Draw

Draw to communicate your ideas​

This page features various pencil on paper and digital ways to draw your ideas   

Draw on paper

Communicating ideas with drawings is an important Architect skill. Draw your ideas to show what your thinking.

Practice your line drawing skills with this geometric drawing activity of lines and circles.

What to draw with?

What should you draw with?

All architects have their favourite pencils and pens to draw with. What do you draw with?

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I prefer to draw with...

• Commemorative HB pencils from the gift shops of famous buildings 

• Uni Pin fine line 0.5 + Artline 210 0.6 ​

• Muji Gel Ink ballpoint 0.38 + 0.5 pens 

• Faber Castell Pitt artist pen big brush 

Digital drawing

Draw your ideas on a tablet or phone  

Procreate

Concepts

Morpholio Trace

Perspective drawing

Draw your ideas in 1 point perspective

Draw your ideas in 2 point perspective

Draw your ideas in 3 point perspective

Draw online

Draw your ideas digital online  

Draw with pixels

Moire drawing

Moire line drawing technique, parallel line drawings

Moire drawings by Andrea Minini

Contour line drawings

Topographical contour line land drawings

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Mikkel Frost TEDx 

How do you explain a complex and abstract idea through a simple hand drawing?

Architect Mikkel Frost believes that if you can't tell your story on a single piece of paper, then you are either doing too much or it is too complicated. 

The kids should see this

thekidshouldseethis.com/drawing

Can you draw with 2 hands?

Whats your drawing style

All architects have their own drawing styles, what's your drawing style? 

Here are 5 examples of architects concept design drawings of their projects. Frank Gehry, Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles. Moshe Safdie, ArtScience Museum Singapore. Toyo Ito, Sendai Mediatheque Japan. Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water house and Guggenheim Museum New York