Composition - Architecture Daily Sketches Video Lecture | Sketching: Enhance your Skills - Art & Craft

hey guys working for architecture daily
sketches and today we are discussing
composition thank you so much to
Benson's Sangha for his great
recommendation in one of our previous
videos now he asks what kind of
compositions work and what doesn't and
why that's actually a very broad
question and because there are many many
ways to compose something in graphic
design in art in architecture so I'm
gonna focus it really really really
small and focus on architectural
sketches that will be our context for
today so how do we do composition for
architectural sketches now one of the
ways or one of the techniques that I was
taught at school is to consider the rule
of thirds first of all what is a
composition when it comes to drawing a
composition is the relationship between
the different elements in a drawing the
different visual elements and how they
do relate to each other inside a drawing
or inside a paper space when these
different visual elements relate to each
other really well it would create a
harmonious composition that is pleasing
to the eye okay I'm going to show you
guys an example of a drawing that I did
for school work not some time ago this
is a hand drawn site plan that I did for
my first year at architecture school and
in this drawing I did employ the rule of
thirds as a compositional guide and I'm
going to show you guys how using a
maquette of this a slightly smaller
maquette of this drawing this guy
now the rule of thirds is really just a
compositional guideline to ensure
neatness and order in your visual
presentation if I was to draw this paper
space and divide it into three laterally
and vertically you can see that a lot of
the elements roughly line up to the rule
of thirds you can see that the site plan
takes up about four compartments in this
section and the key plan takes up one
compartment and the diagrammatic
analysis takes up half of a vertical
section right here and at the bottom of
this third is the panorama because most
of these drawings fall in line within
this grid system it looks ordered and
harmonious and it's pleasing to the eye
now another thing that I want to talk
about is also hierarchy within the rule
of thirds now what is hierarchy
hierarchy is basically the relationship
between different visual elements
according to scale and importance for
example
in this presentation the biggest drawing
is the site plan and a section both very
important drawings around it are smaller
drawings you have the key plan here and
then you have the tree diagrams and the
panorama now these being the most
important and therefore the biggest
drawings are supplemented visually by
the drawings around it so the main star
of this presentation is of course the
site and the section and all of these
other drawings serve to reinforce or
give information about these two
drawings and that's hi that's a
practical hierarchy that you can
organize your drawings with so to sum up
an easy way to organize your drawings is
by dividing dividing the whole plane
into rule of thirds and hierarchy now of
course composition is a very very broad
topic actually and the rule of thirds is
really just the tip of the iceberg there
are many other ways to compose a drawing
you could compose something
symmetrically you could compose
something asymmetrically you can
organize according to geometric
proportions like the golden ratio and
these are just a few of the many kinds
of different compositional methods that
you can employ when you are drawing
because we are touching because we are
touching composition very lightly in
this video it is meant to be a short and
sweet video let us know in the comments
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