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How To Draw Guggenheim Museum (NYC) in Perspective

Do you feel intimidated when drawing organic building forms with freehand? In this article, I am using Guggenheim Museum as an example to guide you through the drawing process. After reading this, you will learn to draw curved forms in perspective, starting from scratch. Let the fun begins!

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Behind The Scenes: The Making of an Online Course with Domestika

If you ever wondered how Domestika works, how they create their online courses, how they pay the teachers, and just generally what it takes to create & produce an online course on Domestika. In this article, you get to peek behind the curtain through the lens of my first teaching experience at Domestika.

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Architecture Concept Development: Perspective Drawing in 7 steps

How to develop a design concept? Here’s an overview of how I develop a design concept in architecture through drawing and I’ll guide you step-by-step with examples. By the end of this blog post, you’ll know how to use perspective drawing to explain your concept.

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How to Place People & Trees in Your Drawings

How to place people in your drawings to complement your design? Placing architectural entourage in your images, like people and trees, can complement or break your image. Check these composition rules and things to avoid when placing people and human figures in your architecture drawings & illustrations.

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5 (Non-)Architecture Books You Should Read

An influential Swiss architect Le Corbusier said that if you want to be an architect you should do 2 things: travel and read books. Check this blog post for my 5+5 book recommendations every architect should read.

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My Essential Drawing Tools

This is THE. SINGLE. MOST frequent question I get asked.

“What pens do you use?”

It’s time to give you some proper overview of the analogue tools that are lying on my table right now. So here goes my personal recommendation…

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3 Common Mistakes When Drawing People

Very often we make these same 3 mistakes when it comes to sketching & drawing human figures in our compositions. This blog post breaks them down and offers specific solutions for each of them. Click through to learn how to fix these 3 common drawing mistakes.

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How to Draw People Like an Architect

Quickly sketching human figures is an essential skill for any architect or hobby sketcher in order to make sketched spaces more understandable and relatable. Here are 3 reasons Why integrating human figures in architectural sketches & drawings is important. Click through to watch a video and download a free worksheet for your practicing.

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Step-by-step Tutorial: Shading in Perspective

One of the basic skills in architectural sketching & drawing is adding shading to objects in our scene. Follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to add shadow in perspective using parallel shading technique and how to distinguish between shade (form shadow) and shadow (cast shadow). Click through to watch a video and to learn from a step-by-step drawing tutorial.

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David Drazil’s project Sketch Like An Architect has become a global go-to resource for architectural sketching with 350k+ followers across different channels. David is a trained architect, published author of 3 books on architectural sketching, a speaker, and a trusted teacher with more than 15,000+ students in his online courses.