Housesketching: Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings [Paperback]

Explore creativity while learning how to draw lively, unique sketches of your favorite houses, shops, landmarks, and other buildings.

Learning to sketch can be intimidating, especially when drawing subjects like architecture that seem to rely on perfect perspective, straight lines, and complex forms. InHousesketching,artist and instructor Albert Kiefer (Housesketcher) shares his signaturetechniques that will enable and empower you to abandon perfectionismand learn to sketchand express yourself creatively, like his tens of thousands of students have done. Whether you work in pen and ink and alcohol markers like Albert, or use your favorite medium, you will learn how to create amazingly expressive drawings.

From his whimsical linework to his playful use of perspective to his energetic colorwork, Albert’s approachcan be applied to any type or style of building—or any subject at all!Housesketchingshows how to go beyond representation to create sketches that are evocative, vibrant, and completely unique.
 
With this encouraging guide, you will learn how to:
 

• Find inspiration and choose subjects to sketch—eitheren plein airor from photos
• Compose your sketch with placement, contrast, techniques for guiding the eye, and balance
• Use perspective—but only as much as you need to know!—to create a convincing sketch
• Make a sketch your own through editing, exaggeration, point of view, and creating a back story
• Use color and details to finish and embellish your sketches
• Share your sketches online

 
Fifteen step-by-step projectstake you through Albert’s process in detail, so you can sketch alongside him and learn what makes his drawings so dynamic. QR codes link to videos that provide further insight into essential techniques.

Whether you’re completely new to sketlS·