Architecture Stuff: Basic Architectural Rendering Using Various Media

Be it dry or wet media, i never really had a talent in rendering.

But that's how life goes, right? Sometimes, you just gotta be not so good at other stuffs you've had yourself into.Well, before I proceed, I gotta tell you that I'm a fresh architecture graduate from UP Mindanao. And just to give you a little accurate background about Architecture (and so not to make you believe in your assumption that architecture is only about drawing and doing stuffs like what fine arts people do), Architecture is the art and science of planning/arranging spaces and designing buildings such that the end users would experience comfort as they enter, work on, or stroll around the structure, finding it functional, and aesthetically pleasing. That means architecture students have to have their brains drained out for a stressful five years by architects who, despite of their college archi life, never consider late and, uhm, bad plates in one.

Anyway, I think I've said enough for an introduction, so here are my plates I've compiled and kept for more or less 5 years! I unearthed these works from our bodega in one of the rooms of our boarding house..:D

Correction: University of the Philippines Mindanao doesn't have an"in" in between Philippines and Mindanao and I didn't know back then..:D

Anyway, I'll start with some of my worst presentations. Most were rendered with markers and colored pencils on laid and tracing papers.

WITH MARKERS.*
Make that Untidily Neat, Dude!

*Professional markers are used for cartoon illustration, fashion, animation, engineering, architecture, illustration, and storyboard production. These coloring markers may be either water-based or solvent-based, and are available in a wide variety of colors, as well as many shades of gray. At least some layout markers have mixable colors, and some are refillable and have interchangeable tips to provide a range of strokes from brush to superfine.

I am first presenting the last plate that I did. This was poorly graded since I was too exhausted already to make details and so i just washed it off with the markers--any color did for me. The result was rather good, at least it still looked like a building.

Materials Used: Tracing Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges), Technical Pens

This second one is my least favorite. Notice the chair. It bothered me so much and it still does even in the picture. Why didn't I made the time to darken and add some textures to the chair?

Haha. The color was just a so so. And everything was a whole lot distorted.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges & details), Technical Pens

And, here goes another one. I remembered doing this at Room 203 with all my blue markers already stained with so much black.

It's obvious with the results. The nearly black building. Who would want to go and work on that building?

SO, that is just the power, or weakness I say, with markers on tracing papers.

Materials Used: Tracing Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges), Technical Pens

And.... here's my favoriteamong favorites!

The tall building which really looked like one. What I like the most is with how the glass was rendered. It looked like real. The reflections seemed to be real-time and the glass itself is glowing under the sun's heat. And not just that. The background didn't distort the building and remains the background, emphasizing the rendered structure. The blend is amazing. ^^

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges & details), Technical Pens

The one below this is acceptable but still needs so much corrections and practice, I know. Told ya I'm not really so good at this. When I produce something that's great, it's most likely a mere coincidence.

Materials Used: Tracing Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges), Technical Pens

A Bird's eye view of a building.

Materials Used: Tracing Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges), Technical Pens

The Trees. I am the least tree rendering artist. I hate to make trees, so much less render them. It's just ssoooo all green and I am no good at monochromatic renderings... Of all these plates, I found this one the hardest.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges & details), Technical Pens

And then here's this desk with a lamp which became my favorite after I finished doing the colors. It was fun especially on the white pencil part which dramatically changed the non glossy wooden thing to its good shiny texture. It feels great when you look at good-ly made things you've done yourself.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges, glazed finish & details), Technical Pens

Here's the practice set. This was our first plate using Kurecolor Markers.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Kurecolor Markers, Colored Pencils (for edges, glazed finish & details), Technical Pens

INTO THE PEN and INK.
Blot. Blot. Blot. Don't gimme another one!

The superb Ink work! I eventually got bored and finished this off without really finishing it. Hehe. Notice some white spots between dark spots. What's that for, huh? Mess under the benches.:D

That's to save myself, and my beginner works.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Technical Pens

My greenhouse. Later did I know that this was a greenhouse! I never noticed the glass. Good thing that my instructor noticed it and gave me a 1.25..:D

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Technical Pens

And then my least liked on my renderings with pen and ink. I just couldn't imagine the picture. This was just awful.. O well, I never really got the talent in the first place.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Technical Pens

Another piece of misunderstood work. Gosh, I don't like this one. Skip.

Materials Used: Oslo Paper, Technical Pens

The again, laziness-caused spots. The white on dark. What's that again? Now that's a hole. Haha.

Materials Used: Laid Paper, Technical Pens

The marshmallow building. Marshmallow, eh?

Uhm, This one's a lot of scribbling and I didn't bother to like this. Not with my efforts to make tis look good.

Materials Used: Oslo Paper, Technical Pens

The dead tree. I hated doing this thing coz I didn't know back then what this was!

Materials Used: Oslo Paper, Technical Pens

Then the FIRST plate I had with Arch 6. The Zebras and the Super Orange Sunset. I was amazed to have drawn real good animals. I used to not doing animals beside plants...:D

Materials Used: Oslo Paper, Technical Pens, Watercolor

WORKING WITH PENCIL STROKES.
Pencil smudges are all over my face!

I actually enjoyed doing this plate. What I like about pencils is that you could manipulate thresholds and transitions by doing some smudging jobs with a cotton, an eraser, or even just by the use of your pinky (you can actually use any of your fingers).

Materials Used: Oslo Paper, Staedtler Pencils

I want to love this but it's totally distorted, isn't it? And the strokes, they're so unfortunately clear. I haven't really expected it to be that visible. The effect would have been really good. White pencil on a black paper.

Materials Used: Black Specialty Paper, Faber Castle Colored Pencils

Lastly, The trees and tree trunks. These plates' unlike the first one I've shown. These are browns. Resembling the earth. These were made with colored pencils only with black and available hues of brown. I super duper like the twirls! :P