Designer's Choice: The Importance of Conceptual Sketching
If you know me, you know how much I enjoy sketching conceptional designs and architectural structures. What started off as just a hobby soon transformed into a stress-reliever, and then into regular practice that directly relates to my major, which helps me convey what I am thinking and feeling. Architects and designers don't typically sketch as an art, but more as a mean s to an end. We draw with the sole purpose of showing the observer our world of space that could be reality. A space that can make someone feel whatever we want them to feel. Anxiety, sadness, confusion, excitement, or even amazement. We hold that power within the tip of a pencil. Architectural sketching is a unique way of what we see. It isn't photorealistic, with perfect lines and shading and all color "within the lines", and that is kind of the point. Architectural sketching is suppose to be quick and messy, with overlapping corners and tons of notes and rough lines. Within all thos...
