DRAWING PEOPLE

DRAWING PEOPLE 

FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRESENTATION DRAWINGS

People in drawings add scale and interest to architectural presentation drawings. They are there to show the built environment is designed primarily for human use and accordingly the environment will be habitated by people.... 

Your ability to illustrate this in your design presentations, if not essential, is highly desirable.

Like almost all skills, the more you practice, the better and more confidant you will become.

  

Simple stylised shapes will normally suffice to offer scale and context. More realistic representation in perspective can be more sophisticated and contemporary, but requires much more skill.

The objectives of a simple representation of a person, or group of people, in architectural presentations is to add context and scale. They [along with other added features, such as landscape, trees, background and site related features] should add to the composition and purpose of the drawing/representation. If any addition starts to 'compete' with the design drawing.... then they are working against you... not for you. Accordingly, the added features must be kept simple and in balance with the intent of the presentation.

There are many styles of architectural figures available and a simple search on the internet will give a large selection to copy or use [pending copyright restrictions], but is a great skill to have to be able to sketch your own figures on your deign sketches.... and.... a great and simple exercise to improve your drawing skills.

A scrap of paper and a pen/pencil, or brush, and you can draw people till the cows come home. Start today. Repeat every day! Enjoy.

.....doodles will do.....

simple monochrome line drawings

Get started with your first doodles now. Easy peasy.