Memphis architect, urban planner and good friend Ray Brown, AIA has found a great balance between traditional hand drawing and digital imaging using Google SketchUp. I met Ray during a drawing workshop in Tennessee and was impressed by his incredible drawing style and use of 3D modeling in his visualization process. Ray integrates simple SketchUp massing models into his work flow and creates beautiful drawings in a very short amount of time. He creates pen and ink line drawings, prints them on bond paper and colors with Prismacolor pencils. Ray uses the texture from the paper to create soft stippled areas of color with pencils. His unique drawing style and confidence in quickly delineating architecture, people, and landscaping has placed Ray among the best urban design visualists in our profession!
Ray created a simple SketchUp massing model and spend a few hours blocking out the architecture in a pencil overlay and finally delineating the aerial perspective in pen and colored pencil.
Ray Brown during a Drawing Shortcuts workshop in Memphis.
This beautifully detailed ink line drawing of a historic building with a highly animated street scene. He drew 27 people on the sidewalk!
Drawn over a SketchUp model, this ink line drawing has a very soft color scheme created with Prismacolor pencils on a textured bond paper.
I encourage experimenting with traditional and digital visualization techniques - or what I call Tradigital Drawings - and have identified many of them in my book. If you would like to learn more about new forms of visualization, visit my website www.drawingshortcuts.com and pick up my new book Drawing Shortcuts Second Edition.
The hope of green fields, we yearn for the dream!
Posted by: Ajf 6 | 07/13/2010 at 08:29 PM
Brilliant work.
http://www.sketchheroes.com
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