Advanced Architectural Illustration: Monochrome Details
Explore advanced architectural illustration techniques with a focus on monochrome details. Learn precision line work, shading, and rendering to create striking, professional architectural drawings.
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- 1.7 hours
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Make your architectural drawings pop
Are you curious to learn how to create more detailed drawings of architectural features? Architectural illustrator Demi Lang will help you learn how to elegantly render architectural structures like corbels and columns. You will finish the course with your own corinthian column detail drawing, made in monochromatic pencils and inks.
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Getting Started
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Materials
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Materials and References Guide
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Photography for Architectural Illustration
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Tonal Value and Drawing Techniques
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Drawing Out
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Adding Ink
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Adding Color
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What's Next
Are you ready to start illustrating architectural details
like a pro?
Meet your instructor Demi. Illustrator.
Demi initially studied graphic design at college but is essentially a self-taught illustration artist.
She has a particular passion for architecture and beautiful character buildings which she draws in high detail, concentrating on the contrasts of light and shadow to create a realistic finished drawing. Each piece takes many hours to complete. She works in a variety of mediums, including Indian ink pen, pencil, and watercolors on paper.
Demi lives in the countryside in a small village in West Berkshire, UK. She works from her home studio at the end of her garden.
The city of Oxford is nearby, as are the Cotswolds and Blenheim Palace which often feature in her work. She gains most of the ideas and inspiration for her work while visiting her favorite places and while traveling.
Demi has been selling her work online and locally in exhibitions for over 17 years. She has work in private collections all over the world.
Demi shares her work on Instagram giving daily updates on the progress of her drawings.
I created this course for anyone who loves to draw, is interested in beautiful architecture and would like to learn how to create stunning monochrome drawings that jump off the page!
I’ll show you how to draw out a Corinthian Column, using the grid method. This method allows you to transfer an image with relative ease and accuracy. It is also a good exercise in observation that will help enhance your drawing skills.
By the end of the class, I want students to be able to confidently use the grid method to draw out their artwork and to have a firm understanding of colouring their pencil drawing with just a handful of monochrome colours creating a 3D effect.
Learn Monochromatic Architectural Details
- Learn how to frame and photograph your architectural detail of choice
- Gain an understanding of tonal values and drawing techniques
- Learn how to bring architecture to life using monochrome colored pencils and inks
with Demi Lang
$34.95
I believe that anyone can draw.
Demi Lang
Frequently Asked Questions
This class is geared towards students who have some familiarity with architectural illustration and want to refine their rendering skills.
If you've never drawn architecture before, we recommend taking Demi's first class with us, "Architectural Illustration for Everyone: Draw Buildings in Ink and Colored Pencil." She takes you through the entire process, step-by-step so that whether you have no experience or are already drawing architecture, you can complete the project.
Of course. Though a photo is provided for the class project, you can certainly decide to work on another building. Just follow along and apply Demi's lessons to the architectural feature that you'd like to draw.
When you pre-order a course through My Modern Met Academy, you are purchasing the class in its entirety before it is available to the public. This means that as soon as the course is released on October 14, you will have immediate online, on-demand access to all of the lessons, and can work on the course at your leisure.
After you've gathered all of your tools, you'll start by creating a pencil drawing. Breaking down the building into unique shapes helps. Once you ink over your lines to make them permanent, you can begin having fun adding highlight, shadow, and textures, which will really make the drawing pop.
You will receive a complete materials list with access to the course, but here are some of the main supplies you'll need:
- Colored pencils in the following colors:
- Mechanical pencil or sharp 2B pencil
- White gel pencil
- Black fine liner pen
- Strathmore toned paper
- Ruler
- Set square
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