayed.

Links §

• 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Footnotes §

1. This is whimsical advice in the book. ↩