Hand Drawing Course | How to Sketch Like an Architect

A quick introduction from David to talk you through what the course entails, who it's for and what you'll get from it. Download the handbook and worksheets from the download tab below.

Download David's best selling book 'Sketch Like an Architect' to both learn from and use to follow along with the course.

In the first step of the drawing process, we teach you all about proper hand drawn line work and creating 2d objects. The lesson finishes with a study on a city skyline.

The next lesson of the course explains the basics rules of perspective. Key components of a perspective drawing, top tips, and bad habits to avoid are all covered here to build a solid foundation for your drawing skills.

Textures, shadows, and materials are up next in lesson 4. This class covers all you need to know on adding depth and realism to your drawings to bring them to life. We show you some working examples on how to create your own accurate shadows and textures, finishing the lesson with a detailed perspective.

Populating your drawings with people is a great way to bring a sense of scale to your drawings. In this lesson we give you a few quick ways to add figures to your perspectives and how to use correct anatomical proportions for convincing drawings every time!

Building on the previous lesson, another great way to breathe life into your drawings is by adding trees, bushes, and other forms of vegetation. It's a tricky one to get right, but we've got you covered with this detailed lesson on how to draw vegetation and how to correctly work them into your perspective drawings.

In this final step of the process, we bring all the previous teachings together into a set of awesome perspective sketches. With the details covered in previous classes under out belt, we provide a way of looking at the bigger picture in this lesson, including composition, depth, and focal points.

In the last video of the main section of the course, we invite you to share your work by tagging us and we'll be sure to provide feedback to help with the progression of your newfound skill. Keep sketching, keep practicing and don't worry about those imperfections — they're what make your drawings unique to you!

The bonus lessons show you a full workflow of how David has created some of his fantastic drawings. The first one is how the cover sketch of the book is created. Sit back, relax, and watch how the master does it. Here, you'll learn his full process and understand how to apply it to your own projects.

Do you ever wonder how to draw tall buildings effectively? In this lesson we provide another full process video on how to create vertical 2-point perspectives to showcase how to draw towers, skyscrapers, and similar tall buildings.

To bring the course to a close, we show you something less architectural, but no less important. The open chest drawing technique demonstrates how to draw objects on various angles, adjusting your mindset and skillset to a place where you can draw almost anything in perspective form. This workflow video also shows to add shadow to a complex object.

This video explains a process of shading in perspective for an interior scenario. A bulb is considered as a light source in this case, having its plan position close to our object.

This video follows up on the previous one and demonstrates a process of shading in perspective with a scene lit by the Sun. Because of the great distance of the Sun, its plan position is considered to be on the Horizon Line, creating its own Vanishing point.

This video demonstrates a process of constructing a perspective view based on a floor plan of an object and the known viewing distance.